A reclining back-view figure in green chalk — the body horizontal, the back presented, the long loose hair falling from the head at the upper right toward the right edge, the feet at the lower left with the characteristic individual-toe treatment. The pose is closely related to Works 1437 (green chalk reclining) and 1433 (pencil reclining), all horizontal back-view recliners, but here on a slightly aged or foxed white paper that gives the ground a warmer quality than the clean white sheets. The green chalk line is applied with the portfolio's characteristic single-contour confidence, the back's outer edge drawn in one sustained stroke.
The back view in the reclining position presents a different topography from the standing back view: the body horizontal, the spine now running laterally rather than vertically, the buttock curve at mid-composition creating the figure's widest and most prominent element in the horizontal format. The hair at the right falls from the propped or resting head in several loose strands, the crown briefly described. The feet at the left receive the specific toe marks that appear throughout the figure drawings whenever feet are the closest or most visible element.
This is the second green chalk horizontal recliner (after 1437) and the most spare: fewer interior marks, the outer contour doing almost all the compositional work. The green chalk on the slightly warm paper reads with a botanical softness — the body as a landscape element rather than a figure in space. The green color and the horizontal format together produce the most landscape-like of all the figure drawings: a body that might be read as terrain, the spine's curve as a horizon.