A young woman sits half-naked before a dark myrtle bush, one hand raised to her breast, a striped turban wound in her hair. Tradition names her Margherita Luti, the baker's daughter said to be Raphael's lover, but scholars also read her as an ideal beauty or a courtesan. The panel was probably still in his studio when he died in 1520.
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Her armband is inscribed with the painter's name, RAPHAEL VRBINAS. X-rays found a ring on her left hand that was later painted over.
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