Knight in Armor, Holding a Halberd, c. 1500

Not on View

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)

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Woodner Collection

Accession Number

1998.17.9

Artists / Makers

Swabian 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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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

Campe, Heinrich Wilhelm
Woodner and Ms. Andrea Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Ian

Exhibition History

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

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

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.