About This Artwork

Hans Paumgartner
Austrian, Graz, active 1556-1582

Wheellock Hunting Rifle with Left-Hand Lock, for Archduke Karl II of Styria (1540-1590), 1571

Steel, iron, brass, wood, ebony, horn
L. 112 cm (44 1/8 in.)
Barrel L. 86 cm (33 7/8 in.)
Wt. 8 lb. 6 oz.
Caliber .55
Marked by stock maker Hans Paumgartner
George F. Harding Collection, 1982.2266

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Walter Karchieski, "Arms and Armor in the Art Institute of Chicago" (Art Institute of Chicago/Little, Brown, and Company, 1995), p. 75 (ill.)