ébauche
/eɪˈbəʊʃ
/noun
A rough or unfinished drawing or painting; a sketch.Ebauche, is a stage of painting, the first one, in color or monochrome....
- Le Travaille Interrompu is in Amherst and there are highly finished areas and ones where the ebauche is visible.
- Several of his late ebauches, or sketches, predate in their impetuous composition and stark colour the work of the Fauve painters.
Origin
French.