Mostly local artists worked at the Sacro Monte. The Silvas, a family of sculptors active in Ossuccio from its foundation until around 1690, were originally from Morbio, in the Canton of Ticino. For decades they had been involved in the construction sites of other pre-alpine Sacri Monti, such as Varese, Oropa and Locarno.
In this chapel, Agostino Silva, who made the statues by 1688, copied the V chapel of the Sacro Monte di Varese, modeled by his father Francesco Silva. Agostino added in the foreground the statue of a boy with a white dog, known by the inhabitants of Ossuccio as the ‘grinning boy’. In fact, according to tradition, this statue portrays a boy who, with his chatter and laughter, continued to annoy the sculptor while he was working on the chapel. It is said that, out of spite, Agostino included the boy into the scene: even today, the grinning boy seems to amusedly watch Jesus' dispute with the doctors in the temple.