Bowl with a Shield of Arms and Vine Scrolls

c. 1600/1650

Attributed to the workshop of Giuseppe (Joseph) de Levis

Associated Names
North Italian 17th Century

Artist

Giuseppe de Levis

Related Artist, Italian, Veronese, 1552 - 1611/1614

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 25

Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 5 December 1989, no.81). (Cyril Humphris, London), in 1990. Mrs. Ruth Blumka [c. 1920-1994], New York; gift 1991 to NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 162, repro.

2008

  • Banzato, Davide. "Considerazioni sulla lavorazione e la diffusione di modelli nelle botteghe del Briosco, del Vittoria e dei De Levis." In L’industria artistica del bronzo del Rinascimento a Venezia e nell’Italia settentrionale. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Venezia, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 23 e 24 ottobre 2007. Edited by Matteo Ceriana and Victoria Avery. Verona, 2008: 179-186, esp. 184-186, identifying the arms as resembling those of the De Castello of Verona but also those of the Bergonzi and the Zanchi, the latter originating in Bergamo.

2016

  • Avery, Charles. Joseph de Levis & Company. Renaissance Bronze-founders in Verona. London, 2016: 108, 167 cat. 104, repro., 168, 190, identifying the arms as those of the De Castello of Bergamo.

Wikidata ID

Q63860658

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