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Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel (recto)

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Cleveland Museum of Art

A drawing of a muscular nude male youth with his left leg extended behind him and bent at the knee, and his right leg bent in front of him. The youth's body faces right; his head is cropped and not fully drawn. His right arm is bent at the elbow with the hand near his head, and his left arm is raised. The drawing is in reddish-brown colored chalk on aged paper with darker brown spots. A sketch of a face and shoulder are drawn in the same colored chalk in the upper-left corner. The background of the drawing is aged paper with darker rectangular marks. The drawing is bordered by a thin dark line.

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642 × 900 px
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