This masterful study is a typical example of Galloche's graphic work. The head and the hands are only quickly sketched but the draperies are studied with meticulous detail and great sensitivity. The artist is subtly using the stumping and the delicate network of short hatching to give the fabric a rich variation of tone and texture while the white chalk helps to define the volumes.
A sketchier drawing of the same figure, with a scroll beside her, and also from the Duvivier family, was sold at Christie's, 4 July 1989, lot 121. Both drawings may be preparatory to the figure of Diana in the Race of Hypomene and Atalanta, a painting now in a private collection.