Seated Soldier Holding a Shield

Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1755–71 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

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.

Artist

Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

Date

1755–71

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2018