This large painting on sarga represents the Tree of Jesse, a visual genealogy of Christ rooted in the prophecy of Isaiah. From the reclining figure of Jesse rises a tree whose branches support twelve crowned kings of Judah, each emerging from a white floral calyx and identified by a banderole. At the centre, the Virgin nurses the Christ Child, surrounded by a radiant mandorla, with a crescent moon beneath her feet.

Painted in tempera on a loosely woven textile, the work preserves the distinctive character of the Spanish sarga tradition. Its delicate support and painting technique make surviving examples particularly significant.

In his study, José Gómez Frechina places the painting in Burgos around 1520, within a pictorial culture strongly shaped by Netherlandish models. He relates its iconography to the Tree of Jesse altarpiece in the Chapel of Saint Anne in Burgos Cathedral, by Gil de Siloé and Diego de la Cruz. The prominence of the nursing Virgin brings together Christ’s lineage, Mary’s motherhood and the imagery of her purity.