About the Artwork
Helmet
ca. 1500-20
(Artist) Austrian (Artist) German
Steel, leather
Overall: 11 1/4 × 9 1/8 × 12 5/8 inches, 4.3 pounds (28.6 × 23.2 × 32.1 cm, 2 kg)
Arms and Armor
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene H. Welker
56.124.1
Public Domain
Markings
etched, on point of chin: a lobed crown surmounted by a cross
Provenance
Until 1933, Private Collection (Vienna, Austria);1933–1951, William Randolph Hearst, Saint Donat's Castle (Llantwitt Major, Wales);
From 1951, the National Magazine Company, Ltd. (London, England);
1956, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA).
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Beard, Charles. "Helmets at St. Donat's Castle in the Collection of William Randolph Hearst, Esq.," The Connoisseur 105 (February 1940): no. XIV, p. 132 (ill.).
Bulletin of the DIA 36, no. 3 (1956-57): p. 69 (ill.).
Pignataro, Megan Reddicks, Livingston Bailin, and Chassica Kirchhoff. “Divesting and Dismembering.” Bulletin of the DIA 97, no. 1 (2023): pp. 66–83.
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Austrian; German, Helmet, ca. 1500-20, Steel, leather. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene H. Welker, 56.124.1.
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