A large-format frontal nude bust in pencil — the figure in slight left three-quarter, the face looking to the right of the viewer with an alert, somewhat challenging expression, the hair pulled up in a topknot or bun at the crown. A hoop earring is visible at the left ear. The torso below the face is fully described: the breasts in the near-frontal view, each specifically described with tonal shadow marks beneath. The pencil work combines clean contour with sustained tonal development, the shadow at the neck and below the shoulder giving the torso three-dimensional presence.
The face here is among the most fully described in the large-format pencil series — the eyes with their specific gaze, the nose in three-quarter, the lips set with a slight tension that suggests the challenging or assertive expression. The hoop earring at the left ear connects this portrait to Work 1511's small-format hoop-earring frontal, though here the larger format and the nude torso below give the presence more weight.
The combination of the directly observing face and the nude torso — the portrait's social elements (the gaze, the earring) alongside its physical ones (the breasts, the described body) — makes this large format work the most complete integration of the portrait and figure drawing traditions in the collection. This is simultaneously a portrait and a figure study, the face as present as the body, the social person inseparable from the physical one.