A large horizontal red chalk figure drawing of unusual dynamism — the reclining figure with both legs raised and extended upward rather than lying flat. One leg extends to the upper right, the other to the lower right; the body lies below, the face at the left in three-quarter view looking upward. The raised legs give this reclining pose a sense of motion or suspension.
The face at the left is described with the characteristic sanguine tonal capacity: the brow, the eye, the nose modeled, the expression one of upward attention. The red chalk warmth gives the face a presence that the pencil and blue pencil faces don't achieve.
The body from the face to the hip is described with the characteristic sanguine economy. The raised legs above the body create the composition's most unusual spatial relationship: the feet in the upper portion of the composition, the face and torso in the lower and left portions.
Both feet are described with the characteristic toe-by-toe attention despite the elevated position — the toes visible even at the upper edge of the composition.