Madonna and Child with Six Angels, ca. 1860

  • Luca della Robbia, Italian, 1399-1482

Terracotta

  • Overall: 13 7/16 × 7/8 inches, 4.9 pounds (34.1 × 2.3 cm, 2.2 kg)

Gift of Eleanor Clay Ford

49.533

Sir. J.C. Robinson [1824-1913] (London, England)

Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914] (Paris, France)

Edsel B. Ford [1893-1943] (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1943-1949, Eleanor Clay Ford [1896-1976] (Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan, USA) 1949-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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after Luca della Robbia, Madonna and Child with Six Angels, ca. 1860, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Eleanor Clay Ford, 49.533.