About the Artwork
Right Gauntlet
ca. 1500-20
(Artist) Austrian (Artist) German
Steel, leather
Overall: 4 5/16 × 4 5/16 × 8 15/16 inches, 0.9 pounds (11 × 11 × 22.7 cm, 0.4 kg) Overall circumference: 12 1/8 inches (30.8 cm)
Arms and Armor
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene H. Welker
56.124.7A
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Provenance
Until 1924, Comte Hector Dimitrios Economos [1864-1924] (Paris, France)
1924, Economos collection acquired en bloc by (Seligmann & Co.) for William Randolph Hearst
April 24, 1924, sold to William Randolph Hearst [1863–1951, Saint Donat's Castle (Llantwitt Major, Wales)
1951, transferred from Hearst's estate to the National Magazine Company, Ltd. (London, England)
1956-present, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA).
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Bulletin of the DIA 36, no. 3 (1956-57): p. 69 (ill.).
Pignataro, Megan Reddicks, Livingston Bailin, and Chassica Kirchhoff. “Divesting and Dismembering.” Bulletin of the DIA 97, no. 1 (2023): pp. 66–83.
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Austrian; German, Right Gauntlet, ca. 1500-20, Steel, leather. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene H. Welker, 56.124.7A.
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