The catalog raisonné of Corinth's paintings describes the artwork as a seminude depiction of a young girl adorned with a purple veil.

In the painting, the girl is shown in a frontal view with her upper body exposed, crossing her arms in front of her chest to partially cover her breasts with her hands.

[1] The girl's head is slightly angled, and she wears a violet cloth as a veil, that hangs down behind her right shoulder and thus forms the background of her body.

He highlights the contradiction presented in the deliberate display of the nipple, which evokes associations with paintings of courtesans such as Raphael's Fornarina from 1520.

In these Dutch Baroque works, a nun’s nipple is pressed to stimulate the flow of milk to verify suspicions of pregnancy.

[3] Andrea Bärnreuther refers to the concept of "the literal incarnation brought before the eyes, which plays with the transient nature of the erotic through the dialectic of veiling and unveiling.