she wears a heavily folded cold grey-blue satin dress, painted with the same hue as her eyes. her hair is parted and topped with a crimson ribbon at the back. the dresser before the mirror contains a variety of writing materials, pots and flowers, and a lavishly decorated oriental vase. the central motif of both the final painting and its predecessors is her raised left hand index finger, coyly placed by her mouth, and her sinuous, unnaturally elongated right arm.