Madonnina (painting)

[1] Although not originally a religious painting, it was popularized as an image of the Virgin Mary holding her infant son, and has become the most renowned of Ferruzzi's works.

It is possible that the image entered a private art collection in Pennsylvania in the 1950s,[4] but the current location of the original is unknown.

An original oil painting entitled Madonna and Child from Florence was bequeathed to the Sisters of St. Casimir by a certain Dr. Edgar W. Crass in 1950 and bears a striking resemblance to the current prints of the missing La Madonnina by Ferruzzi.

A second possibility is that it was lost at sea in the Atlantic Ocean on a voyage from Europe to the United States.

[citation needed] A claim that a version belonging to a religious group may be the original painting appeared recently[when?]