Elegantly Dressed Soldier Preparing to Fire His Caliver
c. 1597
Artist, Dutch, 1565 - 1629

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with gray wash on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 26 x 18.1 cm (10 1/4 x 7 1/8 in.)
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Accession
2000.134.1
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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