Female head study, looking up

Sir William Blake Richmond, R.A. (1842-1921) Female head study, looking up signed, indistinctly inscribed and dated 'G. Pradeau[/from his friend/W.B. Richmond April 15 1882' (lower left) and inscribed 'Mrs W Pradeau' (on the reverse, according to previous cataloguing) sanguine chalk, heightened with white on buff paper 16 x 11 ¾ in. (40.8 x 29.8 cm.)