Getty to display Holbein portrait

A new face will appear at the J. Paul Getty Museum today. “Portrait of Robert Cheseman” -- a painting of a falconer by Hans Holbein the Younger, a highly revered German artist who made his reputation as a portrait painter in England during the Reformation -- has been lent to the museum through April 23 by the Mauritshuis in the Hague, Netherlands.

Holbein painted Cheseman, thought to have been falconer to King Henry VIII, with a large hunting bird during the artist’s 1532-43 sojourn in England. The borrowed work hangs alongside the Getty’s Holbein, “An Allegory of Passion,” in a gallery that also displays Italian Renaissance portraits of the same period.