A full-length left-profile standing figure in black chalk — the face in clean left profile with the brow and nose described, the body below presenting a new and unusual posture: the right leg is raised behind, the knee bent so that the lower right leg lifts backward and upward, the foot hanging free of the ground. The figure stands on the left leg alone, the raised right knee creating a backward diagonal from the thigh to the dangling foot. The arms hang at the sides with characteristic relaxation, the hands barely indicated. A thick bun or coil of hair sits high on the head, the silhouette at the crown rounded.
The black chalk is applied with sustained tonal development throughout the figure: a broad shadow zone on the left side — the shadow of the figure itself cast against an implied wall or flat surface — runs from the shoulder to the foot in a broad hatched band that gives the composition an almost theatrical lit-from-the-right quality. This sustained shadow is the most ambitious tonal passage in the black chalk figures since Work 1426's shadow column, and it transforms the standing profile into something close to a classical academic study: the figure lit, the shadow described, the body understood as a three-dimensional form in space.
The raised knee behind the standing body is a pose that appears in figure drawing tradition as a warm-up or transitional posture — a model shifting weight, momentarily balanced. Here it reads as a deliberate pose, the backward-lifted leg held with enough stillness to be drawn: the knee bent at roughly ninety degrees, the lower leg hanging perpendicular to the floor. The combined demands of the single-leg balance and the sustained tonal shadow make this one of the technically most complex poses in the black chalk portfolio.
The profile face — brow above the described eye, the nose in profile, the lips briefly stated — is the drawing's secondary subject after the posture and the shadow. It is specifically described but not elaborately so, the face attending to its own inward moment while the body below demonstrates its physical complexity. Among the black chalk figures in the 9.5"×25" format, this is the most fully integrated: pose, tonal development, and profile face all working together rather than any one element dominating.