Madonna and Child

between late15th and early 16th century

Giovanni Battista Cima Italian, 1459-1517

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Title Madonna and Child

Artwork Date between late15th and early 16th century

Artist Giovanni Battista Cima

Life Dates 1459-1517

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Paint on wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 25 3/8 × 18 7/8 inches (64.5 × 47.9 cm) Framed: 33 1/8 × 26 7/8 × 2 3/8 inches (84.1 × 68.3 × 6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of James E. Scripps

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 89.11

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Signed Signed, lower right, on parapet: JOANNES BTA. CONEGLANESIS

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Provenance

ca. 1842-1855, Collection James Dennistoun (Edinburgh, Scotland)

June 14, 1855, (Christie's, London, England) lot 33

until 1863, Collection Rev. W. Davenport-Bromley (Wootton Hall, Staffordshire, England)

June 12, 1863, (Christie's, London, England) lot 83

until 1888, Collection Mrs. Sloane-Stanley

April 21, 1888, (Christie's, London, England) lot 38

sold to Dearn, acting on behalf of James E. Scripps

James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Scripps, J. Handbook of Paintings Ancient and Modern Belonging to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1895, p. 12, no. 15.

Detroit Museum of Art, Catalogue of the James E. Scripps Collection of Old Masters. Detroit, 1889, pp. 18-19, no. 14.

"The Scripps Old Masters," The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152, p. 150 [as by Giambattesta Cima (Conegliano), "The Madonna"].

"The Story of Christ as Related in the Paintings in the Museum." Bulletin of the DMA 2, 1 (January 1908): pp. 1-4 (ill.).

Detroit Museum of Art, Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. Detroit, 1910, pp. 20-21, no. 15.

Berenson, B. Venetian Painting in America. New York, 1916, pp. 189-194, 197 (fig. 78).

"Art Notes." Bulletin of the DIA 11, 6 (March 1917): pp. 58-60 (ill.).

Berenson, B. Dipinti veneziani in America. Milan, 1919, pp. 180 ff.

Tarchiani, N. "Una mostra d'arte antica a Bergamo." Emporium 51 (1920): p. 284.

Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 23, no. 11 (ill.).

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, no. 34 (ill.).

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932, p. 145. [as early work]

van Marle, R. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. The Hague, 1935, vol. 17, pp. 396-397. [disagrees with Berenson's opinion that DIA picture is artist's earliest known work]

Berenson, B. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 125. [as youthful work]

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 26, no. 34. [dates picture to ca. 1493-1495]

Richardson, E.P., ed. Masterpieces of Sculpture and Painting from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1949, p. 64 (ill.).

Coletti, L. Pittura veneta del Quattrocento. Novara, 1953, p. 75. [as youthful work]

Grigaut, P. "Masterpieces for an Automobile Culture." Art News 53, 4 (June-August 1954): pp. 38-40, 60-62 (ill.).

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School. London, 1957, vol. 1, p. 65. [as early work, signed]

Lasareff, V. "Opere nuove e poco note di Cima da Conegliano." Arte Veneta 11 (1957): pp. 39-52. [disagrees with Berenson's 1488 date, which he pushes forward to ca. 1495]

Colletti, L. Cima da Conegliano. Venice, 1959, pp. 86-88, no. 89 (pl. 8).

Menegazzi, L. Cima da Conegliano, catalogo della mostra. Exh. cat., Palazzo dei Trecento. Treviso, 1962, pp. 7-8, no. 11 (fig. 11).

Pallucchini. Arte Veneta. 1962, p. 223.

Ballarin, A. "Cima at Treviso." Burlington Magazine 104, 716 (November 1962): pp. 483-486.

Marini, R. "Cima sa Conegliano e la sua problematica." Emporium 137, 820 (April 1963): pp. 147-158 (ill.).

Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 25.

Richardson, E.P., ed. Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1966, 3rd ed., p. 82 (ill.).

Frederickson, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992, p. 53.

Brigstocke, H. "Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, James Dennistoun: Collector and Traveller." Connoisseur 198, 798 (August 1978): pp. 316-322 (fig. 1).

Humfrey, P. Cima da Conegliano. Cambridge, 1983, pp. 96-97, no. 40 (pl. 24).

The Age of Titian: Venetian Renaissance Art from Scottish Collections. Exh. cat., National Galleries of Scotland. Edinburgh, 2004, pp. 11-31 (fig. 8).

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Giovanni Battista Cima, Madonna and Child, between late15th and early 16th century, paint on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 89.11.