I am posting this particular picture from the German Collection at the National Gallery of Art because I really liked it, and to tell you how I ran out of camera battery. Daniel suggested that each time we took a picture of something we liked, we should also take a picture of the label so we would remember what we had seen. "Edward VI as a Child. Oil on panel, probably 1538. Hans Holbein, the Younger. German, 1497/1498-1543 from the Andrew Mellon Collection 1937-1964." He was right.
That is a good idea. But it means two pictures per painting and in the end it drains the phone battery!
My second point is to suggest that mothers of infants are really lucky today for dressing children. When Edward was dressed children wore miniature adult clothing. How complicated!
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