Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist

ca. 1540

Agnolo Bronzino Italian, 1503-1572

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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Title Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist

Artwork Date ca. 1540

Artist Agnolo Bronzino

Life Dates 1503-1572

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. Florentine

Medium Oil on poplar panel

Dimensions Unframed: 24 5/8 × 19 3/16 inches (62.5 × 48.8 cm) Framed: 29 7/16 × 23 7/8 × 2 3/4 inches (74.8 × 60.6 × 7 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Bequest of Alvan Macauley, Jr.

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. 82.51

Markings

Marks Marks, on verso: [catalogue entry, see CSL report] Marks, in black, on verso, stenciled: 4 7 4 111 Label, in black ink, on paper, on verso: 1319 Label, in black ink, on round paper: 6 Marks, in pink crayon, on verso: x2 Marks, in black crayon, on verso: x100 Marks, impressed, on verso: [monogram, possibly conjoined P and S] Label, on frame, in blue pencil on paper with red borders: 1803

Provenance

until 1895, Henry Doetsch (London, England);
June 22, 1895, sold by (Christie's, London, England) auction Henry Doetsch, lot 112;
1895, purchased by (Theron J. Blakeslee, New York, New York, USA);
possibly before 1928, purchased by Arthur Goetz (New York, New York, USA);
ca. 1928, purchased by (Sigrif Aram, Galerie Erhard, New York, New York, USA and Berlin, Germany);
Sucheky (New York, New York, USA);
Macauley family (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1982, by inheritance to Alvan Macauley (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1982-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Catalogue of the Highly Important Collection of Pictures by Old Masters of Henry Doetsch, Esq. Sales. cat., Christie, Manson & Woods. London, June 22, 24 & 25, 1895, p. 33, no. 112.

Freund [Frank E. Washburn]. "Italienische Bilder im New Yorker Kunsthandel." Der Cicerone 20 (1928): pp. 342–344 (ill.).

McComb, Arthur. Agnolo Bronzino: His Life and Works. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1928, pp. 73-74, (pl. 51) [as "Holy Family" dated during Bronzino’s middle period (1530–1549)].

Venturi, A. Storia Dell'arte Italiana 9, part 6. Milan, 1933, p. 73 [as in the collection of Sigfrid Aram].

Emiliani, Andrea. Il Bronzino. Busto Arsizio, 1960, p. 84 [as a late copy by Bronzino].

Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School. London, 1963, vol. 1, p. 44; vol. 2, (pl. 1440) [as a Homeless picture by Bronzino].

Baccheschi, Edi. L'opera completa del Bronzino. Milan, 1973, p. 102 [as in the collection of Aram and Sucheky].

Cox-Rearick, Janet. "A Madonna by Bronzino Reconsidered." Artibus et Historiae 4, no. 2 (1981): pp. 17–27 (ill.) [dated 1540–1545].

"Calendar." The Burlington Magazine 125, no. 966 (September 1983): pp. 580-581; p. 580 (ill.).

Bulletin of the DIA 61, no. 3: Annual Report (1983): pp. 1-68, (front cover ill.); pp. 7, 14, 20 [as by Bronzino, dated ca. 1540].

Pilliod, Elizabeth. "Book Reviews: Alessandro Allori by Simona Lecchini Giovannoni." Burlington Magazine 134, no. 1076 (November 1992): pp. 727-729; p. 729 [as by Alessandro Allori].

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Agnolo Bronzino, Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist, ca. 1540, oil on poplar panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Alvan Macauley, Jr., 82.51.