AMBERGER, Christoph
(b. ca. 1505, Augsburg, d. 1562, Augsburg)

Portrait of a Young Man

after 1548
Oil on wood, 51 x 43 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Until 1861 the painting was attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger. The picture, showing Venetian innfluences, is a masterpiece of the Renaissance painting in Augsburg. A companion-piece Portrait of a Young Woman is also in the Hermitage.