Swiss mercenary with a prostitute, ca. 1510

Title

Swiss mercenary with a prostitute

Draughtsman

• Urs Graf the Elder

Period Produced

• 16th century

School

• Renaissance

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• Vergé paper
• handmade paper

Technique

• pen drawing

Geographic Reference

• Upper Rhine

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• autonomous drawing?

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Monogrammiert in der Darstellung unten links auf dem Täfelchen: VG; bezeichnet unten rechts: EW; in dem Betthimmel: GOT GEB VSGLVK // GLVK VF I NER S I TEN

Captions Added Later

Verso unten links Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356), mit zugehöriger Inventarnummer

Watermark

• Traube

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• genre
• interior

Primary

• 45B the soldier; the soldier's life
• 33C52 whore, prostitute
• 33C21 courting
• 41D92 woman (showing herself) undressed, quasi-nude

Secondary

• 41A761 bed
• 46B311 coin