Furthermore, and highly enlightening for our case, Vasari also reports that this led to a further commission for del Sarto: another Madonna painting for the French king. In an inventory of the
Within the scope of a cooperation project with colleagues at the Louvre, an attempt will be made to confirm the correct association between these two paintings and Vasari's comments and to find possible indications regarding the chronology of their genesis. Of further interest is a comparison with a painting owned by the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna whose composition corresponds exactly to that of the Munich painting and is probably a very early copy.
