id: 96102 accession number: 1916.1845 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1845 updated: 2023-04-23 11:15:51.554000 Chanfron in Maximilian Style, c. 1510. Germany, Nuremberg (?), early 16th Century. Steel ; overall: 59.2 x 33.2 x 10.1 cm (23 5/16 x 13 1/16 x 4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance 1916.1845 title: Chanfron in Maximilian Style title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1510 creation date earliest: 1505 creation date latest: 1515 current location: 210A Armor Court creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance copyright: --- culture: Germany, Nuremberg (?), early 16th Century technique: steel department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Arms & Armor type: Arms and Armor find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 59.2 x 33.2 x 10.1 cm (23 5/16 x 13 1/16 x 4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Armor Court Reinstallation opening date: 1998-09-10T00:00:00 Armor Court Reinstallation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer). title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00 Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Forge of Vulcan: European Arms and Armor, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 24, 1992-May 30, 1993). --- PROVENANCE Edwin J. Brett (1827-1895), London, England date: footnotes: citations: Frank Gair Macomber; Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1916 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1916- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Nuremberg was a chief armor production center and gained international renown; products from here were exported throughout Europe. digital description: wall description: The chanfron was the primary element that protected and decorated a horse's forehead and face. It consisted of a plate of steel contoured to the horse's head from its ears to its nostrils. Normally, two holes were cut at each side of the forehead for the ears, and earpieces were sometimes riveted around their edges. This example, however, was forged in one piece. It belongs to the transitional period between the Gothic and the fluted armors introduced by Emperor Maximilian. The hinge at the top is for the attachment of the crest plate. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Catalogue of Arms and Armour. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], 1900. page number: cat. no. 316 url: https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour1/page/n219/mode/2up Cleveland Museum of Art, and Helen Ives Gilchrist. Handbook of the Severance Collection of Arms and Armor. 2d ed., 1948. page number: Reproduction: p. 49 url: https://archive.org/details/HandbookArmsArmor1948/page/n55 Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998. page number: pp. 72, 166; cat. no. 75 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: cat. no. 111, p. 293 url: Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: cat. no. 69, p. 185 url: Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. Mùˆnchen: Hirmer, 2007. page number: url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1845/1916.1845_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1845/1916.1845_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1845/1916.1845_full.tif