Related to the head of the invalid wife in The Charitable Woman painted between 1772 and 1775 now at Lyon. A red chalk study of the head is at Dijon, E. Munhall, Jean Baptiste Greuze, Hartford, 1977, no. 76, illustrated. There are other versions of the drawing in The Pierpont Morgan Library (no. I. 285), the Musée Greuze at Tournus and a smaller version formerly in the Jules Boilly collection.

The head of the woman in the picture is in the reverse sense to the drawings, suggesting that Greuze utilised a counterproof. Greuze appears to have taken a counterproof of the red chalk part of this drawing, and subsequently reworked it with stumped black chalk and grey wash. A drawing of the same period of comparable technique, a study of a seated girl in the Waivering Virtue is in the Louvre, Munhall, op.cit., no. 77, illustrated