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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Pen and wash drawing of Baroque ornament with scrolls, garlands of roses, reclining figures and putti around an empty panel.

Cove

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of an ornamental frieze with scrolls, flower garlands, putti, and a central shell motif.

Design for the Decoration of a Harpsichord

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, ca. 1640-80

Brown wash drawing of putti and angels in clouds carrying a large organ with tall pipes within a curved frame.

Putti Carrying Organ Pipes

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Red chalk drawing of the Virgin ascending on clouds with angels and cherubs around her, arms outstretched toward light.

Assumption of the Virgin (after Carlo Maratta?)

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and ink drawing of a reclining crowned woman attended by women and a child with a bow on a stone ledge.

Toilet of Diana

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Red chalk drawing of a seated woman in drapery beside a sleeping winged child on a grassy slope.

Nymph and Cupid

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and brown wash drawing of a bearded preacher gesturing to a crowd before classical buildings and a dome.

Christ Preaching

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Grey wash drawing of a reclining woman on a couch, attendants mourning, a winged figure above, and a fire at right.

Death of Dido

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, 1620-40

Pen and blue wash drawing of a haloed saint receiving a kneeling warrior amid a crowd of horsemen and trumpeters under arches

Saint Benedict Receiving a Warrior (recto); Sketch of Crowded Narrative Scene (verso)

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Red chalk drawing of the dead Christ supported by two winged angels, one gazing down at him.

Dead Christ Mourned Over by Angels

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Brown wash drawing of a man with a hoe and a kneeling haloed woman reaching toward him in a garden setting.

Christ and Mary Magdalen in the Garden

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and ink drawing of two flying winged putti with curly hair and flowing drapery, with faint graphite sketch lines.

Two Flying Putti

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of a crowned emperor on a platform pointing to a cross in the sky, with soldiers and standards.

Vision of Constantine, copy after a drawing by Giacinto Gimignani

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Brown wash architectural drawing of a theater with proscenium elevations, an ornate rococo ceiling, and a ground plan below.

Designs for the Theater at Nancy: View of Half the Proscenium and a Half a Section of It; End of the Ceiling; and Gro…

Francesco Galli Bibiena, 1659-1739

Brown ink architectural drawing of an ornate theater interior section with tiered balconies, with a ground plan below.

Designs for the Theater at Nancy: Longitudinal Section and Half Ground Plan

Francesco Galli Bibiena, 1709

Pen drawing of an ornate baroque stage set with statues and grand staircases, with a curved amphitheater seating plan below.

Design for a Stage Set: Longitudinal Section and Plan of Amphitheater and Stage

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, 1696-1756

Brown chalk drawing with white highlights showing a seated bearded man embracing two children, surrounded by draped figures.

Christ and the Children

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of an arcaded loggia with caryatids, a central fountain, and a landscape visible through the arches.

Loggia with Caryatids before a Fountain and Landscape

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and ink drawing with wash of a horse, bull, lion and boar against clouds and a distant landscape.

Horse, Bull, Lion, and Boar

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and brown ink sketch with wash of horsemen fighting, rearing horses and raised weapons, with faint inscriptions below.

Horsemen Fighting

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Red chalk drawing of a landscape with trees, a stream, and ruined arched architecture under a pale sky.

Landscape with Architectural Structure

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Drawing of the Virgin and infant Christ resting with Saint Joseph and putti under rays of light.

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of a seated king addressing robed monks while armored soldiers stand nearby before classical architectur

Saint Benedict and King Totila

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Red chalk drawing of a bearded man in robes with a pointing woman and helmeted soldiers behind him.

Peter Denying Christ, engraver's copy after a painting by Lorenzo Pasinelli

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and ink drawing of the Virgin holding the Christ Child, flanked by two winged angels, on an octagonal sheet.

Virgin and Child Attended by Angels

Filippino Lippi, 1457/58-1504

Pencil sketch of gnarled trees leaning over a pond with reflections in the water.

Landscape with Trees near a Pond

Willem Roelofs, 1840-97

Red chalk drawing of robed saints and figures among ruins, with a reclining nude and an angel in clouds above.

Scenes from the Life of Saint Anthony Abbot

Giovanni Battista Lombardelli, 1532-87

Engraving of a seated woman in a bonnet holding an open book beside a folding screen and candlestick.

The Moment of Meditation

Louis Surugue, 1747

Engraving of a washerwoman at a wooden tub, a boy blowing bubbles with a pipe, a cat, and a woman hanging laundry in a doorwa

The Washerwoman

Charles Nicolas Cochin I, 1739

Engraving of a young man in a tricorn hat building a house of cards at a table beside a window and curtain.

The House of Cards

Pierre Filloeul, n.d.