A Soldier Loading a Musket, "Ramme in Your Pouder"

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A Soldier Loading a Musket, "Ramme in Your Pouder"

Jacques de Gheyn IILinkedCulture matchlcp-42d73a84cc91

Date
1596/98
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, and traces of black chalk on ivory laid paper, incised for transfer
Culture
Netherlands
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
243884

Jacques de Gheyn produced over 100 drawings for a groundbreaking 1607 Dutch military manual The Exercise of Arms. The drawings, a series of images that capture precise military maneuvers and show the appropriate tackle for each type of soldier, were then engraved for publication. For A Soldier Loading a Musket, de Gheyn drew the figure clearly and confidently with thin brown lines, adding gray wash to suggest volume and texture. This clarity was necessary for the engraver who would copy it onto a copper plate. In the printed version, a command instructed the soldier to ram powder into their musket.

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Credit line
Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Provenance
Probably Jacques de Gheyn III (c. 1596–1641), The Hague and Utrecht; probably Johannes Uytenbogaert (1608–1680), Amsterdam, by descent; to Jan and Jacob van Gheel (1667–1757 and 1670–1721), Amsterdam. Jan Pietersz. Zoomer (1641–1724), Amsterdam; sold, Amsterdam, Apr. 5, 1725, lot 56, to Jan Goeree, Amsterdam; sold, Amsterdam, Mar. 12, 1731. Probably sold, Amsterdam, Mar. 8, 1762, part of lots 1417–78. Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726–1798), Amsterdam; sold, Amsterdam, Mar. 3, 1800, lot BBB62 or DD37 (with two other drawings), to B. de Bosch, Amsterdam; sold, Amsterdam, Mar. 10, 1817, lot 30 or 31, Amsterdam. Sold, Amsterdam, Oct. 16, 1928, lot 469 (with a second drawing), Amsterdam. I.Q. (Johan Quirijn) van Regteren Altena (1899–1980), Amsterdam; by descent; sold, Christie’s, Amsterdam, Nov. 12, 1990, lot 68, to Bob P. Haboldt, Paris. Paul Russell, Amsterdam; sold through Thomas Williams, London, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, 2017; promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

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