Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
before 1524
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
Musée national de la Renaissance – Château d'Ecouen
Object Number
ECL 21326
Location
AGO, Gallery 135 Betty Ann & Fraser Elliott Gallery
Institution/Owner
Dimensions
Overall Open: 75mm × 80mm × 13mm (7.5 × 8 × 1.3 cm)
Description
Interior has 10 rondels with representations of the Crucifixion and the Nine Worthies all on horseback, all with coats of arms except Hector
3 pagan worthies: Hector, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar; 3 Jewish worthies: Joshua, King David, Judas Macabee; 3 Christian worthies: Charlemagne, King Arthur, Godefroy de Bouillon
The F has been said to be that of Philibert le Beau, Margaret of Austria's second husband, but his name was never spelled with an F. The other hypothesis is that it belonged to François I, e.g., Sauzay, 1861.
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Names of Worthies carved in or above rondels with images reading left to right from top:
AECTOR [Hector]
ALESAND [Alexander the Great]
IVDAS [Judas Maccabeus]
ARTVS [King Arthur]
[middle]
IVLIVS [Julius Caesar]
IOSVE [Joshua]
KAROLVS [Charlemagne]
[bottom]
DAVID [King David]
GODEFRIDVS [Godfrey of Bouillon]
[source: Sauzay 1861]
AECTOR [Hector]
ALESAND [Alexander the Great]
IVDAS [Judas Maccabeus]
ARTVS [King Arthur]
[middle]
IVLIVS [Julius Caesar]
IOSVE [Joshua]
KAROLVS [Charlemagne]
[bottom]
DAVID [King David]
GODEFRIDVS [Godfrey of Bouillon]
[source: Sauzay 1861]
Published References
Alexandre Sauzay, Catalogue du Musée Sauvageot (Paris: Musée Impérial du Louvre, 1861) , 44-46, no. 189; Alain Erlande-Brandenburg, Musée de la Renaissance : Château de la Renaissance (Paris: Edition de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1987) p. 62
Provenance
Provenance
Jamet, Debruge, Hope, Charles Sauvageot
Previous Owner(s)
Charles Sauvageot