Palla Rucellai, ca. 1506

  • Pietro Torrigiani, Italian, 1472 - 1528

Terracotta with polychromy on wood base with polychromy and gilding

  • Overall (figure): 22 1/2 × 22 11/16 × 10 1/2 inches (57.2 × 57.6 × 26.7 cm) Including base: 27 5/16 × 23 3/8 × 11 inches (69.4 × 59.4 × 27.9 cm)

Gift of Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth

43.479

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

until 1876, Rucellai family by descent (Florence, Italy)

1876-ca. 1918, purchased by Wilhelm von Bode for the Kaiser Fredrich Museum (Berlin, Germany)

ca. 1918, purchased by Ralph Harman Booth [1873-1931] (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1931-1943, by descent to Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1943-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Passerini, L. Genealogia e storia della Famiglia Rucellai descritta da Luigi Passerini. Florence, 1861. Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1958, p. 71, no. 148. Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Boström, with contributions by C. Avery... [et. al.]. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, in assoc. with the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2002, 2 vols., I, cat. 95, pp 194-197. Principi, Lorenzo. The Master of the Unruly Children: River God and Bacchus. London, 2016, p. 34.

attributed to Pietro Torrigiani, Palla Rucellai, ca. 1506, terracotta with polychromy on wood base with polychromy and gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth, 43.479.