A young woman in eighteenth-century dress gazes directly outward with a knowing, mischievous smile, her pale face glowing against a dark olive background and framed by an elegant updo adorned with a cream-colored flower. Rendered in soft, luminous tones with masterful attention to fabric and skin, the portrait captures a fleeting moment of playful complicity between subject and viewer. Bound with 52 pages of 70lb paper, lined or unlined, behind an anti-scuff matte cover with wraparound artwork, made to order. Notes and sketches kept behind an independent artist's work, not a plain composition cover.