A seated woman holding a fan in profile to the right

The pose of the figure and the technique, combining black lead and red chalk, are reminiscent of the art of Watteau and particularly that of a sheet in the British Museum showing a reclining woman seen from behind wearing a similar striped dress, P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan, 1996, II, no. 467. The drawing was engraved by Boucher in the Figures de différents caractères, no. 161 and would have been familiar to Ollivier.