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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Studies for a religious representation

Filippo Marchionni

Chalk drawing on blue paper of a young man leaning back and pulling a rope, with a hand study at lower right.

Young Man Pulling a Rope

Brown ink sketch of a man reclining on a couch with a sword as mourners raise their arms beside him under a stormy sky.

Suicide of Marcus Porcius Cato

Brown ink drawing of an angel kneeling before an elderly man beside a well, with standing robed figures in an arched architec

Copy after Annunciation of the Angel to Zechariah

Andrea del Sarto

Pen and wash drawing of a farmyard with a cottage, large tree, cow, sheep, chickens and figures tending animals.

Seated Shepherd

François Boucher

Brown ink drawing of two octagonal panels: a winged figure handing a lyre to a seated youth, and women kneeling before a stat

Winged Victory Gives Apollo Lyre; Statue of Minerva

Pen and ink drawing of an ornate chandelier with a coiled serpent around its central stem and hanging bead garlands.

Chandelier

Giuseppe Barberi

Red ink drawing of architectural elevations with a door, overdoor, classical moldings, scrollwork, and two putti.

Elevations of a Door, Door Frames, Overdoor, and Adjoining Wall Panel

Mauro Antonio Tesi

Pen and brown ink drawing of two seated women in an oval, one with scales of justice and one with an olive branch.

Justice and Peace

Brown wash design for spandrel decoration showing a bearded man with a raised sword and a child within arched frames.

Design for Spandral Decoration

Red chalk and white highlight study on blue paper of a draped figure with outstretched arms and detailed drapery folds.

Studies for the Entombment of Christ

Giuseppe Passeri

Pen and brown ink drawing of a frieze with four caryatid figures supporting an entablature above framed panels.

Frieze with Four Caryatids

Brown ink and wash drawing of a clock design with a seated female figure, lion supports and a garland-decorated pedestal.

Project for a slightly varied suggestion for the upper part of the pedestal and the figure with the dial in 1938-88-2109

Giuseppe Barberi

Grey wash drawing of a female nude seen from behind beside a pedestal, sketched after classical sculpture.

Sketch of Classical Sculpture of the Venus Pudica Type

Benozzo Gozzoli

Pen and brown ink sketch of kneeling women and children pleading before armored Roman soldiers beside a tent and standards.

Coriolanus Agrees to Lift the Siege of Rome

Red chalk drawing of a winged angel or putto in flight, head turned upward, with sketched arms on a cream sheet.

A Seated Angel

Red chalk drawing of a reclining male nude with arm raised behind his head, resting on draped cloth, on worn paper.

Slave from Hero and Leander in the Galleria Farnese, after Annibale Carraci

Annibale Carracci

Ink and wash sketch of three classical scenes with seated and standing figures, with handwritten Italian captions.

Cornelia, Mother of Gracchi; Socrates, Alcibiades and Aspasia; Zeus and the Maidens of Crotone

Grey wash drawing of an armored allegorical figure with shield, putti and acanthus scrolls, design for a carriage rear.

Design for the Rear of a Carriage with Valor Victorious over Vice and Arrogance

Bust of a Young Girl

François Boucher

Oval brown ink wash drawing of veiled women gathered around a seated figure with a scroll beside an altar in a classical inte

Figural Scene with People Gathered Around a Seated Woman who Reads from Scroll

Pen and brown wash sketch of a kneeling bishop with mitre and crozier, hands clasped in prayer.

A Kneeling Bishop

Belisario Corenzio

Red chalk drawing of two bearded men in draped robes, one raising his arm and pointing upward.

Two Apostles

Pen and ink sketch of six small classical gods and goddesses stacked vertically, each beside an altar or attribute.

Six Antique Gods and Goddesses

Pencil study of a man in a long cloak bowing low, holding his hat in one hand and his other hand on his chest.

Study of a Bowing Man (Christopher Columbus)

Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta

Portrait, possibly Elizabeth Vail

Carroll Beckwith

Pen and ink sketch of a wall decoration with columns, garlands hanging between rosettes, and vertical pilasters below.

Wall Decoration with Columns, Entablature, and Pilasters

Pencil sketch of a helmeted man in a long coat raising a flag, face turned upward, on tan paper.

Drawing - Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta

Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta

Red chalk sketch of a seated man in loose outline within a rectangular frame on cream paper.

Portrait of a Seated Man

Fortunato Duranti

Pen and watercolor design for a decorated coach body with gilded scrollwork and circular medallions containing winged figures

Decorated Coach Body