After Gilles DEMARTEAU "Bust of a woman seen from behind, face raised, bare shoulder and pearls in her hair". Sanguine on paper. Annotated "Alexandrine" lower left and "Vuillard fait en..." lower right. Framed under glass. Sight: 38 x 28.5 cm (Folds and stains). From a print in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

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