Four young women laugh and play at blanket-tossing a doll or manikin in the air. The latter's movement is the result of their caprice.

Its carnival origins are visible in the use of masks and joking, but the blanket-tossing of a doll is used here by Goya as a clear allegory of women's domination of men. The subject is frequent in the artist's work, and examples can be found in his engravings from the Caprichos and Disparates series.

This painting is one of the cartoons for the tapestries in Carlos IV's office at El Escorial, and it clearly reveals characteristics common in his last cartoons, such as a softer color and the use of contrasting light to mark depth, clear here in the doll's silhouette, which stands out against the background.