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Soft pastel portrait of a woman with downcast eyes, wearing a green headwrap and pink shawl against a blended green backgroun

Two Faces

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Loose watercolor of an outdoor cafe with round tables, chairs and seated figures beneath trees in soft green and blue washes.

Outdoor Cafe

Maurice Prendergast, 1890

Charcoal drawing of a large tree beside a winding path, with a hillside and distant tower in the background.

The Lake of Garda, Italy

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Drawing of a bearded man and two women under grapevines beside a carved wine jug tomb, with verse text in the center.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Omar's Tomb

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pen drawing of a village with adobe houses, cattle, an oxcart, and mountains under a sky with trees.

The Plains of Etla

George Overbury "Pop" Hart, 1920

Charcoal sketch of a mother holding a child in a narrow bedroom with a window, bed and lamp, another child standing nearby.

Mutter mit zwei Kindern in einem schmalen Schlafzimmer. Vorzeichnung zu "Das eiserne Kreuz"

Heinrich Zille, 1873

Black and white chalk study of two snarling dogs, one full body lying down and one head study, on grey paper.

Studien von zwei Hunden mit gefletschten Zähnen

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1715

Brown wash drawing of a curving ruined arcade inside the Colosseum, with a seated figure in the foreground and arches recedin

Im Inneres des Kolosseums (Umgang)

Jean Grandjean, 1771

Loose brown painted study of a horse's hindquarters turned left, with a grey harness strap, against a pale hazy background.

Pferderumpf nach links

Adolph Menzel, 1843

Weibliche Gewandfigur im Profil nach rechts (Maria einer Heimsuchung)

Mariotto Albertinelli

Drawing of soldiers attacking women and infants before classical ruins and trees, in brown ink and grey wash.

Der Bethlehemitische Kindermord vor einer Landschaft mit antiken Gebäuden

Hans Rottenhammer, 1616

Brown wash drawing of a street dentist extracting a tooth from a seated patient while a crowd watches under a tree.

The dentist

Johann Jakob Dorner the Elder, 1773

Brown wash drawing of robed philosophers and a woman conversing near an obelisk, globe and scrolls in a classical courtyard.

Aspasia in conversation with philosophers

Michel Corneille the Younger

Red and black chalk drawing of a woman with a veil, head tilted upward, by François Lemoyne, 1726.

Head of a woman with a veil (Vestal, guarding the fire)

François Lemoyne, 1726

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bearded nude preacher raising his arm before a crowd beneath a large tree.

Johannes predigt in der Wüste

Sébastien Bourdon

Pen and brown ink sketch of a soldier with a plumed hat and staff driving two goats forward on tan paper.

Two soldiers drive two goats before them

Red and black chalk study of a man's contorted face with curly hair, with a raised arm sketched above.

Head of Petrus from Rubens's The Raising of the Cross of Peter

Nicolas Guibal, 1637

Pen and brown ink drawing of a woman with a barrel tending pigs by a trough, with a thatched roof and village church behind.

Magd beim Schweinefüttern

Fritz Boehle, 1896

Painted study of a blooming lilac bush with violet flower clusters among green leaves against a grey-blue sky.

Blooming lilac bush

Drawing of a bearded older man with a woman and child peering from behind him, rendered in brown wash and red chalk.

Alter Mann mit junger Frau und Kleinkind (Heilige Familie?)

Brown ink drawing of the Descent of the Holy Spirit: Mary seated among apostles beneath a descending dove in an arched room.

Descent of the Holy Spirit

Parmigianino, 1526

Oil sketch of a wooden hand cart piled with cut grass and clover beside a dark wooden post on a path.

Karren mit geschnittenem Gras beladen

Oil portrait study of a man with dark hair, white collar and dark jacket, looking to the side against a brown background.

Porträtstudie eines Mannes

Watercolor of a path through a dense beech forest with a wooden bridge in the foreground under green and yellow foliage.

Weg durch einen Buchenwald, vorne eine hölzerne Brücke

Martinus van der Jagt

Brustbild eines italienischen Edelmannes

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Charcoal and chalk portrait of a young woman in a long pleated dress, arms folded, against a dark background.

Katharina Elise Heislitz, erste Frau von Anton Burger

Angilbert Göbel, 1855

Graphite sketch of hills, trees and clouds in a landscape, labelled Kumara, on a sketchbook page.

Sketch of Kumara landscape in An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Monochrome print of a horned demon on a cross above a nude woman with outstretched arms, flanked by candles.

Le Calvaire (Calvary)

Félicien Rops, 1880

Charcoal portrait of an elderly bearded man in a wrapped turban, looking toward the viewer on tan paper.

Head of an old man

Watercolour of a river lined with willows, a seated woman reading on the bank and a standing man beyond her.

The river

George Kilburne

Pen and wash drawing of an amorous couple seated by curtains, with an older veiled woman watching from the right.

Amorous Couple

Jacob Matham, 1623

Academic study after a sculpture: bust of Hippocrates

Jean Cierckens, 1837