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The figures on this sheet are not identified. The half-standing, half-sitting male figure with his animal-like head and long left nipple bears resemblance to a faun. The verso contains two studies of a left foot.
The attribution to Michelangelo was often questioned in the past, the drawing was attributed to Andrea di Michelangelo, Raffaello da Montelupo, and later to the School of Fontainebleau. Indeed, Primaticcio used the motif of the female figure in France. More recent scholarship has renewed the attribution of the sheet to Michelangelo.
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