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Plaque Depicting the Madonna

mid 1500s

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Italy, 16th century

Enamel on copper

Framed: 18.8 x 15.9 cm (7 3/8 x 6 1/4 in.); Unframed: 8.9 x 7 cm (3 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1943.284.1

Location

114 Late Northern Renaissance

Provenance

Heckscher Collection (6 May 1898, no. 317). S. E. Kenndy Collection (1918, Sale Cat. no. 265). George Eumorfopoulos Collection (Sale, Sotheby & Co., London, June 1940, Cat. No. 196, ill.). (Louis Lion, New York).

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 95 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 95 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 110 archive.org

Exhibition history

Burlington House 1930: "A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian Art," no. 1105 (943E), The Italian Exhibition," Pt. IV; Glass (Wilfred Buckley), The Burlington Magazine (January 1930), p. 31, repr. p. 12.