Foot Combat with Daggers

c.1512-1515

German 16th Century

Associated Names
German 16th Century

Artist

This is a drawing of two armored knights in combat. The scene shows the two figures clad in medieval-style armor, each holding a weapon. The knight on the left has a detailed helmet with a plume and is prepared to strike with their raised sword. The knight on the right appears slightly bent backward. The background is plain with an emphasized border, and the drawing style focuses on the details of the armor and the movement of the figures.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with watercolor on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 33.8 × 26.2 cm (13 5/16 × 10 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.4577

  • Series Title

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

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): 294, repro. 295.

Inscriptions

upper right by unknown hand in brown ink: 44; center by unknown hand in black in: 9lower left on mount in black ink: 50; lower right on mount in black in: A 79

Wikidata ID

Q64571983

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