Foot Combat with Swords, Throwing Stars, and Shields (Tartschen), c.1512-1515

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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 over black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 32.9 × 26.1 cm (12 15/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1943.3.4562

Artists / Makers

German 16th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

center by unknown hand in graphite: 6; lower left on mount in black ink: 35; lower right on mount in black ink: A 19

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): 286, repro. 287.