Partisan
1645–1655
- Medium
- steel; round wood haft
- Dimensions
- Blade: 33 cm (13 in.); Haft: 100.5 cm (39 9/16 in.)
- Genre
- Arms and armor
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
France, 17th century
About
The partisan, a staff weapon with a symmetrical head, was carried by infantry officers and members of princely bodyguards during the 1600s and 1700s.