A green chalk seated figure drawing in which the head is almost entirely absent — the top of the composition cropped or the head simply not included, so the figure begins at the shoulder and descends to the legs. This is a torso study rather than a portrait, the body examined as pure form from shoulder to knee.
The body is described with the characteristic green chalk economy: outer contour establishing the shoulder-to-hip sweep, brief shadow marks at the breast and waist indicating the body's three-dimensionality. The arms are visible — one arm extending to the right, the elbow visible; the other barely present at the left. At the lower composition, the legs are broadly described, the sitting mass building toward the lower edge.
The absence of the head gives this drawing an unusual formal quality: without a face to engage, the eye moves freely across the body's form as pure sculpture. The body becomes a landscape — hills and planes, volumes and shadows.
The green chalk on cream paper gives the torso its botanical warmth. This body grows rather than poses.