A drawing of a nude youth in profile walking to the right; he holds a lighted torch in his left hand and shields the flame in his right.

The figure from the hips down is copied from a figure on an early sheet of studies by Michelangelo in the Musée Condé, Chantilly. The draughtsman here has turned the torso more towards the viewer (in the original, the back is partly seen), moved the left leg a little further forwards, and invented an entirely new posture for the arms. The modelling of the figure in black chalk is of high quality, and the drawing may even have been done by a pupil of Michelangelo as an exercise in both draughtsmanship and invention.

There is a copy by a different draughtsman of the legs of the same figure (and of drapery on the same Chantilly sheet) in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. 102v). 

The drawing was traditionally attributed to the school of Raphael, and was mounted in an album Raffaello d'Urbino e Scuola when in George III's collection. It was evidently washed in the nineteenth century, resulting in the loss of much of the sheet's pen and ink (cf. also RCIN 912729). The original appearance of the drawing is recorded in a mid-nineteenth-century photograph in the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (RCIN 854365).