MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
(b. 1475, Caprese, d. 1564, Roma)

Sitting Male Nude (recto)

c. 1511
Red chalk, heightened with white, 279 x 211 mm
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

The nude study on the recto of the present sheet is a preliminary drawing for the Ignudo to the right above the Persian Sibyl on the Sistine ceiling. Drawn after a living model, the nude figure largely resembles the youth in the ceiling painting, revealing only those parts that are also visible in the fresco.