The Madonna with Sleeping Child is a glue-tempera on canvas painting measuring 43 cm by 32 cm.

It was painted around 1465-1470 by Andrea Mantegna and is now in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin.

[1][2] Intended for private devotion, it dispenses with the two figures' usual haloes in favour of a more intimate, simple and tender approach.

Mantegna draws on Donatello's motif of Mary's face touching the child, whilst they are both enveloped in a brocade mantle against a black background.

There is a dialogue about this painting in the novel Lampioon küßt Mädchen und kleine Birken by the German writer Manfred Hausmann.