The Virgin is seated in the centre, facing the right and holding the Christ Child, who puts a ring on the finger of St Catherine, kneeling on the right. Behind St Catherine is St Sebastian holding arrows and a landscape background. This is one of many copies after an original painting by Correggio now in the Louvre, Paris. Mentioned by Vasari, the original work was painted in the 1520s and was much influenced by Leonardo da Vinci. Here there are modifications in the landscape background and the martyrdom of St Sebastian is omitted from the left, where there is a considerable extension on which foliage is painted. Another very good copy of the painting was given by the Duke of Buckingham to Charles I, and remained in the Royal Collection until it was given by William IV to Sir Herbert Taylor in 1834. This painting looks like an English seventeenth-century copy, and was probably made from the Buckingham-Charles I picture.