ANDREA DEL SARTO
(b. 1486, Firenze, d. 1530, Firenze)

Charity

1518
Oil on canvas (transferred), 185 x 137 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Like Leonardo, Andrea del Sarto was called to France, where he produced a painting in harmony with his compatriot's pictorial ideals. The personification of Charity holds two children while another, slightly older, is asleep at her feet. In the lower left corner is a trompe l'oeil scrap of paper bearing the date and the artist's name. The entire scene is located in an idealized landscape.