Madonna and Child
- Date
- 1509
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
-
Framed: 44 1/2 x 52 1/2 x 4 in. ( 113 x 133.4 x 10.2 cm)
33 3/8 x 41 3/4 in. (84.8 x 106.0 cm)
- Department
- European Painting
- Classification
- Paintings
- Credit
- City of Detroit Purchase
- Accession No.
- 28.115
- Provenance
- Venice, Collection Mocenigo (picture commissioned for the family), until 1815;
Venice, Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, Collection Carolina Ferdinanda Luisa, Duchesse de Berry, c.1844-1854;
Paris, auction, Duchesse de Berry, (Hôtel Drouot), , 19 April,1865, lot. 15 (purchased by Marquis de Podénas acting on behalf of Comte de Chambord or the Duchesse du Berry, to whom picture reverted; sent to Austria 1868);
Austria, Brunnsee, Collection Duchesse de Berry (d. 1870);
Austria, Frohsdorf, (by descent), Henri Charles, Comte de Chambord (son of Duchess) (d. 1883);
By descent, Maria Teresa, Comtesse de Chambord (d.1886);
By descent, Niece of Comtesse de Chambord (d. 1893);
Austria, Frohsdorf (by descent), Don Jaime de Bourbon, (by descent);
Paris, Collection Vicomte de Canson (1928), from whom purchased by the DIA.
- Keywords
-
oil, paint, panel, religion, wood, landscape, christian
Published References
Aglietti, F., "Elogio storico di Jacopo e Giovanni Bellini," in Discoursi letto nella Accademia , Venice, 1813, p. 78.
Paris, Hotel Drouot, "Catalogue des tableaux anciens et modernes composant la Galerie du Palais Vendramini [sic] a Venise et appartentant a Mme. a Duchesse de Berry..." 19 April 1865.
Crowe, J. A. and Cavalcaselle, G. B., A history of painting in north Italy, Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Ferrara, Milan, Fiuli, Brescia, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century , London, 1871, vol. 1, p. 184. 2nd ed, (ed. T. Borenius), London, 1912, vol. 1, p. 181.
Berenson, B., Venetian Paintings in America , New York, 1916, p. 140 (Italian ed., Dipinti veneziani in America , Milan, 1919, p. 137. As Giovanni Bellini)
Valentiner, W. R., "Giovanni Bellini's 'Madonna and Child'", Bulletin of the DIA , vol. 10, Nov. 1928, pp. 18-22.
Figaro artistique , vol. 6, Dec. 1928, p. 129.
Gronau, G., "Le opere tarde di Giovanni Bellini," Pinacotheca , vol. 1, Sept. - Oct. 1928, pp. 68, 127.
Gronau, G., Spätwerke des Giovanni Bellini (Zur Kunstgeschichte des Auslandes, no. 125), Strasbourg, 1928, pp. 14, 24, 35.
Heil, W., "Eine Bellini-Madonna im Museum zu Detroit," Pantheon , vol. 3, March 1929, pp. 140-141.
Gronau, G., Giovanni Bellini; des Meisters Gemälde in 207 Abbildungen , Stuttgart, 1930, pp. 167, 216.
Heil, W., ¦Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts,¦ Detroit, 1930, cat. 9, repr.
Valentiner, W. R., Das unbekannte Meisterwerk , vol. 1, New York, 1930, no. 17. (simultaneously published in English as Unknown Masterpieces )
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Berenson, B., Italian Pictures of the Renaissance; a list of the principal artists and their works , Oxford, 1932, p. 70.
Rothschild, E. von, "Tizians 'Kirschenmadonna'", Belvedere , vol. 11, May-June 1932, pp. 107-14, esp. p. 110, repr. (argues for derivation of Titian's "Gypsy Madonna" from this painting).
Wilde, J., "Röntgenaufnahmen der Drei Philosophen' Giorgiones und der 'Zigeunermadonna' Tizians", Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorichen Sammlungen in Wien , vol. 6, 1932, pp. 151, 153 (shows by X-rays that the "Gypsy Madonna" by Titian was originally still nearer in composition to DIA picture and dates it closer to 1509).
Venturi, L., Italian Paintings in America , vol. 2, New York, 1933, no. 403.
Van Marle, R., The Development of the Early Italian Schools of Painting , vol. XVII, The Hague, 1935, pp. 325 ff.
Dussler, L., Giovanni Bellini , Frankfurt, 1935, p. 146 (as by Bellini's workshop).
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Robinson, F., "Detroit Looks Back on 20 Years", Art News , May 4, 1940, vol. 38:31, p. 19, repr.
Moschini, V., Giambellino , Bergamo, 1943, pp. 33, 42. (As Giovanni Bellini and workshop)
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Dussler, L., Giovanni Bellini , Wien, 1949, p. 95 (As Giovanni Bellini)
Norris, C., "Exhibition of Giovannni Bellini's Paintings, 1949" Phoebus , vol. 3:1, 1950-1, p. 41 (landscape "lacks Bellini's period touch and is perhaps by Girolamo da Santa Croce").
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Pallucchini, R., Giovanni Bellini , Milan, 1959, pp. 106, 155, cat. 209, figs. 212-213.
Richardson, E.P., ed. Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts , Detroit, 1960, 2nd ed., p. 136, repr. See also 3rd ed. 1966, p. 81, repr.
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Arslan, E., "Studi Belliniana", Bolletino d'Arte , vol. 47, 1962, pp. 40-58, esp. pp. 55-56.
Bottari, S., Tutta la pittura di Giovanni Bellini , vol. 2, Milan, 1963, p. 32, pl. 113. (As Giovanni Bellini)
DIA, Paintings in the DIA: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965 , Detroit, 1965, p. 13.
Robertson, G., Giovanni Bellini , Oxford, 1968, pp. 122-23; pl. CVIb (as by workshop, citing lack of coherence between Madonna and the landscape).
Pignatti, T., L'opera completa di Giovanni Bellini , Milan, 1969, p. 108, no. 93, repr.
Freedberg, S. J., Painting in Italy 1500-1600 , Harmondsworth, 1971, p. 680, note 52.
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Cummings, F., ed. Selected Works from the DIA , Detroit, 1979, p. 136, cat. 109, repr.
Sterne, M., The Passionate Eye: the life of William R. Valentiner , Detroit, 1980, p. 173, repr. p. 379 (Valentiner referred to his find as "The Bourbon Madonna")..
DIA, 100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts , New York, 1985, p. 96, p. 9, repr.
Venice, Palazzo Ducale -- Washington, National Gallery, "Titian, Prince of Painters", 1990-1991, p.62; p. 67, note 35; fig. 11 (cited by David Brown in his article. "Bellini and Titian"; Brown attributes DIA picture to Bellini and assistants). See also Italian edition, "Bellini e Tiziano", p. 62, fig. 11).
Goffen, R., Giovanni Bellini , Milan, 1990, pp.62-63 (As Giovanni Bellini and workshop)
Tempestini, A., Giovanni Bellini: catalogo completo dei dipinti , Florence, 1992, p. 282 (cites DIA picture in entry for Brera Madonna; attributes DIA picture to Bellini and assistants).
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