A left-profile standing figure in sanguine chalk — face in profile, fully described, the arm behind the back — drawn with the characteristic economy of the new portfolio's best sanguine works. The face is described with the careful specificity of the profile mode: the nose in left-facing profile (a distinct, particular nose — slightly uptilted, a specific individual), the lips below, the chin, the brow above. The hair is short, cut to just above the jaw, the silhouette of the head cleanly rounded. Below the face the neck descends to the shoulder, and the right arm is carried behind the back — the elbow bent, the forearm disappearing at the body's right edge — leaving the front torso open and unobstructed from clavicle to feet.
The sanguine is applied with the confident single-pass economy of the best profile figures: the outer contour from crown to toe in one sustained gesture, the interior described only where anatomically essential — the breast in profile, the belly's forward curve, the mons, the inner calf. The toes at the feet below are given individual attention, the left foot forward, the right behind, the weight distribution legible in the slight shift of the figure's axis. The arm behind the back is suggested rather than drawn — the bend at the elbow indicated, the forearm absent — leaving its gesture implicit.
The arm-behind-back posture reads as a classical at-ease stance: a figure standing in rest with the hands clasped or free behind the body, the front presented open and unguarded. In the context of the portfolio's range of self-enclosing gestures (the clutch of 1405 and 1430, the overhead embrace of 1428, the shielded face of 1432), this pose offers an easy openness — the body not gathering itself but releasing. The particular nose in profile — the slight uptilt, the specific character — makes this figure more individually identifiable than most in the sanguine sequence, the face suggesting a particular person rather than a type.
This is the last sanguine figure in the 9.5"×25" format before the portfolio shifts back to 12.5"×19" with Work 1436. As a closing sanguine in the larger format, it is one of the cleanest and most formally resolved: the pure left profile, the specific face, the arm behind the back, the full-length contour from crown to toe executed in the medium's most economical and assured manner. The profile at ease, after the portfolio's many postures of enclosure and extremity, functions as a note of rest.