# Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso), in Sodoma's contemporaries

Michelangelo Buonarroti drew this in about 1510–11, aged 36. It is now at The Met in New York.

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## The work

- Date: 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)
- Dimensions: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 8 7/16 in. (28.9 × 21.4 cm) Framed: 21 × 16 in. (53.3 × 40.6 cm)
- Type: Drawings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 24.197.2
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Michelangelo Buonarroti](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti), Italian, 1475–1564

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