Title: Seated Male Nude Holding a Staff
Object type: Drawing
Date: mid-18th–late 18th century
Artist:  Franz Xaver Messerschmidt 
Artist bio: German, Wiesensteig 1736–1783 Pressburg
Artist nationality: German
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions: 16 7/16 x 10 1/2 in.  (41.8 x 26.7 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Male Nudes