About This Artwork

Andrea del Verrocchio (School of)
Italian, 1435-1488

Putto, 1475/1500

Marble
149.9 x 73.7 cm (59 x 29 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick, 1962.100

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Catalogue de la Vente après Décès de Mr. Joachim Ferroni. Galerie Sangiorgi, April 14–22, 1909 (Rome: Jandolo et Tavazzi, 1909), lot 176.

Allen Wardwell and Mildred Davison, “Three Centuries of the Decorative Arts in Italy,” Apollo 84, 55 (September 1966), pp. 178-89, fig. 1.

Dario A. Covi, Andrea del Verrocchio: Life and Work (Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 2005), pp. 98-105, 163-71, figs. 66, 161-63, 167.

Ownership History

Joachim Ferroni, Rome, by 1909. Sold to James Deering (d. 1925), Chicago, by 1925. Given to Mrs. Chauncey McCormick (née Marion Deering, niece of James Deering), Chicago, after 1925 and before 1962; loaned to the Art Institute sometime between 1925 and 1962; given to the Art Institute, 1962.