La petite bergère (Young shepherdess)

A young shepherdess with a round, featureless face and bobbed hair stands centrally in a muted brown and cream landscape, holding a tall staff, with a small dog beside her to the right. Behind her, a cluster of tiny sheep rendered in dense stippled dots grazes on one of two rounded, textured hills built from fine dotted lines, beneath a pale sun and a few horizontal reddish-pink clouds. The composition is spare and quiet, dominated by soft earth tones and the repetitive stippled texture of the hills and foreground field, with the artist's pencil signature at lower right and "épreuve d'artiste" annotation at lower left.