While the honeysuckle is a beautiful though inexpensive adornment the rest of the sitter's sumptuous apparel would have cost a staggering sum of money. The embroidered dress is visible through her slashed black satin sleeves (black being the most difficult to make and expensive dye at the time) and shows spring flowers including tulips, roses, poppies, and more honeysuckle. The dress sleeves are themselves slashed into long ribbons and white silk is visible underneath. In this manner the viewer is shown layer upon layer of fine material which suggests that the sitter is a lady of considerable wealth. The lady's jewellery appears to be black onyx mounted in gold with a pearl choker. A double chain wraps around her chest ending in a fabulous brooch with a matching earring.

Our sitter is likely a patrician lady in Stadtholder's Court in The Hague where Ravesteyn worked as a court painter.