The fourth work depicting the pregnant model — and the first in charcoal, on a warm ochre ground. The figure stands in left profile: the belly's forward dome is again unmistakable, the body's profile describing the specific curve of advanced pregnancy. The arms are crossed at the lower chest, the hands resting against the upper belly in a gesture of gentle support. The head is slightly bowed, the face in left profile with a brief but specific description — the nose, the lips, the chin. A folded fabric element or headband appears at the crown, the hair arranged beneath it.
The charcoal on ochre paper produces the richest and warmest version of this subject across all four pregnancy works. Where the blue ink of 1452 was cool and precise, the pencil of 1453 analytical, and the sanguine of 1461 warm and intimate, the charcoal here adds a further dimension: the smudged, soft quality of charcoal against the ochre ground gives the figure a velvety depth unavailable in any of the line-drawing media. The shadow zones — built through broad charcoal application on the left side of the torso and the legs — give the body a three-dimensionality that the spare-contour works do not have.
The pregnancy series (1452, 1453, 1461, 1469) has now extended across four works in four different media: blue ink, pencil, sanguine, and charcoal. Each medium reveals a different aspect of the subject: the ink's precision caught the seated figure's clinical specificity; the pencil's analysis focused on the torso's horizontal form; the sanguine's warmth expressed the standing figure's tender inwardness; and charcoal here gives the standing profile a soft, enveloping quality — the body's edges softened, the form felt rather than precisely defined.
The 11.25"×24" format — slightly wider than the 9.5"×25" standard narrow strip — gives the figure marginally more lateral space, and the ochre ground connects this work to the ink dancer of Work 1431 (also on ochre). The charcoal's softness on the warm ground produces the most physically substantial of the four pregnancy images: a body with weight and warmth rather than a body precisely observed from outside.