# Soldier in Profile Holding a Pike, from Capricci e habiti militari

**Filippo Napoletano** (Italian, 1589–1629)  
1610/29  
Etching in black on cream laid paper  
Plate: 12 × 9.5 cm (4 3/4 × 3 3/4 in.); Sheet: 13 × 10.4 cm (5 1/8 × 4 1/8 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2021.582. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/262561).

## About this work

Filippo Napoletano made this in 1610/29, aged about 21. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of etching in black on cream laid paper.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Etching.** The artist draws with a needle through a waxy coating on a copper plate, and acid bites the exposed lines. The plate is then inked, wiped and printed under pressure, so the line keeps the freedom of drawing.
- **Laid paper.** Handmade on a mould of close-set wires, which leave fine parallel lines you can see when the sheet is held to the light.

### [Filippo Napoletano](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/filippo-napoletano)

Italian, 1589–1629

## Facts

- Type: Print
- Culture: Italy
- The artist was about 21
- Real size: about 4½ × 3½ in (12 × 9 cm). The original is small: even the 8 × 10 in print shows it larger than life.
- Century: 17th century
- Movement: [Baroque](https://www.ochreeditions.com/movements/baroque)
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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