About This Artwork

Alessandro Algardi (After)
Italian, 1598-1654

Madonna and Child, 1600/1700

Terracotta, polychrome
14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm)
Gift of Robert Allerton, 1958.424

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, "The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years," 23 April – 19 June 1977, no. 122.

Publication History

Jennifer Montagu, Alessandro Algardi 2 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985), p. 350, no. 43.D.1.

Ownership History

Gatti–Casazza (or Casazzi) Collection, Venice [according to copy of registrar’s card and copy of incoming receipt (which spells the name Gatti-Casazzi) in curatorial file; see also Chicago 1977 exh. cat.]. Blumka Gallery, New York, by 1958 [see sources cited above]. Sold by Blumka Gallery to the Art Institute, 1958.