The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1533
The story
The Ambassadors is a 1533 painting by Hans Holbein the Younger. Also known as Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve, after the two people it portrays, it was created in the Tudor period, in the same year Elizabeth I was born. Franny Moyle speculates that Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn, then Queen of England, might have commissioned it as a gift for Jean de Dinteville, the French ambassador, portrayed on the left. De Selve was a Catholic bishop.
- Artist
- Hans Holbein the Younger
- Date
- 1533
- Collection
- National Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- Movement
- Mannerism
- Medium
- oil paint, oak panel
- Size
- 207 × 209 cm
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