Cup-hilted Rapier, mid-17th century

  • Italian

Steel

  • Overall: 46 × 13 1/2 × 6 1/4 inches (116.8 × 34.3 × 15.9 cm) Overall (blade): 39 inches (99.1 cm)

Gift of William Randolph Hearst Foundation

53.212

On View

  • Great Hall, Level 2, West

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Baron Frédéric Spitzer (Paris, France)

June 10-14, 1895, sold by (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France) lot 250

by June 30, 1939, William Randolph Hearst

by 1951, William Randolph Hearst Foundation

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

Catalogue des Armes et Armures Faisant Partie de la Collection Spitzer. Sales cat., Galerie Georges Petit. Paris, June 10-15, 1895, p. 29, no. 250. 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. 92. Robinson, F.W. "A Gift of Arms and Armor from the Collection of William Randolph Hearst." Bulletin of the DIA 33, no. 1 (1953-1954): pp. 1-5. The Art of the Armorer. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, 1967, cat. no. 45 (ill.). Cordera, Paola. La Fabbrica del Rinascimento: Frédéric Spitzer mercante d’arte e collzionista nell'Europa delle nuove Nazioni. Bologna, 2014, p. 386.

Italian, Cup-hilted Rapier, mid-17th century, steel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of William Randolph Hearst Foundation, 53.212.