Giovanni Fazi is one of the most significant artists from Jesi of the nineteenth century, trained in Rome at the Academy of S. Luca. From 1880 he was a teacher at the Technical Institute of Jesi playing an important role in defining the artistic choices and tastes of the city and in the training of young talents. The painting depicts the portrait of a young woman in a peasant dress, with the typical headdress of the Marche tradition: the handkerchief folded over her head and fastened with pins; widespread also in Lazio and Campania, in fact the artist lived for a long time also in these areas.