From the Holbien collection
oil painting on cotton canvas

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Jakob Meyer probably commissioned this altarpiece in the year his two sons (who appear with him to the left of the Madonna) dide in childhood. Kneeling opposite are Meyer’s daughter Anna, his wife Magalen Bare (shown behind Dorothead ). Holbein,s mistress Magdalena Offenburg probably posed for the virgin. The painting has both German and Italain features; the cool realism and linear precision are in the German tradition, while the symmetrical ‘Madonna of Mercy’ composition, the classical motifs and the softened features of the Madonna originate from Italian Renaissance painting.