Cleveland Museum of Art
Standing Officer Holding a Boar's Spear
Hendrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617) · 1586
This military officer brandishes a type of spear used for boar hunting, in which the two lugs on the blade were meant to keep the animal from pushing its way up the spear to attack the hunter.
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