id:			95817
accession number:	1916.1502
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1502
updated:		2023-12-07 06:46:30.151000

Helmet, c. 1560–80. Germany, Saxony, 16th century. Steel; overall: 34.5 x 32 x 22 cm (13 9/16 x 12 5/8 x 8 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance 1916.1502

title:				Helmet
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creation date:			c. 1560–80
creation date earliest:		1555
creation date latest:		1585
current location:		210A Armor Court
creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance
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culture:	Germany, Saxony, 16th century
technique:	steel
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Arms & Armor
type:		Arms and Armor
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measurements: Overall: 34.5 x 32 x 22 cm (13 9/16 x 12 5/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum
	opening date:   1991-06-07T04:00:00
	<i>Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).

	title:		Armor Court Reinstallation
	opening date:   1998-09-10T00:00:00
	<i>Armor Court Reinstallation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Saxon Electoral Army, Dresden, Germany
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	Frank Gair Macomber (1849-1941), Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: -1916
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1916-
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RELATED WORKS

	id: 		95824
	Tilting Suit (composed), c. 1560–80. South Germany, 16th century. Steel, leather straps, brass rivets; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance 1916.1511
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CITATIONS

	<em>Catalogue of Arms and Armour</em>. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], 1900.
	page number: 	#319
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour1/page/n219/mode/2up

	Hôtel des Ventes, Beauvais. <em>Catalogue des armes &amp; armures, habit de Mestre de Camp composant la collection de M. le Marquis de Belleval et de Licques. </em>Jan 21-23, 1901. Lot 261.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 27, lot 261
	url:		https://archive.org/details/Belleval/page/n32

	Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance, Elizabeth Huntington De Witt Severance, and Helen Ives Gilchrist.<em> A Catalogue of the Collection of Arms &amp; Armor Presented to the Cleveland Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. John Long Severance</em>; 1916-1923. Cleveland: Cleveland museum of art, 1924.
	page number: 	A11
	url:		https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924

	Fliegel, Stephen N<em>. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>[Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.
	page number: 	color repr. p. 50, cat. no. 1, p. 162
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	Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms &amp; Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>[Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
	page number: 	p. 182, no. 3
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IMAGES

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