ID: 700008156 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008156	Record Type: Movable Work

Mercenary Soldier in a Landscape (drawing (visual work); Circle of Wolfgang Huber (Austrian painter, draftsman, and a...; ca. 1515; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 2009.14)

Note: The proposed sheet depicts a mercenary soldier holding up a drinking cup. Placed in the immediate foreground, the soldier towers over the rocks and shrubs he stands upon. His military might is suggested by the cup of wine he dynamically raises in a gesture of victory. Lavish attention has been paid to the slashed sleeves and doublet, tight hose, feathered cap, and sword. This flamboyant clothing and its accoutrements were typically reserved for aristocrats and thus impart the mercenary with an enhanced sense of status. Around 1500, the mercenary was frequently depicted in German and Swiss graphic art. Artists, together with their public, were fascinated with the soldier's violent life on the battlefield, lavish, attention-getting clothing, and perturbing fondness of prostitutes, gambling, and drink. All of these compelling traits inspired artists to treat the subject of the "Landsknecht" (mercenary soldier) with virtuoso line work in pen. We already have two examples of mercenary soldiers in our collection by the Dürer pupil Sebald Beham and by an anonymous Swiss artist.The dynamic pen work, fine gradations of line suggesting the effects of light and shade, and muscular physique reflecting the influence of the Italian Renaissance seen in the proposed sheet come close to the style of Wolf Huber. Huber worked in Passau and Vienna along the River Danube, and was the most important Danube School artist together with Albrecht Altdorfer. Huber's autograph depictions of mercenary soldiers are fewer than five in number. Thus the proposed sheet, so close in style to Huber, is an important work within the oeuvre of Huber and his circle.

Titles:

Mercenary Soldier in a Landscape (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Knight in a Landscape with a Goblet in his Right Hand (C,U,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 1515

Creator Display:

Circle of Wolfgang Huber (Austrian painter, draftsman, and architect, ca. 1485-1553) [preferred,JPGM]

draftsman Huber, Wolfgang (Austrian painter, draftsman, and architect, ca. 1485-1553) [500118925]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2009.14

Other: Creation: Deutschland [7000084] Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Pen and brown ink

	pens (drawing and writing implements) [300022452]
	.......(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, image-making equipment, <equipment for drafting| drawing| and writing>, <drafting| drawing and writing equipment by specific type>)

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

Dimensions: 14.5 x 10.8 cm (5 11/16 x 4 1/4 in.)

Cultures:

German (preferred)

Austrian

General Subject:

portraits (preferred)

military

Specific Subjects:

	soldier [300185678]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in military occupations>) (AAT)

	cup (drinking vessel) [300043202]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Containers (hierarchy name), containers (receptacles), <containers by function or context>, culinary containers, <containers for serving and consuming food>, <vessels for serving and consuming food>, drinking vessels) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left: unidentified collector in brown under JD stamp

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Mercenary Soldier in a Landscape	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Knight in a Landscape with a Goblet in his Right Hand	........ [JPGM]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)