Comparable with early David portrait drawings, whose small scale and precise handling were inspired by those of Cochin. The minutely observed details of costume and hair in David's portrait of Jean-Suzanne Sedaine of 1783 recall the present study, see Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825, Paris, 1989, no. 63, illustrated. In his later portrait drawings, such as those of Dubois Cranée and Thirius de Pautrizel of circa 1792, David was to abandon the softness of black chalk for pen and ink with wash