About the Artwork
Vamplate for the Joust with Sharp Lances (Rennen)
c. 1500
Wilhelm von Worms the Elder
active 1497-1537
German
Unknown
Steel
Overall: 22 1/2 × 14 1/4 × 6 1/8 inches, 10.1 pounds (57.1 × 36.2 × 15.5 cm, 4.6 kg)
Arms and Armor
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of William Randolph Hearst Foundation
53.207
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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The vamplate is stamped with the mark of Wilhelm von Worms [a stag within a shield ]
Provenance
By 1823
Count Franz zu Erbach-Erbach, Schloß Erbach (Castle of the Counts of Erbach, Odenwald, Hesse, Germany)
by descent to his heirs, the Counts of Erbach (Castle of the Counts of Erbach, Odenwald, Hesse, Germany)
1823, Counts Erbach zu Erbach, Schloß Erbach (Castle of the Counts of Erbach-Erbach, Odenwald, Hesse, Germany)
September 6, 1932, sold at (Gallerie Fischer, Lucerne, Switzerland), lot 44, to Raymond Bartel for William Randolph Hearst
1932, William Randolph Hearst [1863-1951] (New York, New York, USA)
1951, his bequest to the William Randolph Hearst Foundation (New York, New York, USA)
1953, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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G. L. Kress, RITTERSAAL IM SCHLOSSE ZU ERBACH IM ODENWALDE (Offenbach 1832), no. 2, pl. IV
Dieffenbach, L. Ferdinand. Graf Franz zu Erbach-Erbach: Ein Lebens- und Culturbild aus dem Ende des XVIII. und dem Anfange des XIX. Jahrhunderts. Deutsche Adels-Gallerie, 1. Darmstadt: Literarisch-artistische Anstalt, 1879, p. 103.
H. Müller-Heckler, Sammlung Erbach in Rittershall Erbach (Darmstadt 1926),
Gallerie Fischer, Gräflich Erbach'sche Waffensammlung (Lucern 1932), p. 8, lot 44; pl. 17 (ill)
F. W. Robinson, "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
H. Schedelmann, "Ein Rückblick auf den Waffenmarkt des letzten halben Jahrhunderts," Waffen- und Kostümkunde 15, no. 1 (1973), pp. 25-35 (ill)
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Wilhelm von Worms the Elder, Vamplate for the Joust with Sharp Lances (Rennen), c. 1500, steel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of William Randolph Hearst Foundation, 53.207.
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