The painting shows a young woman on a dark background in an almost frontal position, with her gaze turned towards the viewer and with a slight smile; she is dressed simply, with a dark green dress with brown-toned sleeves, over a white blouse whose edge is barely visible from the neckline of the dress; she wears a turban-shaped headdress, while holding a small branch of leaves in her left hand. It has been hypothesized that this painting comes from the collection of Lione Pascoli, who owned about twenty works by this painter, now largely preserved at the Pinacoteca civica of Deruta. The attribution to Antonio Amorosi dates back to the 1918 inventory, from which it emerges that the work entered the Gallery with the testamentary bequest of Luigi Carattoli in 1894. The small canvas could be associated with the series of full-length or half-length portraits, typical of much of Amorosi's production, dedicated to young workers or vendors often depicted with objects and still lifes: the painter dedicated himself to this naturalistic production of genre scenes immediately after his apprenticeship with his fellow countryman Giuseppe Ghezzi, in Rome. A first assessment of the painter's activity has been proposed by Claudio Maggini in the general catalog on the artist; Antonio Amorosi engaged in various pictorial genres, from altarpieces to mythological scenes, from history painting to landscapes and still lifes; however, he was particularly known and appreciated as a bambocciante by a limited aristocratic elite. The painting seems to date back to the second decade of the 18th century, when the painter began to be interested in Caravaggesque lighting research. Unfortunately, the artist's lack of success after his death has led to the dispersion of his works among various public and private collections, gallery deposits, as well as in the antique market.