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Black chalk drawing of a kneeling cuirassier in plumed helmet and uniform, with white highlights on tan paper.

Kneeling Cuirassier

Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, ca. 1810

Gilded scrollwork wallpaper design on green ground with red oval cartouches framing small figures.

Design for wallpaper featuring rinceaux and carouches framing figures

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Brown wash drawing of two women and children in a domestic interior, one woman bending over a child lying on the floor.

Two women and three children in an interior

Otto van Veen, 1556-1629

Oval painting of a winged putto holding a staff among clouds, with turtle doves flying and perched below.

A winged putto and turtle doves

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Study of Heads for Study for "Castor and Pollux Freeing Helen"

Joseph-Ferdinand Lancrenon, 1817

Watercolor design of an ornate wrought iron hall lantern with scrolling leaves and a glass panel with a sunburst.

Wrought Iron Hall Lantern Design

J. B. B. Frost, 19th century

Graphite and white chalk study of a reclining nude man with a sketched kneeling woman above him, on tan paper.

A Nude Woman Kneeling at the side of a Reclining Man (Study for Mary Magdalen Lamenting Christ)

Julius Hübner, 1857

Brown ink and wash drawing of a hilly landscape with a distant town, arcaded building, tall trees and two small figures.

View of the Rhone river near Saint-Genis-Laval, south of Lyons

Michiel van Overbeek, after 1667

Ink and wash drawing of robed figures, a kneeling man, sacrificial animals and onlookers beneath a palm tree.

The Return of Joseph

John Michael Rysbrack, 1720-70

Brown wash drawing of nude nymphs bathing around a seated Diana in a forest, with a man watching from the trees.

Diana and Actaeon

Joseph Bergler the younger, late 18th-early 19th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a landscape with cypress and pine trees, a stone arch, two figures, and a distant town.

View in Rome near the Colosseum

Michiel van Overbeek, mid-17th-early 18th century

Etching of a bearded man in bust view, turned right, with curly hair and cross-hatched shading on his draped shoulder.

Bust of a Bearded Man

Guido Reni, ca. 1600-40

Engraving of Saint Roch distributing alms to a crowd of poor figures beneath a colonnaded arcade.

Saint Roch at left distributing alms to a group of people gathered around him, after Annibale Caracci

Francesco Brizio, ca. 1607

Grey wash drawing with white highlights of two tall overgrown tree trunks, vines, flowers and rocks on tan paper.

Study of Overgrown Trees; verso: Study of a Cypress and Two Overgrown Trees

Joseph Werner the Younger

Pen and wash drawing of people feasting and boating on a river, with swans and a leafy canopy under a cloudy sky.

July: Amusements on the Water, (Juillet : les Divertissements sur l’eau)

Claude Simpol, ca. 1700

Brown ink and wash drawing of two waterfalls tumbling between rocks into a pool, shaded by overhanging trees.

A View of Lower Rydal Falls, Cumbria

Thomas Fearnley, 1837

Chalk study of three men with exaggerated expressions: one shouting, one squinting, one wide-eyed, on brown paper.

Study of Three Heads

Louis-Léopold Boilly, ca. 1823

Watercolor drawing of a seated man reading a songbook with a woman and small child in a courtyard.

Parents Teaching Their Daughter a Song

Abraham van Strij, early 19th century

Watercolor drawing of a fiddler in a grey coat playing violin in a tavern, with three men by a fireplace behind him.

A Fiddler in a Tavern, with Three Men in the Background

Johannes Hendrik van West, mid-19th century

Pencil caricature of a balding man with exaggerated features holding a Journal pour Rire newspaper, on tan paper.

Caricature of Charles Philipon

Hippolyte Mailly, 1859

Pencil caricature of a standing man with large nose, round spectacles and goatee, on tan paper, dated 1859.

Caricature of Jules de Prémaray

Hippolyte Mailly, 1859

Red chalk anatomical drawing of a dog in a running pose, with skin removed to show muscles of the shoulder, ribs, and legs.

A full size écorché study of a hound

Charles Landseer, 1821

Caricature of Louis Marie de la Haye, Vicomte de Cormenin (alias Timon)

Hippolyte Mailly, 1859

Chromolithographed trade card of a caricatured fiddler in a feathered headdress playing violin, with text Virginia Brights Ci

Caricatured Figure (Fiddler) from Girls and Children series (N64) promoting Virginia Brights Cigarettes for Allen & G…

Allen & Ginter, 1886

Woodblock print of a robed man with a scroll and a woman in pink kimono standing in a boat on rippling water.

Parody of the Noh Play "Hakurakuten"

Suzuki Harunobu, ca. 1766

Seated woman in a pale dress with clasped hands, drawn in black and white chalk on brown paper.

Portrait of Frederikke Tuxen

P.S. Krøyer, 1882

Pastel and charcoal drawing of a dancer holding a fan, skirt lifted, against a green and blue background.

Dancer with a Fan

Edgar Degas, ca. 1890-95

Pastel drawing of jockeys on racehorses crossing a grassy track with a distant town and church spire.

Race Horses

Edgar Degas, ca. 1885-88

Brown ink and wash drawing of an executioner raising an axe over a kneeling man, with soldiers and a crowd watching.

The Martyrdom of Saint Paul

Taddeo Zuccari, ca. 1557-58

Brown ink and wash drawing of a figure in long robes hanging from a gibbet beside a wooden post.

Elsje Christiaens Hanging on a Gibbet

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1664

Pen and wash drawing of a crowded triumphal procession with a carriage, horsemen, a winged trumpeting angel, and a triumphal

The Triumphal Entry of Frederik Hendrik of the Orange into The Hague

David Vinckboons, ca. 1629

Brown ink and wash drawing of Solomon judging between two women as a soldier raises a sword over an infant.

The Judgment of Solomon

Constantijn à Renesse, 1649-50