Solothurn Madonna

The Solothurn Madonna is an oil-on-panel painting created in 1522 by the German-Swiss artist Hans Holbein the Younger in Basel.

The painting depicts the Virgin Mary and Christ enthroned, flanked by Martin of Tours, shown as a bishop giving alms to a beggar, and Ursus of Solothurn, depicted as a soldier in armour.

Notably, Holbein used his wife, Elsbeth, as the model for the Madonna, and the baby is believed to have been modelled after Holbein and Elsbeth's infant son Philipp.

[1] The church that originally commissioned the Solothurn Madonna is unknown,[2] but it reappeared in 1864 in a state of disrepair at the Allerheiligenkapelle in the Grenchen district of Solothurn.

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Detail of the Madonna, between the first restoration of 1866 and the second of 1971
Holbein's drawing of a young woman, 1520–1522, probably a model for the Solothurn Madonna
The Martinskirche in Basel, probably the original home of the Solothurn Madonna