Armor in the Gothic Style, c. 1485 and later

  • Lorenz Helmschmid, German, active 1467 - 1515/16

Steel, copper alloy, leather

  • Installed: 71 × 28 1/2 × 26 1/4 inches (180.3 × 72.4 × 66.7 cm)

Gift of William Randolph Hearst Foundation

V2019.7

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Princes Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Schloss Sigmaringen, Baden-Württemberg

Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Inc. (dealer), New York (1929)

William Randolph Hearst, Los Angeles (by 1930)

William Randolph Hearst Foundation (by 1951)

Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation

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