Soldiers Arming Themselves, mid 1630s, Jacob Duck, Dutch, about 1600–1667, 17 x 22 3/8 in. ( x cm) (panel)28 x 33 3/8 in. ( x cm) (outer frame), Oil on panel, Netherlands, 17th century, On the left, two soldiers caught up in the Thirty Years’ War are dressing, one lifting a bandolier over his head with several cylinders dangling—powder charges containing gunpowder for his musket. On the right, a soldier tickles the nose of a fellow fighter who has presumably passed out after draining the flask nearby. The tickler isn’t aware that his pocket is being picked.

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