In an atmosphere dominated by mauve tones, a portrait of a young brunette woman, Géraldine, asleep on her right side, her head resting on a cushion held by her right arm, on a divan with her bare feet, surrounded by kilim-style cushions. The model’s long skirt, printed with large flowers on a mauve background, is spread out over the drop of the divan, which is itself covered with a plain fabric with the same violet reflections. The motifs of this skirt occupy the entire central part of the canvas. The artist’s Norange ginger cat is sleeping in a ball in the right-hand corner of the canvas.

The face and the architecture of the model’s right forearm and the shortened left forearm are carefully painted. The artist has taken pleasure in composing her canvas applying a mauve palette with a few orange spots to highlight it.