Foot Combat with Spears and Tartsche Shields, c.1512-1515

Not on View

series Title

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

Medium

pen and black ink with watercolor on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 33 × 26.3 cm (13 × 10 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1943.3.4558

Artists / Makers

German 16th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

center by unknown hand in graphite: 10; lower left on mount in black ink: 31; lower right on mount in black ink: A 139

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): 284, repro. 285.