Gossaert

Although portraiture is the focus, it arrays Holbein’s pictures of individuals alongside woodcuts and designs for medallions; paintings and engravings by Albrecht Dürer, Jan Gossaert and other contemporaries; and also signet rings, hat badges and other jewels that rhyme with the accouterments of Holbein’s sitters.

A few portraits by other contemporaneous artists, most notably Flemish painter Jan Gossaert, are included for comparison.

There she found the sale records of a diptych misattributed as being by the Dutch painter Jan Gossaert but also sketches of the family arms of the featured couple which drew a link to the mysterious woman in the Mauritshuis.

It explains how the museum came to deduce that the painting was likely done in the early 16th century by a follower of the Flemish artist Jan Gossaert.

He is wearing a richly worked gold and red oriental costume reminiscent of Balthazar’s in Jan Gossaert’s Adoration of the Magi, but without the crown and scarf.