The second dedicated foot study in the new portfolio (after Work 1449's pencil foot) — and this one doubles the observation: two feet on the same horizontal sheet, seen from different angles. The left foot occupies the left half of the composition in side view — the arch visible, the heel at the left, the toes extending to the right with specific individual toe rendering. The right foot occupies the right half of the composition in a more frontal view, seen directly from in front with all five toes described in a close-packed row, the ankle above each disappearing upward toward the paper's top edge. A third faint mark appears at the lower center — possibly a sketch of the foot's underside.
The sanguine chalk on warm paper gives the feet the same flesh-tone intimacy as the figure drawings in the same medium. The two views — profile and frontal — constitute a comparative anatomical study: the same body part examined from two different angles on the same sheet, the profile showing the arch and the side profile, the frontal showing the toes' arrangement and the foot's width. This dual-view approach echoes the academic tradition of part-studies and anatomical teaching sheets.
Together with Work 1449 [The Single Foot], this sanguine double-foot study constitutes a sustained engagement with the foot as subject — the body part that has appeared throughout the figure drawings as a finishing note of human specificity now given full compositional attention across two separate dedicated works. The collection's consistent interest in feet — from the earliest figure studies to the recent body-part focus — makes these foot studies the culmination of an interest that has been building across hundreds of drawings.