 Painted during his Roman period, this Madonna does not have the strict geometrical form and linear style of his earlier Florentine treatments of the same subject.Instead, the warmer colors seem to suggest the influence of Titian and Raphael's rival Sebastiano del Piombo.Ingres greatly admired Raphael and paid tribute to him by including this painting in many of his works, such as in the background of and , on the table in front of the subject in his , and worked into the carpet in "Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne".