Madonna and Child (Cima, Paris)

The Madonna and Child is an oil painting on panel of 1495–1497 by the Italian Renaissance artist Cima da Conegliano, now in the Petit Palais in Paris. It was owned in London by Sir William Abdy, then in Paris by Edward Tuck, the American vice-consul there; the latter gave it to its present owner in 1930. Cima da Conegliano: catalogo della mostra di Treviso, 26 agosto – 11 novembre 1962, a cura di Luigi Menegazzi, Venezia, Neri Pozza, 1962, p. 14.

Berenson, Bernard Berenson, Dipinti veneziani in America, Milano, Alfieri & Lacroix, 1919, pp. 188–190. Von Hadeln,Detlev von Hadeln, An unknown work of Cima da Conegliano, « The Burlington Magazine », 1926, p. 3. Lasareff Victor Lasareff, Opere nuove o poco note di Cima da Conegliano, « Arte Veneta », XI, 1957. and Menegazzi date the work to 1495 but Van MarleRaimond van Marle, The development of the Italian Schools of Painting, XVII, The Hague, Martinus Nuhoff, 1935, p. 428. and Coletti Luigi Coletti, Cima da Conegliano, Venezia, Neri Pozza, 1959, pp. 66–73. date it to 1497.

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