Mock Joust of War with Fixed Shields, c.1512-1515

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series Title

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

Medium

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

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1943.3.4447

Artists / Makers

German 16th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

Upper left by unknown hand in brown ink, on separate paper pasted down: Fraidall gerennt vesst anzogen in ainer zenndlen degkh mitt der vier frabn durchaus mitt strichen, auf dem hutt zwo greiffen flug; upper right by unknown hand in brown ink: 43; upper right by unknown hand in black ink: 31.; lower left on mount in black ink: 43; lower right on mount in black ink: A 58

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

Goldschmidt, E.P.
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
de Pourtalès, Frédéric

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): 222, repro. 223.