# Sitting Male Nude \(recto\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MICHELANGELO Buonarroti]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Red chalk, heightened with white, 279 x 211 mm ## Commentary Sitting Male Nude \(recto\) c. 1511 Red chalk, heightened with white, 279 x 211 mm Teylers Museum, Haarlem The nude study on the recto of the present sheet is a preliminary drawing for the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/michelan/3sistina/2ignudi/07\_4se.html'\)" href="/html/m/michelan/3sistina/2ignudi/07\_4se.html">Ignudo</a> to the right above the Persian Sibyl on the Sistine ceiling. Drawn after a living model, the nude figure largely resembles the youth in the ceiling painting, revealing only those parts that are also visible in the fresco. ## 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]()