The subject is taken from Act III, Scene 2, of Guarini's Il Pastor Fido, and shows the nymph Amarillis playing blind man's buff with other nymphs, with Corsica pushing Mirtillo, the faithful shepherd of the title, towards the blindfolded object of his affection. It is only when she removes the scarf from her eyes that she realizes that she has been embracing a man.

This picture and the following lot were clearly designed as a pair. Not only do their contrasting arcadian subjects, of unreciprocated and mutual love, support this contention, but furthermore they are linked by a play on words. In the first the myrtle (mirto) is the tree from which the female protagonist emerges, while in the second the male protagonist's name is Mirtillo (myrtle-berry)