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. A perfect example of a so-called academic drawing, the present sheet shows six antique-style male faces. It is assumed that some of the faces are taken from figures on the Trajan column in Rome, and in particular from the battle scenes. Clearly, the author of this sheet, perhaps Catherine Saint-Ours (see also this drawing), had access to casts of the Trajan column, such as would have been available at the École de dessin de Genève.