Against an apparently uniform background, the young spinner, sitting on a boulder with her hands in her lap, rests. He has a mild expression and seems to accept his tiring reality. A narrative component is missing, present in the other representations of this theme, one of the most recurrent in genre painting. Purchased at auction in 2003, the work was deposited in the Tosio Martinengo Art Gallery and only recently, in 2010, with an act of great generosity, was it donated to the Art Gallery.