A left-profile pencil portrait of a man wearing a broad-brimmed hat — the hat's wide brim extending to both sides of the head, the crown rising above, the whole structure described with clean contour lines that give the hat a sculptural presence. Below the hat brim the face is in left profile: the nose prominent and specifically shaped, a small mustache mark at the upper lip, the lips and chin below. A jacket and what appears to be a tie or scarf are visible at the lower portion, the hand partially visible at the chest in a gesture of holding or touching the jacket.
The broad-brimmed hat is distinct from the flat caps of the cap series — not a working-class or casual accessory but a more formal or outdoor hat, the brim wide enough to shade the face completely from the sun. The hat's architecture — the brim's horizontal extension, the crown's vertical rise — gives the portrait a strong geometric element above the organic face. The pencil describes the hat's geometry with cleaner, more sustained lines than the face below, the hat's made structure requiring different mark-making from the face's natural form.
The hand at the chest — partially visible, the fingers curled around the jacket lapel — adds a narrative note to the portrait: a person in the act of adjusting their clothing, a social gesture of self-presentation. Combined with the hat and the jacket, the gesture places this figure in a specific social moment — leaving somewhere, or arriving, the clothing and the hat both in a state of active use. Among the hat portraits, this one is the most complete in its social narrative: the hat, the jacket, the hand, the mustache all contributing to a portrait of a particular kind of person at a particular kind of moment.