The Madonna of the Rabbit (French: Vierge au lapin) is an oil painting by Titian, dated to 1530 and now held in the Louvre in Paris.
The painting also contains echoes of the artist's personal circumstances at the time; on 6 August 1530 his wife Cecilia died giving birth to their third child, Lavinia, who was then entrusted to Titian's sister Orsa (just as the Christ Child in the painting is entrusted into another woman's hands, in this case Catherine of Alexandria).
[2] Catherine is dressed as a maid of honour and is shown with her traditional attribute of a broken wheel at her feet.
In the foreground, the wildflowers evoke the idyllic locus amoenus in classical poetry and the Arcadian landscape, which is also found in works like the Pastoral Concert or the Baccanali series of Ferrara.
The sensitive landscape painting is also notable, with orange stripes over a blue twilit sky, typical of Titian's highly mature phase.