The third and final teal-ground work — a reclining figure in left profile on the horizontal 12.5 by 9.5 sheet, the body extending from the feet at the lower left to the propped torso and head at the upper right. The figure lies with the upper body supported on the right arm, the left arm extending forward, the torso in partial left profile with the breast visible. The feet at the lower left are described with individual-toe marks. The figure's extension across the full width of the horizontal sheet gives the reclining pose its full spatial expansion, the body measuring the paper's width.
The horizontal format suits the reclining figure — the body's lateral extension matching the paper's wider dimension — and within the teal ground series, this horizontal recliner provides formal variety against the two vertical and near-vertical works (1561 horizontal, 1562 vertical). The red chalk on teal reads with the same chromatic intensity as in 1561 and 1562, but the reclining pose and the horizontal format give this third teal work the most expansive quality of the three — the figure at rest, spread across the cool ground, the body's warmth distributed evenly across the composition.
Together the three teal works (1561, 1562, 1563) constitute a formal triptych of figure drawing on colored ground — each one a different pose (enclosed/seated, crouching, reclining), a different format orientation (horizontal, vertical, horizontal), and a different emotional register (compressed/interior, gathered, expansive). The teal paper experiment is the most formally coherent sub-series in the final batches, the three works clearly conceived together as a chromatic and compositional exploration.