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Black chalk and white highlight drawing of a nude male figure raising one arm and holding a staff, on toned paper.

Saint John the Baptist

François Lemoyne, c. 1717

Brown ink and wash drawing of a religious procession under a canopy, with a mitred bishop and a crowd around a kneeling figur

The Healing of the Possessed Boy in a Procession of the Volto Santo

Elisabetta Sirani, c. 1659

Engraving of two bagpipe players on a rural road beside a tree, with a village and a walking figure in the distance.

Two Bagpipe Players

Hendrik Hondius I after Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1642

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a rolling landscape with trees, a winding path, a ruined tower and distant hills.

Roman Landscape

Elihu Vedder, c. 1900

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of a prostrate figure in a loose robe, head bowed, one arm outstretched, on gray paper.

From the Rubáiyát

Elihu Vedder, c. 1887

Brown wash drawing of a bearded prophet and a sibyl beside putti within an ornate classical architectural frame.

Prophet and Sybil

Ink drawing of a rural landscape with a thatched cottage, bare trees and a grassy field on tan paper.

Landscape at Pont-Aven

Paul Gauguin, c. 1888

Chalk drawing of a boy in a feathered military cap and cravat, looking straight ahead, on tan paper.

A Boy Wearing a Military Cap

Elizabeth Marius Kemper

after Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin Anonymous, 19th century

Red chalk drawing of a nude man kneeling with arms bound above his head beside a tree trunk.

Kneeling Man Bound to a Tree

Unknown artist, c. 1685

Brown-toned drawing of a rocky coast at night, with moonlit water, waves breaking on rocks, and a cloudy sky.

A Rocky Coast by Moonlight

William West or Samuel Jackson, late 1820s

Pencil sketch on grey paper of a cleared, rocky ground with trees and a small standing figure at left.

Bayswater, Clearing the Ground between Queen's Road and Porchester Terrace

John Linnell, 1830

Watercolor and graphite drawing of layered Blue Ridge mountains and a wooded valley under a hazy, cloud-filled sky.

Blue Ridge Mountains

Stanford White, c. 1898

Engraving of a kneeling saint in a habit gazing up at a radiant crucifix vision among tree trunks, a sleeping companion nearb

Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata

Lucas van Leyden, c. 1514

Engraving of Saint Jerome reading beside a lion in a rocky landscape, with a halo and distant hills, 1513.

Saint Jerome in a Landscape

Lucas van Leyden, 1513

Etching of a peasant couple seated under a tree, the man pouring from a jug into a bowl, with a distant town at right.

Peasant Couple Sitting under a Tree

Willem Basse, c. 1630/1660

Pencil sketches of semicircular lunette designs with seated figures, desks, books and labels reading Study and Religion.

Studies for Lunettes [recto]

Charles Sprague Pearce, 1890/1897

Pencil study on tan paper: a loose conifer branch at upper left and a stylized leafy border sprig at right.

Study for a Border Design with a Sketch of a Tree

Charles Sprague Pearce, 1890/1897

Red chalk drawing of a young woman with short hair and a plain blouse, looking toward the viewer, on tan paper.

Peasant Girl

Berthe Morisot, 1890

Art Nouveau theatre poster with two women, swirling dark hair, theatrical masks along the edge, and printed cast list.

Venise sauvée (Venice Preserved)

Jan Toorop, 1895

Vallotton lithograph poster: a man reads at a table beside a child on the floor, with theatre announcement text in bold lette

Père

Félix Vallotton, 1894

Chiaroscuro print of a seated nude man with a staff, books at his feet and a bird behind him, in brown tones.

Diogenes

after Parmigianino Ugo da Carpi, c. 1527

Charcoal and chalk study on tan paper of a head tilted back with closed eyes, resting on a pale surface.

Head of the Fallen Jockey (study for "Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey")

Edgar Degas, c. 1866

Graphite sketch of a reclining man with closed eyes and extended limbs on toned paper, by Edgar Degas.

Fallen Jockey (study for "Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey")

Edgar Degas, c. 1866

Loose pencil sketch on tan paper of groups of figures with bundles and a mounted rider in an open field.

Preparing for the March

Winslow Homer, 1862

An Elderly Bishop

Giuseppe Angeli, c. 1750

Ink painting of a robed immortal holding a gourd as a dragon coils above, on a gold-bordered hanging scroll.

Immortal with Gourd and Dragon

Kyūseki Tomonobu, late 1600s-early 1700s

Candlelit dinner scene with a bishop, a convict in a cap, an elderly woman ladling soup, and a servant holding a bottle.

L’évêque et le forçat

Frédéric Théodore Lix, 1879-1880

Monochrome print of a Roman bath scene with a standing nude young man, draped companions, a boy with a basket, and colonnades

A Roman bath

Henri Leopold Lévy, 1889

Watercolor of a man in red robe contemplating a dead king on a canopied bed, with a crown on a stool nearby.

Henry IV

Alexandre Bida, 1893

Watercolor of a man and woman in a medieval interior, the man reaching for a door as a bloodied dagger lies on steps.

Macbeth

Watercolor of a woman in green skirt and a man in red feathered cap with an arrow, standing in a dark wooded setting.

As you like it, Touchstone and Audrey

Henry Liverseege