The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Side Panel of a Crupper (Flank Defense from a Horse Armor)

Side Panel of a Crupper (Flank Defense from a Horse Armor)

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Side Panel of a Crupper (Flank Defense from a Horse Armor)

Date:: ca. 1480
Culture:: German or Austrian
Medium:: Steel, blued and gilt
Dimensions:: Height, 31 3/4 in. (80.65 cm) Width, 36 in. (91.44 cm)
Classification:: Armor for Horse
Credit Line:: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942
Accession Number:: 42.50.34

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 373

Description

Once part of a very elaborate horse armor, this crupper panel is one of the few surviving examples from the fifteenth century to retain its original blued and gilt decoration.
Provenance

Ex coll.: Archduke Eugen, Fortress of Hohenwerfen, Austria; Clarence H. Mackay, Roslyn L.I.
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Metal (59,364)

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A.D. 1400-1600 (20,545)
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