Madonna and Child (Cima, Paris)

This article is about the painting in the Petit Palais. For the painting by Cima's workshop in the Louvre, see Madonna and Child (workshop of Cima, Paris).

Madonna and Child
Artist	Cima da Conegliano
Year	1495–1497
Medium	Oil on panel
Dimensions	71.5 cm × 55 cm (28.1 in × 22 in)
Location	Petit Palais, 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.[1] 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.[2]

Berenson,[3] Von Hadeln,[4] Lasareff[5] and Menegazzi date the work to 1495 but Van Marle[6] and Coletti[7] date it to 1497.

References

1. (in French) "Catalogue entry".
2. (in Italian) Cima da Conegliano: catalogo della mostra di Treviso, 26 agosto – 11 novembre 1962, a cura di Luigi Menegazzi, Venezia, Neri Pozza, 1962, p. 14.
3. (in Italian) Bernard Berenson, Dipinti veneziani in America, Milano, Alfieri & Lacroix, 1919, pp. 188–190.
4. Detlev von Hadeln, An unknown work of Cima da Conegliano, « The Burlington Magazine », 1926, p. 3.
5. (in Italian) Victor Lasareff, Opere nuove o poco note di Cima da Conegliano, « Arte Veneta », XI, 1957.
6. Raimond van Marle, The development of the Italian Schools of Painting, XVII, The Hague, Martinus Nuhoff, 1935, p. 428.
7. (in Italian) Luigi Coletti, Cima da Conegliano, Venezia, Neri Pozza, 1959, pp. 66–73.