Knight in Armor, Holding a Halberd

c. 1500

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown and black ink, point of the brush and black ink, and gray wash, heightened with white, on brown prepared paper (upper corners made up)

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 28.8 x 12.2 cm (11 5/16 x 4 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1998.17.9


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Heinrich Wilhelm Campe [1770-1862] (Lugt 1391), Leipzig; purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, by 1983; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1998.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1986

  • Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Vienna, 1986, no. 43.

  • Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 52.

1987

  • Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 40.

1990

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 50.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 15.

1997

  • Love and War: A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998-1999, as.

2006

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2012

  • Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 50.

2017

  • The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1983

  • Andersson, Christiane and Charles Talbot. From a Mighty Fortress: Prints, Drawings, and Books in the Age of Luther 1483-1546. Exh. cat. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 1983: mentioned under no. 47.

1993

  • Rowlands, John. Drawings by German Artists from the German-speaking Regions of Europe in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum. London, 1993: under no. 41.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 15.

Watermarks

Bull's head with snake (similar to Briquet 15367-15373)

Wikidata ID

Q64632880


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