Characteristic of late Crivelli works, the use of perspective is clear in the background of the scene, with the triple niche and the loggia whose parapet Mary looks out over. Jesus stands upright on an adorned cushion and rests his head on a damascened drapery. Nearby a tiny Franciscan friar, the commissioner of the painting, prays while kneeling. He is placed over a small, identifying inscription F.B.D.A., that refers to "Fra' Bernardino da Ancona".
