Madonna and Child, between 1464 and 1480

  • Mino da Fiesole, Italian, 1431-1484

Marble

  • Overall: 16 7/8 × 12 inches (42.9 × 30.5 cm)
  • 22 1/8 × 17 9/16 × 2 7/8 inches (56.2 × 44.6 × 7.3 cm)

Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb

53.367

On View

  • European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

January 10, 1866, (Nolivos, Paris, France) no. 27

May 11, 1882, (Charles Timbal, Paris, France) no. 1

Mlle. Léonie Duruflé (Paris, France)

1930, sold by (Wildenstein, New York, New York, USA)

1930-1953, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb

1953-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Catalogue de la Collection Timbal. Paris, 1882, no. 1. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat zu Munich. Munich, 1928, p. 113. Heil, W. Parnassus 2 (May 1930): p. 15. Heil, W. Id., MS Catalogue, 1931, p. 66. Valentiner, W.R. Italian Gothic and Early Gothic Sculptures. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1938, no. 46 (ill.). Swarzenski, Hanns. Gazette des beaux-arts 24 (November 1943): p. 294, note 5. Richardson E.P. The Whitcomb Gifts. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1954, p. 127. Museum Mayer van der Bergh Catalogue. Antwerp, 2, 1969, p. 163, no. 2156 (ill.). Detroit Institute of Arts Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 82. Leeuwenberg, J., and Halsema - Kubes, W., Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum, The Hague and Amsterdam, 1973, p. 352 Pope-Hennessy, J. The Forging of Italian Renaissance Sculpture. Apolle 99, no.146 (April 1974): p. 249. Zuraw, 1993, p. 213-214, nos. 28, 701-704. Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Bostrom, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2002, 2 vols., I, cat. 60.

attributed to Mino da Fiesole, Madonna and Child, between 1464 and 1480, marble. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, 53.367.