standing, originally holding a staff in his right hand, dressed in short undergarments made of fabric and buckled sandals, the heel of his left foot resting on the top of his right, upon octagonal wood base emblazoned with an armorial shield. 

Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture, Salander O'Reilly Galleries, New York, 2005, no. 26.
Sculture da "vestire": Nero Alberti da Sansepolcro e la produzione di manichini lignei in una bottega del Cinquecento, ed.𝕴 by 🌠C. Galassi and F.F. Mancini (exh.cat., Museum di Santa Croce, Umbertide, 11 June-6 November 2005), Milan 2005.

RELATED LITERATURE
E. Neri Lusanna, "Tra arte e devozione: la tradizione dei manichini lignei nella scultura umbromarchigiana della prima metà del Cinquecento," in Scultura e arredo in legno fra Marche e Umbria: Atti del primo Convegno Pergola 24/25 ottobre 1997, cur.G. B. Fidanza, Perugia, 1999, pp.23-30.

Formerly known as the "Master of Magione", Nero Alberti da Sansepolcro established a workshop around Perugia in the mid 16th century specializing in the production of devotional images like the present figure.  They were intended to be dressed in real clothing, particularly during the celebration of Catholic feast days.  While similar figures used for celebrations and processions were often made with a wood head and arms but only a straw body, the present piece is fully carved in detail with the musculature of a youth.  Similar statues of San Rocco by Sansepolcro are in Antria di Magione, Bastia Umba൩ and in Pergola.