Armor for the Joust and Free Tournament

ca. 1580 - 1590

Peter von Speyer the Younger, Artist Wolf Peppinghorn, Artist Wolf von Speyer, Artist

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Title Armor for the Joust and Free Tournament

Artwork Date ca. 1580 - 1590

Makers Peter von Speyer the Younger (Artist) German, died after 1619 Wolf Peppinghorn (Artist) German, active 1575 - 1600 Wolf von Speyer (Artist) German, active ca. 1560 - 1580

Medium Steel, leather

Dimensions Overall (As Displayed): 70 1/2 × 30 × 17 7/8 inches (179.1 × 76.2 × 45.4 cm)

Classification Arms and Armor

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of William Randolph Hearst Foundation

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 53.197

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by 1624, Prince-Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony [1585–1656] (Dresden, Germany)

1656, by inheritance to his heirs, the prince-electors and kings of Saxony (Dresden, Germany)

1827, by inheritance to King Anton of Saxony [1755–1836] (Dresden, Germany)

1832, transferred with the contents of the royal and electoral armory to the Königliches Historisches Museum (Dresden, Germany)

1924, deaccessioned and returned to Prince Ernst Heinrich [1896–1971] for the Verein Haus Wettin Albertinischer Linie (Dresden, Germany)

1926, sold to William Randolph Hearst (Los Angeles, California, USA)

1951, bequeathed to the William Randolph Hearst Foundation

1953-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Beuten, Tobias. Chur-Fürstlischer Säschsicher stets grünender hoher Cedern-Wald...oder kurze Vorstellung der churfürstlische sachsiche hohen Regal-Wercke. Dresden, 1671, [unnumbered].

von Ehrenthal, M. Führer durch das Königliche Historische Museum zu Dresden, 3rd ed. Dresden, 1899, pp. 42-44.

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 (cover ill.).

Robinson, F. A Selection from the William Randolph Hearst Collection of Arms and Armor in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1954, pp. 22-23.

The Art of the Armorer. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, 1967, cat. no. 9 (ill.).

Schedelmann, H. "Ein Rückblick auf den Waffenmarkt des letzten halben Jahrhunderts." Waffen-und Kostümkunde 15 (1973): pp. 32; 35 (ill.).

Levkoff, M. Hearst, the Collector. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, 2008, cat. no. 24, p. 162; p. 163 (ill.).

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workshop of Wolf von Speyer; workshop of Peter von Speyer the Younger; workshop of Wolf Peppinghorn, Armor for the Joust and Free Tournament, ca. 1580 - 1590, steel, leather. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of William Randolph Hearst Foundation, 53.197.