Relief from an Altar or Tabernacle, c. 1507/1512

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 9

Medium

marble

Dimensions

overall: 53 x 129.5 x 7.7 cm (20 7/8 x 51 x 3 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.131

Artists / Makers

Benedetto da Rovezzano (sculptor) Florentine, 1474 - c. 1554

Image Use

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Inscription

upper center inscribed on tablet: REX REGVM ET / DOMINVS /DOMINANTIVM

Provenance

Chabrière-Arlès collection, Paris, by 1903. (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased 29 September 1916 by Joseph E. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener after purchase with funds from the estate by Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.

Associated Names

Chabrière-Arlès Collection
Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Widener, Joseph E.

Bibliography

1942: Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 8, as Putti with Plaque by Italian Artist 16th Century.

1948: Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 124, repro., as Florentine School, Architectural Plaque: Putti Bearing Inscribed Tablet.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 155, as Florentine School, Architectural Plaque: Putti Bearing Inscribed Tablet.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 137, repro., as Florentine School, Architectural Plaque: Putti Bearing Inscribed Tablet.

1974: Luchs, Alison. "A Relief by Benedetto da Rovezzano in the National Gallery of Art in Washington." Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 28 (1974): 362-369, repro.

1981: Cooperativa per ricerche storico-artistiche. Arte e Storia in San Michele a San Salvi. Florence, 1981: 34, 43, 44.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 634, no. 994, repro.

1992: "Benedetto da Rovezanno." Saur Allgemeines Künstler Lexikon. Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und völker. Multiple volumes. Munich and Leizig, 1992- : 9:19-20.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 28, repro.

2007: Vasari, Giorgio. Die Leben der Bildhauer des Cinquecento. Edited by Sabine Feser and Victoria Lorini. Berlin, 2007: 213.