Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist and St. Anthony

When this small panel was sold in Paris in 1897, with the collection of Émile Gavet, a collector of medieval and Renaissance art, the sale catalogue named no painter at all, only Siena and the 15th century. The name of Neroccio de' Landi came later. So did the Louvre, when the collector Raymond Koechlin gave the panel to the museum in 1911.

It belongs to a format Neroccio used many times for private devotion in Siena in the last quarter of the 15th century, the Virgin shown half-length with the Child in her arms and a saint on either side, all on a gold ground. Here the two saints are John the Baptist and Anthony.

The poplar panel now hangs in the Salle des Sept Mètres in the Denon wing, among the Louvre's early Italian paintings.