About this artwork
This mercenary has been depicted in the midst of battle, actively posed and ready to dispatch an enemy with his two-handed sword. The broad brushstrokes and bold shading add to the figure’s rough demeanor. The lower fragments completing the helmet and the piece of armor on the ground were reattached after being found pasted onto tears on the verso.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Peter Paul Rubens
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Title
- A Landsknecht
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Place
- Switzerland (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1590–1709
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Medium
- Brush and black ink, with brown wash, over black chalk, on cream laid paper
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Dimensions
- 30.7 × 19.5 cm (12 1/8 × 7 11/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
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Reference Number
- 1922.2017
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/84233/manifest.json