Right Tasset

1860 - 1869

Hugo Jubitz German (Munich)

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About the Artwork

Title Right Tasset

Artwork Date 1860 - 1869

Artist Hugo Jubitz

Life Dates ----------

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 (Munich)

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Steel, copper alloy, leather

Dimensions Installed (Full armor): 71 inches × 28 1/2 inches × 26 1/4 inches (180.3 × 72.4 × 66.7 cm) Overall (Right Tasset): 9 3/4 × 9 5/8 × 2 3/16 inches, 1 pounds (24.8 × 24.4 × 5.6 cm, 0.5 kg)

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. 53.193.8A

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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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Credit Line for Reproduction

Attributed to Hugo Jubitz, Right Tasset, 1860 - 1869, steel, copper alloy, leather. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of William Randolph Hearst Foundation, 53.193.8A.