id:			97053
accession number:	1916.708
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.708
updated:		2023-03-03 07:01:17.522000

Left Arm Elements from a Boy's Armor (Lower Cannon, Couter, Rerebrace), c. 1560 (some modern). Germany, Augsburg, mostly 17th Century (some modern). Etched and lightly embossed steel with traces of gilding, leather; overall: 17 cm (6 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance 1916.708

title:				Left Arm Elements from a Boy's Armor (Lower Cannon, Couter, Rerebrace)
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creation date:			c. 1560 (some modern)
creation date earliest:		1555
creation date latest:		1916
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creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance
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culture:	Germany, Augsburg, mostly 17th Century (some modern)
technique:	etched and lightly embossed steel with traces of gilding, leather
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Arms & Armor
type:		Arms and Armor
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 17 cm (6 11/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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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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fun fact:
Small-scale suits of armor would help prepare a young boy for knighthood.

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wall description:
These elements once belonged to a full suit of armor that would have been made for a young boy. Decorated with etching, embossing, and gilding, the original suit would have been impressive. Dressing your sons in small custom suits of armor was popular with the wealthiest nobles. They would have been worn for parades and ceremonial occasions and once outgrown were often kept as mementos. Made for the left arm, the rerebrace or upper cannon protected the upper arm, the couter the elbow, and the lower cannon the forearm.
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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 #: 418
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	Gilchrist, Helen Ives. <em>A Catalogue of the Collection of Arms &amp; Armor Presented to the Cleveland Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. John Long Severance; 1916-1923</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 70, C29
	url:		https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n102

	Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.
	page number: 	cat no. 10, 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: 	cat. no. 31, p. 184
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