Adoration of the Child with St. Benedict and Angels

ca. 1478

Vincenzo Foppa Italian, 1427-1516

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Title Adoration of the Child with St. Benedict and Angels

Artwork Date ca. 1478

Artist Vincenzo Foppa

Life Dates 1427-1516

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. Italian

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Medium Tempera on canvas and honeycomb aluminum panel, transferred from wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 56 1/2 × 43 1/4 inches (143.5 × 109.9 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence P. Fisher

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. 68.294

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Signed Signed, on stone step, lower left: VINCEN | TIUS. DE | FOPPA. P.

Provenance

1841, Collection Cardinal Joseph Fesch [1763-1839], (Rome, Italy);
1845, sold by auction to Collection Cardinal Fesch, (Georges);
Collection Nottret (Versailles, France);
Before 1909 and after 1916, By descent to Collection Abbé Lefèvre, (Versailles, France)
1927, Collection Abbé Thuelin, (Versailles, France);
(Howard Young, New York, New York, USA);
Before 1930, Lawrence P. Fisher (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1968-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Catalogue des Tableaux Composant la Galerie de Feu Son Eminence le Cardinal Fesch. Rome, 1841, p. 58, no. 1300. [as "La Créche de Notre Seigneur"]

Galerie de Feu S.E. le Cardinal Fesch, Catalogue des Tableaux des Écoles Italiennes et Espagnole. Sales cat., Palais Ricci, Rome, March 17–18, 1945, p. 209, no. 909 [as "La Nativité"]

Ffoulkes, Constance Jocelyn and Rodolfo Maiocchi. Vincenzo Foppa of Brescia, Founder of the Lombard School, His Life and Work. London, 1909, pp. 210–213 (ill.), 249, 267–268.

Crowe, Joseph Archer and Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle. A History of Painting in North Italy, vol. 2, ed. Tancred Borenius. London, 1912, p. 327, note. [as in the collection of M. L’Abbé Lefrève]

Pauli, G[ustav]. "Vincenzo Foppa" In Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler 12, ed. Hans Vollmer et al. Leipzig, 1916, p. 197. [as in the collection of Abbé Lefèvre, Versailles]

Heil, Walter. "The Lawrence P. Fisher Collection in Detroit." Antiquarian 15 (December 1930): 45–47, 108, 110, 112; p. 45.

Venturi, Lionello. Italian Pictures in America, vol. 2. New York, 1933, unpaginated, no. 436 (ill.) [Dated after 1500]

The Sixteenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: Italian Paintings of the XIV to XVI Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1933, unpaginated, no. 84 (ill.).

Berenson, Bernard. Pitture Italiane del Rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 171. [as "Natività con Santo Monaco"]

Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian Engraving, vol. 1. London, 1938, p. 273.

Wittgens, Fernarda. Vincenzo Foppa. Milan, 1948, pp. 63, 98.

Panazza, Gaetano. "Vetrate Pavesi." Critica d'Arte 9, no. 9 (May 1955): 252–255, p. 254, n. 8.

Arte lombarda dai Visconti agli Sforza. Exh. cat., Palazzo Reale. Milan, 1958, p. 106.

Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: a List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places, Central Italian and North Italian schools, vol. 1. London, 1968, p. 136. [as in the collection of Lawrence P. Fisher]

Ruggeri, Ugo. Disegni Lombardi. Milan, 1982, p. 23. [discusses 15th century drawing after, first associated with Lombard school by Hind in 1938, and then to Foppa]

Welch, E. Samuels. "Vincenzo Foppa." In Dictionary of Art 11, ed. Jane Turner. New York, 1996, p. 293. [dated second half of the 1470s]

Balzarini, Maria Grazia. Vincenzo Foppa. Milan, 1997, pp. 29, 32, 101, pl. 52 (ill.); p. 164, no. 28 (ill.). [dated ca. 1475; cf. drawing in Accademia, Venice]

Klumpp, Axel. Vincenzo Foppa (ca. 1430–1515/16), vol. 2. Berlin, 2002, no. A7, pp. 460–463. [as by workshop of Vincenzo Foppa; dated 1490s or later]

Urry, Serena. "Technical Findings in Vincenzo Foppa's Adoration of the Child with Saint Benedict and Angels." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 78, no. 1/2 (2004): 30–39, pp. 30–39 (ill.).

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Vincenzo Foppa, Adoration of the Child with St. Benedict and Angels, ca. 1478, tempera on canvas and honeycomb aluminum panel, transferred from wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence P. Fisher, 68.294.