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Brown wash drawing with white highlights of two winged angels, one holding a book and one playing a lute, with a third figure

Angel Musicians (recto); Head Studies (verso)

Morazzone, about 1598-1599

Brown ink and wash drawing of a kneeling female saint looking up at a cross surrounded by clouds and angels.

A Female Saint Contemplating a Crucifix

Giovanni Antonio Guardi, about 1745

Brown ink and wash drawing of a kneeling saint embracing the Christ Child, with the Virgin, angels and light rays above.

Vision of Saint Gaetano Thiene

Ubaldo Gandolfi, about 1775

Pen and gray wash drawing of a village fair with tents, a church steeple, a flag, carts, and crowds of people.

A Village Festival with Musicians Playing Outside a Tent

Jan van Goyen, 1653

Brown wash drawing of a crowded theatre with an audience and costumed performers on an arched stage.

A Theatrical Performance

Francesco Guardi, 1782

Brown ink drawing of a young man sketching in a colonnaded loggia while a companion sleeps, with a moonlit landscape beyond.

Taddeo Copying Raphael's Frescoes in the Loggia of the Villa Farnesina, Where He is Also Represented Asleep

Federico Zuccaro, about 1595

Red and black chalk drawing of a young girl with long hair and a lace collar, looking directly at the viewer.

Portrait of a Girl

Carlo Dolci, about 1665

Pen drawing of a medieval town with half-timbered houses, a church spire, fishermen by a river, and a horseback rider.

Fishing Port

Rodolphe Bresdin, 1864

Pen and brown ink drawing of a winding road, stone bridge, and chapel below steep cliffs with a valley beyond.

Mountainous Landscape with a Chapel

Jacob de Gheyn II, about 1600-1603

Pencil sketch sheet of cavalry riders and rearing horses in overlapping studies, by Théodore Géricault.

Cavalry skirmish

Théodore Géricault, 1812-1814

Worn green sketchbook cover with a handwritten paper label in the upper right corner.

Sketchbook

Théodore Géricault, 1812-1814

Pen and wash drawing of an armored warrior standing over a fallen man, with a winged putto above and allegorical women below.

Virtue or Fortitude Vanquishing Ignorance before the Allegory of the Arts

Hermann Weyer, about 1620

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Virgin being crowned by Christ and an angel, with cherubs on clouds and a dove above.

The Coronation of the Virgin

Francisco Ribalta, about 1600-1628

Black chalk and white heightened drawing of Cupid overpowering the goat-legged Pan on blue paper.

Cupid Overpowering Pan (recto); Head of a Monk; Caricature of a Man in Profile (verso)

Agostino Carracci, about 1590

Dim interior drawing with a cat at a diamond-paned window and two seated figures in shadow, light falling across the floor.

"Le chat" or The Cat at the Window

Jean-François Millet, about 1857-1858

Watercolor landscape of a river winding past trees and rocks toward a distant house under a grey, cloudy sky.

River Landscape

Johann Georg von Dillis, about 1820-1830

Watercolor of a pink-flowered branch with caterpillars, a purple butterfly, and red seeds in an open pod.

The Rocu Tree with Caterpillars, Moths, and Butterflies

Maria Sibylla Merian

Red chalk drawing of a young David holding a sword, seated on the severed head of Goliath, with drapery and a distant landsca

David with the Head of Goliath (recto); Two Studies, one of a Woman (verso)

Domenico Fetti, about 1620

Circular drawing of the Circumcision of the infant Christ in an arched interior, with haloed figures and an attendant holding

The Circumcision

Sebald Beham, about 1522

Pen and ink drawing of a dancing peasant couple seen from behind, with hatched shading and billowing clothing.

Dancing Peasant Couple

Ink and wash drawing of a man-of-war and smaller sailing boats on calm, misty water under a pale sky.

Man-of-War and Small Vessels

Caspar van den Bos, 1653

Chalk drawing on tan paper of a muscular nude man seated, one arm raised holding a cup, the other arm extended outward.

Study of a Nude Man Posed as Bacchus

Antoine Coypel, about 1685

Pen and ink drawing of an ornamental wall light bracket on pale paper with a faint border.

Drawing for a Wall Light

Pierre Contant d'Ivry, 1753-1756

Red chalk drawing of the Virgin Mary ascending among clouds and angels while apostles look up from below.

Assumption of the Virgin

Baldassare Franceschini, about 1664-1670

Sketch of a reclining man in period dress, drawn in black and red chalk with white highlights on grey paper.

Reclining Male Figure

François Boucher, 1736

Pen and ink drawing of a forest landscape with a chapel, a shepherd resting with goats, and birds in the sky.

Landscape with Forest Chapel

Heinrich Johann Gärtner, 1847

Brown ink wash drawing of a woodland scene with nymphs and satyrs gathered by a pond beneath tall trees.

Woodland Landscape with Nymphs and Satyrs

Herman van Swanevelt, 1636

Pen and ink drawing with grey wash showing studies of draped women, infants, and a nude male figure on blue paper.

Sheet of Studies of Various Figures

Aurelio Luini, 1570s

Pen and brown wash drawing of a reclining figure on a couch in a columned interior, with soldiers and putti nearby.

The Death of Cleopatra

Luca Cambiaso, about 1560

Ink and wash drawing of a stooped elderly figure in a dark cloak leaning on two canes, with a Spanish inscription below.

He can no longer at the age of ninety-eight

Francisco Goya, about 1819-1823