# Wall Tiles with Soldier Figures [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UNKNOWN POTTER, Dutch]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in cobalt blue, 12,6 x 12,6 x 0,7 cm ## Commentary Wall Tiles with Soldier Figures c. 1650 Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in cobalt blue, 12,6 x 12,6 x 0,7 cm Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest Each of the square white wall tiles displays an energetically, but somewhat sketchily painted soldier, depicted after the compositions of <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/g/gheyn/exercise.html'\)" href="/html/g/gheyn/exercise.html">Jacob de Gheyn II's series of prints</a> published for the training of the military. De Gheyn's sheets document the handling of arms by the different branches of the Dutch regular army of his time. ## Related artworks - [Dish with a Representation of the Sense of Hearing]() - [Dish with a Winter Landscape]() - [Dish with Chinese Figures]() - [Dish with Chinese Figures]() - [Large covered jar]() - [Large covered vase]() - [Octagonal vase]() - [Octagonal vase]() - [Plaque with a Landscape]() - [Plaque with a Portrait of Robertus Junius]() - [Plaque with the Prophet Elijah Fed by the Ravens]() - [Plaque with View inside a Gothic Church]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()