Usually on display in the Louvre Museum in Paris in the gallery off the room with the Mona Lisa.
Léonard de VINCI
Vinci (près de Florence), 1452 –
Amboise (France), 1519
Sainte Anne, la Vierge Marie et l’Enfant Jésus jouant avec un agneau, dite La Sainte Anne Huile sur bois, vers 1503-1519
Saint Anne, the Virgin Mary, and the Infant Jesus Playing with a Lamb, known as Saint Anne Oil on panel, about 1503-1519
This symbolic painting shows Saint Anne, her daughter Mary and Jesus, who is playing with a lamb – a symbol of his future sacrifice.
Leonardo set the holy scene in an imaginary landscape of lakes and mountains. The water over the rocks in the foreground is an allusion to the future baptism of Christ.