Italian Joust of Peace

c.1512-1515

German 16th Century

Associated Names
German 16th Century

Artist

This image shows two armored knights jousting on horseback. The drawing depicts a moment during the joust where one knight's lance has just made contact, seen through the broken tips flying in the air. The other knight is partially visible on the right, reacting to the impact. The scene is set against a simple background with a minimalistic horizon line. The detailed attire and horse trappings suggest a historical or reenacted setting with meticulous attention to the period's style.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with watercolor over leadpoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 33.1 × 26 cm (13 1/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.4522

  • 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.

Associated Names

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): 266, repro. 267.

Inscriptions

upper left by unknown hand in brown ink, on separate paper pasted down: Fraidall gestochen welsch, die deckin plaub mitt guldin faden frannsen mitt gold unnd plauber seidin, auff dem helm ain kuss von der deckh, darauff ain guldin merketzel ain ainem kettell; upper right by unknown hand in brown ink: 127; lower center by unknown hand in brown ink: Herr Hanns von Reihenburg; lower left on mount in black ink: 127; lower right on mount in black ink: A 185

Wikidata ID

Q64571926

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