Virgin and Child

ca. 1455

Juan de la Huerta French, active 1450-1460

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

The style of this monumental Madonna is derived from the work of the revolutionary and influential sculptor Claus Sluter, who worked for the powerful dukes of Burgundy in the late fourteenth century. Sluter created a style that promoted the independence of the carved figure from its architectural surrounding and sometimes conveyed a strikingly theatrical realism.

Title Virgin and Child

Artwork Date ca. 1455

Artist Juan de la Huerta

Life Dates active 1450-1460

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. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Limestone, with traces of polychromy

Dimensions Overall: 42 3/4 × 18 1/4 × 11 1/4 inches (108.6 × 46.4 × 28.6 cm) Pedestal: 42 1/8 × 26 × 20 inches (107 × 66 × 50.8 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb

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. 36.27

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Provenance

until 1928, (Durlacher Brothers) (New York, New York, USA)

November 22, 1928, sold to Mr. Edgar B. and Mrs. Anna S. Whitcomb (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1936-present, their gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Walther, J. "Exhibition of French Gothic Art." Bulletin of the DIA 10, no. 3 (December 1928): pp. 38-43, p. 42 (ill.).

Loan Exhibitions of French and Gothic Art. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1928, no. 44.

Heil, W. Pantheon (1929): p. 75.

Troescher, G. Claus Sluter und die burgundische Plastik um die Wende des XIV. Jahrhunderts, vol. I (1932): p. 80, pl. XXII (ill.).

Catalogue of the Paintings and Sculpture given by Edgar R. Whitcomb and Anna Scripps Whitcomb to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1954, p. 118-119 (ill.).

The International Style, the Arts of Europe Around 1400. Exh. cat., Walters Art Gallery. Baltimore, 1962, no. 79.

Treasures of Medieval France. Exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, 1966, p. 22, no. 6 (ill.).

DIA Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 73.

Oursel, H. "Proposal for the Dating of Two 15th-Century Burgundian Virgin and Child Sculptures." Bulletin of the DIA 55, no. 4 (1977): pp. 190-198 (figs. 1, 8). [as Burgundian, third quarter of the 15th century.]

Valentiner, W.R. "Late Gothic Sculpture in Detroit." Art Quarterly 6, no. 4 (1943): pp. 276-305, (fig. 2) p. 279 (ill.).

Gillerman, D., ed. Gothic Sculpture in America, vol. I: The New England Museums. New York and London, 1989, cat. no. 222, p. 294.

Prochno, Renate. “The Artistic Influence of the Charterhouse Worksite.” In Art from the Court of Burgundy: The Patronage of Philip the Bold and John the Fearless, 1364–1419. Cleveland, 2004, p. 242, no. 17 (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

circle of Juan de la Huerta School of Dijon, Virgin and Child, ca. 1455, limestone, with traces of polychromy. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, 36.27.