Seemingly lost in thought, the model looks out of the right half of the picture with her head tilted slightly downwards. Both hands are next to the head on the side facing the light and look as if they are trying to feel something. The upper hand is touching a brooch that appears to be floating freely. There is a hint of a smile on the face, which is criss-crossed with wrinkles. The portrait rises up from the painting ground like a relief, lending the image a spontaneous radicality, although the moment seems frozen in time. A few brushstrokes hint at a further possible development of the painting, but leave this open. The earth tones that characterize the oil painting create a touch of the old master's manner. At the same time, however, a contemporary zeitgeist is at work in it, which lies impalpably over the scene like an invisible veil.