A Soldier Loading a Musket, "Ramme in Your Pouder"
Jacques de Gheyn, II
1596/98
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, and traces of black chalk on ivory laid paper, incised for transfer
Dimensions
26.7 × 18.4 cm (10 9/16 × 7 1/4 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
243884
About the Artist
Jacques de Gheyn, II · 1565–1629
Jacques de Gheyn II (1565–1629) was born in Antwerp into an artistic family, receiving his earliest instruction from his father, Jacob de Gheyn I, a skilled glass painter, engraver, and draftsman. In 1585, the young de Gheyn moved to Haarlem, where he spent five formative years studying under Hendrik Goltzius, one of the most celebrated engravers of the Northern Renaissance. This apprenticeship pr...