German Joust of Peace in High Saddles
c.1512-1515
Artist

Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor and gouache on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 33.6 × 26.2 cm (13 1/4 × 10 5/16 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.4430
Associated Artworks
See all 76 artworksFreydal, The Book of Jousts and Tournaments of Emperor Maximilian I: Combats on Horseback (Volume I)
German 16th Century
1515

Joust of Peace in Leg Armor
German 16th Century
1515

German Joust of Peace
German 16th Century
1515
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Frédéric de Pourtalès (1779-1861), Paris; E.P. Goldschmidt (1887-1954), London, c.1914-1918. (Charles Sessler Rare Books, Philadelphia). Purchased 1930 by Lessing J. Rosenwald (L. Supp. 1760b); Gift to NGA, 1943.
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Bibliography
1926
Dodgson, Campbell. "An Unknown MS. of Freydal."The Burlington Magazine. 48 (1926): 235-237+240-242.
1928
Dodgson, Campbell. "More Freydal Drawings." The Burlington Magazine. 53 (October 1928): 170-73.
2019
Krause, Stefan. "Freydal, das Turnierbuch Kaiser Maximilians I. - Werkbeschreibungen." Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien 21 (2019): 214, repro. 215.
Inscriptions
Upper left by unknown hand in brown ink, on separate paper pasted down: Fraidall gestochen [struckthrough: in ainer] in hochem zeug, atlassen rotten schwartz degkh, auff dem helm ain juggkfraw in ainem guldin kranntzl; upper right by unknown hand in black ink: 24; upper right by unknown hand in black ink: .1; lower center by unknown hand in brown ink on separate paper pasted down: Graf Hanns von Werdemberg / soll in hohen zeugen stechen / 24; lower left on mount in black ink: 24; lower right on mount in black ink: A 98