id:			96064
accession number:	1916.1804.b
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1804.b
updated:		2024-03-26 01:56:15.422000

Breastplate, c. 1540. Germany, 16th century. Steel; overall: 43.8 x 36.9 cm (17 1/4 x 14 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance 1916.1804.b

title:				Breastplate
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creation date:			c. 1540
creation date earliest:		1535
creation date latest:		1545
current location:		210A Armor Court
creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance
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culture:	Germany, 16th century
technique:	steel
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Arms & Armor
type:		Arms and Armor
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measurements: Overall: 43.8 x 36.9 cm (17 1/4 x 14 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	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

	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

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CITATIONS

	<em>Catalogue of Arms and Armour. </em>[Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], 1900.
	page number: 	cat.# 306
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, and Helen Ives Gilchris<em>t. Handbook of the Severance Collection of Arms and Armor</em>. Cleveland, O.: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925.
	page number: 	Cat. no. A7
	url:		https://archive.org/details/HandbookArmsArmor

	Fliegel, Stephen N.<em> Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.
	page number: 	cat. no. 34, p. 164
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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: 	cat. no. 22, p. 183.
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IMAGES

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