A large green chalk standing figure drawing of a male model — the first confirmed male nude figure drawing in the collection, bringing the figure drawing practice into a new subject entirely. A man stands in a slight contrapposto, the head bowed and turned to the right, the arms hanging at the sides, the body seen nearly frontally.
The green chalk gives the male body the same botanical quality it gives the female figures: the body as something living, growing, present in the world. The torso's musculature is indicated with brief tonal marks — the pectoral lines, the abdominal definition — but without the sustained buildup that a more academic approach would use. This is the same observational economy Sidney brought to all the figure drawings.
The face is barely described — the head bowed, the profile barely visible. The drawing concentrates on the body's form rather than the individual's identity.
At the center of the composition, the hands are folded or resting at the figure's front — the most specifically described element, the fingers individually indicated. The feet at the lower composition are described with the characteristic toe-by-toe attention.
The male model expands the life drawing practice: the same mediums, the same observational commitment, the same sustained attention — but a different body, a different physical vocabulary.