. . . "Jeaurat belonged to a literary society interested in social life outside aristocratic circles (the Soci\u00E9t\u00E9 du Bout du Banc) and painted unidealized genre scenes of the working classes. This drawing is a study for his painting The Painter\u2019s Move (Le d\u00E9m\u00E9nagement du peintre, ca. 1755), which shows a wooden cart moving the artist\u2019s family and possessions through the streets of Paris. In the finished work, the two women\u2014one holding a large loaf of bread and the other seated, holding a small container\u2014occupy opposite ends of the composition. On this sheet, however, they share the same attentive atmosphere. Probably sketching from life, Jeaurat used parallel hatching and white highlights to delicately suggest volume and lighting contrasts."@en .