A lush garland of flowers, including roses and jasmine, surrounds a grisaille bust of the Virgin Mary. The motif of the Virgin surrounded by a garland of flowers was very frequent in Baroque Flemish painting. It began with models by Jan Brueghel, “the Elder”, at the beginning of the century, and was perpetuated by other artists, such as Veerendael. The fact that the central motif is a sculpture rather than a painting, and that the garland of flowers is represented in groups, rather than in a circle, shows how this genre evolved. The subject of the exaltation of the figure of Mary as a response to Protestant currents, is reinforced here by the inscription “ego flos campi”, at the foot of the bust. Long attributed to Brueghel, this work belonged to the collection of Queen Isabel Farnesio.