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Pen and brown ink drawing of an owl pendant design with scrolling foliage, hanging drops and gemstones.

Design for a Pendant Jewel

Theodor de Bry, about 1580-1590

Pen and ink sketches of a child reclining with a lamb, with mirrored handwritten notes along the top edge.

Studies for the Christ Child with a Lamb (recto); Head of an Old Man, and Studies of Machinery (verso)

Leonardo da Vinci, about 1503-1506

Grisaille drawing of a fallen charioteer thrown from a chariot as panicked horses rear across a rocky mountain landscape.

Death of Hippolytos

Carle Vernet, 1800

Grey wash drawing of shepherds and a horseman on a sandy dune with a tree, distant hills beyond.

Dune Landscape with Shepherds

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem, 1652

Watercolor of a ribbed cactus in a terracotta pot with two large white flowers and a bud against a dark background.

Flowering Cactus

Marie-Alexandrine-Olimpe Arson, about 1840

Pen and ink drawing with white heightening of a winged angel in robes with a scroll, on a gray arched sheet.

Study of an Angel

Mair von Landshut, 1498

Drawing of a muscular male nude with billowing drapery standing on a sea creature beside a pillar, in brown ink.

Neptune

Giulio Campi, 1541

Head of a Young Girl in Profile

Odilon Redon, 1895

Watercolor of a dark sailboat battling a stormy sea with a breaking white wave and a distant ship under a brown sky.

Sailboat on a Raging Sea

Théodore Géricault, about 1818-1819

Watercolor of a classical villa courtyard with columns, statues, a marble fountain, and two women walking.

Interior Garden of a Villa, with Two Ladies Walking

Frances Maria Lushington, about 1828

Brown ink drawing of two muscular male nudes, one seen from behind, studied for anatomy.

Anatomical Studies

Peter Paul Rubens, about 1600-1605

Pen and ink design of a horizontal frieze with scrolling grapevines, grape clusters, and a central urn, dated 1537.

Design for a Frieze of Grapevines

Virgilius Solis, 1537

Pencil sketch of cavalry horses and riders in battle, drawn in loose overlapping lines on a small cream page.

Cavalry battle

Théodore Géricault, 1812-1814

Watercolor drawing of Apollo and Daphne, two nude figures in a windy landscape, Daphne turning into laurel branches.

Apollo and Daphne

Jan Boeckhorst, about 1668

Watercolor of a turquoise alpine river flowing past boulders and pine trees toward distant mountain peaks.

Wooded River Landscape in the Alps

Thomas Ender, about 1850-1870

Graphite sketch of a lion hunt with overlapping horses and riders, plus small architectural interior studies above.

Two compositional studies of a lion hunt

Théodore Géricault, 1812-1814

Pencil sketch of a cavalry skirmish with overlapping horses and riders on cream paper, a rider at upper right.

Cavalry skirmish with four horsemen

Théodore Géricault, 1812-1814

Botanical drawing of a cinnamon branch with broad oval leaves and clusters of small white flowers.

Cinnamomum

Georg Dionysius Ehret, 1759

Grey wash drawing of people picking and sorting fruit in an orchard, with ladders, baskets and a donkey loaded with produce.

September: Picking Fruit

Claude Simpol, about 1700

Pen and wash drawing of winged angels on clouds carrying a tall column, with small putti assisting below.

Angels Bearing the Column of the Passion

Friedrich Sustris, about 1580-1590

Two women in a dim interior, one sewing by an oil lamp, the other seated at a table, rendered in soft chalk.

The Mother and Wife of the Artist Sewing by Lamplight (La mère et la femme de l'artiste cousant à la lumière d'une la…

Albert Lebourg, 1880

Red and black chalk drawing of a mystic marriage scene with a seated woman, infant, saint and figures in a wooded landscape.

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (after Correggio)

Federico Zuccaro, about 1595

Red and black chalk drawing of a boy's head tilted downward, on blue-grey paper.

Head of a Boy (recto); Figure Studies (verso)

Federico Barocci, about 1586-1589

Brown ink drawing of helmeted Pallas Athena pointing to a landscape with ruins while a boy raises his hand beside her.

Pallas Athena Shows Taddeo the Prospect of Rome

Federico Zuccaro, about 1595

Watercolor landscape with a large spreading tree, wooded banks, distant blue hills and a small cottage at right.

Landscape

Anthony van Dyck, about 1640

Brown ink and wash drawing of costumed figures in a theatrical interior, with a seated man writing at a table.

Scene from the Italian Comedy (recto); Figure Study (verso)

Claude Gillot, about 1700

Pen and brown ink drawing of a standing male nude raising his arms and holding a sword, with a reclining figure nearby.

Study for the Figure of Abraham

Domenico Beccafumi, 1547

Head of an Angel (recto); Head of a Woman (verso)

Francesco Paolo Michetti, about 1890

Pencil sketch of a lion head with a hatched mane on a sketchbook page, with faint outlines of a seated lion below.

Head on view of seated lion

Théodore Géricault, 1812-1814

Pencil drawing of a hilltop town with a church complex above a river valley, with mountains and two figures on a path.

View of Benevento

Edmund Friedrich Kanoldt, 1874