A striking portrait of a young woman in a large hat, with a structure of interlocking spirals leading to the model’s dark eyes. Like the bouquet and the portrait, the hat and bust respond to each other in a spatial balance that seems to be held by the female gaze alone.

The straw hat, a hymn to the sun, floods the canvas and makes the blue of the background, the yellow of the table and the black of the eyes and hair vibrate.

The barely sketched still life highlights the carefully made-up eyes of the woman whose averted gaze sends us back outside the canvas like an invitation to the life that follows the pose.