Studies for Hercules Holding a Club Seen in Frontal View, Male Nude Unsheathing a Sword, and the Movements of Water (Recto); Study for Hercules Holding a Club Seen in Rear View (Verso)

Leonardo da Vinci

1452-1519

Italianpainter, sculptor, architect, author, engineer, inventor, lutanist, mathematician and scientist

Studies for Hercules Holding a Club Seen in Frontal View, Male Nude Unsheathing a Sword, and the Movements of Water (Recto); Study for Hercules Holding a Club Seen in Rear View (Verso)

c. 1506-8

Pen and brown ink; soft black chalk or charcoal (recto); soft black chalk or charcoal (verso)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Manhattan| United States