Although the site for this design has not been identified, the outline of the arch that surrounds it suggests it was part of a fresco for a cupola in a Gothic church. A small diagram of an octagonal cupola featured on the verso of the sheet seems to record the space for which it could have been designated. Contrary to the previous drawing, here the artist playfully challenges the boundaries of its intended shape by having the arms of the Virgin extend past the margins. As a painter of illusionistic frescoes working in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Nasini would have aimed to render his figurative ornamentation as naturally as possible.
