Standing Officer Holding a Lance 1755–71 Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg 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 (), entitled "First suite of Soldiers,"Loutherbourg took up a format associated with Rosa in order to showcase his own inventiveness and Standing Officer Holding a Lance. First Suite of Soldiers, pl. 5. Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg (Fren
Standing Officer Holding a Lance 1755–71 Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg 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 (), entitled "First suite of Soldiers,"Loutherbourg took up a format associated with Rosa in order to showcase his own inventiveness and Standing Officer Holding a Lance. First Suite of Soldiers, pl. 5. Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg (French, Strasbourg 1740–1812 London). 1755–71. Etching. Prints
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