# Five Studies for the Figure of Haman \(recto\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MICHELANGELO Buonarroti]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Red and black chalk, 251 x 202 mm ## Commentary Five Studies for the Figure of Haman \(recto\) c. 1512 Red and black chalk, 251 x 202 mm Teylers Museum, Haarlem The red chalk studies on the present sheet are connected with the figure of <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/michelan/3sistina/5spandre/10\_1pe3.html'\)" href="/html/m/michelan/3sistina/5spandre/10\_1pe3.html">Haman</a> on the southwestern vault pendentive of the Sistine Chapel. They are rendered in greater detail than the preliminary studies in the British Museum, clarifying parts that were still undefined in the former. The verso of the sheet contains cartoon fragment of a male head and other studies. ## 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]()