Pieta

ca. 1470

Possibly Francesco di Cristoforo Riccomani , Artist Possibly Leonardo di Cristoforo Riccomani , Artist

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About the Artwork

Title Pieta

Artwork Date ca. 1470

Makers Possibly Francesco di Cristoforo Riccomani (Artist) Italian, active Sarzana 1460's - ca. 1483 Possibly Leonardo di Cristoforo Riccomani (Artist) Italian, active Sarzana 1460's/ca. 1480

Medium Terracotta with traces of polychromy and gilding

Dimensions Overall: 12 5/16 × 18 11/16 × 2 3/8 inches, 14.9 pounds (31.2 × 47.5 × 6 cm, 6.8 kg)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy 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. 42.101

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Provenance

until at least 1936, Dr. A.S. Drey;
(Aldo Jandolo, Rome, Italy);
1942-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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An Exhibition of European Art, 1450- 1500. Exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, 1936, no. 51 [lent by Dr. Drey, as by Francesco di Giogio].

Italian Sculpture 1250-1500: an Exhibition of Italian Gothic and Early Renaissance Sculptures. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1938, no. 74.

Ragghianti, C. "La mostra di scultura italiana antica a Detroit," Critica d'Arte 3 (August - December 1938): p. 182, (fig. 61).

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. 68.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

possibly Leonardo di Cristoforo Riccomani; possibly Francesco di Cristoforo Riccomani, Pieta, ca. 1470, terracotta with traces of polychromy and gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 42.101.