About This Artwork
Andrea della Robbia (Workshop of)
Italian, 1435-1525
Adoration of the Christ Childc. 1525
Terracotta, polychrome
26 3/8 x 17 1/2 in. (67 x 44.5 cm)
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1937.914
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Émile Molinier, La collection Spitzer, vol. 4: Les faiences italiennes, hispano-moresques et orientales (Paris, 1892),p. 108, no. 2.
Charles C. Perkins, Tuscan Sculptors: Their Lives, Works, and Times 1 (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864), p. 198, pl. XXVI.
Allan Marquand, Della Robbias in America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1912), p. 68, fig. 29.
Allan Marquand, Andrea della Robbia and his Atelier (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1922), pp. 22-23, no. 125.13, fig. 150.
Samuel Wagstaff, "Some Notes on Holman Hunt and the Lady of Shalott," Wadsworth Atheneum Bulletin, fifth series, no. 11 (Summer 1962), p. 17, fig. 8.
Ownership History
Frédéric Spitzer (b. 1815 - d. 1890), Paris; his sale, Paris, Chevallier and Mannheim, April 17 - June 16, 1893, see Molinier 1892, p. 108, no. 2; acquired by Durand-Ruel as agent for Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago [according to copy of receipt in curatorial file]; by descent to his widow (d. 1937); bequeathed to the museum.