Italian Joust of Peace

c.1512-1515

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 33.5 × 26.2 cm (13 3/16 × 10 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.4503

Associated Artworks

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Mock Joust of War with Flying Shields and Without Bevors

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

Exhibition History

2019

  • The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2019-2020, no. 52.

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): 254, repro. 255.

Inscriptions

upper right by unknown hand in brown ink: 107; upper right by unknown hand in brown ink, on separate paper pasted down: Fraidall gestochen wellisch in rottem samatt, auff dem helm ein rotten leowen; lower center by unknown hand in brown ink: Jacob de Heri / 4; lower left on mount in black ink: 107; lower right on mount in black ink: A 82

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Wikidata ID

Q64571905

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