Portrait of a woman, turned to front, and wearing a headdress; oval on a rectangular sheet. Features in long soft diagonal strokes of brown, blended with blue, white and some sanguine, touches of black and white in the eyes, red in the lips, on a pale pinkish carnation ground; hair worked in grey, brown and bluish gouache over a brown wash; head-dress in white over a brown wash; dress in solid blue wash, modelled with black and with the lights in white; mantle in opaque browns; lace at breast in impasted white over a grey wash; background a pale brown wash, hatched with darker colour lower left and to the right of figure; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.