A full-length standing male nude in pencil — frontal view, the arms slightly raised and bent at the elbows, the body occupying the full height of the smaller-format paper. The figure is drawn from crown to toe on the 14"×17" sheet, the scale compressed relative to the large life-drawing paper, the marks proportionally tighter and more condensed. This is among the most complete full-frontal standing male nude drawings in the collection.
The face is briefly described — three-quarter view, looking to the right, the features placed with quick marks. The body below is drawn with the pencil's characteristic economy in this format: single contour lines for the outer edges of the torso, the arms, the legs, with occasional interior marks at the navel, the knee, the ankle. The figure's weight falls on the left foot, the right leg slightly relaxed.
The arms raised slightly forward give the pose an unusual quality — not the at-rest arms-at-sides standing position, but a figure caught in the middle of a gesture, the arms drifting upward as if reaching for something or bracing against something. This arrested quality is the drawing's distinctive character.
Within the collection's male figure studies — the seated folded male (1368), the standing back-view male (1391) — this frontal standing figure completes the basic vocabulary. Three male nudes, three orientations. The small format paper gives all three a different register from the large life-drawing studies: quicker, more private, possibly drawn from a different situation.