The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 22, 2023

Soldiers and Officers

Drummer

1587

Jacob de Gheyn II

(Dutch, 1565–1629)

published by

Hendrick Goltzius

(Dutch, 1558–1617)

after Hendrick Goltzius

(Dutch, 1558–1617)

Netherlands, 16th century

Engraving

Support: Cream(3) laid paper

Sheet: 21.3 x 15.6 cm (8 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.); Image: 20.2 x 15.3 cm (7 15/16 x 6 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1997.31

Catalogue raisonné: Hollstein 355 (VII.179)

State: i/iii

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

lower left, in plate: .I. de. Gheyn.scup. ; lower right, in plate: HG.[in monogram] inve. ; across bottom, in plate: Suta boum pulso simul ac mea Tympana pelle, / Miles ad excubias promptus et arma ruit. ; lower right, in plate: 3 ; verso, lower right, in graphite: 8

Provenance
purchased from (Hill-Stone, Inc, New York, NY).
Exhibition history

Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 3-October 26, 1997).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1997.31