Foot Combat with Spears and Buckler Shields
c.1512-1515
Artist

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and black ink with watercolor on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 33.6 × 26.4 cm (13 1/4 × 10 3/8 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.4559
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): 284, repro. 285.
Inscriptions
upper right by unknown hand in black ink: 47; lower center by unknown hand in black ink: 10; lower left on mount in black ink: 32; lower right on mount in black ink: A 99
Watermarks
Anchor
Wikidata ID
Q64571965