The author captures the serious conversation of the three children with delicacy and sensitivity, differentiating their expressions also thanks to the different posture. The small group fully reflects one of Prini's characteristics, evident above all in the early days of his transfer to Rome: the particular "ability to express feelings, emotions and psychological types" (Panzetta), already recognized by his contemporaries, in a subject, that

of childhood images, not easy, although much practiced by sculptors and painters between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Young sculptor with "the soul of a good child", as Antonio Maraini wrote.