Madonna and Child, ca. 1650-1675

  • Alessandro Algardi, Italian, 1598-1654
  • Ercole Ferrata, Italian, 1610-1686

Boxwood with patina

  • Overall: 11 15/16 × 6 15/16 × 4 7/16 inches (30.4 × 17.7 × 11.3 cm)

Gift of Robert H. Tannahill

49.304

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

(The Brummer Collection, New York, New York, USA)

April 20-23, 1949, Brummer Sale by (Parke-Burnet Galleries Inc., New York, New York, USA)

April 23, 1949, purchased by (R. Stora and Co., New York, New York, USA) for Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)

after April 1949-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Art in Italy, 1600-1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1965, no. 47, p. 60 (ill.). Artists and Religion. Exh., Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. Kalamazoo, November 28-December 30, 1965, [no catalogue]. 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., II, cat. 140.

school of Ercole Ferrata; possibly circle of Alessandro Algardi, Madonna and Child, ca. 1650-1675, boxwood with patina. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert H. Tannahill, 49.304.