This ravishing nude was painted before Fechin's departure to the United States and the expressive brushstrokes and thick application of paint show the clear influence of the French Impressionists. The voyeuristic composition of a woman spied on from behind as she admires a string of pearls also recalls the works of Degas and Renoir.

Female nudes make up a small but significant portion of Fechin's oeuvre. His earliest nudes, painted in the 1910s, evoke the Russian realist tendencies promoted by his teacher Ilya Repin and the St Petersburg Academy. In these early works, tight lines and carefully delineated brushstrokes create a form which is light but carefully delineated. Fechin soon began to experiment with a looser more expressive technique, using bolder lines and a stronger use of colour. Fechin never progressed into a fully abstracted figure, for he was "…too enchanted with the natural beauty of the human figure to abstract it so fully" (Mary Balcomb, Nicolai Fechin, 1999, p.70).

This nude was painted at a time of great deprivation after the end of the First World War. Fechin sought to counteract such negativity with his art which expresses a strong sense of escapism and artistic freedom. It was a desire to maintain this freedom that led to his emigration to the United States in 1923.