True to the principles of early urban portrait painting and the teachings of his teachers Volanakis, Nikiforos Lytras, Gyzis and Iakovidis, Geraniotis paints us a picture of the new bourgeoisie, then still at the stage of its formation. The posture, decoration and garments of Zaira Theotoki are mustered to symbolize the order, the role, the ideological image that this academic painter wants to promote.