Head of a Youth

between mid-15th and early 16th century

Andrea della Robbia , Artist Workshop of Andrea della Robbia , Artist

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Head of a Youth

Artwork Date between mid-15th and early 16th century

Makers Andrea della Robbia (Artist) Italian, 1435-1525 Workshop of Andrea della Robbia (Artist) Italian, 1435-1525

Medium Enameled terracotta

Dimensions Overall: 6 1/2 × 22 inches (16.5 × 55.9 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of Henry Ford Hospital personnel in memory of Edsel B. Ford

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. 43.477

Markings

Marks Marks, on paper label: S/B Lot. No. [written in pencil] 106 | Art. No. [written in pencil] 48

Provenance

M. Sulzbach (Paris, France);
1926, (Arnold Seligmann, Rey, & Co., New York, New York, USA);
William Randolph Hearst (New York, New York, USA and California, USA);
sold by (Gimbel Bros., New York, New York, USA) Hearst sale;
Henry Ford Hospital personnel (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1943-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Richardson, E.P. "The Virgin and Child by Andrea della Robbia." Bulletin of the DIA 15, no. 3 (1946): p. 51.

Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh, cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art. Tokyo, 1989, cat no 4, (ill.).

Gentilini, G. I Della Robbia: La Scultura invetriata nel Rinascimento, 2 vols. Florence, 1992, pp. 173, 268, no. 31.

Gentilini, G. "Angelo Poliziano, Lorenzo il Magnifico e la scultura invetriata." Umanesimo e Rimascimento a Montepulciano, ed. A. Silillo. Montepulciano, 1994.

Cambareri, Marietta, et. al. Della Robbia Sculptures in American Collections. Exh. cat., The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 2016, pp. 80-82.

Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Boström, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2 vols. London, 2002, 2 vols., I, cat. 58.

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Andrea della Robbia; workshop of Andrea della Robbia, Head of a Youth, between mid-15th and early 16th century, enameled terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Henry Ford Hospital personnel in memory of Edsel B. Ford, 43.477.