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Pen and wash design for a classical wall elevation with central fireplace, columns, and two painted landscape panels.

Design for a Wall Elevation

Étienne de Lavallée-Poussin, ca. 1770-80

Architectural drawing with a north elevation of a classical palace above and its ground plan below, in pen and wash.

North Elevation and Ground Plan of the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo

Giacomo Quarenghi, 1792-96

Architectural elevation of a palace salon wall with columns, arched painted panels, winged figures and a central doorway.

Central Salon of the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo

Giacomo Quarenghi, 1792-96

Brown wash drawing of an ornate urn with a lid, garlands and scrolled band on a pedestal, with foliage behind.

Study for a Vase in a Suite of Vase Designs

Louis Joseph le Lorrain

Ink and wash elevation drawing of a classical wall tomb with columns, a central sarcophagus, bust, and flanking armored figur

Elevation for a Wall Tomb

Jean-Michel Moreau

Pen drawing of a classical scene with an ornate ship, soldiers, robed figures, columns and a domed building.

Aeneas's Farewell to Dido

Pen and grey wash design of a rococo cartouche with putti and monkeys perched on scrolling ornament and a central mask.

Design for a Rococo Cartouche with Putti and Monkeys

Clément Pierre Marillier

Pen and wash design sheet showing silver tureens, urns, a tazza and a candelabrum held by a standing female figure.

Designs for Silver

Jean Guillaume Moitte

Pen and watercolor design of an ornate etui and a chatelaine with pendants, decorated with rococo scrollwork and ribbons.

Designs for an Etui and a Chatelaine

Watercolor design sheet with a snuff box lid, a floral frieze, and a circular rosette ornament in pastel colors.

Design for a Snuff Box

Colored design drawing of a decorative etui above a chatelaine with pink and blue panels, floral garlands and rococo ornament

Designs for a Chatelaine and an Etui

Ink and wash design for a fountain with two nude male figures supporting a basin, putti and garlands below.

Design for a Fountain

Charles Pierre Joseph Normand

Ink and wash drawing of an ornate Rococo cartouche with an empty oval center and scrolling foliage borders.

Study for a Cartouche

Gilles-Marie Oppenord

Pen and ink drawing of a veiled woman reading in an ornate Baroque cartouche with rays of light and tablets below.

Study for a Decorated Initial A with the Annunciation

Gilles-Marie Oppenord

Black chalk drawing of an ornate covered vase with scrolled brackets, foliage and a tall pedestal base on pale paper.

Design for a Vase

Gilles-Marie Oppenord

Red chalk drawing of an imaginary garden with classical urns, a carved figure, a niche, and fountain-like architecture.

Study for a Garden Capriccio

Gilles-Marie Oppenord

Pen and wash drawing of brackets, caryatids, scrolls and a bust in an oval medallion, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord.

Brackets, Caryatids and other Architectural Details (recto and verso)

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, ca. 1690-1710

Grey wash drawing of a sailing warship squadron at sea under cloudy skies, with a French caption below.

Campagne du Vice-amiral Cte d'Estaing

Pierre Ozanne, 1778

Ink drawing of an ornamental urn with a grimacing Medusa-like face at centre and two serpent handles, on a pedestal.

Design for a Vase

Pencil sketch of two armchairs, one curved with scrolled arms, the other with an arched back and tapered legs.

Studies for Two Armchairs (recto); sketches for Three Chairs and Parts of a Fourth (verso)

Charles Percier, ca. 1800-1805

Brown ink and wash study of an emperor carrying a cross amid horsemen, soldiers and crowds, framed by a scrolled cartouche.

Study for Emperor Heraclius Carrying the Cross into Jerusalem

Gregorio de' Ferrari, 1647-1726

Grey wash drawing of a harbor with a sailing ship, crates and barrels, and a central oval monogram cartouche.

Design for a Vignette: Harbor Scene

Charles Percier

Pencil sketch of Christ driving money changers from a temple, with a whip raised over a fleeing crowd.

Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple

Lorenzo de' Ferrari, 1700-44

Ink and wash drawing of Neptune with a trident, spiked crown, and oval medallion showing horses and a chariot.

Design for Neptune with an Oval Medallion

Charles Percier

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated allegorical woman with putti, a helmeted figure and a lion in a circular composition.

Study of Justice Dispensing Rewards to the Arts (recto); Study of a Lunette and Spandrel (verso)

Lorenzo de' Ferrari, 1680-1744

Vignette with Two Portrait Medallions

Charles Percier

Pen and ink drawing of a rococo ornamental design with scrolls, a cornucopia of flowers, and hanging garlands.

Design for a Ceiling Decoration (recto); Daphne Pursued by Apollo (verso)

Lorenzo de' Ferrari, 1680-1744

Brown wash drawing of a draped female allegory beside a sailing ship, cargo crates, barrels and a harbor with a tower.

Allegory of Shipping

Charles Percier

Brown wash drawing of a ceiling design with a radiating Jesus monogram, clouds, angels and allegorical figures.

Ceiling Design with the Glorification of the Name of Jesus (recto); Aurora and Cephalus (verso)

Lorenzo de' Ferrari, 1680-1744

Brown ink drawing of allegorical figures with scales, a shield, a flute player, a trumpet and a putto.

Allegorical Composition: Music and Justice with the Spinola Arms

Giovanni Battista Gaulli, 1639-1709

Grey wash drawing of robed saints and music-making angels among clouds in heavenly glory.

Prophets, Patriarchs, Saints, and Music-Making Angels in Glory

Giovanni Battista Gaulli, 1639-1709

Brown wash drawing of Elijah resting in the wilderness beside a jug as an angel flies down through clouds above.

Elijah Visited by an Angel in the Wilderness (1 Kings 19:4-8)

Alessandro Magnasco, 1687-1749

Pen and wash drawing of Christ and the Virgin Mary joining hands in heaven, surrounded by angels and clouds.

Christ Receiving the Virgin into Heaven

Giovanni Battista Paggi, 1554-1627

Brown wash drawing of Moses raising his staff as Egyptian chariots and horses are swept into the sea while a crowd watches.

Moses and the Chosen People Behold the Drowning of the Egyptian Army in the Red Sea

Domenico Piola, 1627-1703

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of four robed figures on rocky ground against a blue-grey sky.

Scene with Four Figures of Monks Discoursing

Paolo Gerolamo Piola, 1666-1724

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate tabernacle design with a cross, winged figures, cherubs, and animals at its base.

Design for a Tabernacle

Pierre Puget, ca. 1650-60

Red chalk drawing of a bishop with a crozier raising his hand before a tub holding three children, with rays of light behind.

Saint Nicholas of Bari Resuscitating Three Children Discovered in a Tub of Brine

Giovanni Agostino Ratti, 1699-1795

Black chalk drawing of an elderly bearded man with curly hair pointing to his temple, resting a hand on a book.

Saint Peter

Bernardo Strozzi, 1581-1644

Pen and grey wash drawing of a standing female allegorical figure with a serpent and spear in a niche.

Study for Allegorical Figure of Prudence

Perino del Vaga, 1501-47

Watercolor architectural drawing of a grand ministry mansion garden facade above a sectional cutaway, dated 1853.

Project for a Headquarters of a War Ministry

Wagner, 1853

Architectural elevation drawing of a two-story theater facade with arched arcades, columns and statues on top.

Project for the New Theater at St. Quentin (Aisne): Elevation

Emile-Jacques Gilbert, ca. 1841

Colored architectural section of a proposed theater showing balconies, a curved auditorium with red decoration, and a roof tr

Project for the New Theater at St. Quentin (Aisne) - Section

Emile-Jacques Gilbert, ca. 1841

Watercolor elevations of two matching blue and gold tribunes on marble bases, labeled in French as flanking grille no. 1.

Right and Left Tribunes

Charles Percier

Ink elevation drawing of the Fontaine Desaix in Place Dauphine, with lion-head spouts, inscribed pedestal and classical statu

Fontaine Desaix

Charles Percier

Pen drawing of a riverside town with a tower, church spire, a rowing boat with two figures, and grazing animals.

A Town by a Rivers Edge

Nicolas Perelle

Brown ink drawing of the Château d'Amboise seen from a street with a stone wall, pedestrians, and large trees.

Veue et Perspective du Chasteau d'Amboille

Nicolas Perelle

Pen and brown ink drawing of mourning women beside a tomb, with cypress trees, a lion and a flaming urn.

Landscape with a Memorial Scene

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, ca. 1760-80

Pen and wash drawing of a nude male figure supporting a large covered urn, beside a smaller ornamental vase design.

Two Designs for Vases (recto); Variant Design for a Vase (verso)

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot

Pen and gray wash drawing of two figures in a vine-covered garden pavilion with a tiled roof and feathery plants.

Chinoiserie

Jean-Baptiste Pillement

Etching of a walled city with fireworks and smoke, a crowd of riders and people, and a carriage in the foreground.

Entry of Maximilian II into Nuremberg, June 7, 1570

Jost Amman, 1570

Fireworks burst above the round Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome as crowds gather on the bridge and riverbank below.

The Girandola at the Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome

Louis Jean Desprez, ca. 1781-1784

Pen and wash drawing of allegorical figures among clouds with putti, framed by an ornamental border of medallions and panels.

The Triumph of Courage and Wisdom

Johann Michael Rottmayr, late 17th-early 18th century

Etching of three putti holding a framed bust of a laureled man, with columns, an inscribed tablet and a distant city beyond.

Title page: Homage to Mantegna, from "The Story of Saints James and Christopher in the Eremitani Chapel"

Giovanni David, 1776

Etching of Saint James healing a blind man beneath a coffered arch, with soldiers and onlookers in a city street.

Saint James Cures a Blind Man, from "The Story of Saints James and Christopher in the Eremitani Chapel"

Giovanni David, 1776

Etching of Saint James's martyrdom: an executioner with a club, mounted soldiers, and a ruined arch in a hilly landscape.

The Martyrdom of Saint James, from "The Story of Saints James and Christopher in the Eremitani Chapel"

Giovanni David, 1776

Engraving of a martyrdom in an arcaded courtyard with armored soldiers, a headless body and a severed head on the pavement.

The Martyrdom of Saint Christopher, from "The Story of Saints James and Christopher in the Eremitani Chapel"

Giovanni David, 1776

Etching of Saint Christopher bound at right as archers take aim beneath a pergola, with a tower in the distance.

The Martyrdom of Saint Christopher, "Secondo Quadro"

Giovanni David, 1776

Etching of a seated woman in a headscarf with a curly-haired child reaching up to touch her face.

Virgin and Child

Giovanni David, 1776

Etching of Saint Sebastian bound to a tree, with figures tending to him by lantern light and tools in the foreground.

Saint Sebastian

Giovanni David, 1770-90

Etching of Mars and Venus in a bath, with winged cupids holding drapery and attending the basin in a classical setting.

Mars and Venus in the Bath

Giovanni David, 1770-90

Red chalk drawing in a circle of the Holy Family: kneeling Mary, seated Joseph, and the infant Christ on a cloth.

Holy Family in the Stable

Govert Flinck, mid-17th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of men raising a large wooden cross as a crowd of robed onlookers watches under a hazy sky.

The Discovery of the True Cross

Bernardo Strozzi, 1599-1644

Charcoal sketch of three male figures, one standing, one bent forward, one lying on the ground, on cream paper.

Vendéan Fusillé

Clément-Auguste Andrieux, 1849-80

Pen drawing of a tiered tomb with a reclining effigy in elevation, with an oval floor plan below.

Design for a Freestanding Tomb Seen in Elevation and Plan

the Younger Antonio da Sangallo, 1530-35