Caritas Romana is an oil on canvas painting by Flemish painter Gaspar de Crayer.

The painting was part of the Jan De Maere Gallery's collection up to 2003,[1] and is today owned by a unknown collector.

In the story, part of Maximus' Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium,[4] Pero, the daughter of Cimon, a starving man awaiting execution, is allowed by the jailer to enter the cell and visit him.

Cimon, who occupies the center of the painting, is sitting with his hands tied and bound to the wall behind him, suckling at his daughter's breast.

[5] In the painting, the focus is on the two protagonists and central figures, while de Crayer's powerful chiaroscuro nothing but enhances the drama of the scene.