This painting was mentioned by Vasari as being
the lunette of a picture which, after various wanderings passed to the museum
of Berlin and was destroyed there in the Second World War. It had in fact the
form of a lunette and was transformed to a rectangle at an unknown period. It
is a late painting of Andrea. In a supremely poetic range of changing colours,
from yellow to pink to lilac to purple, it expresses Andrea's new taste, no longer
favouring the intense and highly charged palette of the preceding years; he now
chooses delicate harmonies, without dissonances, and of precious and refined accords
which give the composition a new balance, more quiet and refined than before.