Madonna and Child, between 1515 and 1535

  • Correggio, Italian, ca. 1489-1534

Oil on wood panel

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

City of Detroit Purchase

28.63

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)

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.

circle of Correggio, Madonna and Child, between 1515 and 1535, oil on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 28.63.