Virgin and Child with Four Angels by AGOSTINO DI DUCCIO

AGOSTINO DI DUCCIO

(b. 1418, Firenze, d. 1481, Perugia)

	Virgin and Child with Four Angels 1464-69 Marble, 81 x 76 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
This highly wrought marble relief of the Virgin and Child, is known as the d’Auvillers Madonna. It was executed for Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (the Gouty, in Italian "il Gottoso"). It was donated by the Bonnières de Wierre family to the church at Auvillers (Oise)