A full back-view seated figure on a four-legged stool — one of the more formally complete back studies in the collection. The figure fills the left and center of the page, the stool's simple geometry extending below and supporting the organic mass above. The hair falls loose from the crown to the shoulder level, each strand described with relaxed, following marks.
The spine is clearly delineated, the shoulder blades subtly present, the waist drawing inward before the hip spreads. The body reads as a sequence of descending forms: hair, neck, upper back, lower back, the compression of the seated hip, the legs extending below the stool's seat.
The legs below the stool are drawn with particular care — the visual puzzle of the body continuing beneath its support resolved convincingly, both feet on the floor, the weight settled. The stool's four legs provide the only straight lines in the composition against the figure's continuous curves.
The back view in the collection spans from the Bald Man (1044) to the great Back View with Hand (1107) to the nape and bun studies of the 1200s. This drawing occupies the middle of that range — not formally reduced to abstraction, but fully legible as a figure study of the body seen from behind, the stool giving it an unusually domestic grounding.