🖼️ The Ambassadors · Hans Holbein the Younger

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The Ambassadors is a 1533 painting by Hans Holbein the Younger. Also known as Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve, after the two people it portrays, it was created in the Tudor period, in the same year Elizabeth I was born. Franny Moyle speculates that Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn, then Queen of England, might have commissioned it as a gift for Jean de Dinteville, the French ambassador, portrayed on the left. De Selve was a Catholic bishop. Hans Holbein the Younger, 1533 — painted at 36. Oak panel and oil paint. 207 × 209 cm. In the National Gallery. Mannerism. Wiki link

🖼️ The Ambassadors · Hans Holbein the Younger