A large pencil standing figure drawing in three-quarter side view — the figure standing with both arms crossed or folded at the chest, a self-contained posture that gives the standing figure unusual psychological interiority. Most standing life drawing poses have the arms at the sides or raised; this figure has gathered its arms inward.
The profile of the face at the upper right is briefly described — the nose, the chin, the downward gaze. The hair falls loosely around the face. The arms crossed at the chest create the composition's most active zone: the shoulder and elbow of one arm, the hand of the other, all indicated with searching marks.
The body below the crossed arms is described with the characteristic economy: the hip, the legs, the feet at the lower composition with the toe-specific attention. The standing posture is confident — the weight settled, the feet planted.
The self-contained posture of crossed arms — the figure holding itself — is the most psychologically inward standing pose in the collection.