Madonna and Child

1651

Carlo Dolci Italian, 1616-1687

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European, Level 2, South Wing

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Title Madonna and Child

Artwork Date 1651

Artist Carlo Dolci

Life Dates 1616-1687

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 Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed (stretcher): 35 3/4 × 30 1/2 × 1 1/8 inches (90.8 × 77.4 × 2.8 cm) Framed: 45 × 39 × 2 1/2 inches (114.3 × 99.1 × 6.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Anthony Maiullo Bequest Fund

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. 78.21

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Inscriptions Inscribed, on rock at lower left: 1651.

Provenance

private collector (possibly Florence, Italy). 1924, Collection of Major J. McVeagh (County Wicklow, Ireland)

April 20, 1977, sale (Sotheby's, London, England)

1977-1978, dual ownership Julius Weitzner and Colnaghi

1978-present, purchase via (Stabilimento Falivo, Vaduz, Liechtenstein) by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Jouin, Henri, ed. "J.-B.-J. De Bay (1822): Les Débuts d'un Sculpteur." In Les Maîtres peints par eux-mêmes, sculpteurs, peintres, architectes, musiciens, artistes dramatiques. Paris, 1902, pp. 157-163.

Lami, Stanislas. Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de l'École Française au dix-neuvième siècle, vol. 2. Paris, 1916, 121.

Fine Old Master Paintings. Exh. cat., Sotheby's. London, 1977 (pl. XXIX). [as studio of Carlo Dolci]

Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 56, no. 5 (1978): pp. 275, 292 (fig. 20).

Balsassari, F. Carlo Dolci. Turin, 1995, pp. 116-117, no. 87.

Bissell, R.W., A. Derstine, and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 10-11 (note 16) and 66-67, no. 21 (ill.).

Derstine, Andria. "The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque Painting." In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, pp. 99, 102.

Straussman-Pflanzer, Eve with Francesca Baldassari, eds. The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-century Florence. Exh. cat., Davis Museum at Wellesley College. New Haven, 2017, pp. 14, 108–109 (ill.).

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