King Arthur, Charlemagne and Godfrey of Boulogne
1492
Artist, German, active 1480s and 1490s
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and black ink over traces of black chalk on on laid paper ruled in leadpoint
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 34.8 x 26.2 cm (13 11/16 x 10 5/16 in.)
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Accession
2003.102.2.a
Associated Artworks
Joshua, King David and Judas Maccabeus
Primary Master of the Strassburg Chronicle
1412
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Christie's London, 7 November 1993, no. 121A, as South German). (Jörn Günther, Hamburg); purchased 2003 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2004
Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005
Bibliography
2012
Schmidt, Peter. "Historigraphie und persönliche Aneignung von Geschichte. Die wiederentdeckte Künastsche Handschrift der Strassburger Chronik des Jakob Twinger von Königshofen." Schreiben und Lesen in her Stadt: Literaturbetrieb im spätmittelalterlichen Strassburg. 2012, 349-350, 375, pl. 16c.
Inscriptions
extensive fifteenth-century text in brown ink
Wikidata ID
Q64619721