It depicts the so-called Visitation of Mary. In this scene from the Bible, Mary, who has just found out that she is pregnant with Jesus, visits her relative Elizabeth. She, in turn, is pregnant with John the Baptist and, according to legend, the two babies bounced happily when they first met. Elizabeth greeted Mary with the famous words: "Blessed are you more than all other women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb." She responded with a song of praise, the Magnificat. They are accompanied by Joseph and a maid with two doves in the foreground and Elizabeth's husband, the priest Zacharias, can be seen in the background.

The combination of techniques that Conrad Meyer used for his drawing is interesting. Most of the work is done with red chalk, a reddish mineral paint that was very popular in the Baroque period and is particularly suitable for fine figure depictions. For the hair, on the other hand, he used black chalk. He also used this for a few contour lines and shadow areas. However, because he had already succeeded so well in creating the plasticity of the figures with red chalk, he hardly needed the dark medium at all.