These two paintings need no introduction. These published reproductions of them (from 1912) and the scans of them here are in the public domain.
This is Hans Holbein's portrait of
Nicolas Kratzer,
1528.
From
Hans Holbein le jeune: L'œuvre du maitre.
Paris, Librairie Hachette & Cie., 1912.
This is Hans Holbein's famous
"Ambassadors,"
1533.
From
Hans Holbein le jeune: L'œuvre du maitre.
Paris, Librairie Hachette & Cie., 1912.
Here's a
larger
version (2000x1951)
(warning: this is a large file, 0.98 Megabytes in size).
Here are full resolution (but JPEG) versions of the
upper instruments (0.86 Megabytes),
lower instruments (0.74 Megabytes),
and
anamorphic skull (1.2 Megabytes).
The limitations of the original halftone prints are obvious in these versions.
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use them.
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