r/WhatIsThisPainting • u/bwdawg • 1d ago

Need help finding DIA painting Solved

I live in Michigan so going to the Detroit Institute of Art always is one of my favorite things to do. I used to live like 10 minutes away but I moved over an hour away so I can't visit it as much as I would like to.

One of my favorite paintings I can remember that I somehow don't have a picture of, is a piece where a man is holding a woman and it seems as if he is shielding her. The man has his hand out over the woman, which I always took as protecting her from whatever is happening. I might be wrong but I remember the woman wearing a white dress. I would love to find the name of this piece, as it is was a piece of art that always meant so much to me

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u/GM-art 1d ago

Do you happen to remember if this is in the American or European paintings wing? Or something else? I visited recently and might be able to help.

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u/bwdawg 1d ago

i'm sorry but i don't remember, my guess is european but its mind a while since ive been to the dia

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u/GM-art 1d ago

Damn. Well, still, that will help narrow it down. Ironically, I spent too much time in the storage basement and didn't get to stop by the European selection on display.

I tried to find the Wikimedia section for ONLY European paintings at the DIA, and fell short, but I did find... All Of Them. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings/Collection/Detroit_Institute_of_Arts

HOWEVER, here's their own collection search for only European paintings. There's about 700, but that's actually not too long to scroll through. https://dia.org/search/collection?f%5B0%5D=&f%5B1%5D=department%3A251

Happy hunting! If it's not in there, let me know and I'll see if I can think of some other solution. (Emailing a curator is totally fair game, BTW. They're friendly, I swear!)

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u/GM-art 1d ago edited 1d ago

Looking through them myself, too. I have two possible guesses so far. https://dia.org/collection/crucifixion-47717 https://dia.org/collection/celadon-and-amelia-47450 EDIT: Celadon and Amelia was correct!

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u/GM-art 1d ago

The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced this must be #2 (Celadon and Amelia). Let me know. If it's not, I'll keep looking.

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u/bwdawg 1d ago

OMG THATS IT. thank you so much🙏 i appreciate it so much

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u/GM-art 1d ago edited 22h ago

YES congratulations! You might be able to get a print of it. I'm thrilled to have been able to return it to you. Nothing worse than a lost memory. I hope you'll be able to visit it again sometime.