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Polish and Hungarian Soldiers
after Johann Wilhelm Baur, 17th century.

Picture source: Wladyslaw Lozinski (1960). Prawem i lewem: obyczaje na Czerwonej Rusi w pierwszej polowie XVII wieku. Wydawnictwo Literackie

Johann Wilhelm Baur, Joan Guiliam Bouwer, or Bauer (Strasbourg, 31 May 1607 - Vienna, January 1640) was a German engraver, etcher and miniature painter. He is famous for a series of illustrations of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
According to Houbraken, he learned to draw and paint from the miniaturist Friedrich Brentel in Strasbourg, before embarking on a Grand Tour to Rome, where he painted for Brassiano, a known patron of the arts. In 1636, Johann Wilhelm Baur realized for Don Paolo Giordano Orsini II, the Duke of Bracciano, a work consisting of sixteen etchings titled New Book of Various Nations. Edited and printed by the Parisians François Langlois (1588 - 1647) and Pierre II Mariette (1634 – 1716) as Livre nouveau des diverses nations. Each plate features two groups of characters illustrating each time a different nation: the French, Spaniards, Walloons conversing amicably with Flemings, Moors, Greek, Hungarians, Poles, English, Muscovites and finally the Italians.