The image depicts a person standing in a side profile facing left. The individual is leaning slightly forward with one leg in front of the other. The right arm is extended ahead, holding a staff. The person has detailed facial features, curly hair covered with a metal helmet, and is dressed in historical military attire with a musket slung across the back. The background is plain.
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Elegantly Dressed Soldier Tamping His Caliver

Jacques de Gheyn II (Dutch, 1565 - 1629)

c. 1597

Medium
pen and brown ink with gray wash on laid paper
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
overall: 26 x 17.9 cm (10 1/4 x 7 1/16 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-E
Credit line
Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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