A horizontal composition in red chalk — a reclining figure seen from a side-high vantage, the body a long descending slope from the raised hip at the upper right to the folded legs and feet at the lower left. The hip and back create the composition's dominant diagonal: a smooth, uninterrupted slope that runs from the upper right corner down to the lower left, the body becoming the horizon line of its own landscape.
The head is buried or tucked at the lower left, barely described — the face not the subject here. What the drawing attends to instead is the upper back and the hip, the region where the spine disappears into the hip's rise. The drawing surface in the large central zone is nearly empty — just the faint contour of the lower body enclosed within the dominant slope.
The feet at the lower left are drawn with their expected specificity, the toes individually marked even within a composition organized around the grandeur of the slope above. The supporting surface — a table or platform — is indicated with a few straight horizontal marks at the lower right.
This is one of the purest landscape-readings of the reclining figure in the collection — the body as terrain, the hip as a hill. The vast cream paper below the figure gives the slope its breathing room, the body floating above the empty lower half.