Title: Study of a Figure in a Niche (Saint Ambrose; recto); Architectural Studies: Four Alternative Designs for Fictive Niches and an Unrelated Design with Garlands (verso), ca. 1560-67
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1564–65
Artist:  Giuseppe Arcimboldo 
Artist bio: Italian, Milan (?) 1527?–1593 Milan
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with pale brown and purple wash, over soft black chalk (recto); pen and brown ink, some sketches over black chalk (verso)
Dimensions: 13-13/16 x 10-3/8 in.  (35.1 x 26.3 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 1995
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Male Nudes