성 히에로니무스와 성 아우구스티누스, 네 천사와 두 케루빔 사이의 옥좌의 성모자

Around 1500 Pietro Perugino was one of the most sought-after painters in Italy, running a workshop so busy that many pictures under his name were largely painted by assistants, this altarpiece among them. He is often remembered now as the man who trained the young Raphael. The panel shows the Madonna and Child enthroned between two learned saints, Jerome and Augustine, with angels, in the calm, softly balanced style Perugino made famous. It sat in its Italian church for generations. Then in 1797 one of Napoleon's commissioners picked it out for confiscation, and by 1803 it had been shipped to Bordeaux, where it hangs today, one of countless Italian works that ended up in French provincial museums after the revolution.