Antonio Federighi (1420-1490) was born in Siena, and is noted as having worked on the tomb of Bishop Carlo Bartoli in Siena cathedral as early as 1444. A pupil of Jacopo della Quercia, Federighi worked as both a sculptor and architect in several Italian towns, and eventually became Master of Works at the cathedral of his native city. The present stucco group can be attributed to Federighi on the basis of comparisons with other works attributed to the artist. A group of related half-length stucco groups of the Madonna and Child exist, and they had been variously attributed to Luca della Robbia, Ghiberti, and Jacopo della Quercia, among others (Musée Jacquemart-André, op.cit, no. 71). It was not until 1970 that Carlo del Bravo attributed the group to Federighi and his workshop which, he proposed, produced these groups around 1458-59. The present group is particularly reminiscent of a group attributed to Federighi himself, now housed in the Bardini Museum, Florence (del Bravo, op.cit., no. 210).