About the Artwork
Palla Rucellai
ca. 1506
Pietro Torrigiani
1472 - 1528
Italian
Unknown
Terracotta with polychromy on wood base with polychromy and gilding
Overall (figure): 22 1/2 × 22 11/16 × 10 1/2 inches (57.2 × 57.6 × 26.7 cm) Including base: 27 5/16 × 23 3/8 × 11 inches (69.4 × 59.4 × 27.9 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth
43.479
Public Domain
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Provenance
until 1876, Rucellai family by descent (Florence, Italy);1876-ca. 1918, purchased by Wilhelm von Bode for the Kaiser Fredrich Museum (Berlin, Germany);
ca. 1918, purchased by Ralph Harman Booth [1873-1931] (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA);
1931-1943, by descent to Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA);
1943-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Passerini, L. Genealogia e storia della Famiglia Rucellai descritta da Luigi Passerini. Florence, 1861.
Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1958, p. 71, no. 148.
Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Boström, 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., I, cat. 95, pp 194-197.
Principi, Lorenzo. The Master of the Unruly Children: River God and Bacchus. London, 2016, p. 34.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
attributed to Pietro Torrigiani, Palla Rucellai, ca. 1506, terracotta with polychromy on wood base with polychromy and gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth, 43.479.
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