 The intense red colour is repeated in the floor covering and the velvet curtains in the background, also gathered with a cord.The dominant colour may be a reference to the blood of his patients spilled in his professional activities as a surgeon, against which the hands and face of the bearded young doctor stand out, and the white ruffles of his shirt peeking out at the neck and wrists.The long elegant fingers of Pozzi's hands are clearly depicted, the left hand clasping a closure at his breast and the right loosening the cord at his left hip.