The lady is a young Spanish beauty, enveloped in a luxurious fur stole. Her portrait is a half-length one; her body is slightly inclined towards the left-hand side of the picture and her head is very slightly turned to the left. She looks towards the viewer with a pair of strikingly large, black and lively eyes. Round her head she wears a silk headscarf which also wraps around her throat and covers the upper part of her chest. Her fur covers the rest of her body apart from her hand which appears from between the stole where the two sides of it meet, and seems to be caressing the soft fur. Round her wrist is a deep, lace cuff, reddish brown in colour. On her fourth finger is a ring with an amber stone.
Her figure is posed before a brown background, so dark that it's almost black. The colours El Greco has used are a symphony of creamy white, beige, umber and dark, dark brown. This enhances the rosy red of her lips and the flush of pink on her cheeks.