Michelangelo's suspiciously boyish Study of a Kneeling Nude Girl for The Entombment (Louvre, c. 1500), which is usually said to be
the first nude female figure study, predates this and is an example of how even figures who would be shown clothed in the final work were often worked out in nude studies, so that the form under the clothing was understood.
She is noted,
first and foremost for her
figure painting and classical - style
figure drawing of large - scale obese
female nudes, characterized by their extreme physicality.