The painting belongs to the extreme production of the life of Elisabetta Sirani, who died twenty-seven on 29 August 1665. In fact, it bears the words Elisa Sirani 1664 on the edge of the neckline of the Virgin's robe. Preceded by a drawing now in the Louvre, devoid of the figure of San Giovannino and with some other variations, the work welcomes that tenuous renewal that marked Sirani's last years of work, reinvigorating the chiaroscuro contrasts and thus marking her suave baroque balance of paternal and renian descent. A copy is kept in the Rimini Civic Art Gallery.