Portrait of a woman, half-length, looking to front, the head turned slighlty to left, a ringlet of hair on her left shoulder; oval on a rectangular sheet. Features in very soft blended strokes of brown with blue shadowing, with pink gouache around the nostrils, black and blue with white lights for the eyes, and red for the lips, on a thick creamy carnation ground; hair in very pale brown strokes with grey gouache and long darker brown lining; dress indicated by a red wash, with grey-blue for a mantle and impasted white over pale brown wash for the chemise; background diagonally hatched in browns and ochres over a pale brown wash; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.