Gods and their companions feast in a woodland clearing. At the left a naked satyr lifts a jug to his head beside an old man in a red robe with a donkey, and a child crowned with leaves crouches in blue and white. A man in a helmet and green cloak sits among the diners, two women carry jars on their heads, and at the right a man in green and white bends over a sleeping woman beside a wooden tub.

A rocky hill rises behind. The scene comes from Ovid's Fasti, where Priapus, the god of fertility, lifts the dress of the sleeping nymph Lotis. The National Gallery of Art says the picture was probably commissioned by Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, as the first of a series of bacchanals for his castle's Alabaster Room. Giovanni Bellini signed the tub and dated it 1514. After Bellini died in 1516, Dosso Dossi and Titian made significant changes, including adding the large rocky landscape in the background, which is why the museum dates it 1514/1529.

Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini took the painting from Ferrara to Rome in 1598, and it later belonged to the Dukes of Northumberland. It entered the National Gallery of Art with the Widener Collection in 1942. It is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington.