
She rests her head in her hand, propped up by a crooked elbow resting on the ledge, while her body extends to our right. Beyond her legs and to our right, the second woman reclines in a gold and cream-white dress with a filmy top and gold jacket. Her extended legs are bent, and feet with red and gold pointed slippers emerge from the bottom of the dress. Her left arm is bent and thrown back behind her head while her right arm hangs limply toward the floor. Her eyes are half-closed, and her head rests on a large gold pillow with green and pink embroidery over which her long, dark red hair cascades. She lounges on her back, head near the musician, and body splayed along the ledge out toward our right.
The cavorite skin#
Close to us, one woman wears an orange-red dress with gold embroidery and a low-cut transparent blouse that shows her pale skin beneath. Behind and framing the musician, a dark green drapery with gold edging cuts across the top left corner of the painting and is drawn back to reveal a bright sea view beyond. His features are mostly lost in shadow but his closed lips are dark pink. His head is bent over a stringed instrument with a light yellow rounded body and a long, narrow wooden neck. His white shirt has wide, salmon-pink cuffs. To our left, behind one of the women, the musician's white turban drapes around his neck.


This horizontal painting shows a daylit, covered terrace, where two women with pale skin and wearing long dresses lounge and recline along a ledge as a turbaned man with dark brown skin plays a musical instrument.
