German Joust of Peace

c.1512-1515

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with watercolor over black chalk with traces of leadpoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 33.1 × 26.1 cm (13 1/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.4445

Associated Artworks

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Joust of Peace in Leg Armor

German 16th Century

1515

German Joust of Peace

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.

Associated Names

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): 222, repro. 223.

Inscriptions

Upper right by unknown hand in brown ink, on separate paper laid down: Fraydall gestochen [in] ain atlasen deckh von rott unnd schwarzen strichen uber zwerch, auff dem helm ain sonn; lower left on mount in black ink: 40; lower right on mount in black ink: Not in A.


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