29 - Virgil Solis (1514-1562) - Mercenary -Original signed drawing

Virgil Solis (1514-1562) - Mercenary -Original signed drawing Description: Landsknecht (mercenary) walking in a landscape with right arm up. Signed in ink VS bottom left corner. Ca.1541. This signed drawing is very similar to a drawing preserved in the British Museum under number 1874,0808.2276 as a drawing by Solis. I added the one in the British museum (left) and this one (right) here on auction side by side as last image for reference only. It is very tempting to consider the drawing on auction as belonging to the same group of sketches made by the artist. Dimensions: 10,00 by 8,90 cm Condition: Pen drawing in black ink, cut out on the outline of the figures and landscape and mounted on a laid paper. Literature: Rowlands 1993- LITERATURE: Franke, Solis Handz., p. 66f., cat. no. A40 -----Comment on the item by the British Museum: This is executed in a manner closely akin to two drawings of landsknechts in Bamberg, Staatliche Bibliothek (Franke, 'Solis Handz’., cat. nos. A3, 4), both of which are dated 1541, and like them it is by the best hand associated with Solis, which may be accepted as the artist's own. ---- Bibliographic references: Rowlands 1993 / Drawings by German artists and artists from German-speaking regions of Europe in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: the 15thC & 16thC by Artists born before 1530 (465) Medium: Ink drawing Date: Ca.1541