# Man Abducting a Woman \(recto\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MICHELANGELO Buonarroti]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Black chalk, 116 x 97 mm ## Commentary There are various suggestions by scholars regarding the subject of this drawing, which is most likely a classical rather than a religious one. The Rape of Persephone and the Rape of the Sabine Women were proposed, and there could be a connection with Michelangelo's planned projects for the marble group in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. On the verso of the sheet, the same motif is drawn, which is generally not considered to be in Michelangelo's own hand. ## 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]()