# Study of the Head and Hands of an Old Woman Looking Up

- By: Nicolas Bernard Lépicié (French, 1735-1784)
- Date: c. 1775
- Medium: Black chalk, with stumping, heightened with touches of white chalk, on ivory laid paper, prepared with a blue ground, laid down on ivory laid paper
- Classification: Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions: 21.4 × 18.6 cm (8 7/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
- Culture: France
- Credit line: Helene Payne Memorial Fund
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/105467)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/70c34b147d8e16d077805a7d170471c8.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)