Elegantly Dressed Soldier Preparing to Fire His Caliver

c. 1597

Jacques de Gheyn II

Artist, Dutch, 1565 - 1629

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with gray wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation

  • Dimensions

    overall: 26 x 18.1 cm (10 1/4 x 7 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.134.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Van Regteren Altena 1983, no. 351, State (as lost)


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jan Pietersz. Zoomer, Amsterdam (1641 - 1724); (his sale, Amsterdam, 5 April 1725, no. 56); Jan Goeree, Amsterdam; (his sale, Amsterdam, 12 March, 1731). Probably Swiss private collection; (Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel, Munich; acquired from Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, 11 November 1991); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2004

  • Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

Bibliography

1983

  • Regteren Altena, I.Q. van (Johan Quirijn van). Jacques de Gheyn, Three Generations. 3 vols. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.

1994

  • Kunsthandel Bellinger and Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox. European Master Drawings. New York, 1994, no. 14.

Inscriptions

by artist, lower right in brown ink: 7; by later hand, center verso in graphite: 43 / 3

Wikidata ID

Q64580117


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