La Joûte. Das Lanzenstechen
The jousting takes place in the harbour basin. Spectators line the shore. Below the picture field quatrains in French and German.
Inscription: LA JOÛTE / Das Lanzenstechen / Pour celebrer quelque feste / Les plus hardits matelots... / Man siehet offtermahls verwegene Matroßen / ... Mart. Engelbrecht exc. A.V.
Verso: [in pencil top left:] 88) [below:] 70 [in pencil top right along the margin:] N 1139 [below:] 3 pp. [Stamped M. right in blue:] Stamp of the Dr Franz Schnitzer Collection, Munich (in Lugt: L.1046) [in pencil below right:] 4073
[...] - 1902?: collection Dr Franz Schnitzer, Munich (L.1046).
[...] - 1938: probably stock Hugo Helbing, Munich (unclear circumstances of acquisition).
12.05.1938: Acquired by purchase from Hugo Helbing, Munich.
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