Fighting Knights

Kämpfende Ritter

Wolf Huber

Not yet located

The drawing

Two mounted knights clash with raised weapons in a dark wooded landscape, with distant architecture visible at right.

Becker, 1922

As Felix Becker published it in 1922.

Attribution: Wolf Huber
Title as printed: Kämpfende Ritter
Title in English: Fighting Knights
Date: 1518
Medium and size: White brush and pen on red-brown prepared paper, 14 × 10 cm
Inscription: Monogrammed WH and dated 1518
Collection in 1922: Ducal collection, Dessau

Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.

Status: Not yet located
Where is it now?: Not yet located. A 1927 study documented the drawing in Dessau; its present location has not been established.
Attribution today: Wolf Huber. A 1927 scholarly study includes Zwei kämpfende Ritter among the seven known chiaroscuro drawings Huber made in 1518.

Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 5.
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