A sample of the influence of Japonesism on Chase's work during his trip to Europe. The fashion for all things Japonese was especially important among the Impressionist and Postimpressionist painters and Chase assimilated it, becoming an important collector of exotic objects. What is important to the artist in this work is not the portrait of the model, whose face is barely sketched in, but the sheen of the fabrics and the oriental atmosphere, thanks to the screen, engravings and furniture, using free sketching brushstrokes.
