Bernard van Orley lived and worked mainly in Brussels. Van Orley ran a large workshop which produced numerous portraits and religious paintings, as well as designs for tapestries and stained glass. This depiction of the Virgin and Child with the Christ Child holding a rosary of red and gold beads on a green string is thought to be by an artist trained in Van Orley's workshop. It derives from an original painting by van Orley formerly in the collection of Friedrich Gluck at Budapest (present location unknown).