Book cover in grey with an image in the center showing a detail of a Bruegel painting of the back of a soldier. The image is framed on top by the text: Bruegel's Three Soldiers and on the bottom by the authors' names Anna-Claire Stinebring and Salman Toor

Bruegel’s Three Soldiers (Frick Diptych Series)

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The Frick’s Three Soldiers is one of only three signed works in the United States by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, one of the great Netherlandish painters of the sixteenth century. Once in the collection of Charles I of England, the small panel in grisaille represents a trio of Landsknechte, mercenary foot soldiers whose flamboyant costumes and poses were a popular subject for printmakers of the period. An essay by Anna-Claire Stinebring—Curator of European Painting at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and former Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellow at the Frick—examines the artistic and political environment of the time and the ways in which a colorful subject is transformed by its translation into monochrome. Stinebring’s text is paired with a contribution by figurative painter Salman Toor, who was a participant in the Frick’s celebrated installation series Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters.

Authors: Salman Toor and Anna-Claire Stinebring

Publisher: The Frick Collection in association with D Giles Limited

Hardcover, 7 ¼ x 9 ½ in., 80 pages, 45 color illustrations

Frick Diptych Series

Designed to foster critical engagement and to interest specialists and non-specialists
alike, each book in the Frick Diptych series illuminates a single work in the museum’s rich
collection with an essay by a current or recent Frick curator, paired with a contribution from a
contemporary artist, writer, or cultural figure.