About the Artwork
Madonna and Child
1929
Alceo Dossena
1878-1937
Italian
Unknown
Marble
Overall: 32 1/8 × 38 1/8 × 8 1/2 inches, 507 pounds (81.6 × 96.8 × 21.6 cm, 230 kg)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of Minerva and Anthony Maiullo
F77.53
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Provenance
1929, the artist, Alceo Dossena [1878-1937], commissioned as a sculptural plaque for an uncompleted family mausoleum
1929-1977, Minerva and Anthony Maiullo
1977-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Golden, H. Jr. "Detroiters sure "Faker" was Great Art Master." Detroit Free Press, June 18, 1961, B3.
Matthews, H. Three Sculptures by Alceo Dossena. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1978, no. 2 (ill.).
Ferrazza, R. Palazzo Davanzati e le collezioni di Elia Volpi. Florence, 1994, p. 246.
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., II, cat. 188.
Motture, Peta, ed. Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance. Exh. cat., Victoria and Albert Museum. London, 2023, p. 257, cat. no. 6.26 (ill.).
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Alceo Dossena, Madonna and Child, 1929, marble. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Minerva and Anthony Maiullo, F77.53.
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