MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
(b. 1475, Caprese, d. 1564, Roma)

Study of a Left Leg and Knee (recto)

1524-25
Black chalk, 207 x 247 mm
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

The studies on the present sheet are related to the statue of Day at the tomb of Giuliano de' Medici in the Medici Chapel in San Lorenzo, Florence. The large study below shows the outside of the left leg, which in the sculpture is turned toward the wall tomb and thus not visible to the viewer (see the rear view of the sculpture).

On the verso of the sheet architectural studies related to the vestibule of the Biblioteca Laurenziana can be found.