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

Nude Study of a Sitting Youth (recto)

1511-12
Red chalk heightened with white, 272 x 192 mm
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

The present nude study is connected with the Ignudo at the left above the Persian Sibyl. It was drawn after a living model and largely corresponds to the final composition.

This sheet was once in the possession of Peter Paul Rubens.