In this painting, the Virgin Mary is shown crowned, that is, as the Queen of Heaven. The garment that she wears, with its accompanying pearl jewelry, suggests that the picture is a reproduction of a cult image, such as the image of Our Lady of the Boat, depicted by Miguel de Herrera. It may have been originally used as one of a number of small pictures set into a large altar ensemble, each one making a reference to a specific cult image or sculpture. The work was probably used in private devotion. Vallejo was enormously prolific and inherited Cabrera's dominance of large-scale decorative commissions after Cabrera died in 1768. His late career focused on idealized treatments of the Madonna and intimate devotional subjects.