Elegantly Dressed Soldier Tamping His Caliver, c. 1597

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with gray wash on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 26 x 17.9 cm (10 1/4 x 7 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation

Catalogue Raisonné

Van Regteren Altena 1983, no. 371, State (as lost)

Accession Number

2000.117.1

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

by the artist, lower right in brown ink: 27; by later hand, center verso in graphite: 44; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 651

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; (Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bellinger, Katrin, Ms.
Goeree, Jan
Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd.
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)
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.