About the Artwork
Madonna and Child
ca. 1500
Cristoforo Solari
1460-1527
Italian
Unknown
Marble with traces of gilt
Overall: 32 1/4 × 17 1/8 × 15 inches (81.9 × 43.5 × 38.1 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kahn
41.15
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, on base: SE TUDI L AVE MARIA TE DARO LA BENEDICIO MIA [translation: If you say the Ave Maria, I will give you my blessing]
Provenance
Calmaldolese monks (Monte Conero, Ancona, Dalmatia, Italy)
Stefano Bardini (Florence, Italy)
1918, Mortimer Schiff (London, England)
June 22, 1938, (Christie's sale, London, England)
Paul Drey (London, England)
(Cosmos Art Inc., New York, New York, USA)
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kahn
1941-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Fine Decorative Furniture, Important Objects of Art, Tapestry, Sculpture and Rugs. Sales cat., Christie, Manson and Woods. London, June 22, 1938, p. 50, lot 135.
Bulletin of the DIA 21, no. 3 (1941): pp. 18-20 (cover ill.).
Valentiner, W.R. "The War and the Museum." Bulletin of the DIA 21, no. 3 (December, 1941): pp. 18-20, (cover ill.).
DIA Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 89.
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. 81.
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circle of Cristoforo Solari, Madonna and Child, ca. 1500, marble with traces of gilt. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kahn, 41.15.
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