# Male Nude \(recto\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MICHELANGELO Buonarroti]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Pen in two shades of brown, 375 x 197 mm ## Commentary Male Nude \(recto\) c. 1503 Pen in two shades of brown, 375 x 197 mm Musée du Louvre, Paris This figure is most likely an early concept for the figure of St John the Evangelist is the unfinished Entombment in London, although other works by Michelangelo \(the marble David, slaves for the tomb of Julius II, the Genius of Victory in the Palazzo Vecchio\) have also been connected with the drawing. The verso of the sheet shows studies of two women, one with a child. ## 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]()