Madonna and Child

Description

This relief is one of several such painted stucco replicas cast after the marble original of about 1460–65 now in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. While this example has suffered old and obvious losses, it still conveys the overall composition and some of the subtlety of modeling of the marble. In addition, it retains sufficient portions of its fifteenth-century paint and gilding to suggest a colorfulness and richly decorated surface which the marble was never intended to have, and which connects this work with panel paintings of the time. The gilded wooden frame, not made for this relief, is Venetian and dates to about 1400–1450.

Provenance

Samuel Mather (Cleveland, Ohio), upon his death, held in trust by the estate; Estate of Samuel Mather, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1970.; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1970-)

Madonna and Child

Antonio Rossellino

c. 1470

Accession Number

1970.44

Medium

painted stucco with traces of gilding

Dimensions

Overall: 83.5 x 65.1 cm (32 7/8 x 25 5/8 in.)

Classification

Sculpture

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Bequest of Samuel L. Mather