Knight in Armor, Holding a Halberd
c. 1500
Artist

Artwork overview
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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)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 28.8 x 12.2 cm (11 5/16 x 4 13/16 in.)
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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