Very little is known about Catherine Saint-Ours, except that her father Jean-Pierre was initially opposed to her becoming an artist. She travelled to various places for her training, and seems to have a style extremely close to that of her father. The Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève holds a few works by her hand, and these three examples are among the few attributed to Catherine Saint-Ours, probably by Anne de Herdt, who was aware of the Gosse-Maillart collection. Intriguing for its frontal aspect and for its treatment of materials, which imitates stone particularly well, the present work is a magnificent example of the academic drawings that Geneva artists produced, by way of training, during their apprenticeship at the École de dessin de Genève. The drawing is attributed to Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours' daughter Catherine, whose name was inscribed to the lower left of the sheet of paper at an earlier date and by an unknown person.