In this vertical oil painting of a girl playing a lute, the girl looks coquettishly towards the viewer. She is shown behind a narrow horizontal wood ledge which extends across the lower part of the painting with a white small tag hanging from the front that says “1520,” the date the work was painted. She props her lute in the center of the ledge and her book of music partially falls off the right side of the ledge. Against a dark purple background her upper body rises up behind her lute, the medium light skin of her face,  bared upper shoulders and chest radiant.  Her oval face and pointed chin are framed by reddish-tinged brown wavy hair falling to mid shoulder length. A translucent veil covers her forehead.  Her head, slightly cocked to our left, her dark eyes looking out under perfectly shaped eyebrows, and her smiling lips all lend a coy air to her expression. She wears a dark green, low-cut, outer garment with a gathered bodice and a band of beading forming a V-shape at her center neckline. A narrow, mostly white piece of fabric has been inserted behind the low neckline, covering her most revealing cleavage. Narrow gathered dark blue sleeves with a thin band of beading and white ruffled cuffs, covers the lower part of her arms which emerge from under the outer garment, revealing hands, her left hand held slightly higher to finger the strings on the brown neck of her lute and the right hand resting on the soundboard and plucking the strings that extend down the lute’s beige gourd-shaped front. The girl has a zibellino, a fashion accessory made out of the pelt of a small furry marten, draped over her left arm, behind the lute.