About the Artwork
Madonna and Child
between mid-15th and early 16th century
Francesco dai Libri
1452-1514
Italian
Unknown
Paint on wood panel
Unframed: 24 1/4 × 17 5/8 inches (61.6 × 44.8 cm) Framed: 35 3/8 × 24 × 3 1/2 inches (89.9 × 61 × 8.9 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
City of Detroit Purchase
22.10
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, stippled, partly obliterated on gold background: TOTA PULCRAES ET MAGV NO AMICA MEA EST IN TE Inscribed, in halo: O MARIA MATER DEI MEMENTO MEI O MARIA. Inscribed, edge of collar: MATER
Provenance
F. Steinmeyer (Lucerne Fine Arts, Lucerne, Switzerland) [according to photo in Witt Library, London]
1922-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Walther, J. "Recent Accessions on View in Gallery V." Bulletin of the DIA 3 (February 1922): p. 55. [as by Vincenzo Foppa]
Poland, R. "Picture of Milanese Madonna Purchased." Bulletin of the DIA 3, 8 (May 1922): pp. 77-78 (ill.). [as by Vincenzo Foppa]
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, no. 131. [as by Maestro dei Garofani]
Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, a list of the principal artists and their works, with an index of places. Oxford, 1932, p. 131. [by Francesco dai Libri]
Berenson, B. Pitture italiane del Rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 175.
Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 48, no. 131.
Paintings in the DIA: A checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p.41.
Berenson, B. Italian pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works with an index of places, Central Italian and North Italian Schools. London, 1968, Vol. 1, p. 142.
Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972, p. 74. [as by Francesco dai Libri]
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Francesco dai Libri, Madonna and Child, between mid-15th and early 16th century, paint on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 22.10.
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