The Portrait of Bonifacius Amerbach is a painting by the German master of the Renaissance Hans Holbein the Younger.

[1] The painting was commissioned in 1519 by Bonifacius Amerbach, in order to leave a memory to his family in case he died during his stay in Avignon.

[6] He carefully composed the text on the painting, the first words Picta licet are annoted twenty times on a sheet.

[6] Modern research with infrared reflectography resulted in the assumption that Bonifacius had encouraged Holbein to adapt the text, as Amerbach had prepared the original script for the painting which included COLORIBVS for colors, but in the painting LINEOLIS for lines is to be seen.

[5] The portrait is one of the earliest paintings by Holbein as a member of the painters guild of Basel.