With perfect drawing and careful, harmonious colouring, Il Guercino shows us all his pictorial gifts in this work of unquestionable quality. He pays attention to detail -the fabrics, the glazed ceramic pitcher, the rope, the sky- without forgetting the overall unity of composition. It is interesting to be able to compare this work with that one that Duccio di Buoninsegna painted centuries before with the same theme to see the change in the pictorial language and the treatment of the religious image in differents periods.
