Pietà by Michelangelo, 1530
This is chalk on paper — the kind of sheet that was a step towards something else rather than the thing itself. He's said to have burned a lot of his own drawings late in life, supposedly so nobody would ever see the working-out behind the finished stuff. Ones like this got out anyway, and now they're framed and lit the same way the paintings are.
Erisava: Does the red make him look warm when he's clearly meant to be dead?
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Everyone else here is barely a few lines. He's the only one drawn all the way through.