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An Infantryman Drawing his Sword

Jacob Matthias Weyer  (German, Hamburg 1620–1691 Hamburg)

Date:
1640–91
Medium:
Brush and gray and light brown wash, heightened with white, on gray-green prepared paper
Dimensions:
sheet: 7 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. (18.4 x 13.9 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2005
Accession Number:
2005.149

This artwork is part of Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400–1700

This artwork is not on display

  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Signature: lower right: JW

    Inscription: verso, lower center, pencil: Jacob Weyer signiert // Along the lower edge several number combinations.

    Marking: Verso, upper left: coll. mark: Philipp Hermann (L. 1352a)

  • Provenance

    Vendor: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich

  • References

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, cat. 94 (entry written by Stijn Alsteens);, ill.



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