Riding Sword

c. 1580–1600

Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Status: On View, Gallery 239
Department: Applied Arts of Europe

Title: Riding Sword
Place: Germany (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1580–1600
Medium: Steel, iron, gilding, wood, and textile
Dimensions: 114.3 × 25.4 cm (45 × 10 in.)
Credit Line: Through prior acquisition of the George F. Harding Collection
Reference Number: 2025.125
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Sold, Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, June 24, 1963, lot 23, to Carl Beck (1894–1982), Sursee, Switzerland; transferred to the Carl Beck Foundation, Sursee, Switzerland, 1967 [the collection was housed at the Museum Sankturbanhof Sursee beginning in 1967; part of the collection was deaccessioned in 2004]; sold, Bonham’s, London, July 29, 2004, lot 261, to Andrew Lumley, London [on loan at the Art Institute of Chicago since 2017]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2025.

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