Madonna and Child, ca. 1465

  • Pietro Lombardo, Italian, 1435-1515

Terracotta with polychromy

  • Overall: 28 1/4 × 22 1/16 × 4 3/4 inches (71.8 × 56 × 12.1 cm)

Gift of Anna Scripps Whitcomb

36.80

Claude Lafontaine (Paris, France)

(Andre Seligmann, New York, New York, USA)

Anna Scripps Whitcomb [1866-1953] (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1936-present, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Valentiner, W.R. "A Terracotta Relief by Pietro Lombardo," Bulletin of the DIA 16, no. 2 (November 1936): pp. 21-24, (cover ill.). Richardson, E.P. Catalogue of the Whitcomb Gifts. DIA, 1954, p. 125. Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Boström, with contributions by C. Avery... [et. al.]. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, in assoc. with the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2002, 2 vols., I, cat. 86.

attributed to Pietro Lombardo, Madonna and Child, ca. 1465, terracotta with polychromy. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Anna Scripps Whitcomb, 36.80.