<i>Portrait of M. Zouch.</i> Black and coloured chalks, pen and ink on pink-primed paper, <span style="white-space:nowrap">29.6 × 21.2 cm</span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Collection" class="extiw" title="w:Royal Collection">Royal Collection</a>, Windsor Castle.
<p>Scholars are not sure whether "M. Souch" refers to Mary Zouch, a maid-of-honour to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Seymour" class="extiw" title="w:Jane Seymour">Jane Seymour</a>, or, in abbreviation, to "Mistress Zouch", which could be either Jane Rogers, wife of Richard Zouch, heir of John, Lord Zouch of Haringworth, or Anne Gainsford, a lady-in-waiting to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Boleyn" class="extiw" title="w:Anne Boleyn">Anne Boleyn</a> and wife of George Zouch of Codnor. The chalk seems to have been reinforced by later hands around the bodice and in other places, but the penwork and the flower apppear all Holbein. In the view of art historian Susan Foister, "This well-preserved drawing is exceptional for the salmon-and-yellow-coloured chalks used to represent both the sitter's colouring and in her headdress and dress".  She holds a rose or carnation, perhaps signifying betrothal. Her brooch may show fortune sailing on dolphins or blind fortune seated on a weather-vane.
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<ul><li>Susan Foister, <i>Holbein in England</i>, London: Tate, 2006, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1854376454" title="Special:BookSources/1854376454">ISBN 1854376454</a>, p. 148.</li>
<li>K. T. Parker, <i>The Drawings of Hans Holbein at Windsor Castle,</i> Oxford: Phaidon, 1945, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/822974?referer=di&amp;ht=edition">OCLC 822974</a>, p. 56.</li></ul>
<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 1538 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1538-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
Susan Foister, <i>Holbein in England</i>, London: Tate, 2006, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1854376454" title="Special:BookSources/1854376454">ISBN 1854376454</a>.