# Study of a Standing Male Nude Figure \(recto\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MICHELANGELO Buonarroti]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Black chalk, 382 x 223 mm ## Commentary The quickly sketched nude figure can be connected with the four unfinished slave statues which were intended for the 1516 project of the tomb of Pope Julius II. With his outstretched right leg and lowered left arm the male nude most closely resembles the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/michelan/1sculptu/giulio\_2/slave2.html'\)" href="/html/m/michelan/1sculptu/giulio\_2/slave2.html">Bearded Slave.</a> The verso of the sheet shows a design for a double tomb in the Medici Chapel. ## Related artworks - [A Man Lifting a Boar onto his Shoulder \(verso\)]() - [Abraham - Isaac - Jacob - Judah]() - [Achim - Eliud \(detail\)]() - [Achim - Eliud \(detail\)]() - [Achim - Eliud]() - [Aeneas with a Boy \(recto\)]() - [Allegorical figure]() - [Amminadab \(detail\)]() - [Amminadab \(detail\)]() - [Amminadab]() - [Ancestors of Christ: figures \(detail\)]() - [Ancestors of Christ: figures \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()