Targe de joute avec échancrure de lance,... - Lot 185 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Targe de joute avec échancrure de lance, Tartsche mit Lanzenausschnitt, dans le style allemand de la fin du XVe siècle. A German jousting Targe, Tartsche mit Lanzenausschnitt, in the style of the late 15th century. With concave waisted rectangular wooden body with strongly scalloped upper and lower edges corresponding with a group of three vertical ribs running over its full height, the upper right segment bouched for the lance, covered with painted gessoed canvas throughout, the inner face concave at the towards the top, studded with a series of nails and a staple for straps, the two sides painted a deep pink, the outer face with heraldic representations of ermine and kürsch painted white, and in "aged" condition throughout. H.: 77 cm - W.: 73 cm. A 15th century example from Nuremberg (one of a series of five shields bearing the arms of Behaim von Schwarzbach) is preserved in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Gift of Mrs Florence Blumenthal, 1925, 25.26.1). See Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg 1300-1550, MMA, 1986, pp. 201-3, fig. 60a.