Virgin and Child with Angels

between mid-15th and early 16th century

Benvenuto di Giovanni di Meo del Guasta Italian, 1436-1518

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About the Artwork

Title Virgin and Child with Angels

Artwork Date between mid-15th and early 16th century

Artist Benvenuto di Giovanni di Meo del Guasta

Life Dates 1436-1518

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. ----------

Medium Paint on wood panel

Dimensions Unframed (arched panel): 25 1/2 × 18 1/2 inches (64.8 × 47 cm) Framed: 39 3/4 × 30 1/4 × 4 inches (101 × 76.8 × 10.2 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

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. 24.95

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Inscriptions Inscribed, on the Virgin's halo: AVE GRAZIA PRENA DOMINUS TEGUMP...ED...TU Inscribed, stencilled, lower middle left: [crown] | CL Inscribed, top left: 920B Inscribed, top right: 99

Marks Label, on reverse: 1893/94 New Gallery Exhibition Label, on reverse, top right: [Duveen label] 4184 Benvenuto di Giovanni Label, on reverse: 108

Provenance

by 1830, Collection Pietro Giomarelli (Siena, Italy) [according to E. Romagnoli];
Collection Duke Carlo Luigi (Lucca, Italy);
by late 1840s, Collection Earl of Ashburnham (Ashburnham Palace, Sussex, Great Britain);
until 1913, by descent, 5th Earl of Ashburnham (Ashburnham Palace, Sussex, Great Britain);
1913, by descent, Mary Catherine, Lady Ashburnham;
bought by (Robert Langton Douglas, Dublin, Ireland);
(Joseph Duveen, London, England);
1924-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Early Italian Art. Exh. cat., New Gallery (Gruber & Spielman). London, 1893, no. 64.

Valentiner, W.R. "Sienese Paintings of the XIV-XV Centuries." Bulletin of the DIA 6, 4 (1924): pp. 34-39 (ill.).

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, no. 10 (ill.).

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932, p. 76.

Berenson, B. Pitture italiane del rinascimento: catalogo dei principali artisti e del loro opere. Milan, 1936, p. 66.

Van Marle, R. The Development of the Italian School of Painting. The Hague, 1937, Vol. 16, pp. 404-405.

Valentiner, W.R., ed. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections in America. New York, 1941, no. 97 (ill.). [dates to ca. 1500]

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 12, no. 10.

Paintings in the DIA: A checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 13.

Fredericksen, B. & D. Davisson. Benvenuto di Giovanni, Girolamo di Benvenuto: their altarpieces in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Malibu, 1966, p. 24. [dates to 1480s]

Richardson, E.P., ed. Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1966, p. 73 (ill.).

Berenson, B. Italian pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works with an index of places. Central Italian and North Italian schools. London, 1968, p. 40. [as Madonna and Child with Two Angels]

Behrman, S.N. Duveen. Boston, 1972, p. 219 [listed as Madonna and Child with two angels]

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972, p. 25.

Levi d'Ancona, M. The Garden of the Renaissance, Botanical Symbols in Italian Painting. Florence, 1977, p. 195. [identifies floral crown worn by angels as jasmine, a flower sacred to Virgin]

Sutton, D. "Robert Langton Douglas, Part III, section 17. Dramatic Days." Apollo 109 (June 1979): pp.447-475 (fig. 16).

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Benvenuto di Giovanni di Meo del Guasta, Virgin and Child with Angels, between mid-15th and early 16th century, paint on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 24.95.