Close Helmet with Mask Visor in Form of a Human Face

Radziwill Armory, Nesvizh Castle (before 1871); Jean-Baptiste Carrand, Lyons and Paris (until d. 1871; by descent through the family to Louis Carrand); Louis Carrand, Paris (after 1871); [Frédéric Spitzer, Paris, by 1878 (?)–d. 1890; his posthumous sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 10–14, 1895, no. 7, for Fr 76,000 (for the entire lot) to Duc de Dino]; Charles Maurice Camille de Talleyrand-Périgord, Duc de Dino, Paris (1895–1904; sold to MMA).

Paris. Palais du Trocadéro. "Exposition Universelle de 1878: L'Exposition Historique du Trocadéro," May 1–October 31, 1878 (probably this armor, lent by F. Spitzer).

Paris. Musée de l'Armée. "Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1889: Exposition Rétrospective du Travail et des Sciences Anthropologiques," 1889, no. 637 (as "Armure de guerre. – Travail allemand, XVIe siècle. lent by Spitzer).

Bréban, Philibert. Livret-Guide du Visiteur à l'Exposition Historique du Trocadéro, edited by E. Dentu. Paris, 1878. p. 53 (probably this armor, lent by F. Spitzer).

Exposition universelle de 1889. Catalogue Général Officiel: Exposition Rétrospective du Travail et des Sciences Anthorpologiques. Vol. 5. Arts Militaires. Lille: L. Danel, 1889. p. 85, no. 637 (lent by Spitzer).

Bonnaffé, Edmond. Le Musée Spitzer. Paris: Imprimerie de l'art, 1890. p. 30 (this armor?).

Laking, Guy Francis, Sir, Charles Alexander Cosson, and Francis Henry Cripps-Day. A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries. Vol. III. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1920. pp. 256–58, fig. 1039.

Thomas, Bruno. "Der Wiener Prunkharnisch des Wilhelm von Rogendorf." Das Antiquariat 8 pp. 84–86.

Grancsay, Stephen V. Loan Exhibition of Mediaeval and Renaissance Arms and Armor from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1953. p. 8, no. 4, ill.

Norman, A. V. B. Arms and Armour. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1964. p. 63, fig. 65.

Nickel, Helmut. Warriors and Worthies: Arms and Armor Through the Ages. New York: Atheneum, 1969. p. 76, ill.

Nickel, Helmut. Ullstein-Waffenbuch: eine kulturhistorische Waffenkunde mit Markenverzeichnis. Berlin: Ullstein, 1974. pp. 129, 143, ill.

Thomas, Bruno. Gesammelte Schriften zur historischen Waffenkunde: [überarb. Nachdr. von 88 in Fachzeitschriften u. Einzelpublikationen ersch. Abhandlungen des Autors]. Vol. 2. Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1977. pp. 1163–70.

Thomas, Bruno. "Der Turiner Prunkharnisch für Feld und Turnier B.2 des Nürnberger Patriziers Wilhelm Rieter von Boxberg: Meisterwerk von Kolman Helmschmid zu Augsburg um 1525." Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien (1977), p. 153.

Jäger, Felix. "Sovereign Infamy: Grotesque Helmets, Masks of Shame and the Prehistory of Caricature." In Images of Shame: Infamy, Defamation, and the Ethics of Oeconomia. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016. pp. 172–75, fig. 2.

La Rocca, Donald J. How to Read European Armor. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017. p. 130, fig. 143.