This painting illustrates a scene from Goethe´s Faust. Specifically, the moment when Margaret finds a jewelry box in her bedroom closet. Mephistopheles gave it to Faust as a tempting gift for his beloved. The young woman enjoys hanging a string of pearls around her neck and observing the beautiful results in the mirror. A spinning wheel is visible in the dark background. This work shows the influence the German Nazarine artists had on Manuel Domínguez, who was in contact with them during his time in Rome. The elegant drawing with which he constructs the young woman´s figure, her delicate pose and the technical perfection achieved by this painter in representing the objects, along with the use of a very directed light that brings out the figure, are this artist´s points of contact with the German painters. This work was acquired in 1867 for the Prado Museum and later sent to the Museum of Modern Art.