The two women are seated, embracing, in the right foreground on the bank of a river. Behind them, a boy lies on the ground fishing, with a trio of women further along the bank beyond him. On the opposite bank is a huntsman with two dogs. In the distance is a wide bridge and a view of a town, which bears a some resemblance to Pitigliano and its environs. No particular story seems illustrated here, despite the pair of women embracing, who do not look like Zuccarelli's usual peasants. A Biblical rather than classical subject might be intended, but none is presently known.

The painting is one of a set of six large landscapes in the Royal Collection which were executed in the 1740s and were probably commissioned from the artist directly by Consul Joseph Smith. The compositions do not provide any satisfactory indication of how they might have been arranged in a decorative setting, but in their original sizes they accord with each other closely.

The painting appears in Pyne's illustrated Royal Residences of 1819, hanging in the Queen's Drawing Room at Windsor Castle (RCIN 922102).