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Standard-Bearer (Plate Four)

Jacob (Jacques) de Gheyn II (Dutch, 1565–1629)
After: Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617)
1587

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 21.4 x 15.8 cm (8 7/16 x 6 1/4 in.)
Framed: 43.5 x 36.5 x 3 cm (17 1/8 x 14 3/8 x 1 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Robert Bradford Wheaton and Barbara Ketcham Wheaton
Accession Number2009.5313.4
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné New Hollstein 179 I/III
DescriptionFrom the series of twelve "Officers and Soldiers" (of the bodyguard of Rudolph II)
Inscriptionsl.c. HG.excud. Iacques de gheijn. sculp. Acer in aduersos...speq[ue], animiq[ue] vigor; numbered 4 in margin at left.
ProvenanceKupferstich Kabinett Karlsruhe (Lugt 1603); to Furstlich Furstenberg. Norman Leitman (on long term loan to Williams College, Williamstown, MA). R.M. Light & Co., Inc., Prints and Drawings, Santa Barbara, CA; October 1999, sold by Light to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wheaton, Concord, MA; 2009, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Wheaton to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 20, 2010)