Silk on silk embroidery depicting a young woman standing in a rural area feeding a group of chickens. Her face, hair, and hands are delicately drawn with great skill. She wears a simple classically inspired white/blue dress with long sleeves. Her (straw?) hat has a rull ribbon band and full brim and is held in place with a ribbon bow. She throws out feed for the chickens (rooster, hen, several chicks) from a small basket held in her left hand. A large tree stands to the left and back of her body. The background immediately in front of figure is a scenic landscape with fields, and trees partially obscuring a large builgin in the distance. The sky is unworked, but has a little blue watercolor applied. The picture is embroidered in silk threads of various colors including gold, beige, cream, taupe, varying shades of blue-green, olive green, golden brown and light brown. rose red, and black. Stitches, including long and short, used for shading and large areas, some stem stich for outlines, and knotted stitches used throughout for foliage are expertly worked. The work is framed in the original neoclassical style frame of wood covered in gesso and gilt with beading around the inner border. A black eglomisé glass mat with a wide and thin gold stripe around the oval opening and corner ornaments accent the embroidered picture.