Madonna and Child enthroned with Saints Francis, Anthony and two donors

Niccolò Pisano's Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Francis, Anthony, and Two Donors, painted around 1510 and now at the Condé Museum in Chantilly, is a work of southern Italian or Apulian painting that reflects the influence of both Neapolitan and Venetian painting traditions. The presence of donor portraits integrates the sacred scene with the devotional needs of the commissioning individuals, who are depicted in prayer at the feet of the Virgin. Saints Francis and Anthony, both Franciscan, suggest a Franciscan commission. The Condé Museum at Chantilly holds one of the most extraordinary collections of French and Italian art in existence, assembled by the Prince de Condé in the nineteenth century.

The hierarchic arrangement of the sacra conversazione places the Madonna and Child at the compositional apex, with saints flanking and donors kneeling below. The painting shows the influence of Venetian spatial organization combined with the warm tonality of southern Italian practice.