During his long active life, Michelangelo drew several representations of the Madonna and Child, some of them the Madonna lactans type (in which the infant Jesus suckling at the Virgin Mary's breast). He had already used this motif in his youth in a relief he took it up again in the Madonna statue in the Medici Chapel as well as in various other drawings.

Preview	Picture Data	File Info	Comment
	Virgin and Child (verso) c. 1503 Pen and brown ink, 387 x 195 mm Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna	565*1100 True Color 109 Kb
	Study of a Head Looking Upward (recto) 1504-07 Red chalk, 199 x 172 mm Casa Buonarroti, Florence	604*700 True Color 50 Kb
	St Anne with the Virgin and the Christ Child c. 1505 Pen, 254 x 177 mm Ashmolean Museum, Oxford	736*1080 True Color 154 Kb
	Madonna and Child with St Anne (recto) - Pen and ink on paper, 325 x 260 mm Musée du Louvre, Paris	893*1105 True Color 227 Kb
	Bust of the Virgin in Profile, the Child Reclining on a Cushion 1503-04 Pen and brown ink, 282 x 210 mm Staatliche Museen, Berlin	653*900 True Color 147 Kb
	Madonna and Child 1522-25 Black and red chalk, pen and brown ink on brownish paper, 541 x 396 mm Casa Buonarroti, Florence	802*1100 True Color 145 Kb
	Madonna and Child with the Infant St John (recto) 1529-30 Red chalk, 290 x 204 mm Musée du Louvre, Paris	644*900 True Color 100 Kb
	The Holy Family with the Infant St John (verso) 1529-30 Red chalk, 290 x 204 mm Musée du Louvre, Paris	636*900 True Color 96 Kb
	Madonna and Child with the Infant St John c. 1533 Black chalk, 314 x 200 mm British Museum, London	583*900 True Color 97 Kb
	The Holy Family with the Infant St John 1533-34 Black chalk over drawing in stylus, 317 x 191 mm British Museum, London	555*900 True Color 88 Kb
	Madonna and Child with the Infant St John (recto) c. 1532 Black chalk, 317 x 210 mm Royal Collection, Windsor	638*950 True Color 99 Kb
	Head of a Woman (recto) 1540-43 Black chalk, 212 x 142 mm Royal Collection, Windsor	492*700 True Color 34 Kb
	Study for an Annunciation (recto) 1547 Black chalk on paper, 281 x 195 mm British Museum, London	623*900 True Color 94 Kb
	Study for an Annunciation (verso) 1547 Black chalk on paper, 281 x 195 mm British Museum, London	900*624 True Color 70 Kb
	Madonna and Child with St Anne (recto) - Pen and ink, 325 x 260 mm Musée du Louvre, Paris	697*899 Grayscale 106 Kb
	Madonna del Silenzio c. 1538 Chalk drawing Portland Collection, Creswell, Worksop, UK	783*1024 True Color 130 Kb