About the Artwork
Madonna and Child with Six Angels
ca. 1860
After Luca della Robbia
1399-1482
Italian
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Terracotta
Overall: 13 7/16 × 7/8 inches, 4.9 pounds (34.1 × 2.3 cm, 2.2 kg)
Sculpture
European Modern Art to 1970
Gift of Eleanor Clay Ford
49.533
Public Domain
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Provenance
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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Bode, W. "Luca della Robbia," Jahrbuch der Koniglich Preussischen Kunstsammlungen, vol. VI (1885): pp. 184-185.
Marquand, A. "The Madonnas of Luca della Robbia," American Journal of Archeology, vol. IX (1894): p. 6.
Reymond, M. Les Della Robbia. Florence, 1897, p. 127.
Bode, W. Denkmaler der Renaissanceskulptur Toscanas. 1905, pp. 75-76.
Migeon, G. Paris, 1908.
Venturi, A. Storia dell'Arte italiana, VI, La Scultura del Quattrocento. Milan, 1908, p. 555.
Vitry, P. Les Arts (December 1909).
Marquand, A. Luca della Robbia. Princeton, 1914, p. 229.
Bode, W. Florentine Bildhauer. Berlin, 1921, p. 170.
Valentiner, W.R. Italian Gothic and Early Renaissance Sculptures. January 7-February 20, 1938, no. 35 (ill.).
Richardson, E.P. "The Virgin and Child with Six Angels by Luca della Robbia," Bulletin of the DIA 29, no. 4 (1949-50): pp. 78-80.
Pallas, Geneva, vol. 14, no. 10 (May 30, 1950): p. 110.
DIA. "A Superb Luca della Robbia," Pictures on Exhibit, vol. 12, no. 8 (May 1950): pp. 10-11 (ill.).
Gaborit, J.R. "Ghiberti et Luca della Robbia, a propos de deux reliefs conserves au Louvre," Lorenzo Ghiberti nel suo Tempo (1978/80): pp. 187-194.
Pope-Hennessy, John. Luca della Robbia. Ithaca, 1980, p. 257.
Italian Renaissance Sculpture in the Time of Donatello. Exh. cat., DIA, Kimbell Art Museum. Detroit, Fort Worth, October 23, 1985-April 27, 1986, pp. 151-152.
Darr, A.P. and G. Bonsanti. Donatello e i Suoi. Florence, Forte di Belvedere, June 15 - September 7, 1986, no. 77 (ill.).
Kokole, S. Auf Den Spuren Des Fruhen Florentiner Quattrocento in Dalmatien: Das Toskanische Formengut Bei Giorgio Da Sebenico Bis 1450, Wiener Jahrbuch fur Kunstgeschichte 42 (1989): pp. 160, 165, 300, (fig. 26).
Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Tokyo: Bunkamura Museum of Art, 1989, cat. no. 3 (ill.).
Gentillini, G. I Della Robbia: La scultura invetriata nel Rinascimento, 2 vols. Florence, 1992, pp. 22, 43.
Jolly, A. Madonnas by Donatello and his circle. Frankfurt am Main and New York, 1998, pp. 172-174, 325, (fig. 111).
Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Bostrom, with contributions by C. Avery... [et. al.]. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, in assoc. with the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2002, 2 vols., II, cat. 265.
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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.
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