Inspired by a lost Raphael known through the engraving by Bonasone (Illustrated Bartsch XV, no. 59). The physical types and the technique of this drawing recall The Adoration of the Shepherds in the Pierpont Morgan Library, F. Stampfle, Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York and Princeton, 1991, no. 48, illustrated