Portrait of the painter and writer Niklaus Manuel Deutsch (1484-1530) in colorful Swiss clothes; like those of a German mercenary or Landsknecht. He wears a floppy hat; a embroidered doublet over white shirt; elaborately slashed culottes with codpiece; and striped odd stockings. He holds a brush and easel with oil paints. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes; Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century; Frankfurt; 1889. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator; archaeologist; art historian; illustrator and etcher.