German Armor of the Fifteenth Century, ca. 1868

  • Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French, 1814-1879

Graphite pencil on tracing paper fully attached to wove paper support

  • Sheet: 7 7/16 × 5 1/2 inches (18.9 × 14 cm) Mount: 9 3/4 × 7 5/8 inches (24.8 × 19.4 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Charles L. Freer Fund, Hal H. Smith Fund, and the Lee and Tina Hills Graphic Arts Fund

1993.105

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed, in black ink, lower right: Violett le Duc

Inscribed, in black ink, lower left: Armure Allemande [illeg., crossed out] | XV Siecle Inscribed, upper right: Pl. III Inscribed, lower right of mount: M. Varin Inscribed, upper left corner of mount: No.12. Inscribed, upper left of mount: C.V. Inscribed, upper center of mount: Dictionnaire du Mobilier | Armur Inscribed, upper right of mount: Pl.III.

1993-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, German Armor of the Fifteenth Century, ca. 1868, graphite pencil on tracing paper fully attached to wove paper support. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Charles L. Freer Fund, Hal H. Smith Fund, and the Lee and Tina Hills Graphic Arts Fund, 1993.105.