About the Artwork
This armor was part of an identical set of twelve the Duke of Bavaria ordered for members of his court. The pointed waist and wide hips were inspired by men’s fashion, a fitting design for tournament parades. Imagine the Duke’s entourage riding into an arena sporting this gleaming, high-end armor. The sight impressed crowds waiting for the joust.
Armor for the Tilt
ca. 1580
Anton Peffenhauser
Augsburg
German
Unknown
Steel, copper alloy, leather, paint
Overall (As Displayed): 69 × 27 1/4 × 20 5/8 inches (175.3 × 69.2 × 52.4 cm)
Arms and Armor
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of William Randolph Hearst Foundation
53.196
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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stamped on backplate: inspection mark of the Augsburg armorers' guild (the Stadtpyhr, a fir or pine cone atop a pedestal)
Provenance
(Samuel Luke Pratt [1805-78], London, England)
Archibald Kennedy [1816-70], 13th Earl of Cassilis, 2nd Marquess of Ailsa (Culzean Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland). (Jean-Baptiste and Louis Carrand, Paris, France)
until 1890 (Frédéric Spitzer, Paris, France)
June 10-14, 1895, sold by (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France) Spitzer sale, lot 6, to Comte Hector Economos [1864–1924] (Paris, France)
1924, sold by the estate of Comte Hector Economos to William Randolph Hearst [1863–1951] (New York, New York, USA)
1951, bequeathed to the William Randolph Hearst Foundation (New York, New York, USA)
1953-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Catalogue des armes & armures faisant partie de la collection Spitzer, et dont la vente aura lieu à Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, les lundi 10, mardi 11, mercredi 12, jeudi 13, et vendredi 14 juin, 1895. Sales cat., Galerie Georges Petit. Paris, 1895, cat. no. 6, p. 8 (ill.).
Laking, Guy Francis, Charles A. de Cosson, and Francis Henry Cripps-Day. A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries, vol. IV. London, 1921, p. 67 (fig. 30); p. 69.
Cripps-Day, Francis Henry. A Record of Armour Sales, 1891-1924. London, 1925, p. 67 (fig. 30), (ill.); p. 69.
Robinson, F.W. "A Gift of Arms and Armor from the Collection of William Randolph Hearst." Bulletin of the DIA 33, no. 1 (1953-54): pp. 1-5.
Robinson, F. A Selection from the William Randolph Hearst Collection of Arms and Armor in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1954, pp. 18-19.
The Art of the Armorer. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, 1967, cat. no. 8 (ill.).
Schedelmann, H. "Ein Rückblick auf den Waffenmarkt des letzten halben Jahrhunderts." Waffen-und Kostümkunde 15 (1973): p. 26; p. 28, (fig. 7), (ill.).
Bréban, Philibert. Livret-Guide du Visiteur à l'Exposition Historique du Trocadéro, ed. by E. Dentu. Paris, 1878, p. 58.
Gallagher, B. "William Randolph Hearst and the Detroit Institute of Arts." Bulletin of the DIA 78, nos. 1/2 (2004): pp. 54-65.
Levkoff, M. Hearst, the Collector. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, 2008, cat. no. 23, p. 162; p. 163 (ill.).
Cordera, Paola. La Fabbrica del Rinascimento: Frédéric Spitzer mercante d’arte e collzionista nell'Europa delle nuove Nazioni. Bologna, 2014, p. 370.
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workshop of Anton Peffenhauser, Armor for the Tilt, ca. 1580, steel, copper alloy, leather, paint. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of William Randolph Hearst Foundation, 53.196.
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