Caption:
German Landsknechte pikeman and servant girl, 16th century. The soldier in an extraordinary luxurious and flamboyant costume of breastplate, doublet with striped puff sleeves, codpiece, parti-colored hose. Piquier Allemand, Paysanne. After a handcoloured woodcut by Hans Guldenmundt. Handcolored lithograph after an illustration by Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard from Georges Duplessis's Costumes historiques des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles (Historical costumes of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries), Paris, 1867. Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard was an artist, book illustrator, and interior designer.