About the Artwork
Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist
ca. 1540
Agnolo Bronzino
1503-1572
Italian
Florentine
Oil on poplar panel
Unframed: 24 5/8 × 19 3/16 inches (62.5 × 48.8 cm) Framed: 29 7/16 × 23 7/8 × 2 3/4 inches (74.8 × 60.6 × 7 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Bequest of Alvan Macauley, Jr.
82.51
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Marks, on verso: [catalogue entry, see CSL report] Marks, in black, on verso, stenciled: 4 7 4 111 Label, in black ink, on paper, on verso: 1319 Label, in black ink, on round paper: 6 Marks, in pink crayon, on verso: x2 Marks, in black crayon, on verso: x100 Marks, impressed, on verso: [monogram, possibly conjoined P and S] Label, on frame, in blue pencil on paper with red borders: 1803
Provenance
until 1895, Henry Doetsch (London, England)
June 22, 1895, sold by (Christie's, London, England) auction Henry Doetsch, lot 112
1895, purchased by (Theron J. Blakeslee, New York, New York, USA)
possibly before 1928, purchased by Arthur Goetz (New York, New York, USA)
ca. 1928, purchased by (Sigrif Aram, Galerie Erhard, New York, New York, USA and Berlin, Germany)
Sucheky (New York, New York, USA)
Macauley family (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1982, by inheritance to Alvan Macauley (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1982-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Catalogue of the Highly Important Collection of Pictures by Old Masters of Henry Doetsch, Esq. Sales. cat., Christie, Manson & Woods. London, June 22, 24 & 25, 1895, p. 33, no. 112.
Freund [Frank E. Washburn]. "Italienische Bilder im New Yorker Kunsthandel." Der Cicerone 20 (1928): 342–343, pp. 343–344 (ill.).
McComb, Arthur. Agnolo Bronzino: His Life and Works. Cambridge, 1928, pp. 73–74, pl. 51 (ill.). [as "Holy Family" dated during Bronzino’s middle period (1530–1549)]
Venturi, A. Storia Dell'arte Italiana 9, part 6. Milan, 1933, p. 73. [as in the collection of Sigfrid Aram]
Emiliani, Andrea. Il Bronzino. Busto Arsizio, 1960, p. 84. [as a late copy by Bronzino]
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, vol. 1. London, 1963, p. 44; vol. 2, pl. 1440. (ill.). [as a Homeless picture by Bronzino.]
Baccheschi, Edi. L'opera completa del Bronzino. Milan, 1973, p. 102. [as in the collection of Aram and Sucheky]
Cox-Rearick, Janet. "A Madonna by Bronzino Reconsidered." Artibus et Historiae 4, no. 2 (1981): 17-27, pp. 17–27 (ill.). [dated 1540–1545.]
"Calendar." The Burlington Magazine 125, no. 966 (September 1983): 580–581, p. 580 (ill.).
Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 61, no. 3 (1983): 1–68, front cover (ill.), pp. 7, 14, 20 [as by Bronzino, dated ca. 1540.]
Pilliod, Elizabeth. "Book Reviews: Alessandro Allori by Simona Lecchini Giovannoni" Burlington Magazine 134, no. 1076 (November 1992): 727–729, p. 729. [as by Alessandro Allori]
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Agnolo Bronzino, Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist, ca. 1540, oil on poplar panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Alvan Macauley, Jr., 82.51.
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