The image depicts a man standing in a power stance on a hilly landscape. He holds a sword aloft with his right hand and rests his left hand on his hip. The man has a mustache and beard, and a determined expression as he looks into the distance to the left. He wears a wide-brimmed hat, a decorated breastplate, voluminous sleeves with frills, knee-length pants, and a cloak draped over one shoulder. The ground is uneven with tufts of grass, and in the background, there are soldiers in a hilly and sparsely vegetated landscape. A small village with a few buildings is visible in the distant…
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Soldier Armed with Broadsword and Shield

Jacques de Gheyn II (Dutch, 1565 - 1629)

artist after Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558 - 1617)

1587

Medium
engraving on laid paper
Classification
Portfolio
Dimensions
plate: 21.2 x 15.2 cm (8 3/8 x 6 in.) ; sheet: 33.7 x 25 cm (13 1/4 x 9 13/16 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-E
Credit line
New Century Fund
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

View at the National Gallery of Art