The small-sized oil painting evoking the bourgeois portraiture of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries shows a delicate, sensitive representation of a woman. The model appears in profile, wearing a white hat, her gaze direct yet dreamy. The dark tones of the background and the light illuminating the face create a soft contrast, with the woman's figure almost floating as it emerges from the darkness. Although the surface is significantly damaged with flaking and loss of paint, the quality of the composition and the facial expression clearly suggest the hand of a trained painter from an academic workshop. The inventory number found on the back of the cardboard indicates an earlier provenance of the collection.
