[1] It is attributed to Andrea Mantegna, dated to around 1500 and now held in the National Gallery, London.

[2] Due to its poor conservation, the autograph is unclear, so some scholars do not directly attribute it to Mantegna.

The parapet on which the Christ Child and the infant John the Baptist stand also encloses the Virgin Mary.

The Madonna and Child in the work are identical to those in Mantegna's Holy Family with Christ as Imperator mundi in the Petit Palais in Paris.

He produced several similar small-format works for private devotion during this period, of which the best is perhaps the Holy Family with Saints Anne and John the Baptist (Dresden), though the London work's background of fruit and foliage is also reminiscent of his Madonna della Vittoria (1496) and his Altman Madonna (c.1495-1505).