Rough Pencil Sketch of a Male Figure with a Bow and Arrow Standing on a Mound of Nude Figures (Study for 'Sun, Earth and Their Daughter Moon', composition also related to 'Progress')

drawing height: 17.4 cm
drawing width: 22.2 cm

Rough Pencil Sketch of a Male Figure with a Bow and Arrow Standing on a Mound of Nude Figures (Study for 'Sun, Earth and Their Daughter Moon', composition related to 'Progress') drawn on the right-hand side of a sheet of double-lined paper with a central vertical fold mark; the composition is very sketchy showing the archer as a three-quarter figure with no indication of facial features, towering over a mound of indistinct nude bodies; group compositional study of nude figures for an allegorical (symbolist) subject picture