Madonna and Child

Date1509

Modern PlaceVenice, Italy, Southern Europe, Europe

MediumOil on panel

ClassificationsPaintings

Dimensions41 3/4 × 33 3/8 inches (106.05 × 84.77 cm)

Credit LineCity of Detroit Purchase

Object number28.115

DescriptionThe Madonna, wearing a red tunic and blue mantle, is seated in the foreground before a green drapery. With her right hand, she holds the Christ Child who is standing on her lap. With her left hand, she holds a book. To the left and behind the figures, is a landscape with a shepherd, sheep, and animals. In the middle ground near the shepherd, is a road which zig-zags across a crumbling bridge with tiny figures on it, toward a large building in the background.

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Locations

Storage - Long-term Demo Museum (Hanover Square), East Wing, European Painting Storage, Screen 1, B

ProvenanceMocenigo collection, Venice, 1815; Carolina Ferdinanda Luisa, Duchesse de Berry, c.1844-1854; Hotel Drouot, Paris, Apr 19 and following days, 1865; Henri Charles, Comte de Chambord, Frohsdorf, Austria, (d. 1883); Maria Teresa, Comtesse de Chambord, (d.1886); Don Jaime de Bourbon, Frohsdorf, Austria, (by descent), who sold it to the following; Vicomte de Canson, Paris