# Charity [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ANDREA DEL SARTO]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on canvas \(transferred\), 185 x 137 cm ## Commentary 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. ## Related artworks - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(Poppi Altarpiece\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Baptism of the People]() - [Birth of the Virgin]() - [Christ the Redeemer]() - [Disputation on the Trinity]() - [Head of a Man in Profile Facing Left]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()