What is the title of Picasso's 1897 painting that won a gold medal?

Picasso’s 1897 painting that won a gold medal was Science and Charity. It was an ambitious academic composition showing a doctor examining a sick woman while a nun cares for a child.

Picasso painted the large oil-on-canvas work in Barcelona when he was still a teenager. His father, José Ruiz Blasco, helped shape the subject, which combined modern medicine with charitable care—an approach designed to appeal to official exhibition juries.

The painting first received an Honourable Mention at the General Fine Arts Exhibition in Madrid in 1897. It subsequently won a Gold Medal at the Provincial Exhibition in Málaga, the distinction most directly associated with the quiz question.

The work belongs to Picasso’s early, realistic period, long before Cubism. Its carefully arranged figures, sober interior and social-realist subject show his command of traditional painting. It is often confused with The First Communion, another major early work from 1896, but that painting did not receive this particular award.