Two Men in Armour

c. 1480/1490

Master BM

Associated Names
Master BM

Artist, German, active c. 1480/1500

The image depicts two full-body figures of knights in armor. The knight on the left has a helmet with a plume, a determined expression, and holds a spear in their left hand. The knight on the right is shown from the back, wearing a closed helmet, holding a polearm with their right hand, and their left hand on their hip. The background is plain.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 7 × 10.7 cm (2 3/4 × 4 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.5780

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 6, p.083, no. 10, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(P. & D. Colnaghi, Ltd., London); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1937; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1941

  • The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 101, repro.

1953

  • Nuremberg and the German World, 1460-1530: Prints and books from the Kress and Rosenwald Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953, no catalogue.

1956

  • Selected Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1956.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 120, repro.

1997

  • Love and War: A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998-1999, as Two Men in Armor.

Bibliography

1908

  • Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederlandischen und franzosischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert. 9 vols. and 1 plate vol. Vienna: Gesellschaft fur vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1908-1934.

1967

  • Shestack, Alan. Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1967: no. 120.

Wikidata ID

Q65023714

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