Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso)

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Date

ca. 1510–11

Type

Drawing

Medium

Red chalk, with small accents of white chalk on the left shoulder of the figure in the main study (recto); soft black chalk, or less probably charcoal (verso)

Department

Drawings and Prints

Institution

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object number

24.197.2

Credit

Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1924