Madonna and Child
Madonna and Child
- Artist
- Workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio
- Artist Dates
- 1449-1494
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Madonna and Child
- Date
- c. 1490
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- diameter: 35.6 cm (14 in)
- K Number
- K1147
- Repository
- Austin Arts Center
- Notes
Provenance
(Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955], Rome-Florence); sold to Samuel H.Kress [1863-1955] on 16 September 1938 as Ghirlandaio; gift to Austin Arts Center, Trinity College, Hartford, in 1961.
Catalogue Entry
Workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio
Madonna and Child
K1147
Hartford, Conn., Trinity College, Study Collection, since 1961.(1) Wood. Diameter, 14 in. (35.6 cm.). Extensively damaged. That the style of K1147 places it in the milieu of Domenico Ghirlandaio has not been doubted. It has been tentatively assigned in part to Domenico himself and to his brother Davide.(2) Although it shows the tendency in Domenico's followers toward greater softness of modeling, more delicacy of feature and sweetness of expression, it is close enough to Domenico's style to have been painted in his studio, probably toward 1490. It is a fragment of a larger painting, in which the Child, similar to the one in Domenico's altarpiece in Sant' Andrea, Brozzi, near Florence, was probably shown, as there, making the sign of blessing. Provenance: Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1938.
References
(1) J. C. E. Taylor, in Cesare Barbieri Courier, vol. IV, 1961, p. 19, as Davide or Domenico Ghirlandaio or a follower. (2) K1147 has been attributed tentatively to the early Domenico Ghirlandaio by B. Berenson (Italian Pictures ... Florentine School, vol. I, 1963, p. 75); to Davide Ghirlandaio by A. Venturi, and tentatively to Davide by G. Fiocco, R. Longhi, F. M. Perkins, and W. E. Suida (in ms. opinions).