A large red chalk seated figure drawing with the model stand visible at the lower right — the figure seated on the stand, seen in three-quarter view with the face visible and looking slightly downward. The face is the most tonal element in this red chalk drawing: the brow, the eye with its shadow, the nose and the lips with their closed expression all built in multiple sanguine passes.
The hand at the center-left of the composition is specifically described — the fingers resting on the knee, each individually indicated. This hand, placed in the composition's most visible zone, receives the drawing's most patient attention.
The body from shoulder to hip is described with the characteristic economy: the outer contour establishing the forms, brief interior marks building the breast and waist. The stand at the lower right grounds the figure in its studio context.
The face's downward expression — not quite sad, not quite absorbed, somewhere between the two — is the portrait's psychological quality.