The Knight of Men

1463

Master E.S.

Associated Names
Master E.S.

Artist, German, active c. 1450 - active 1467

This is a drawing of a mounted figure guiding an acrobat who is balancing on a pole. It features a person in medieval attire on a horse with an ornate bridle. The horse has one leg raised. Above, an acrobat is depicted balancing on a pole. The background is minimal, with light shading. This piece appears to be illustrative of historical or fantastical themes.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet/image: 13 × 8.8 cm (5 1/8 × 3 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1961.17.58

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 2, p.334, no. 249, State only

  • Series Title

    The Large Playing Cards [Lehrs 241-282]

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Kornfeld and Klipstein, Bern); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1957; gift to NGA, 1961.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1964

  • Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, 1964, no catalogue.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 9, repro.

  • Master E.S.: Five Hundredth Anniversary Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1967, no. 60, repro.

1973

  • Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 11.

2016

  • The World in Play: Luxury Cards, 1430-1540, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016, no. 5.

Bibliography

1908

  • Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederlandischen und franzosischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert. 9 vols. and 1 plate vol. Vienna: Gesellschaft fur vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1908-1934.

1967

  • Shestack, Alan. Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1967: no. 9.

Inscriptions

recto: none; verso: at upper left in graphite in later hand: Le ? K [indecipherable]; at upper right in blue pencil in later hand: B 8 P. 98; at center in graphite in later hand: Meister E.S. L. 247; at lower left in graphite in later hand: 35 541

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65511217

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