This very large, unsigned portrait is of very fine fracture.
It represents a young violet seller.

The flower seller is a common iconography in painting, but few paintings depict only a violet seller.

Napoleon Bonaparte had a passion for this flower, and it became the rallying sign of the Bonapartists during the Hundred Days.
At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the south of Paris had nearly two hundred hectares dedicated to the cultivation of violets.