Young Teacher (Geography Lesson)

The young woman stands half-turned at a writing desk, an open book balanced on her left hand and her right arm extended toward a globe. Four bound volumes are stacked beside it on the desktop, one of them slid loose. She wears a claret cardigan over a blouse with the collar turned out, and a blue skirt scattered with small flowers, its flounced hem falling to brown court shoes. A pale band holds her hair back from her face.