This charcoal drawing, entitled « Branche de saule », was made by Jacques Ousson. The edges of his motif delicately fade away thanks to the sketch of a few branches which gradually blend into the background.

Born in 1937, Jacques Ousson studied at the Cours Charpentier before being admitted to the Ecole des Métiers d'Art. From then on, he pursued his pictorial research as a self-taught artist. In 1976, he met the patron Pierre Levy and then lived in Madrid at the Casa de Velasquez from 1977 to 1979. He then returned to France, to Ousson-sur-Loire.