A drawing of the three shepherds approaching the Virgin and Child as St Joseph leans over them on the right; above the shepherds a host of angels and cherubs look down, while a group of children watch from the left. There is a broken column close to a crude shelter on the right. Though Castiglione had left Rome several years earlier, he continued to refer frequently to the paintings of Nicolas Poussin. Here he adapted the structure of the composition from Poussin’s Adoration of the Magi now in Dresden, and the figurative components from the same artist’s Adoration of the Shepherds in the National Gallery, both paintings of 1633-4.