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Watercolor battle scene of nude and armored warriors with swords, spears and shields clashing before hazy mountains.

Battle Scene

François Joseph Heim, 19th century

Painted sketch of Niobe's children struck down by arrows from Diana and Apollo in the clouds, with a kneeling mother among th

The Punishment of the Arrogant Niobe by Diana and Apollo

Pierre Charles Jombert, ca. 1772

Red chalk study sheet with many hands, arms and feet in different poses, mounted on blue board.

Studies of Hands and Feet

François Lemoyne, early 18th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of elegant figures conversing in a colonnaded hall, with a servant carrying a tray and a small dog.

La Conversation espagnole

Carle Vanloo, 1754

Pen and ink drawing of a formal assembly hall with a canopied dais, seated dignitaries, and armed guards along barriers.

Assemblée des Notables, Versailles, 1787

Jean-Michel Moreau, 1787

Dark brown print of a reclining figure and tropical plants, with a face in the upper right and the title Te Po lower left.

Te Po

Paul Gauguin, 1893-94

Brown ink and wash drawing of three draped women beside a seated winged angel near a sepulchre.

The Holy Women at the Sepulchre

Sisto Badalocchio, 1585-1620 (?)

Brown wash drawing of a robed saint reading an open book within an arched niche, with a haloed head.

Saint Mark

Domenico Beccafumi, 1538

Brown ink drawing of a seated woman painting a nude model at an easel beside a classical bust.

An Artist and His Model

Felice Giani, 1778-1823

Drawing of a bacchanal wedding feast with revelers, musicians, putti, and an elephant beneath grapevines, in red chalk and wa

The Wedding Feast of Bacchus and Ariadne

Guy Louis Vernansal the Elder, ca. 1709

Ink and wash drawing of a mounted knight in plumed helmet cutting his cloak, beside a barefoot beggar with a staff and a hors

Saint Martin and the Beggar

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crowded heavenly scene with clouds, angels, and saints arranged in four numbered sections.

Paradise

Jacopo Tintoretto, 1519-94

Pen and wash drawing of a monumental classical stage set with tiered arches, columns and a receding central arch.

Design for a Stage Set (recto); Fragmentary Sketch of a Stage Set in Elevation (verso)

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1718-65

Pencil and wash drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds, with the Virgin and infant Christ lit at center and kneeling figur

Adoration of the Shepherds

Claude Vignon, ca. 1620-30

Engraving of emaciated figures gathered around a skeleton on the ground, with a winged skeleton of Death holding an open book

The Skeletons, a group of emaciated men and women gathered around a skeleton laid on the ground and a figure of Death…

Marco Dente, 1515-27

Engraving of a robed priest and attendant at a flaming altar as a nude man restrains a horned ram between two trees.

The Sacrifice of a Ram, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marco Dente, 16th century

Grey wash drawing of a vaulted Gothic stone interior with columns, a staircase, and wooden gates, possibly a stage design.

Design for a Stage Set

Giovanni Maria Quaglio I, 1700-65

Sepia drawing of a rocky river landscape with fishermen, a ruined castle on a cliff, and distant mountains.

Landscape with Fishermen

Gaspard Dughet, 17th century

Sepia drawing of Joshua raising his arm toward the sun over a walled city on cliffs, with armies in a valley below.

Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still Upon Gibeon (Joshua: 10: 12-14)

John Martin, ca. 1822

Sepia drawing of a rocky cave with a hunter playing a horn and a dog running in front of overhanging cliffs.

Rocky Landscape with Hunters

Johann Christian Reinhart, 1786

Engraving of nude figures and putti in a wooded landscape, with a winged cupid in the tree above.

Allegory of the Power of Love, with a man at center embracing a semi-naked woman, who is bound to a tree by Cupid

Cristofano di Michele Martini, 1480-1535

Engraving of Achilles dragging Hector's body past Troy's walls on a chariot, with soldiers, mourners and a burning city behin

The combat of Hector and Achilles, and Achilles dragging the body of Hector around the walls of Troy

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Engraving of muscular nude and draped figures and apostles in a dense Last Judgment-style group, after Michelangelo.

Group from Last Judgment, St. Bartholomew, St. Peter, and other Apostles

Domenico del Barbiere, n.d.

Grisaille drawing of a woman with a flower wreath before a mirror held by a winged-helmet figure, with irises beside her.

The Mirror of Venus, or L'Art et Vie (Art and Life)

Walter Crane, ca. 1890

Woodcut of a woman driving a peg into a sleeping man's head in an arched interior, with armed onlookers and a standing woman.

Jael Killing Sisera, without ornamental frame (copy)

Lucas van Leyden, early 16th century

Woodcut of a startled nobleman in a feathered hat recoiling from a skeleton holding a sword, with a hilltop town behind.

The Count, from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Woodcut of a storm-tossed ship with billowing sails, crowded sailors and a skeletal figure amid churning waves.

The Skipper (or Sailor), from "The Dance of Death"

Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1526, published 1538

Engraving of women with water jars gathered at a well beside a wooden trellis, with trees and grasses in the background.

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well

Master IQV, ca. 1542-45

Engraving of the Virgin Mary rising among clouds, surrounded by angels and cherubs, with a dove and light rays above.

The Assumption of the Virgin

Master IQV, 1540-50

Engraving of the Holy Family: Mary seated with the Christ child, and Joseph with a staff behind them under a draped curtain.

The Holy Family

Battista Franco Veneziano, 1510-61

Engraving of nude men fighting on foot and horseback in a wooded landscape, with a dog at lower left.

Group of naked men engaged in battle in a wooded landscape, some on horseback; a dog at lower left

Domenico Campagnola, 1517

Brown wash drawing of a friar in a dark habit preaching to a seated crowd, with a wooded landscape behind, in an arched frame

St. Vincent Ferrer Preaching

Alonso Cano, 1665