Italian Joust of Peace, c.1512-1515

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series Title

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

Medium

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

Dimensions

sheet: 33.8 × 26 cm (13 5/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1943.3.4514

Artists / Makers

German 16th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

upper right above image by unknown hand in brown ink, on separate paper pasted down: Fraydall gestochen wellisch in ainer grunen zendlen deckh, auff dem helm ain gruenen kranntz; upper right by unknown hand in brown ink: 119; center by unknown hand in graphite: 36; bottom center by unknown hand in brown ink on separate paper laid down: Herr Jann von Grittis / Welsch / 119; lower left on mount in black ink: 119; lower right on mount in black ink: A 162

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

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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): 262, repro. 263.