Mock Joust of War with Fixed Shields

c.1512-1515

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with watercolor over leadpoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 34 × 26.2 cm (13 3/8 × 10 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.4456

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): 228, repro. 229.

Inscriptions

Upper left by unknown hand in graphite, on separate paper laid down: No 52 / E. Ph. 9 .; upper right by unknown hand in brown ink, on separate paper laid down: Fraidall gestochen in ainer ganntz praunn samathen degkh, unden herumb verprembtt mitt rottn unnd weyssen frannsen, auff [torn off: dem] hutt ain englischen frawen; lower right by unknown hand in graphite: L 208; lower left on mount in black ink: 52; lower right on mount in black ink: A208.


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