Art Institute of Chicago
Standard-Bearer and Drummer
Sebald BehamLinkedCulture matchlcp-3faf94f008bf
- Date
- 1544
- Medium
- Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 77463
Beham’s engraving of two foot soldiers manages to capture the visual bluster and noise of war despite its small size. Both wear mail armor, with the standard bearer also equipped with a cuirass, a kind of breastplate. Yet this piece of armor is an antiquated model, and these figures may in fact be Landsknecht impersonators. The inscriptions identify the drummer as a bumbling “Farmer Conrad” and the standard bearer as “Klaus Swineherd,” a reference to the Bauernkrieg, a major German peasant uprising that mercenaries summarily suppressed in 1525.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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