Madonna and Child

between 1515 and 1535

Correggio Italian, ca. 1489-1534

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Title Madonna and Child

Artwork Date between 1515 and 1535

Artist Correggio

Life Dates ca. 1489-1534

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

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 11 3/4 × 8 3/8 × 1/2 inches (29.9 × 21.3 × 1.3 cm) Framed: 21 5/8 × 18 3/4 × 2 1/4 inches (54.9 × 47.6 × 5.7 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

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. 28.63

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Provenance

Collection Francesco Monti [also known as Brescianino delle Battaglie 1646-1712] (Parma, Italy)

1712-1738, inherited by his son, Antonio Monti (Parma, Italy)

1738-1817, Collection of the Counts Bertioli (Parma, Italy)

(Barromeo-Monti, Milan, Italy)

Collection Fabrizi (Rome, Italy)

1907-1914, (Gallery Cristoforo Benigno Crespi, Milan, Italy)

June 4, 1914, auction (Gallerie Petit, Paris, France) lot 17. until 1926, Collection Achillito Chiesa (Milan, Italy)

April 16, 1926, auction (American Art Galleries, New York, New York, USA) lot 20 [as by Correggio, titled "Mater Amabilist," purchased for $8,000]

1926-1928, (Scott & Fowles, New York, New York, USA)

1928-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Meyer, J. Correggio. Leipzig, 1871, p. 404, no. 93.

Gronau, G. Correggio: des Meisters Gemälde. Berlin, 1907, p. 160 (fig. 26).

Suida, W. "Notes on the Early Development of Correggio." Burlington Magazine 14 (1908-1909): pp. 302-304. [as in Crespi Collection as an "old copy of a lost original by Correggio"]

Venturi, A. Storia dell'Arte Italiana. Milan, 1926, Vol. 9. part 2, p. 697 (fig. 565). [as by Pomponio Allegri with title "Mater Amabilis" in Crespi Collection]

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, no. 40. [dated to ca. 1518]

Ricci, C. "Pomponio Allegri." Bollettino D'Arte (February 1931): pp. 337-354 (fig. 17). [as by Pomponio Allegri in Crespi Collection]

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932, p. 153. [as "Crespi Madonna in Landscape", early work]

Gombosi, G. "Correggio." Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon. Leipzig, 1907, Vol. 7, pp. 459-466. [cited in Gallery Crespi, Milan]

Scheyer, E. "Drawings by Correggio." Bulletin of the DIA 15, 7 (April 1936): p. 105 (fig. 4).

Berenson, B. Pitture Italiane del Rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 132. [as early work]

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 31, no. 40 (ill.). [dated to ca. 1518]

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972, p. 56. [as copy after Correggio]

Gould, C. The Paintings of Correggio. London, 1976, p. 284.

Sterne, M. The Passionate Eye, The Life of William R. Valentiner. Detroit, 1980, p. 221.

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