About the Artwork
Madonna and Child
16th century
Cornelis van der Beke van Cleve
1520-1567
Netherlandish
Unknown
Paint on wood panel
Unframed: 11 × 7 5/8 inches (27.9 × 19.4 cm) Framed: 16 × 12 3/4 × 2 3/4 inches (40.6 × 32.4 × 7 cm)
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European Painting
Gift of C. Edmund Delbos in memory of his mother
38.59
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Provenance
France, Private Collection
Collection C. Edmund Delbos (by Dec. 1936), by whom presented to the DIA in 1938.
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Richardson, E. P., "A Madonna by Cornelis van Cleve", Bulletin of the DIA, vol. 18, no. 2, 1938, pp. 2-4 (cover ill).
"Detroit; A New Cornelis van Cleve", ART NEWS (20th Annual), vol. 37, no. 10, Dec. 3, 1938, p. 20, repr.
Richardson, E. P.(ed.), Detroit, DIA, Catalogue of Paintings, 1944, pp. 27, 162, no. 479, repr.
Steinberg, L., "The Metaphors of Love and Birth in Michelangelo's Pietas," Studies in Erotic Art, (ed. T. Bowie & C.V. Christenson), New York, 1970, p. 283.
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Cornelis van der Beke van Cleve, Madonna and Child, 16th century, paint on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of C. Edmund Delbos in memory of his mother, 38.59.
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