In the centre the young Baptist offers a basket of fruit and flowers to Christ, who sits across the Virgin's left knee. To the left is Saint Joseph and to the right is Saint Catherine, both are watching Christ. This picture forms a coherent group with two paintings of the Marriage of Saint Catherine, one in the Galleria Querini-Stampalia, Venice, and the other in the Galleria Tadini, Louvre. All three pictures are probably from the first half of the 1540s, that is to say fairly early in Schiavone's career, when he was imitating Titian in colour and forms. The mannerisms of Schiavone's mature style are foreshadowed especially in the pattern-making of rippling highlights - for example, in Saint Joseph's orange robes or the white cloth under Christ.