Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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Painting of three soldiers with a drum, flute, and banner
Art of the Sixteenth Century
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 The Frick Collection presented an exhibition of sixteenth-century paintings, drawings, and prints, showing a recently acquired Bruegel panel, The Three Soldiers, together with drawings by Altdorfer and Deutsch depicting the same type of colorful mercenary soldiers, called landsknechte. Drawings by Dürer, Rubens, and Titian were also displayed.

Delve into Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Three Soldiers through this interactive online exhibition created by The Frick Collection for Bruegel / Unseen Masterpieces, an initiative of the Google Cultural Institute to bring together great works by Bruegel from collections around the world. To learn more, visit the Google Cultural Institute's project page. 

Bruegel's Three Soldiers

Title: Bruegel's Three Soldiers

Authors: Anna-Claire Stinebring and Salman Toor

Publisher: The Frick Collection in association with D Giles Limited (2025)

Details: Hardcover, 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 in., 80 pages, 48 color illustrations

ISBN: 9781913875534

video still of Xavier Salomon and painting of three men, some carrying intruments
Cocktails with a Curator™: Bruegel the Elder's "Three Soldiers"

In this week’s episode of Cocktails with a Curator™, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon discusses The Three Soldiers by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, one of only a few works by the artist outside Europe. Bruegel is best known for his lively and often comical peasant scenes, but here he takes as his subject three landsknechts, or German mercenary foot soldiers.