Andrea del SartoItalian, 1486–1530La Charité
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “La Charité” now? Collection: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, Strasbourg. Unknown.
Strasbourg, France
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- MBA 414 ; 44.R.336 (N° récolement)
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg
- Image: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg — © Service photographique des Musées de Strasbourg, © PLISSON; Ministère de la Culture (France), base Joconde
In the life of Andrea del Sarto
The whole life1513–1514
The best painter in Florence
The Encyclopædia Britannica notes that in 1513–1514 Andrea becomes the best painter in Florence, succeeding Fra Bartolomeo in that role.
by 1514
The nickname “Andrea senza errori”
The frescoes in the atrium of the Annunziata meet with respect, the correctness of the contours being particularly admired, and earn Andrea the nickname “Andrea senza errori”, “Andrea without fault”. Above all he valued graphic precision.
1518
Married: Lucrezia del Fede
1518
At the court of François I in France
Before the end of 1516 a “Pietà” of Andrea’s composition, and afterward a “Madonna”, are sent to the French court, and in 1518 François I invites him: Andrea travels to Paris in June (by other accounts, in May, to the palace of Fontainebleau) with his pupil Andrea Squarzzella, leaving his wife Lucrezia in Florence. Court life evidently does not suit him; of his works in France only a portrait of the dauphin and “Charity” (now in the Louvre) are mentioned.
29 September 1530
Died
1530 · Burial
Santissima Annunziata
