Savage Soldier Swinging a Club
Loutherbourg, an Alsatian painter who studied etching in Johann Georg Wille’s academy, clearly admired the prints of the seventeenth-century Neapolitan painter Salvator Rosa, as did many other French printmakers of the time. In the set to which this print belongs (2018.52.1-6), entitled "First suite of Soldiers,"Loutherbourg took up a format associated with Rosa in order to showcase his own inventiveness and fluency.
Artwork Details
- Title: Savage Soldier Swinging a Club
- Series/Portfolio: First Suite of Soldiers, p. 3
- Artist: Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg (French, Strasbourg 1740–1812 London)
- Date: 1755–71
- Medium: Etching
- Dimensions: Image: 4 3/16 × 3 1/8 in. (10.7 × 7.9 cm)
Plate: 4 13/16 × 3 7/16 in. (12.2 × 8.8 cm)
Sheet: 5 13/16 × 3 3/4 in. (14.8 × 9.5 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2018
- Object Number: 2018.52.3
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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