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About the Artwork

Pavise (Archer's Shield)

late 15th century

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Austrian

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Beechwood, gesso, canvas, pigskin, pigment

Overall: 46 1/4 × 23 1/8 × 7 inches (117.5 × 58.7 × 17.8 cm)

Arms and Armor

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Founders Society Purchase, Sarah Beacon Hill Fund

64.149

Public Domain

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Before 1499-at least 1871, Civic Arsenal of Klausen (Klausen, South Tyrol, Italy);
After 1874, sold to (Alois Überbacher), (Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy).
By 1888, Max Kuppelmayr [d. 1888] (Munich, Germany);
1888-at least 1895, by descent to Rudolph Kuppelmayr [1843-1918] (Munich, Germany).
Until d. 1927, Dr. Albert Figdor [1843-1927] (Vienna, Austria);
1930, sold by his estate through (Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Germany).
After 1930, Oscar Bundy (Vienna, Austria).
Until 1964, (Ruth Blumka, Blumka Gallery, New York, New York, USA);
1964, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Waffen-Sammlung. Sales cat., Kuppelmayr, Munich, January 1895, p. 13, no. 113, pl. 15 (ill.).

Count Oswald Trapp, "Klausener Tartschen," ZEITSCHRIFT FUR HISTORISCHE WAFFENKUNDE, N.S. III, 1929 - 31, p 162.

Paul Cassirer, Theodor Demmler, Max J. Friedländer, Leo Planiscig, and August Schestag, DIE SAMMLUNG DR. ALBERT FIGDOR (sale catalogue), Ersterteil, Funfter Band: Paul Cassirer Verlag, Berlin, 1930, no. 557, ill. pl 197.

Profanter, Krista. “Die spätmittelalterlichen Schilde aus der ehemaligen Rüstkammer von Klausen.” Der Schlern 92, no. 1 (2018): 4–70, pp. 26 (ill.), 47–48, no. A.III.a.4 (ill.).

Profanter, Krista. "Die Pavesen aus der ehemaligen Rüstkammer von Klausen – Eine Spurensuche." In Schilde des Spätmittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit, ed. Raphael Beuing and Wolfgang Augustyn. Schriften Der Forschungsstelle Realienkunde 4. Passau, 2019, pp. 275-301, p. 290 (fig. 15), footnote 80.

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Austrian, Pavise (Archer's Shield), late 15th century, beechwood, gesso, canvas, pigskin, pigment. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Sarah Beacon Hill Fund, 64.149.

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