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Watercolors

11,528 works

Red chalk drawing of a bearded saint with a winged lion and putti among clouds, after Domenichino.

Saint Mark

After Domenichino, after 1627

Illuminated page with a crowned kneeling figure, red-robed attendants, a walled city, heraldic shields and a gold inscription

Pope Pius II, frontispiece to a Constitution of the Sienese Church of the Year 1464

Unknown artist, 1464; possibly 19th century copy

Brown watercolor of a stone arch bridge and waterfall on a rocky mountain road, with travelers and pack animals.

Devil's Bridge toward the Gothard Mountain in Switzerland

Franz Xaver Triner, 1785-1824

Red chalk drawing of a kneeling bearded figure in an orange robe, head bowed, hands clasped to the chest.

Christ Kneeling

After Carlo Dolci, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a mountain lake with rocky slopes, a stone hut, grazing cattle, and a small boat.

View of Oberalp Lake

Franz Xaver Triner, late 18th-19th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated woman with a table of vessels, and workers at a furnace in an arched forge interior.

Allegory of Fire (Venus in the Forge of Vulcan)

After Jacopo Bassano, n.d.

Sepia wash drawing of seated figures by a river with moored boats, trees, and a fortified building on the far bank.

Figures Seated by a River

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi ?, n.d.

Red chalk sketch of a standing bearded figure greeting a kneeling veiled woman beneath a draped canopy, with angels above.

Resurrected Christ Appearing to His Mother

Attributed to Ottavio Vannini, n.d.

Black silhouette of a boy, a dog, a child pointing, and a seated woman in a rocking chair beside a table, on pale paper.

Silhouette of Hammond Family

Auguste Edouart, 1842

Head of a Monk

Attributed to Francesco Vanni, n.d.

Drawing of two winged putti playing with swans beside a large vessel, rendered in pen and brown wash on tan paper.

Putti Playing with Swans

Circle of Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael, n.d.

Brown ink drawing of a sun chariot in clouds above a seated woman, a pointing youth, and a classical landscape with buildings

Study for the Omen of the Future Greatness of Augustus: Left Portion

After Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Romano, n.d.

Illuminated manuscript initial R showing the Virgin holding a red book, surrounded by kneeling haloed saints in gold and blue

The Virgin Adored by Saints in a Historiated Initial "R" from an Antiphonary

Unknown artist, 15th century

Medieval painted initial P showing the Nativity with Mary, Joseph, the infant Christ in a manger, animals and angels on gold.

The Nativity in a Historiated Initial "P" from a Choir Book

Unknown artist, c. 1390

Medieval manuscript page of two columns of Latin text with a decorated pink and green initial letter at lower left.

Bifolia from a Vita Sanctorum, or Lives of the Saints

Unknown artist, c. 1150

Illuminated initial A showing the Virgin Mary ascending between two angels while apostles kneel around an open tomb below.

The Assumption of the Virgin in a Historiated Initial "A" from an Antiphonary

Unknown artist, 15th century

Illuminated initial showing a bearded prophet with a halo, holding a scroll, framed by blue and red ornament on gold.

Prophet in a Historiated Initial "O" from a Gradual

Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci, 1392/99

Medieval prayerbook page with a decorated gold and blue initial G, blackletter text and leafy floral borders.

Illuminated Initial "G" from a Prayerbook

Unknown artist, 15th century

Medieval manuscript page with Latin text, a blue and gold decorated initial, and green and blue foliate borders.

Illuminated Initial "H" from a Psalter or Breviary

German or Southern Netherlandish, c. 1450s

Illuminated initial E showing three haloed women in a landscape with gold sunburst sky, framed by green foliage and gilt deco

The Three Marys at the Tomb in a Historiated Initial "E" from a Choirbook

Unknown artist, 1470/80

Illuminated initial P with a haloed friar in grey habit holding a crucifix, surrounded by gold and blue foliate border.

Saint Francis in a Historiated Initial "P"

Unknown artist, 1375/99

Illuminated manuscript page with a painted saint in a gold initial, square chant notation and a floral border.

Saint Peter in a Historiated Initial "E" from a Gradual

Unknown artist, 15th century

Miniature of Christ's body being laid in a stone sarcophagus, mourners around it, a medieval city behind, c. 1480.

The Entombment (Stabat Mater Prayer), from a Book of Hours

circle of Jean Colombe, c. 1480

Study of Perseus and Andromeda in blue-toned gouache, with a nude figure and a winged-helmet hero among swirling curved forms

Perseus and Andromeda, study for The Doom Fulfilled

Edward Burne-Jones, 1875

Head of a Woman

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, c. 1890

Illuminated choirbook page with square musical notes, a historiated initial D showing Christ and a Pharisee, and ornate flora

Page from a Choirbook with Christ and a Pharisee in a Historiated Initial “D”

Unknown artist, 1430/90

Pencil sketch of a mother holding a naked infant close, their heads touching, on tan paper.

Maternal Caress

Mary Cassatt, 1921

Charcoal sketch of a seated male nude with both arms raised overhead and legs spread on a curved mound.

Seated Male Nude, Arms Uplifted

John Singer Sargent, 1917/21

Soft pastel landscape of a dark tree line, green field, and layered grey-blue clouds under a pale sky.

Paysage

François-Louis Français, c. 1850

Charcoal sketch of several legs and feet at different angles on cream paper, signed lower right.

Sketches of Legs and Feet

John Singer Sargent, 1917/21