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: 34 × 26.1 cm (13 3/8 × 10 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1943.3.4461

Artists / Makers

German 16th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

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.

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

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.