This watercolour shows a naked woman sitting in the painter’s studio putting on – or taking off – a black stocking on her right leg.

Beyond the sensuality of the scene and the gesture, the artist highlights the rounded curves of the female body in pearly pale yellow colours by an environment with much straighter contours and stronger blue and red tones.

Through its colour and position, this black-sheathed leg modestly distracts our gaze from the naked body of this woman who radiates the watercolour: it is the power of illusion of the garment that both conceals and enhances.