The painting is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C.[1] Morisot was always highly regarded as a woman in the world of the Impressionists.

Where her predominantly male colleagues, however, usually took inspiration in the modern city life, going into streets and cafes, painting parks and bridges, she, like Mary Cassatt, for example, often opted for the depiction of indoor domestic subjects.

Some called it "unfinished", while the critic Jules-Antoine Castagnary, on the other hand, wrote of the painting that Morisot had an extraordinary artistic feeling.

[2] The painting shows a centrally positioned young woman wearing an ankle-length black skirt and a short grey-blue jacket.

The wall in the background is shown in blue, pink, purple and brown tones, while the window on the right appears in transparent white green, yellow and gray strips.