LOT DETAILS

Materials:

gilt and painted terracotta

Measurements:

33.78 in. (85.80 cm.) (height) by 26.77 in. (68.00 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Condition:

with painted wood tabernacle frame

Exhibited:

Darr, A., "Italian Renaissance Sculpture in the Time of Donatello," Detroit Institute of Arts, 1985, pl. 5 p. 52, pp. 113-115

Literature:

G. Richa, Notizie istoriche delle chiese fiorentine, 10 vols, 1754-62, X, p. 210 W. von Bode, Denkmaler der Renaissance-Sculptur Toscanas, 11 vols, Munich, 1892-1905, p. 53, pl. 178b P. Schubring, Donatello, Des Meister's Werke, Stuttgart/Leipzig 1907, fig. 23, there, erroneously described as stucco. C. Avery, "Three Marble Reliefs by Luca della Robbia", in Studies in European Sculpture, London 1981, fig. 11, p. 8 J. Pope-Hennessy, "A terracotta 'Madonna' by Donatello" in The Burlington Magazine, February 1983, pp. 83 and 84, figs. 1, 23 and 24 A. Darr and G. Bonsanti, Donatello e i suoi : scultura fiorentina del primo Rinascimento (exh.cat.), Detroit and Milan, 1986, pp. 150-151, pl. XV B. Boucher, "Detroit and Fort Worth. Sculpture in the Time of Donatello" (exhibition review), in The Burlington Magazine, 128, 1986, pp. 65-68 J. Pope-Hennessy, Donatello Sculptor, New York 1993, p. 272, fig. 270 A. Rosenauer, Donatello, Milan,1993, no. 72, pp. 302-303, no.72 A. Jolly, Madonnas by Donatello and his circle, Frankfurt, New York, 1998, fig. 24.1, p. 39

Provenance:

Church of San Felice in Piazza, Florence, circa 1457, by repute Alfred Emilien, Comte de Nieuwerkerke, 1873 Stefano Bardini, Florence Christie's London, The Bardini Collection, May 30th, 1902, lot no. 558 Sold, American Art Association, New York, April 23-27, 1928, lot no. 351 (purchased by W.W. Seaman, Agent); William Boyce Thompson, (1869-1930), Yonkers, New York Monsignor Edward J. Ferger, Buffalo, New York Collection of Virginia and Frank Cryan, Boca Raton, Florida, Sotheby's, New York, March 2-3, 1984, lot no. 15