Madonna and Child with Angels

between 1425 and 1430

Fra Angelico Italian, ca. 1400-1455

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Madonna and Child with Angels

Artwork Date between 1425 and 1430

Artist Fra Angelico

Life Dates ca. 1400-1455

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. ----------

Medium Tempera and gold on panel

Dimensions Unframed: 6 3/8 × 3 7/8 inches (16.2 × 9.8 cm) Framed: 7 5/8 × 5 1/8 × 1 inches (19.4 × 13 × 2.5 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund

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. 56.32

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Provenance

Baron Maurice de Rothschild (Paris, France);
by 1955, purchased by (Rosenberg & Steibel, New York, New York, USA);
1956-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Richardson, E. P. "A Fra Angelico Madonna." Bulletin of the DIA 35, no. 4 (1955-56): pp. 87-88, (repr.) [dates picture ca. 1420].

Richardson, E. P. "A Fra Angelico in the Detroit Institute of Arts," Art Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 3 (Autumn 1956): pp. 319, 321, (repr.) [reprint of DIA Bull., vol. 35].

Salmi, M. Il Beato Angelico. Spoleto, 1958, p. 85.

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, vol. 1. New York, 1963, p. 11; vol. 2, pl. 598.

Berti, L. "Miniature dell'Angelico (e altro)," Acropoli, vol. 3 [vol. 1] (1963): pp. 1-38, esp. p. 38, note 102 [citation from Spike 1996].

Orlandi, S. Beato Angelico. Florence, 1964, pp. 14-15, (repr.) [cropped] [as work from artist's early period].

Paintings in the DIA: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 8.

Richardson, E.P., ed. Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 3rd ed. Detroit, 1966, p. 72, (repr.).

Baldini, U. L'opera completa dell'Angelico. Milan, 1970, p. 86.

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 9.

Pope-Hennessy, J. Fra Angelico. New York, 1974, p. 223, (fig. 76) [as autograph, datable to ca. 1430-32].

Boskovits, M. Un'adorazione dei Magi e gli inizi dell'Angelico. Berne, 1976, pp. 31, 50.

Boskovits, M. "Appunti sull'Angelico," Paragone, 27, no. 313 (1976): pp. 30-54, esp p. 35.

Boskovits, M. Immagini da meditare: ricerche su dipinti di tema religioso nei secolo XII-XV. Milan, 1994, p. 346.

Spike, J. T. Fra Angelico. New York, 1996, no. 124, pp 259-60 [called "Virgin and Child with Four Saints" "probably autograph, c.1428-32"].

Bonsanti, G. Beato Angelico: catalogo completo. Florence, 1998, p. 121.

Kanter, L. and P. Palladino. Fra Angelico. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York & New Haven/London, 2005, cat. no. 20, pp. 83, 92, 106-7, 117, 119, (color repr.) p. 106 [entry by L. Kanter; dates it c. 1427].

Hood, W. "Fra Angelico, New York," Burlington Magazine, review of MMA exhibit, vol. 148 (February 2006): p. 148.

Scudieri, M. and S. Giacomelli. Fra Giovanni Angelico. Miniatore pittore o pittore miniatore?" Exh. cat., Museo di San Marco. Florence, 2007, cat. no. I/9, pp. 136, 51-53, (color repr.) p. 136 [entry by M. Scudieri; agrees with L.Kanter and dates it ca. 1427].

Goldin, Marco. Raffaello verso Picasso. Storie du sguardi, volti e figure. Exh. cat., Basilica Palladiana. Vicenza, October 6, 2012-January 20, 2013, pp. 207, 321.

Strehlke, Carl Brandon. Fra Angelico and the Rise of the Florentine Renaissance. Exh. cat., Museo Nacional del Prado. Madrid, 2019, pp. 202-203, cat. 43A (ill.).

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Fra Angelico, Madonna and Child with Angels, between 1425 and 1430, tempera and gold on panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund, 56.32.