Artwork & Prints though the 19th Century
Although not a piece of art, this is the world's oldest wrestling manual fragment,
the Oxyrhynchus Papyrus (MS P.Oxy.III.466), a second century Greek
scroll describing holds and moves now at Columbia University, New York City.
Drawing for the choir of the Cistercian, Eglise de Cambria (Church of Cambria) in France, 1200-1240.
Architect- Villard de Honnecourt, from the National Museum of France (Paris)
 1475 sketch of two peasants wrestling |
 Russian Maslentisa Festival wrestling scene |
  1459 folio 52r of the MS Thott.290.2º at the Royal Library in Copenhagen by Hans Talhoffer (left) 1467 folio 99r of the Codex Icon 394a at the Bavarian State Library in Munich by Hans Talhoffer (right) |
 1512 folio 49v of the MS 26-232 at the Albertina in Vienna by Albrecht Dürer |
 16th century print |
 Michaelangelo "Study for a Group of Wrestlers" |
 1500's Two Boys wrestling ink drawing by Marcantono Raimondi |
 1500's Luca Signorelli drawing |
 1620 "Hercules Wrestling Achelous" by Guido Reni |
 1600's "I Lottatori" by Cesare Francanzano |
Copper engravings by Cornelis van Dalen after Jean-Francois Perrier 1660
Men Wrestling Before a Crowd by Michael Sweerts 1640
 1650 "A Wrestling Match" oil painting by Michael Sweerts |
 1650 Krishna and Balarama fight Kamsa wrestlers (Ancient Stories of Lord Vishnu) India Madhya Pradesh, Malwa |
 undated painting |
 1700's Italian sketch |
 1771 Pierre L'Enfant charcoal drawing |
 1781 Breslau print |
 1786 print |
 1804 Tonga wrestling |
19th century Persian print
 1805-20 Northumberland match sketch |
 1810 English print |
1820's Swiss wrestling scene
 1820 Santo Inejeangros print |
 1824 Mulready |
1825 wrestling bout, Arthur Shepard
1827 unknown print
 1828 German print |
 1834 Chinese print |
 1841 Italian print |
 1842 Sir John Everett Millais print |
 1845 Indian hand colored steel engraving |
 1853 Gustave Courbet print |
1800's "Wrestling in the Amphitheater in Nimes" by Emile Rouargue
 1857 Japanese print |
 1863 Japanese print |
 1868 Laos funeral games |
 1870 The Wrestlers by Franz von Fregger |
 1870 print, Agricultural Hall in Islington, London |
 1873 print, Madagascar Royalty match |
 1872 Edward Bowring Stephens engraving |
 1875 Alex Falguiere print |
 1875 print, Wrestling at Little Bridge, Great Britain |
 1876 print, Grasmere Lakeland Sports, Great Britain |
 1876 print, Swiss wrestling scene, Munich |
 1876 print, Swiss wrestling match |
 1876 Burmese scene |
 1876 Jacob and the Angel by Leon Bonnat |
 "The Guicowar of Baroda's Wrestlers" from The Illustrated London News, February 17, 1877 |
 1878 Indian troups print |
 1885 print |
 1885 print |
 1887 Les Lutteurs by Auguste Baud-Bovy |
 1880's German Print |
 1880's German Print |
 1890 German Print |
 1888 Breton Boys Wrestling by Paul Gauguin (left, interpretation right) |
 unknown date, Vincent van Gogh (wrestlers overpainted) |
 1890 Paul Serusier, Breton wrestling |
 Late 1880's Anschultz drawing |
 1889 Friant print |
 1890 Friant engraving |
 1890 French print of a sculpture by Alexandre Louis Marie Charpentier Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
 1890 print Bauer (FR) vs. Miller (US) |
 1890 Hackenschmidt vs. Madgali print |
 1891 A Winter's Morning in Cornell |
 Faive print |
 1893 Swiss Wrestlers (unknown) |
 1896 The Wrestlers of the Stone Age by Stuart G. Davis |
 1898 Les Lutteurs by Lucien Simon |
 1899 French print |
 1899 French Print |
 1899 French Print |
 1899 Thomas Eakins sketch for final work |
 1899 Thomas Eakins sketch for final work |
 1899 Thomas Eakins painting |
 1899 Thomas Eakins (print?) |
 1899 Les Lutteurs by Carl Ernst von Stetten |
 1899 color print by H. B. Wieland
|
 19th century French work |
 19th century Russian work |
 1890s Wrestlers by Iwan Johansson |
 1899 French print of holds |
 unknown Munka (Manipuri wrestling) engraving from photograph |
