A large horizontal blue pencil reclining figure drawing with the face visible — the model lying down, the face in partial profile, the body extending from left to right. The blue pencil gives the face its characteristic clarity: the brow line, the nose in profile, the eye with its shadow, all rendered with the blue marks' cool precision.
The composition is among the most spacious of the blue pencil reclinings: the figure occupying the upper two-thirds of the horizontal paper, the lower third entirely empty. The body is described from the face at the left to the hand at the right — both extremities receiving specific attention.
The hand at the right edge is the composition's most described element: the fingers individually indicated, the slight curl of a relaxed hand. The face at the left is described with fewer but more concentrated marks.
The vast empty lower paper gives the reclining figure the breathing room of someone truly at rest — the space below the body is as present as the body itself.