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

c.1512-1515

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume that once contained 76 pen and ink or black chalk with watercolor drawings (now separated)

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    book: 52 × 42 × 8.5 cm (20 1/2 × 16 9/16 × 3 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.4408-4483

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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): 196-317.

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