A green chalk figure seated on the floor with the legs spread wide in a V-shape — the most open and laterally expansive seated pose in the green chalk portfolio. The body is seen from behind and slightly above, the back presented from the neck down to the floor, the torso sitting upright above the splayed legs. The head above is barely indicated: a few lines at the very top of the composition suggest the hair and the skull, but the face is absent — either turned away or simply not drawn. The legs extend to the left and right, each ending in a briefly described foot at the lower corners of the composition.
The green chalk here is unusually varied in pressure: the zone at the figure's center — the base of the spine, the floor between the spread legs — receives the most concentrated green marks, including a small dense cluster that describes the anatomical detail at the body's center. This concentration of marks at the visual center of the composition creates a focal point that draws the eye inward, to the body's most private zone presented openly in the wide-splay pose. The back above and the legs to the sides are drawn with the spare single-contour approach.
The wide-splay seated pose is among the most uninhibited in the collection, the body's openness at maximum. It echoes several of the earlier collection's floor-level figure studies (the seated cross-legged figures in earlier portfolios, the reclining studies) but with a directness particular to the green chalk medium's botanical frankness. The format — the 12.5"×19" horizontal-oriented sheet, the body's lateral spread filling the width — suits the pose precisely: the legs extending toward both side margins, the body's wide base claiming the horizontal dimension.
This is the fourth green chalk work in the third portfolio (after 1414, 1427, 1430, 1436, 1437) and the most explicitly floor-level of the seated green chalk figures. The green chalk's application at the anatomical center — the densest single mark-cluster in any green chalk work — gives this drawing a quality of unguarded directness that sits apart from the more formal standing poses. The body open, the back presented, the face absent: this is the seated figure at its most unselfconscious.