Virgin and Child (Virgo Lactans)

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AttributionAttributed to Pietro Torrigiani(Italian (Florentine), 1472–1528)Italian (Florentine), 1472–1528

CultureItalian (Florentine)

Titles

Virgin and Child (Virgo Lactans)

Datec. 1500

MediumPolychromy terracotta with a painted wood pedestal

DimensionsSculpture: 45 1/4 × 27 3/4 × 15 in. (114.9 × 70.5 × 38.1 cm)
Pedestal: 40 13/16 × 26 1/4 × 34 3/4 in. (103.7 × 66.7 × 88.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of Jessica Younger and the Younger grandchildren, Laura, Katherine, Lee, and Mark

Object number2024.1028

Current Location

The Audrey Jones Beck Building

203 Crane Gallery

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Department

Arts of Europe and the Mediterranean

Object Type

SCULPTURE

Provenance[Salvador Benguiat (b.1896–d.1979), New York]; [French & Company, New York, June 6, 1932]; Private collection of Ruth Blumka, New York, after 1939; [Daniel Katz, Ltd., London, 1988]; Private collection of Jimmy Younger, Houston, 1998; given to MFAH, 2024.
Exhibition HistoryMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston, Earth and Fire: Italian Terracotta Sculpture from Donatello to Canova, 18 November 2001– 3 February 2002, no. 27.
Published References G. Vasari (1568), Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Translated by Gaston Du C. De Vere, London, 1913, vol. IV, pp. 182-88. J. Pope-Hennessy, ‘The tombs and Monuments,’ in Westminster Abbey, Radnor, PA, 1972, p. 215. B. Boucher, Pietro Torrigiani Madonna and Child, (extended entry for Daniel Katz 1988). C.Galvin and P. Lindley, “Pietro Torrigiani’s Portrait Bust of King Henry VII,” in The Burlington Magazine 130, December 1988, pp. 892-902. A. Darr, “New Documents for Pietro Torrigiani and other early Cinquecento Florentine Sculptors active in Italy and England,” in Kunst des Cinquecento in der Toskana, Kunsthistorisches Institute in Florence, 1992, pp. 108-38. B. Boucher, Earth and Fire: Italian Terracotta Sculpture from Donatello to Canova, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2001, no. 27, pp. 160-161. A. Darr, P. Barnet, and A Boström, Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. I, London/Turnhout, 2002, no. 95, pp. 194-7. I. Wardropper, European Sculpture, 1400-1900 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2011, no. 13, pp. 47-49. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

See the 'Labels and Markings' section of the appended condition report.

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