Mock Joust of War with Flying Shields and Without Bevors

c.1512-1515

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 33.6 × 26.2 cm (13 1/4 × 10 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.4488

Associated Artworks

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Freydal, The Book of Jousts and Tournaments of Emperor Maximilian I: Combats on Horseback (Volume II)

German 16th Century

1515

Italian Joust of Peace

German 16th Century

1515

Mock Joust of War in Reinforced Field Armor

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): 246, repro. 247.

Inscriptions

upper left by unknown hand in brown ink, on separate paper pasted down: Fraydall gerentt vest anzogen in ainer rott gruen weiß degkhen, auff dem hutt [struckthrough: b] ain beschel kranchenfederlin: upper right by unknown hand in brown ink: 90; lower left on mount in black ink: 90; lower right on mount in black ink: A/

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Wikidata ID

Q64571889

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