A young woman sleeps curled on a marble seat, her knees drawn up and her head on her bent arm, wrapped in a transparent orange dress whose folds fill most of the canvas. One bare foot shows below the hem, and her brown hair falls across the dark cloth beneath her. Behind a low marble wall the sea glitters in the late light, with a headland far off, and a branch of pink and red flowers with long pointed leaves leans in at the upper right.

The canvas is a perfect square. No model is named in the museum's record. Frederic Leighton sent the picture to the Royal Academy's summer exhibition in 1895, where it was received to critical acclaim. The Ponce museum places him with Aestheticism, which championed 'art for art's sake', and says he often used a sleeping figure like this as an invitation to introspection, a figure for the unconscious mind. It was rediscovered only in 1962, and a year later Luis A.

Ferré, founder of the Museo de Arte de Ponce, bought it, despite being advised not to; the museum says the picture was then considered outdated. It is in the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Ponce, Puerto Rico.