Elegantly Dressed Soldier Preparing to Fire His Caliver, c. 1597

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with gray wash on laid paper

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation

Catalogue Raisonné

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

Accession Number

2000.134.1

Artists / Makers

Jacques de Gheyn II (artist) Dutch, 1565 - 1629

Image Use

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Inscription

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

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

Goeree, Jan
Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd.
Zoomer, Jan Pietersz

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.