About the Artwork
Madonna and Child
between 1520 and 1530
Quentin Massys
1466-1530
Netherlandish
Unknown
Oil on oak panel
Unframed: 21 3/4 × 15 5/8 inches (55.2 × 39.7 cm) Framed: 27 × 20 3/4 × 2 1/2 inches (68.6 × 52.7 × 6.4 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of James E. Scripps
89.60
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Provenance
before 1860, Signor Casa Murata, director of the Palazzo Pitti Gallery (Florence, Italy)
(Stefano Bardini, Florence, Italy)
James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Catalogue of the Scripps Collection. Detroit, 1889, cat. 12.
"The Scripps Old Masters," The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152, p. 150 [as by Quentin Matsys, “The Virgin and Infant Jesus”].
Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, p. 11.
"The James E. Scripps Collection of Old Masters." Bulletin of the Detroit Museum of Art 1, no. 3 (1904) pp. 1-4 (ill.).
Detroit Museum of Art Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. 1910, pp. 17-18, no. 13 (ill.).
Bryant, L. Munson, What Pictures to See In America. New York, 1915, pp. 233-234 (fig. 148).
Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 71, no. 71 (ill.).
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 137 (ill.).
Baldass, L. "Gotik und Renaissance im Werke des Quinten Metsys." Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, N.F., vol. 7. 1933, pp. 137-182, esp. p. 170, footnote 55; p. 182.
Friedländer, Max J. Die Altniederländische Malerei. Leiden, 1934, vol VII, no. 23, pl. 26.
Richardson, E.P.. Flemish Painting of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Detroit, 1936 (fig. 6).
Richardson, E.P. "Quentin Massys" The Art Quarterly 4, no. 3 (1941): pp. 163-177 (fig. 9).
Ring, G. "Additions to the work of Jan Provost and Quentin Massys,II" Burlington Magazine 80 (March 1942): p. 71.
Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 84, no. 137.
Holbein and his Contemporaries. Exh. cat., John Herron Art Museum. Indianapolis, 1950, cat. 51 (ill.). (cat. by R. Parks).
Friedländer, Max J. Early Netherlandish Painting, ed. H. Pauwels. Leiden and Brussels, 1971, vol. 7, p. 62, no. 23, pl. 26.
Robbins, D.T. "Landscape in the Art of Quentin Massys." Master's thesis, University of Washington, 1972, pp 100ff.
Silver, L. The Paintings of Quintin Massys. London and New York 1984, p. 227, cat. 42, pl. 64; pp. 80-81, 94, 223, 230.
Fahy, Everett. L'Archivio Storico Fotografico di Stefano Bardini, Dipinti-Disegni-Miniature-Stampe. Florence, 2000, p. 56, no. 553 and p. 301 (ill.).
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Quentin Massys, Madonna and Child, between 1520 and 1530, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 89.60.
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