After a debut as an author of miniatures, the Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera (1675-1757) quickly established herself on the European scene with her delicate and elegant pastel portraits that soon made her one of the most influential, famous and sought-after artistic personalities of Europe. Thanks to her, the pastel technique returned to great fashion, lending itself with its soft tones to render the graceful grace typical of the Rococo taste. Sacred subjects are not particularly numerous in his production. A slightly larger version of the same Madonna is kept in Venice, in one of the rooms of Palazzo Mocenigo. The painting that belonged to Mathilde Coronini, who had inherited it from her maternal aunt Pauline de Sampigny, was left to Carolina Ritter, wife of Alfredo Coronini, who in turn assigned it to her daughter Carmen. On the latter's death in 1968, in the absence of direct heirs, all her possessions, including the painting by Rosalba Carriera, passed to her nephew Guglielmo Coronini.