Warrior in Renaissance Armor on a Rearing Horse, c. 1530/1540

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink on brown laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 6.5 x 6.4 cm (2 9/16 x 2 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1990.79.1

Artists / Makers

Peter Vischer the Younger (artist) German, 1487 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 8635

Provenance

Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna; (Kunsthandlung Gustav Nebehay, Vienna, by 1927); (C.G. Boerner, Dusseldorf, by 1971); (Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg, by 1985); purchased by NGA, 1990.

Associated Names

Albertina
Boerner LLC, C.G.
Nebehay, Gustav, Kunsthandlung
le Claire, Thomas

Bibliography

1927: Kunsthandlung Gustav Nebehay, Die Zeichnung, Heft II, Deutsche Handzeichnungen des XV.-XVIII. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1927, no. 3 (as Jost Amman).

1971: C.G. Boerner, Die Neue Lagerliste Nr. 56, Dusseldorf, 1971, no. 141 (as South German, 2nd half 16th century).

1985: Thomas Le Claire Kunsthandel, Handzeichnung alter Meister 1500-1800, Hamburg, 1985, no. 5.