Wohltaten der Kaiserin Kunigunde (Werkstatt)

The Hans Holbein the Elder workshop produced this scene of Empress Kunigunde's Good Works around 1506. The legend of the sainted empress's charitable acts was part of the larger cycle of the imperial couple's lives. Workshop production maintained the quality of the Augsburg master's standards. The tempera medium required careful preparation on a gessoed panel and a disciplined layering technique that produced precise, durable surfaces suited to the intricate detail expected of devotional painting.

Oil on panel with the Holbein workshop's refined technique. The narrative scene follows the master's compositional models while allowing for the variations expected in workshop production.