About the Artwork
Madonna and Child
early 15th century
Mariotto di Nardo
active 1394-1424
Italian
Unknown
Paint on wood panel
Unframed: 34 3/4 × 20 inches (88.3 × 50.8 cm) Framed: 48 3/4 × 31 × 5 inches (123.8 × 78.7 × 12.7 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
City of Detroit Purchase
25.43
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Markings
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Provenance
1925-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 7, 2 (1925): p. 19 (ill.).
Van Marle, R. The Development of the Early Italian Schools of Painting. The Hague, 1927, Vol. 9, p. 214.
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, no. 132 (ill.).
Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, a list of the principal artists and their works, with an index of places. Oxford, 1932, p. 330. [as the Madonna of Humility]
Berenson, B. Pitture italiane del Rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 293.
Valentiner, W.R. Italian Gothic Painting. Detroit, 1944, p. 30 (fig. 12).
Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 82, no. 132.
Klesse, B. Seidenstoffe in der italienishchen Malerei des 14. Bern, 1967, pp. 317, 327.
Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972, p. 121. [as the Madonna of Humility]
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Mariotto di Nardo, Madonna and Child, early 15th century, paint on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 25.43.
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