Girl Interrupted at her Music

Two women occupy a dim interior: a young woman in a red dress with a white lace hood sits at a table with sheet music, turning slightly toward the viewer, while a second figure in a heavy shawl looms behind her. Light enters from a left window, casting a warm glow on the faces and the red gown and leaving much of the room in shadow with a dark doorway in the background. The composition uses a quiet, observational genre-painting style with meticulous detail in textures—lace, shawl, and wood—rendered in a restrained palette of blues, grays, and earth tones with subtle chiaroscuro.