The New Star

A full-length figure stands with its back to the viewer, wearing a curled periwig that cascades down the back and supports an overblown headdress. Plumes fan upward and outward, lending the coiffure an almost absurd monumentality. A loose, long-sleeved shirt drapes the torso, cinched at the waist by a dark sash tied in a pronounced bow to the right. The figure’s right arm is raised, the hand delicately holding a six-pointed star framed by fine radiating lines.