Italian Joust of Peace

c.1512-1515

German 16th Century

Associated Names
German 16th Century

Artist

This is a painting of two armored knights and their horses in a jousting scene. The image captures a moment of action with one knight unseated, lying on the ground along with his horse. The other knight is seen partially behind a barrier, possibly still mounted on his horse. The knights wear detailed, colorful armor with blue as the predominant color, and their horses are also partially clad in matching caparison. The scene is bordered with an outlined frame above a handwritten note in an illegible script. The painting is created using delicate lines and watercolor, giving it a lively quality. This is in the style of Hans Holbein the Younger.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with watercolor on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 33.6 × 26.3 cm (13 1/4 × 10 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.4521

  • 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 right by unknown hand in brown ink: 126; center by unknown hand in graphite: 39; lower center by unknown hand in brown ink on separate paper laid down: Herr Wolfgang von Polheim welsch / fur Teutsch gemacht werden / Ist gerecht / 126 [struckthrough: 138]; lower left on mount in black ink: 126; lower right on mount in black ink: A 221

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Wikidata ID

Q64571925

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