The drawing Ave Maria in transshipment, represents a variant of the version of the homonymous oil of 1886. Compared to the original work, which depicts a couple of shepherds in prayer with a newborn, crammed together with the flock of sheep on a small boat that at dusk the calm waters of Lake Pusiano, near Como, the Ave Maria charcoal transshipment undergoes fundamental variations, starting from the specular inversion to which the composition is subjected; the shot tightens on the boat alone, cut in the upper terminal part, the sky is completely eliminated, the daylight replaced by the night light of the moon, which, half hidden by the clouds, is reflected in the water rippling in a semicircle around the boat and to his mute crew, to accentuate the intimate recollection of the late hour. Any reference to narrative concreteness is lost in favor of the expression of a universal echo that unites men, the earth and animals in an analogous, great destiny of belonging to nature. The power of the sign, albeit very delicate, distributed to create surprising luminous effects, is then further capable of increasing the metaphorical, evocative and alienating aura, which is enriched by the properties of tracing paper (support of the work), material suitable for capture the light and achieve unexpected results of transparency.