Right Arm Defense with Couter (elbow defense)

Hugo Jubitz German (Munich)
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Right Arm Defense with Couter (elbow defense)

between 1860 and 1869

Hugo Jubitz

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German (Munich)

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Steel, copper alloy, leather

Installed (Full Armor): 71 inches × 28 1/2 inches × 26 1/4 inches (180.3 × 72.4 × 66.7 cm) Overall (Right Couter): 22 1/4 × 10 3/4 × 5 1/2 inches, 3.3 pounds (56.5 × 27.3 × 14 cm, 1.5 kg)

Arms and Armor

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Gift of William Randolph Hearst Foundation

53.193.6A

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Provenance

By 1869, Princes Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Schloss Sigmaringen (Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany);
1929, sold to (Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Inc.) (New York, New York, USA);
1930, sold to William Randolph Hearst (Los Angeles, California, USA);
1951, bequeathed to the William Randolph Hearst Foundation (New York, New York, USA);
1953–present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
William Randolph Hearst Foundation (by 1951);
Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation

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Published References

Demmin, Auguste. Guide des amateurs d’armes et armures anciennes par ordre chronologique depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu’a nos jours. Paris, 1869, p. 211 (ill.).

Laking, Guy Francis. A Record of European Armour and Arms through Seven Centuries. London: G. Bell and sons, ltd., 1920, vol. II, pp. 215, 128, (ill.) 215, (fig. 247).

Comstock, Helen. "The Connoisseur in America." Connoisseur 122, no. 516 (December 1948): 118–124, p. 118 (ill.).

Robinson, Francis W. "A Gift of Arms and Armor from the Collection of William Randolph Hearst." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 33, no. 1 (1953-54): 1–5, pp. 2, 4 (ill.).

Gamber, Ortwin. "Der Turnierharnish zur Zeit König Maximilians I, und das Thunsche Skizzenbuch." Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien 53 (1957): 3–70, pp. 43, 46, figs. 51–53 (ill.).

Levkoff, Mary L. Hearst, the Collector. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, 2008, pp. 159–160, cat. 20 (ill.) [entry by S. Pyrhh]

Quérée, Jennifer. “The Invisible Knight: A Journey of Discovery.” Records of the Canterbury Museum 25 (2011), pp. 67–89; pp. 76–78, fig. 11 (ill.).

Pyhrr, Stuart W. “‘I Would Prefer Gothic.’ William Randolph Hears as an Armor Collector.” The Spring 2014 Park Lane Arms Fair (2014): pp. 12-13, (ill.) p. 13.

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Attributed to Hugo Jubitz, Right Arm Defense with Couter (elbow defense), between 1860 and 1869, steel, copper alloy, leather. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of William Randolph Hearst Foundation, 53.193.6A.

Right Arm Defense with Couter (elbow defense)
Right Arm Defense with Couter (elbow defense)