A young woman stands in profile within a tall, dim interior, her gaze lowered and her arms loosely folded across her torso. A square of skylight spills onto tiled floor at the lower left, sending a hard beam that grazes her cheek, collarbone, and forearms while the rest of the room dissolves into subdued grays and browns. The composition is strongly vertical with generous negative space to the left, which heightens the figure’s stillness and the theatrical fall of light.

Brushwork moves from thin, velvety passages in the shadowed wall to firmer modeling along the lit planes of skin and the translucent slip. Warm copper in the hair and dress answers the cool ground, and edges shift between sharp and lost so the figure seems to emerge from the gloom. The spotlighted tile, speckled with small stains, anchors the scene and adds a quiet note of unease.