Field Armor in the Hungarian Style for Count Khevenhüller

ca. 1585 - 1600

Anton Peffenhauser German, Augsburg, ca. 1525 - 1603

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Ancient Greek and Roman, Level 2, South Wing

Field Armor in the Hungarian Style for Count Khevenhüller

Field Armor in the Hungarian Style for Count Khevenhüller: 1 of Collection Gallery

Field Armor in the Hungarian Style for Count Khevenhüller: 2 of Collection Gallery

Field Armor in the Hungarian Style for Count Khevenhüller: 3 of Collection Gallery

Field Armor in the Hungarian Style for Count Khevenhüller: 4 of Collection Gallery

Field Armor in the Hungarian Style for Count Khevenhüller: 5 of Collection Gallery

Field Armor in the Hungarian Style for Count Khevenhüller: 6 of Collection Gallery

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About the Artwork

The acorn and leaf patterns on the back shoulders of this armor allude to the Khevenhüller family home: Castle Aichelberg (Oak Mountain) in eastern Austria. The breastplate’s overlapping sections resemble equipment worn by Polish and Hungarian horsemen, communicating his connection to central Europe.

Title Field Armor in the Hungarian Style for Count Khevenhüller

Artwork Date ca. 1585 - 1600

Artist Anton Peffenhauser

Life Dates Augsburg

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. German

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Medium Steel, brass, cloth, silk, leather, gilding

Dimensions Installed: 41 9/16 × 26 3/4 × 14 1/4 inches (105.6 × 67.9 × 36.2 cm)

Classification Arms and Armor

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of William Randolph Hearst Foundation

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 53.199

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Provenance

The counts von Khevenhüller (Burg Landskron, Carinthia, Austria);
by descent to Johann, count von Khevenhüller [1597-1632] (Burg Landskron, Carinthia, Austria; from 1629) (Regensburg, Germany; from 1630) (Nuremberg, Germany; until 1632);
by descent to his son, Bartholomäus, count von Khevenhüller [1626-1678] (Nuremberg, Germany);
by descent to his son, Franz Hartman Albrecht, count von Khevenhüller [1677-1694] (Nuremberg, Germany);
by descent to his three sisters, Maximiliana Karoline von Khevenhüller [1670-1726; married 1694 to Christian Karl II, baron then (from 1695) count von Giech (1665-1697)],
Maria Eleonore von Khevenhüller [1671-1742, unmarried] and Eva Susanna von Khevenhüller [1674-1715; married in 1698 to Karl Gottfried II, count von Giech (1670-1729)] (Nuremberg, Germany) then (Schloss Thurnau, near Bayreuth, Germany, 1694);
her husband, Karl Gottfried II, count von Giech [1670-1729] (Schloss Thurnau, Germany);
by descent to the counts von Giech (Schloss Thurnau, Germany);
by descent Franz Friedrich Karl Lothar, count von Giech [1883-1938] (Schloss Thurnau, Germany);
by 1923, wIth (Hans Schedelmann) (Vienna, Germany);
1924, sold to (Ernst Schmidt, maker of armor replicas and dealer) (Munich, Germany).
1924, sold through the buyer's agent, Karl von Wiegand (1874-1961), to William Randolph Hearst (1869-1951)(New York, New York, USA);
1951, by bequest to the William Randolph Hearst Foundation (New York, New York, USA);
1953-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Robinson, F.W. "A Gift of Arms and Armor from the Collection of William Randolph Hearst." Bulletin of the DIA 33, no. 1 (1953-1954): pp. 1-5.

Schedelmann, H. "Ein Rückblick auf den Waffenmarkt des letzten halben Jahrhunderts," Waffen-und Kostümkunde 15, no. 1 (1973): p. 25 (fig. 3).

Kirchhoff, Chassica F. “Embodying the Edges of Empire.” Bulletin of the DIA 97, no. 1 (2023) p. 50-65.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

circle of Anton Peffenhauser, Field Armor in the Hungarian Style for Count Khevenhüller, ca. 1585 - 1600, steel, brass, cloth, silk, leather, gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of William Randolph Hearst Foundation, 53.199.