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Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso)
Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, Caprese 1475–1564 Rome)
ca. 1510–11
- 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)
- Classification
- Drawings
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 11 3/8 × 8 7/16 in. (28.9 × 21.4 cm) Framed: 21 × 16 in. (53.3 × 40.6 cm)
- Culture
- Italian
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1924
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
