Most likely the panel was placed on the other larger one from the church of San Giovanni di Dio in Salerno. It appears cut in the lower part, so as to suggest that under the figure of the Virgin with the Child there was an area reserved for the souls in purgatory. From an iconographic point of view, the painting is linked to the depiction of the Madonna del Carmine, given the presence of the star placed on the blue cloak, which is structured according to the scheme that characterizes the reference prototype, an object of particular devotion in the southern area. The area of belonging must certainly be identified in the experimentalism of the tender impasto by the peripheral circles headed by the painter from Maiori.