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Painting of a woman in a red turban with three children and a white goat against a dark leafy background.

Woman with Three Children and a Goat

Nicolaes Maes, 1660

Woman in a white cap gestures toward a young sailor holding coins, beside a child asleep in a bed under a sloping attic roof.

The Sailor's Return

Francis Wheatley, 1786

Painted portrait of a man in dark military dress and red trousers holding a sabre, with a hound and tree beside him.

Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843)

Pen and brown ink drawing of four seated peasant figures seen from behind on a bench.

Peasants at Rest

Jacob de Gheyn II

Brown wash drawing of a windswept tree on rocky ground with two small figures and mountains under a cloudy sky.

A Rocky Landscape with a Tree and Two Figures

Pencil sketch of moored sailing boats with masts and rigging in a harbor, with buildings and a tower along the quay.

Livornos hamn

Anton Melbye, 1962

Pen and ink sketch of wind-bent trees and scrub on open ground, inscribed Tisvilde skov, 13 June 1843.

Tisvilde skog

P.C. Skovgaard, 1963

Two men in fringed clothing and feathered headdresses carry a slain deer past a waterfall in a forest.

The Deer-Slayers

John Mix Stanley

Painting of a blonde girl feeding a brown and a white rabbit from a basket of greens on a hay-covered crate.

Feeding the bunnies

Felix Schlesinger

Painting of a sunlit Moorish courtyard with ornate arches, tiled walls, a reflecting pool, and two seated figures.

In the Courtyard of the Alhambra

Dancer in blue headscarf performing beside a seated musician with a long-necked lute in an ornate interior.

Dance of the Almeh

Painting of a peddler on a platform addressing a crowd in a town square, with a windmill and houses under a cloudy sky.

A peddler before a crowd of villagers in a town square

Benjamin Gerritsz. Cuyp

Sepia pen and ink sketch of a quay with stone buildings, a tower on a wooded hill, and a rowboat at the water's edge.

Rousseau - 2013.1020 - Mess Downstream, the Auteuil Quai

Henri Rousseau, 1020

Pencil drawing of a seated bearded prisoner in a vaulted brick cell at Fortress Monroe, with two armed guards and a barred wi

The casemate, Fortress Monroe, Jeff Davis in prison

Alfred Waud, 1865

Painting of a shepherd guiding sheep down a dappled tree-lined path with more sheep grazing in a sunlit meadow.

Max Liebermann Schafherde 1888

Max Liebermann, 1888

Painting of a serving maid with a copper pitcher walking past outdoor diners under trees in a sunlit garden.

A Glance Exchanged

Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer

Sepia drawing under a brick arch of Notre Dame, barges on the Seine quay, and pedestrians walking along the riverside.

La pointe de l’Ile Saint Louis, Notre Dame Le Mail (port de l’Hôtel de Ville) quai de la Cité et quai aux Fleurs et l…

Jules-Adolphe Chauvet, 1885

Watercolor street view of a brick and stone building with dormers and chimneys, with pedestrians on a cobbled street, 1885.

Maison Abbatiale à l'angle de la rue de l'Abbaye, de la rue Cardinale et du passage de la Petite-Boucherie, 6ème arro…

Jules-Adolphe Chauvet, 1885

Sketch of a bearded man in a feathered hat standing on steps before a large crowd, with a kneeling figure in the foreground.

François Ier pose la première pierre de l'Hôtel de Ville, DDUT1722

Paul Foucher, 585

Eugène Delacroix, 1827

Brown ink and wash drawing of a vaulted arcade with stone columns and steps beside an open palace courtyard.

A cloister in a palace courtyard

Ignace-François Bonhommé

Etching of a woman riding a donkey past men at an inn doorway, with resting sheep and donkeys in the foreground.

Halte devant une hôtellerie (Hollstein 11), GDUT438

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem

Loose oil sketch of a martyrdom scene with a reclining figure, armored soldiers, a horse and classical columns.

The martyrium of Saint Adrian

Peter Paul Rubens, 1616

Pen and brown ink sketch of women gathered around a newborn infant in a religious scene on toned paper.

La Naissance de la Vierge (Lugt 65), DDUT1139

Peter Paul Rubens

Graphite sketch of a standing nude young woman with wavy hair, head tilted up, on tan paper.

Young Nude Woman

Luc-Olivier Merson

Pencil sketch of tall trees in a landscape with two small figures standing in an open field.

Man and woman in a landscape

Jean Achille Benouville

Charcoal study of a shirtless man with one arm raised high and face turned upward, on tan paper.

Study for the Red Joy, Shirtless Man with His Right Arm Raised

Georges Rochegrosse

Study of a 16th-century sleeve

Luc-Olivier Merson

Red chalk study of a standing nude child holding a cord across the shoulders, with white highlights on brown paper.

Front study of a standing nude young girl

Luc-Olivier Merson

Charcoal study of a seated nude male figure with one arm raised, drawn on toned paper, with handwritten notes below.

Study of a man for The Artist's Plastique

Albert Besnard, 1890

Pencil and red chalk study on brown paper of an infant's head and body with raised arm, signed Ch. Chaplin.

Study of Cupids

Charles Joshua Chaplin

Pencil and white chalk study of two nude boys standing and singing, one fully modeled and one lightly sketched, on brown pape

Two Nude Boys Singing

Luc-Olivier Merson