Portions of a Field Armor

Title: Portions of a Field Armor

Date: dated 1524

Geography: probably Augsburg

Culture: German, probably Augsburg

Medium: Steel, leather

Dimensions: H. as mounted 29 3/4 in. (75.57 cm); Wt. 28 lb. (12.7 kg); breastplate (c): 14 3/4 × 14 3/4 × 7 11/16 in. (37.5 × 37.5 × 19.5 cm); Wt. 6 lb. 14 oz. (3112 g); tassets (d): 10 1/4 × 19 5/16 × 7 3/8 in. (26 × 49 × 18.7 cm); Wt. 3 lb. 3 oz. (1445 g); backplate (e): 15 9/16 × 14 15/16 × 9 1/4 in. (39.5 × 38 × 23.5 cm); Wt. 5 lb. 3 oz. (2340 g); culet (f): 5 7/8 × 18 5/16 × 12 3/16 in. (15 × 46.5 × 31 cm); Wt. 2 lb. 8 oz. (1141 g); right pauldron (g): 10 13/16 × 10 13/16 × 7 13/16 in. (27.5 × 27.5 × 19.8 cm); Wt. 2 lb. 7 oz. (1110 g); left pauldron (h): 11 5/8 × 11 5/16 × 8 9/16 in. (29.5 × 28.8 × 21.8 cm); Wt. 2 lb. 12 oz. (1251 g); vambrace (i): 20 × 6 × 9 1/2 in. (50.8 × 15.2 × 24.1 cm); Wt. 2 lb. 9 oz. (1165 g); vambrace (j): 20 × 5 1/2 × 9 in. (50.8 × 14 × 22.9 cm); Wt. 2 lb. 8 oz. (1136 g)

Classification: Armor for Man

Credit Line: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Bequest of Bashford Dean, 1928

Accession Number: 29.150.3b–p

Inscription: The decoration includes the numerals XXIIII along the bottom of each tasset (thigh defense), indicating the date of manufacture, 1524.

Prince Heinrich of Prussia, Burg Rheinstein, Trechtingshausen, ‎Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (from 1902); [Dr. W. Wilbrand, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany, by 1920–21; sold to Dean]; Bashford Dean, New York (1921–d. 1928; his bequest to MMA).

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. "Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475–1540," September 30–December 31, 2012.

Austin. Blanton Museum of Art. "Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475–1540," October 5, 2013—January 5, 2014.

Poughkeepsie. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College. "Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475–1540," September 19—December 14, 2014.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Stephen V. Grancsay, and Carl Otto von Kienbusch. The Bashford Dean Collection of Arms and Armor in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Portland, ME: Southworth Press for the Armor and Arms Club of New York City, 1933. pp. 86–88, no. 11, pl. XXI.

Mann, James G. "The Etched Decoration of Armour: A Study in Classification." Proceedings of the British Academy (1940), p. 9 (this armor mentioned among others etched in the Hopfer style, the table numbered XXIIII noted. ).

Krause, Stefan. "Der Augusburger Druckgraphiker Daniel Hopfer (1471–1536) als Waffendekorateur." Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien (2011–12), pp. 65–66, note 83.

La Rocca, Donald J. How to Read European Armor. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017. pp. 140–1, figs. 153–4.