Madonna and Two Angels Adoring the Christ Child

1473-1478

Leonardo da Vinci Italian, 1452-1519

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Title Madonna and Two Angels Adoring the Christ Child

Artwork Date 1473-1478

Artist Leonardo da Vinci

Life Dates 1452-1519

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. Unknown

Medium Paint on wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 23 5/8 × 18 1/2 inches (60 × 47 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mrs. Walter O. Briggs, Mrs. Edsel B. Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie H. Green, Mr. and Mrs. K. T. Keller, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas F. Roby, Mr. and Mrs. James S. Whitcomb, Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Ford II, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Holtzman, Mr. and Mrs. George Kamperman, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kanzler, Mr. and Mrs. Alvan Macauley, Jr., Mr. and Edward E. Rothman, Mrs. Allan Shelden, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Silverman, Robert H. Tannahill, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Wilson and The McGregor 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. 57.37

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Marks Marked, verso, label from exhibition of Dalmatian paintings in Zagreb. Marked, verso, label with name of artist, in Dalmatian: [translated: Giorgio Schiavone from Dalmatia] Marked, verso, label: 37.111 Marked, verso, label, Knoedler stock number: A3969

Provenance

collection of Altoviti Family (possibly Florence, Italy)

collection of Prince Doria (possibly Rome, Italy)

before 1950, possibly purchased by (Rudolph Heinemann, New York, New York, USA)

by 1954, purchased by (Knoedler Galleries, New York, New York, USA)

1957-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Richardson, E.P. "A Rare Panel by Verocchio and Leonardo." Bulletin of the DIA 36, no. 4 (1956-1957): pp. 78-81, (ill.) [as by Andrea del Verrocchio and Leonard da Vinci].

“Art News and Atomic Engineering; and Current Items from London.” Illustrated London News 230, no. 6154 (May 18, 1957): p. 800 (ill.) [as by Verrocchio and Da Vinci].

"Attributo a Leonardo." Sele Arte 6, no. 31 (July-August 1957): pp. 19-20.

"Detroit Announces a Controversial Painting." Art News 56, no. 4 (Summer 1957): pp. 8, 80.

“New da Vinci in Detroit.” Art Digest 31, no. 9 (June 1957): p. 12 (ill.).

Valentiner, W.R. "A Newly Discovered Leonardo." Art Quarterly 20, no. 3 (Autumn 1957): pp. 234-243, pp. 235-243 (ill.) [as by Andrea del Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci].

Richardson, E. P. The Adoration with Two Angels by Andrea del Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci. Detroit, 1957, pp. 1-32.

Richardson, Edgar P., ed. Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1966, p. 78 (ill.).

Passavant, Günter. Verrocchio: Sculptures, Paintings and Drawings. London, 1969, preface.

Fredericksen, Burton B. and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, 1972, pp. 104, 211, 580.

Pompilio Mario and Angela Ottino della Chiesa. L'opera completa di Leonardo Pittore. Milan, 1978, p. 115 (ill.) [as by attributed to Leonardo da Vinci].

Colby, Joy Hakanson. "Da Vinci, my eye: OK, Detroit, if the master didn’t paint it, who did?" Detroit News (July 15, 1979): pp. 1F (ill.), 10F (ill.).

Brown, David Alan. Leonardo da Vinci: Origins of a Genius. New Haven, 1998, p. 210, no. 82.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

school of Leonardo da Vinci, Madonna and Two Angels Adoring the Christ Child, 1473-1478, paint on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mrs. Walter O. Briggs, Mrs. Edsel B. Ford, et al., 57.37.