A young male spirit symbolizing Virtue sits at the foot of an oak tree wearing a laurel crown. He looks to the heavens offering the crown he obtained after his victory over Earthly Love. Conquered and stripped of his weapons —they lie on the ground— the latter is tied to a tree. Madrazo made this work during his stay in Rome, influenced by a subject with clear antecedents in Renaissance painting and in seventeenth-century Bolognese classicism. In that same esthetic line, the pictorial treatment is related to the neoclassical language of Mengs, a return to the manner of his first training as a youth. This manner is characterized by rigorous modeling and light sfumato treatment of the shapes. The meticulous and descriptive technique with which he renders the elements depicted therein also offers an idea of the painterly qualities attained by Madrazo when he made this work. By 1828, it was already in the inventory of Fernando VII´s paintings that was the basis for the incipient Prado Museum.