Madonna and Child is an early painting by the baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi.

[1] The Virgin Mary is depicted wearing a pink dress sitting on a plain wooden chair, about to nurse her son, as he turns and caresses her face with his left hand.

[2] A restoration which took place during 1969-1970 removed a significant amount of retouching and overpaint, which revealed the pink dress with deep maroon shadows as well as the blue mantle.

[2] The painting had been attributed to a series of Italian artists until 1992, when archival research uncovered an inventory record from 1637 which brought its history to light.

The question of attribution was complicated by the existence of an identically sized Madonna and Child in Palazzo Pitti.