<i>Portrait of an Unknown Man</i>, inscribed "Phil: Melanchton". Black chalk, pen and Indian ink on pink-primed paper, <span style="white-space:nowrap">28.8 × 23.5 cm</span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Collection" class="extiw" title="w:Royal Collection">Royal Collection</a>, Windsor Castle. The drawing is badly rubbed and retouched by later hands with chalk and ink, and there is a hole near the middle of the hat. Holbein's left-handed shading can me seen in the hat.
The identification, added later, of the sitter as the reforming German theologian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Melanchthon" class="extiw" title="w:Philipp Melanchthon">Philipp Melanchthon</a> is thought to be false. The subject does not resemble Holbein's <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Philip_Melanchthon,_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg" title="File:Portrait of Philip Melanchthon, by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg">painted portrait of Melanchthon</a> or other portraits of him. The subject is not a member of the nobility or a courtier (Parker, 55).
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Hans_Holbein_the_Younger" class="extiw" title="w:en:Hans Holbein the Younger"><span title="German artist and printmaker (1497-1543)">Hans Holbein the Younger</span></a>
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circa 1532 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1532-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>-43
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