Mock Joust of War with Fixed Shields

c.1512-1515

German 16th Century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 34.1 × 26.4 cm (13 7/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.4453

Associated Artworks

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Freydal, 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.

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): 226, repro. 227.

Inscriptions

Upper right by unknown hand in brown ink, on separate paper pasted down: Die deck sol gelb, gruen, rot unnd weiß atlaß ganntz gewunden, auff dem hutt sechs altgetter federen mitt gold un seyden geschmucktt; upper right by unknown hand in black ink: 49; upper center by unknown hand in black ink: 16; lower left on mount in black ink: 49; lower right on mount in black ink: A17.

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