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Brown chalk drawing with white highlights showing a seated bearded man embracing two children, surrounded by draped figures.

Christ and the Children

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of an ornamental vase with a bird-headed handle, scrolls, and a pedestal foot.

Design for a Vase

Polidoro da Caravaggio, 1520-43

Brown ink drawing of a helmeted warrior raising his arm before a crowd with spears in front of city walls.

Gideon Gathering His Army, Scene from the Book of Judges

Étienne Parrocel, 18th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a kneeling old man seen from behind, bending forward toward the upper left.

Old Man Kneeling Facing Upper Left

Salvator Rosa, 1615-73

Pen and ink drawing of the Nativity with angels adoring the Christ Child in a manger, cherubs in clouds above.

The Christ Child Adored by Angels

Gottfried de Wedig, late 16th-mid-17th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of The Last Supper with a haloed Christ at a long table surrounded by gesturing apostles.

The Last Supper

Philips Koninck, late 1650s

Pen and brown wash drawing of a seated bearded warrior in armor with a draped woman offering a laurel wreath.

Seated Warrior Between Two Figures

Giambattista Zelotti, 1546-78

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crowded street with figures, a statue on a pedestal, and a hanging banner.

Emblematic Scene

Otto van Veen, 1607 or before (?)

Watercolor design of a circular domed ceiling with green scrollwork, lion heads and gilded moldings framed by purple bands.

Design for Domed Ceiling for Mme Païva's Chateau at Neudeck

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, ca. 1877-84

Brown wash drawing of the Virgin and Child with cherubs and an angel holding a cross, heightened with white.

Virgin and Child, and Saint John the Baptist (recto); Summary sketches, possibly the Virgin and Child (verso)

Jacob Adriaensz. Backer

Etching of two bathers: one standing nude adjusting a hat, one seated woman touching her bare foot, with hatched ground.

The Two Bathers

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1895

Drawing of a draped woman seated on clouds beside a large eagle, with trees and a column in the background.

Jupiter and Astraea

Giulio Campi, ca. 1545-50

Pen and brown wash landscape with a skeleton hanging from a bare tree, a stone bridge, and a figure on distant hills.

Skeleton Hanging from a Tree in a Landscape

Paul Bril, late 16th-early 17th century

Pen drawing of a draped standing figure raising a chalice, with horizontal hatching in the background.

Saint John the Evangelist

Andrea Schiavone

Brown wash drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds with the Virgin, infant Christ, shepherds and angels above.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Hans Rottenhammer, ca. 1595-1606

Woodcut of St. Jerome kneeling with a lion in a forest landscape with a fountain and distant town.

The Penitence of St. Jerome

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1509

Side-view design drawing of a black and green brougham carriage with green spoked wheels, numbered 3583.

Brougham #3583

Brewster & Co., 1879

Side view painted design drawing of a green and black horse-drawn carriage with orange-trimmed spoked wheels, numbered 3770.

D'Orsay #3770

Brewster & Co., 1882

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash of Christ carrying the cross through a crowd of soldiers and kneeling women.

Christ Carrying the Cross

Caspar Fraisinger, 1590

Side view drawing of a green victoria carriage with spoked wheels on a tan background, labeled No 3571 B.

Victoria #3571b

Brewster & Co., 1880

Side-view design drawing of a blue and black victoria carriage with red-rimmed wheels, labeled No. 3635.

Victoria #3635

Brewster & Co., 1880

Colored drawing of an enthroned allegorical woman under a rainbow with attendants, framed by a classical decorative border wi

Weekly Calendar

Joseph Anton Koch, 1822

Side view drawing of a cabriolet carriage with yellow spoked wheels and blue seat, numbered 3723, on gray paper.

Cabriolet #3723

Brewster & Co., 1881

Side-view design drawing of a black cabriolet carriage with red-spoked wheels and blue upholstery on grey paper.

Cabriolet #3757

Brewster & Co., 1882

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bacchanal with revelers, putti and baskets of grapes gathered around a wine vat.

Bacchanal: Arrival at the Wine Vat

Joseph-Marie Vien, ca.1755

Side-elevation watercolor drawing of a dos-a-dos cart with a long curved shaft, spoked wheel and yellow lattice panels.

Dos-a-dos Cart #3683

Brewster & Co., 1881

Side-view drawing of a red and green village cart with large spoked wheel, long shafts, and lamp, numbered 3709.

Village Cart # 3709

Brewster & Co., 1881

Watercolor design of a gothic arched gallery wall with patterned upper panel, heraldic shield, and wood paneling below.

Design for wall decoration in a gallery of the Chateau de Lude, Sarthe

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

Drawing of a coffered ceiling design with ornamental panels, rosettes and scrollwork in brown ink on ochre wash.

Design for a decorated ceiling

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1840-97

Engraving of the Last Supper with Christ and seated apostles at a candlelit table, a city view and inscription above.

The Last Supper, from "The Passion of Christ"

Ludovicus Siceram, ca. 1623

Painted decorative panel with a gilded urn, roses, foliage, a perched bird and red drapery in a trompe l'oeil niche.

Trompe l'oeil design of birds and flowers

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

Pen and wash design of a symmetrical ornamental ceiling with scrolled panels, a central medallion, and classical moldings.

Design for Half of a Ceiling Decoration, Fontainbleau

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1867