Description
Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso), Michelangelo Buonarroti (ca. 1510–11).
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). Original: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 8 7/16 in. (28.9 × 21.4 cm)
Framed: 21 × 16 in. (53.3 × 40.6 cm).
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1924. Printed from The Met’s Open Access image (CC0). View the original at The Met (object 337497).