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Medium
Silverpoint, black chalk and red chalk on grey prepared paper
Size
20.6 × 15.3 cm
Collection
Louvre, Paris
Period
Basel, 1515–1525
Sitter
Erasmus
Attribution
Hans Holbein the Younger

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1269 × 1698 px. Photograph: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Silverpoint and red chalk studies on pale paper of three hands of Erasmus: a left hand at top, a right hand holding a pen in the middle, and a ringed left hand resting at the bottom.