Young Woman

between 1460s and 1470s or 1490s

Desiderio da Settignano, Artist Geri da Settignano, Artist

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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Title Young Woman

Artwork Date between 1460s and 1470s or 1490s

Makers Desiderio da Settignano (Artist) Italian, 1429/32 - 1464 Geri da Settignano (Artist) Italian, 1424-ca. 1470

Medium Pietra serena with traces of paint

Dimensions Overall: 26 1/8 × 19 3/8 × 5 7/8 inches (66.4 × 49.2 × 14.9 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of Mrs. Edsel B. Ford in memory of her husband

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. 48.152

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possibly by 1591-until late 17th century, Baccio Valori, then Filippo Valori, Alessandro Vallori [d. 1687] (Borgo Albizi, Florence, Italy)

acquired by Niccolo Panciatichi (Palazzo of via Larga, Florence, Italy)

by 1868, Charles Timbal (Paris, France)

Baron Arthur de Schicker (Martinvast, Normandy, France)

(Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA)

Mr. and Mrs. Edsel B. Ford (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1948-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts

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Published References

Bocchi, F. Le belleze della citta di Fiorenza. Florence, 1591. Reprint, Shearman, J., ed. Farmborough, 1971, p. 181.

Bocchi, F. Le belleze della citta di Firenze, ed. G. Cinelli. Florence, 1677, p. 364.

Bottari, G. Il Riposo. Florence, 1730, p. 258, no. 1. [edition of Borghini 1584]

Baldinucci, F. Notizie dei professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua, ed. F. Ranalli, 5 vols. Florence, 1845-1847, pp. 3, 407. Reprint, 1975.

Kennedy, Clarence. "The Magdalen and Sculptures in Relief by Desiderio da Settignano and his Associates." Studies in the History and Criticism of Sculpture 6, 1929, pl. 24 (ill.).

Ragghianti, C. "La Mostra di scultura italiana antica a Detroit." Critica d'Arte 3 (August-December 1938): p. 177 (fig. 39).

Sherman, Frederic Fairchild. "Profile of A Young Woman." Art in America 26, no. 2 (April 1938): 74–75, pp. 74–75 (ill.).

Valentiner, W.R. Italian Gothic and Early Renaissance Sculpture. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1938, no. 38 (ill.).

Richardson, E.P. "A Profile of a Young Woman by Desiderio." Art Quarterly 11, no. 3 (Summer 1948): pp. 281-285, p. 280 (ill.).

Pictures on Exhibit 2. Exh. cat, Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1948, no. 1, 1948, p. 50.

Art News Annual XVIII (1948): pp. 153, 166.

Cardellini, Ida. Desiderio da Settignano. Milan, 1962, p. 280, fig. 351 (ill.).

Seymour, C. Sculpture in Italy: 1400-1500. Baltimore, 1966, p. 240, no. 21.

Pope-Hennessy, John. "The Forging of Italian Renaissance Sculpture." Apollo 99 (April 1974): pp. 242-267, p. 248 (ill.).

Gentilini in Florence. 1985, pp. 384, (ill.), 398 no. 5.

Gentilini, G. Giovanni Bastianni e I falso da museo. Gazetta Antiquaria 1 (1988): p. 39.

Penny, N. Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 1540 to the Present Day, 1: Italian, 2: French and Other European Sculpture (excluding Italian and British), 3: British. Oxford, 1992, p. 30.

Bellandi, A. "Una stemma di Desidero da Settignano." Nuovi Studi II, 4 (1997): p. 33.

Darr, A.P. and B. Preyer. "Donatello, Desidero da Settignano and His Brothers and "Macigno" Sculpture for a Boni Palace in Florence." The Burlington Magazine 141 (December 1999): p. 730, no. 89.

Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Boström, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2002, 2 vols., I, cat. 55.

Secrest, Meryle. Duveen: a life in art. New York, 2004, p. 426.

Darr, A.P. "Donatello, Desiderio, and Geri da Settignano, and Sculpture in Pietra Serena for a Boni Palace and Elsewhere in Florence: A Reassessment." Desiderio da Settignano Venezia: Marsilio, 2011.

Caglioti, Francesco. "Un nuovo 'profilo' di Desiderio da Settignano." In Historia Artis Magistra: amicorum discipulorumque munuscula Johanni Höfler septuagenario dicata, ed. Renata Novak Klemenčič, and Samo Štefanac. Ljubljana, 2012, pp. 187–190 (ill.), 192.

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circle of Desiderio da Settignano; possibly Geri da Settignano, Young Woman, between 1460s and 1470s or 1490s, Pietra serena with traces of paint. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Edsel B. Ford in memory of her husband, 48.152.