Italian Joust of Peace

c.1512-1515

German 16th Century

Associated Names
German 16th Century

Artist

This is a drawing of a jousting scene. It depicts two armored knights on horseback engaging in a traditional joust. Each knight is equipped with a lance, and both horses are adorned with decorative armor. The knight on the left is struck by his opponent's lance, and the lance is breaking apart. The knight on the right wears green armor with a plume on the helmet and rides a horse covered in a green caparison. Splinters of wood are flying through the air.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 33.5 × 26.4 cm (13 3/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.4527

  • 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): 268, repro. 269.

Inscriptions

upper right by unknown hand in brown ink: 132; center by unknown hand in graphite: 38; lower center by unknown hand in brown ink: Graf Anndre von Sunnenberg; lower left on mount in black ink: 132; lower right on mount in black ink: not in A

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Wikidata ID

Q64571932

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