A Polychrome and Parcel-Gilt Marble Group of theVirgin and Child

Period: 1300-1400

Medium: Marble, polychrome, Gilt

Dimension: 65 x 28 cm (25⁵/₈ x 11⁰/₁ inches)

Provenance: Possibly Trivolzio Collection, Milan
With Piero Tozzi Inc., New York
Acquired by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation for The Los Angeles County Museum (A.5832.47-42), 1947
An auction of property de-accessioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to benefit new acquisitions; Sotheby's, Los Angeles, 21-23 June 1982, lot 161
Ex Private collection

Literature:
W.R. Valentiner, Art Quarterly, Winter, 1947
La Critica d'Arte, no. 27, May 1949, p. 74
W. R. Valentiner, Gothic and Renaissance Sculpture In the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum: Catalogue and Guide, Los Angeles, 1951, p. 60, pl. 21

NOTE: 
Inscribed 832.47-42 in black ink to the reverse

Literature: This group compares closely to a Virgin and Child group by Balduccio in the Detroit Institute of Art, dated circa 1332-34, (inv. no. 37.140) with similar hands and rasping individual stylisation of the hair. Additionally, the Christ child may also be compared to the facial features of three donors in the relief Presentation Scene with Saint Peter Martyr and Three Donors, circa 1340, in the Cloisters (inv. no. 2001.221)

Exhibition: W. R. Valentiner, Gothic and Renaissance Sculpture In the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum: Catalogue and Guide, Los Angeles, 1951, p. 60, pl. 21