A modello for an altarpiece with its frame: Joachim and Anna embrace, centre, flanked by figures, set amongst buildings; God the Father is visible in the distant sky. Inscribed at bottom right in the "deceptive hand": Giulio Campi. Inscribed on either side of an escutcheon underneath the frame: IO / BER.

Popham (in P&W) attributed the drawing to the young Bernardino Campi. Marco Tanzi (correspondence, 2006, 2018) suggested an attribution to Francesco Pesenti, associating the drawing with paintings by that artist formerly in San Pietro al Po, Cremona (now in S Maria Assunta, Viadana), and on the altar of Giovanni Bertoni in San Leonardo, Cremona, commissioned in 1544. Certainly the composition style is that of Pesenti.