Close Helmet, from a Small Garniture, perhaps for Siegmund Friedrich, Freiherr von Herbertstein (d. 1621) (c. 1580): Art, History and Details

Close Helmet, from a Small Garniture, perhaps for Siegmund Friedrich, Freiherr von Herbertstein (d. 1621) (c. 1580) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This helmet appears to belong to a garniture for man and horse of which other elements survive in the Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The associated visor has been removed to better show the beautiful etched and gilded strapwork decoration.

Object facts

• Title: Close Helmet, from a Small Garniture, perhaps for Siegmund Friedrich, Freiherr von Herbertstein (d. 1621)
• Date: c. 1580
• Culture: Germany, possibly Augsburg
• Type: Arms and Armor
• Technique: steel, etched and gilded, brass rivets
• Dimensions: Overall: 40 x 35.5 x 23 cm (15 3/4 x 14 x 9 1/16 in.)
• Collection: MED - Arms & Armor
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1916.1531

Collection credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance

Further reading listed by the museum

• Catalogue of Arms and Armour. Vol. 3, 16th century. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], [1900-1915].
• Gilchrist, Helen Ives. A Catalogue of the Collection of Arms & Armor Presented to the Cleveland Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. John Long Severance; 1916-1923. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924.

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