Male Torso (recto)

The study of the backward-leaning male torso on the recto of the present sheet, as well as the studies of a bent arm on the verso can be connected with the statues of Day and Night, respectively, at the tomb of Giuliano de' Medici in the Medici Chapel in San Lorenzo, Florence.

Drawn after a living model, the drawing of the male nude deviates from the finished statue, it is not a copy of it but a preparatory drawing.