Two-Piece Tasset

1550-1560 9 3/16 in. (23.3 cm); 8 5/8 in. (21.91 cm) Citation Source image

This right tasset (hip and thigh defense) with virtuoso detailing is from an armor of Wilhelm V, duke of Jülich, Cleve, and Berg (1516-92). His sister Anne married Henry VIII of England (and survived!), and, in 1546, he married the sister of Archduke Ferdinand and the future E...

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77482
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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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