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

Group of Three Male Nudes (recto)

1503-04
Black chalk over drawing in stylus, 332 x 174 mm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

This drawing of a group of three male nudes is connected with the Battle of Cascina. The verso of the sheet shows two pen-and-ink studies of a back and a figure that can be connected with Michelangelo's Ganymede.




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