Madonna and Child in Landscape

between late 15th and early 16th century

Andrea Previtali Italian, 1470-1528

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About the Artwork

Title Madonna and Child in Landscape

Artwork Date between late 15th and early 16th century

Artist Andrea Previtali

Life Dates 1470-1528

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 Paint on wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 24 × 22 1/2 inches (61 × 57.2 cm) Framed: 33 1/4 × 31 3/4 × 2 5/8 inches (84.5 × 80.7 × 6.7 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. 22.8

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Signed Signed, lower left: Andreas Bergo | Mensis Iovanis | B.D.P.

Provenance

before November 1855 and until 1871, Collection Paolo Fabris (Venice, Italy);
Collection W. von Dirksen (Berlin, Germany) [according to Witt Library photo];
(Böhler, Munich, Germany) [as cited by Heinemann 1962, p. 134];
until 1922, (Lucerne Fine Arts, Ltd., Lucerne, Switzerland);
1922-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Crowe, J.A. and G.B. Cavalcaselle. A History of Painting in North Italy. London, 1871, vol. 1; 1912, London, 2nd ed., vol. 1, p. 283, note 1.

Ausstellung von Werken alter Kunst. Exh. cat., Kaiser Friedrich-Museums-Verein. Berlin, 1906, no. 105.

Austellung von Werken alter Kunst. Exh. cat., Königlichen Akademie der Künste. Berlin, 1914, no. 127. [lent by W. von Dirksen]

Poland, R. "Venetian Painting of the Madonna Acquired." Bulletin of the DIA 3, 5-6 (March 1922): pp. 57-60 (ill.).

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, no. 171 (ill.). [dates picture to ca. 1500-1510]

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, a list of the principal artists and their works. Oxford, 1932, p. 473.

Berenson, B. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 406.

Kunze, I. "A Re-discovered Picture by Andrea Cordeliaghi." Burlington Magazine 71, 167 (December 1937): pp. 261-267 (pl. IID).

Richter, G. "Letter to the Editor." Burlington Magazine 72, 168 (January 1938): p. 34.

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 105, no. 171.

Richardson, E.P. Masterpieces of Painting and Sculpture from the DIA. Detroit, 1949, p. 63 (ill.).

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: The Venetian School. London, 1957, Vol. 1, p. 148. [as early work]

Masterpieces of Art in Memory of William R. Valentiner. Exh. cat., North Carolina Museum of Art. Raleigh, 1959, pp. 27, 54, no. 31 (ill.).

Gibbons, F. "Giovanni Bellini and his Workshop." Ph. D. diss., Harvard University. Boston, 1961, p. 326. [unpublished]

Heineman, F. Giovanni Bellini e I Belliniani. Venice, 1962, p. 134, Vol. 1, no. S281 (pl. 488).

Paintings in the DIA: A checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 88.

zur Capallen, J.M. "Andrea Previtali." Ph.D. diss., Wurzburg University, 1972, pp. 17ff, 133. [unpublished]

Richardson, E.P., ed. Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1966, 3rd ed., p. 83 (ill.).

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972, p. 170.

Zampetti, P. I pittori bergameschi. Bergamo, 1975, Vol. 1, p. 134.

Penny, N. The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings Volume I, Paintings from Bergamo, Brescia, and Cremona. London, 2004, pp. 291, 294 (ill.). [cited under inv. 4884.1 and 4884.2]

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Andrea Previtali, Madonna and Child in Landscape, between late 15th and early 16th century, paint on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 22.8.