Pieta with Two Cherubs, ca. 1600

  • Antonio Abondio, Italian, 1538-1591
  • Alessandro Abondio, Italian, ca. 1570-1638

Gilded bronze

  • Overall: 1/8 × 2 15/16 inches (0.3 × 7.5 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

24.84

On View

  • Decorative Arts

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

1924-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Molinier, E. Le Plaquettes: Catalogue Raisonne, Paris, 1886, no. 565 Bange, E.F. Staatliche Mussen zu Berlin: Die italienische Bronzen der Renaissance und des Barok, II, Reliefs und Plaketten. Berlin, 1922, p. 137, no. 1476, pl. 34. Burroughs. Clyde H. "Italian XV and XVI Century Plaquettes." Bulletin of the DIA 6, no. 3 (1924): pp. 29-30, p. 29 (ill.). Weber, I. Deutch Niederlaendische und Franzoesische Renaissance Plakketten 1500-1650. Munich, 1975, no. 662, p. 290, pl. 180. Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Boström, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2002, 2 vols., II, cat. 228.

circle of Antonio Abondio; circle of Alessandro Abondio, Pieta with Two Cherubs, ca. 1600, gilded bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 24.84.