The optician leans over a wooden chest of drawers, offering the girl a shaped occluder. Her patient, in a flowered dress and blue shoes, presses one hand to her right eye and keeps a blue hat tucked under the other arm. On the top of the chest sit a dialled instrument on a stand, a folded paper and an inkstand; an eye chart with large letters leans against the front. Small hardware carries the scene — drawer pulls, a hinge, the lock plates.