Child with a Viol, 15th or 16th century

  • Gaudenzio Ferrari, Italian, 1470-1546

Paint on wood panel

  • Unframed: 17 7/8 × 11 inches (45.4 × 27.9 cm)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Trent McMath

52.30

prior to 1904-after 1907, Eugen Schweizer (Berlin, Germany). 1922, (A. S. Drey, Munich, Germany)

Julius H. Haass (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

by descent, Mr. and Mrs. Trent McMath (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1952-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Halsay, E. Gaudenzio Ferrari. London, 1904, p. 131 [as one of "Four Putti", simply described as "small panels in chiaroscuro"; Eugen Schweizer Collection, Berlin]. Berenson, B. North Italian Painters of the Renaissance. New York, 1907, p. 229 [as late work, but lists 6 putti; Eugen Schweizer Collection, Berlin]. Brizio, A.M. "Studi su Gaudenzio Ferrari," L'Arte, vol. 29 (1926): pp. 158-178, esp. p. 178 [one of 4 panels, in chiaroscuro; erroneously cited as still in Eugen Schweizer Collection, Berlin]. Paintings in the DIA: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 40. Berenson, B. 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. 159. Mallé, L. Incontri con Gaudenzio. Turin, 1969, p. 249, pl. 247 [dated ca. 1525-27, or a little after]. Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 70. Riley, M.W. The History of the Viola. Ann Arbor, 1980, p. 4, (repr.).

Gaudenzio Ferrari, Child with a Viol, 15th or 16th century, paint on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Trent McMath, 52.30.