Mock Joust of War with Fixed Shields
c.1512-1515
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with watercolor over black chalk and leadpoint on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 34 × 26.1 cm (13 3/8 × 10 1/4 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.4461
Associated Artworks
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Joust of Peace in Leg Armor
German 16th Century
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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
Exhibition History
2019
The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2019-2020, no. 46.
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): 230, repro. 231.
Inscriptions
Upper left by unknown hand in brown ink: her Cristoff Lamberger; upper right by unknown hand in brown ink, on separate paper pasted down: Fraidall gerennt vesst anzogen in ainer tamaschkenie deckh, die ain seiten weiß, die ander seytten gruen, rott und gel, ain scharlachen rennrockh mit lannge zerschniten spanielischen ermlen, auff dem hutt ain schöne straussenfedern mit flenderl unnd geschmuch wy ain dyadem; lower left on mount in black ink: 57; lower right on mount in black ink: A54.