Medium
Black and coloured chalks, pen and brush in brown, black and white on pink prepared paper
Size
33 × 24.9 cm
Inventory
C 1977-156
Period
London, 1532–1543
Attribution
Hans Holbein the Younger

Preparatory drawing for the half-length portrait of the French ambassador in the Dresden Gemäldegalerie.

3152 × 4003 px. Photograph: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Chalk drawing of Charles de Solier facing forward, a stern older man with a long reddish beard and a black cap, his doublet lightly outlined, on pink paper within a pink and gold mount.