# The Exercise of Armes \(details\)

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## Artwork

- Artist: [GHEYN, Jacob de II](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gheyn-jacob-de-ii-r4776b830c6fdb4>)
- Date: 1551-1600
- Technique: Woodcut, 178 x 127 mm \(each\)

## Commentary

Arms drill was a highly developed practice in the Dutch Republic, elucidated in a manual first published in 1607 and illustrated by Jacob de Gheyn II. Rembrandt may have referred to its prints as he painted the the figures wielding muskets in his Nightwatch, for their poses conform strikingly to those in the illustrations shown here.

## Related artworks

- [Allegory of Transience](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gheyn-jacob-de-ii-r4776b830c6fdb4/allegory-of-transience-r946087326c23eb>)
- [Farm with a Man Milking a Cow](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gheyn-jacob-de-ii-r4776b830c6fdb4/farm-with-a-man-milking-a-cow-r7b0adad716a881>)
- [Four Studies of a Woman](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gheyn-jacob-de-ii-r4776b830c6fdb4/four-studies-of-a-woman-r9e3a164c79b92b>)
- [Four Studies of Frogs](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gheyn-jacob-de-ii-r4776b830c6fdb4/four-studies-of-frogs-r4feacc77b2ba68>)
- [Hippocrates Visits Democritus](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gheyn-jacob-de-ii-r4776b830c6fdb4/hippocrates-visits-democritus-r46719afec7347e>)
- [Neptune and Amphitrite](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gheyn-jacob-de-ii-r4776b830c6fdb4/neptune-and-amphitrite-r129bc8bbb0b0e3>)
- [Peaceful Couple](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gheyn-jacob-de-ii-r4776b830c6fdb4/peaceful-couple-r949f231b5f4a81>)
- [Studies of heads](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gheyn-jacob-de-ii-r4776b830c6fdb4/studies-of-heads-r89baf999b079b0>)
- [Two Witches with a Cat](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gheyn-jacob-de-ii-r4776b830c6fdb4/two-witches-with-a-cat-r3cd8052d19838f>)
- [Vanitas Still-Life \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gheyn-jacob-de-ii-r4776b830c6fdb4/vanitas-still-life-detail-r074e4843bf7a14>)
- [Vanitas Still-Life](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gheyn-jacob-de-ii-r4776b830c6fdb4/vanitas-still-life-ra86277b49e6ea4>)
- [Woman and Child looking at a Picture Book](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gheyn-jacob-de-ii-r4776b830c6fdb4/woman-and-child-looking-at-a-picture-book-r8436000a4a11d1>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)