 Johann Zoffany also included this painting along with many others in his 1770s painting of the Tribuna of the Uffizi.Because of the painting's roundness, it became the subject of a legend in which a peasant girl saves a hermit from a pack of wolves in the branches of an oak, and the hermit prophesies that she will become immortalized for her good deed.Years later, the girl had two children, and the tree was made into wine barrels.