A Landsknecht
Peter Paul Rubens (Possibly Swiss, 17th century)
n.d.
- Medium
- Brush and black ink, with brown wash, over black chalk, on cream laid paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 30.7 × 19.5 cm (12 1/8 × 7 11/16 in.)
- Culture
- Switzerland
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
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.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
