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Backplate and Hoguine (Rump Defense) from a Costume Armor

Armorer Kolman Helmschmid German
ca. 1525
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 374
This armor reproduces in steel the extravagant puffed and slashed costume of the German Landsknechte (mercenary infantry troops). The matching pieces are preserved in the Musée de l'Armée, Paris. Coming from the Radziwill armory in Nesvizh in present-day Belarus, this armor may have been made for Jerzy Herkules Radziwill (1480–1541), a powerful Lithuanian-Polish nobleman.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Backplate and Hoguine (Rump Defense) from a Costume Armor
  • Armorer: Kolman Helmschmid (German, Augsburg 1471–1532)
  • Date: ca. 1525
  • Geography: Augsburg
  • Culture: German, Augsburg
  • Medium: Steel, gold
  • Dimensions: H. 27 in. (68.6 cm); W. 18 in. (45.7 cm); Wt. 9 lb. 11.88 oz. (4419 g); backplate: H. 16 1/4 in. (41.3 cm); W. 14 5/8 in. (37.1 cm); D. 7 15/16 in. (20.2 cm); D. with shoulder straps extended 11 5/8 in. (29.5 cm); Wt. 4 lb. (14.6 oz. (2229 g); rump defense: H. 13 1/8 in. (33.4 cm); W. 16 3/4 in. (42.6 cm); D. 8 1/8 in. (20.7 cm); Wt. 4 lb. 13.25 oz. (2190 g)
  • Classification: Armor Parts
  • Credit Line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1924
  • Object Number: 24.179
  • Curatorial Department: Arms and Armor

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