# Standing Officer Holding a Boar's Spear, in 16th-century Netherlands

Hendrick Goltzius painted this in 1586, aged 28. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> This sheet is the only known preparatory drawing for an important group of engravings depicting military figures designed by Hendrick Goltzius between 1582 and 1600.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1586
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, red chalk with traces of white opaque watercolor over black chalk, on paper; traces of transfer
- Dimensions: Sheet: 20.6 x 15.6 cm (8 1/8 x 6 1/8 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1994.195
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Hendrick Goltzius](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/hendrick-goltzius), Dutch, 1558–1617

Goltzius was the outstanding Dutch engraver of his generation, despite a childhood injury that crippled his right hand.

7 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [More by Hendrick Goltzius](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/hendrick-goltzius?hang=750) (7 works)
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