The Backplate of a Suit of Parade Armor, c. 1557

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with gray wash and faint traces of black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall (approximate): 39 x 30.8 cm (15 3/8 x 12 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Woodner Collection

Accession Number

1991.182.20

Artists / Makers

Etienne Delaune (artist) French, 1518/1519 - 1583

Image Use

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Provenance

Chevalier de Kirschbaum; Hippolyte-Alexandre-Gabriel-Walter Destailleur [1822-1893] (Lugt 740), Paris (his sale Paris, Morgaud, 26-27 May 1893, lot 7--volume consisting of 97 folios to Beurdeley for 11,550 fr.); Alfred Beurdeley [1847-1919], Paris (his sale Paris, Rahir, 31 May 1920, lot 123); H. Grosjean-Maupin (his sale, 26 May 1958, lot 43) (sale Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 15 March 1989, lot 12); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Beurdeley, Alfred
Destailleur, Hippolyte-Alexandre-Gabriel-Walter
Grosjean-Maupin, H.
Kirschbaum, Chevalier de
Woodner Family Collection, Inc., Ian, The
Woodner, Ian

Exhibition History

1990: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 91.

1994: Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994.

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 52, as Design for the Backplate of a Suit of Parade Armor.

2006: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 32-33, 275, no. 7.

2017: The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 52.