Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist (Correggio, Madrid)

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Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist
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Artist Antonio da Correggio
Year c. 1518
Type oil paint on panel
Dimensions 48 cm × 37 cm (19 in × 15 in)
Location Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist (previously also known as The Virgin of the Sandal) is a c. 1518 oil on panel painting by Antonio da Correggio.

Stylistically it is closest to the frescoes Correggio produced for the Camera di San Paolo and the fact that it was a model for Michelangelo Anselmi suggests that Correggio painted it in Parma. It is the work in which Leonardo da Vinci's influence on Correggio is most obvious - it forms a free variation on Leonardo's The Virgin of the Rocks.

It was brought from Parma to Madrid by Isabella Farnese on her second marriage to Philip V of Spain. It was registered among her goods at La Granja in 1746 and now hangs in the Prado Museum.

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