Madonna and Child

ca. between 1305 and 1320

Master of Città di Castello Italian, active ca. 1305-1320

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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Title Madonna and Child

Artwork Date ca. between 1305 and 1320

Artist Master of Città di Castello

Life Dates active ca. 1305-1320

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 Tempera on wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 29 × 18 3/4 × 2 3/4 inches (73.7 × 47.6 × 7 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

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. 24.96

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed, on verso: A B [encircled] M

Marks Label, on verso: 4256 Segna di Bonaventura [Duveen gallery label] Label, on verso: 959384, 95938, 30 x 50, Duveen, 4 heures [Duveen gallery label] Label, on verso: 28192 12 Label, on verso: C 1780 | CH Stamp, on verso: 045 [encircled]

Provenance

Carl Hamilton (New York, New York, USA)

until early 1920s, Prince Léon Ouroussoff, Russian ambassador to Vienna and Paris

1924, (Sir Joseph Duveen, London, England, and New York, New York, USA)

1924-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Valentiner, W.R. "Sienese Paintings of the XIV-XV Centuries." Bulletin of the DIA 6, no. 4 (January 1925): p. 35 (ill.). [as by Segna di Buonaventura.]

Valentiner, W.R. A Catalogue of Early Italian Paintings Exhibited at the Duveen Galleries. Exh. cat., Duveen Galleries. New York, 1926, cat. 25 (ill.).

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 233 (ill.). [as Ugolino da Siena.]

van Marle, R. "Quadri Duccheschi Ignorati." Diana, vol. 6, 1931, p. 58. [as Ugolino da Siena.]

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance; A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Place. Oxford, 1932, p. 344. [as by Master of Città di Castello.]

Venturi, L. Italian Paintings In America. New York 1933, vol. 1, pl. 25.

Berenson, B. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 281.

Valentiner, W.R. Italian Gothic Painting. Detroit, 1944, p. 10 (fig. 3).

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 85, no. 233 (ill.).

An Exhibition of Italian Panels and Manuscripts from the 13th and 14th Centuries in Honor of Richard Offner. Exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum. Hartford, 1965, cat. 21.

Vertova, L. "What Goes With What?" Burlington Magazine 109 (Dec 1967): pp. 668-674.

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, vol. 1. London, 1968, p. 249.

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-19th Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 127.

Stubblebine, J. Duccio di Buoninsegna and his School. Princeton, 1979. Vol. 1, pp. 89-90; vol. 2 (fig. 197). [as by Master of San Quirico d'Orcia, although very close in style to Master of Città di Castello.]

Boskovits, M. Art Bulletin 64, no. 3 (1982): p. 497.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Master of Città di Castello, Madonna and Child, ca. between 1305 and 1320, tempera on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 24.96.