E Cosi Desio me Mena, by Hans Holbein the Younger

E Cosi Desio me Mena, also called Allegory of Desire. Oil on oak in lozenge format, 45 × 45 cm, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Art historian John Rowlands rejected this painting as a Holbein: "Although its attribution is by no means a straightforward question, the stylistic grounds supporting Holbein's authorship of this panel are very slender indeed".[1] Curator Susan Foister, however, attributed it to Holbein in the Holbein in England exhibition at the Tate in 2006, citing trademarks such as the gold arabesque design and a figure of eight mark on the reverse.[2] The Italian inscription from Petrarch translates: "And so desire carries me along".
References

↑ John Rowlands, Holbein: The Paintings of Hans Holbein the Younger, Boston: David R. Godine, 1985, ISBN 0879235780, 238.

↑ Foister, 61.