# Study of a Left Leg and Knee \(recto\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MICHELANGELO Buonarroti]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Black chalk, 207 x 247 mm ## Commentary The studies on the present sheet are related to the statue of <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/michelan/1sculptu/medici/1giulia6.html'\)" href="/html/m/michelan/1sculptu/medici/1giulia6.html">Day</a> at the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/michelan/1sculptu/medici/1giulia.html'\)" href="/html/m/michelan/1sculptu/medici/1giulia.html">tomb of Giuliano de' Medici</a> in the Medici Chapel in San Lorenzo, Florence. The large study below shows the outside of the left leg, which in the sculpture is turned toward the wall tomb and thus not visible to the viewer \(see the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/michelan/1sculptu/medici/1giulia61.html'\)" href="/html/m/michelan/1sculptu/medici/1giulia61.html">rear view</a> of the sculpture\). On the verso of the sheet architectural studies related to the vestibule of the Biblioteca Laurenziana can be found. ## 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]()