Italian Joust of Peace

c.1512-1515

German 16th Century

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German 16th Century

Artist

A painting of a jousting scene features two armored figures on horses. The figure on the left is clad in armor, riding a horse with striped blue and gold fabric. The rider wears a detailed helmet with a decorative crest. Broken lances are shown mid-air, indicating a moment of contact in the joust. The setting appears to be an outdoor jousting arena with a simple wooden barrier. Handwritten text overlays the image at the top and bottom. The style resembles an illuminated manuscript or historical illustration.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.4519

  • Series Title

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

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.

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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): 264, repro. 265.

Inscriptions

upper left by unknown hand in brown ink, on separate paper pasted down: Fraydall gestochen aber auff ainem henngst gestrickt blaw und gell, helm ain cron, in der cron ain k[... the rest torn off and lost]; upper right by unknown hand in brown ink: 124; upper right by unknown hand in brown ink on separate paper laid down: N kunig Vilipps; bottom center by unknown hand in brown ink on separate paper laid down: Kunig Philipp / 124; lower left on mount in black ink: 124; lower right on mount in black ink: A 237

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Wikidata ID

Q64571922

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