About This Artwork
Madonna and Child1350/1400
Marble
118.1 x 36.8 x 41.3 cm (46 1/2 x 14 1/2 x 16 1/4 in.)
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment, 1944.401
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1945), p. 19 (ill.).
Art News, “New Life to the Middle Ages,” Art News 44, 1 (1945), pp. 21–22.
“Great Medieval Art for Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago: The Year 1944 (1945), cover, p. 3.
“Medieval Art in Chicago,” Pictures on Exhibit 6, 6 (1945), pp. 14–15 (ill.).
Meyric R. Rogers, “The Rehabilitation of the Lucy Maud Buckingham Medieval Collection,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 39, 3 (1945), p. 36.
Meyric R. Rogers and Oswald Goetz, Handbook to the Lucy Maud Buckingham Medieval Collection (Chicago, 1945), p. 61, no. 5, pls. 1, 2, 3.
An American Correspondent, “Medieval Sculpture in the Buckingham Collection,” Connoisseur 120, 505 (1947), p. 50, nos. 1, 2.
An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1948), pp. 14–16, 18 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “A New Setting for the Medieval Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 53, 1 (1959), pp. 8, 10 (ill.).
Hans Huth, “Italienische Kunstwerke im Art Institute von Chicago, USA,” Miscellanea bibliothecae hertzianae, edited by Leo Bruhns, Franz Graf, Wolff Metternich, and Ludwig Schudt, Römische Forschungen der Bibliotheca Hertziana 16 (1961), p. 518.
Fernanda de’ Maffei, “Campionesi,” Encyclopedia of World Art 3 (New York, 1983), p. 42, pl. 20.
Maria Teresa Fiorio, “Una scultura Campionese trascurata: La 'Madonna Litta',” Paragone 39, 8 (1988), pp. 7–8, fig. 5.
Dorothy Gillerman, ed., Gothic Sculpture in America, vol. 2: The Museums of the Midwest (Turnhout, Belgium, 2001), pp. 41–42, no. 31.
Ownership History
Private collection, Venice, before 1939 [according to receipt from Jacob Hirsch in curatorial file]; Jacob Hirsch, New York, by 1944; sold to the Art Institute, 1944.

