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Grey wash drawing of a man and woman in flowing cloaks striding left, with steps and a block at lower left.

Man and Woman Striding Toward the Left

Giovanni Francesco Caroto, early 16th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a pastoral music scene: women and a man gather under a tree, one playing a lute.

Concert champêtre

Girolamo Romanino, ca. 1520-30

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Virgin and Child with a standing bearded man and a bending nude figure beside a stone block

Madonna and Child with Saints Roch and Sebastian

Michele da Verona, early 16th century

Pen and brown ink landscape with a reclining satyr, a goat, a village on a hill, and two walking figures.

Landscape with a Satyr

Domenico Campagnola, 1535-40

Pen and brown ink drawing of a landscape with a large tree, two seated figures, rolling hills and a village under clouds.

Landscape with Two Seated Figures

Imitator of Domenico Campagnola, 16th century

Stippled pen drawing of a dining room with two women and a seated older man at a table beside a potted plant.

The Dining Room

Paul Signac, 1886

Brown wash drawing of a bearded standing saint with halo, holding a sword, in heavy draped robes.

Saint Paul

Michele da Verona, ca. 1510

Pen and ink drawing of a shepherd resting under a tree with a dog, beside a path leading to a farmhouse.

Landscape with a Shepherd in Repose

The Veneto, mid-16th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of mourners carrying a body toward a stone tomb, framed by a double black border.

The Entombment

Nicolas Poussin, 1656

Pen and wash drawing of men seated at a table with a standing boy holding a bowl and a dog in the foreground.

The Supper at Emmaus

Bonifazio Veronese, mid-16th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of two nude women carrying a third figure, with a small dog at lower right.

Two Nymphs Carrying a Third

Francesco Primaticcio, ca. 1547

Bust Portrait of a Man with a Beard

Gilles Antoine Demarteau, 1776

Pen and ink drawing with white highlights on blue paper of a winged figure, two draped women, and a standing man.

A Winged Figure, two Women, and a Man

Biagio Pupini, early-mid-16th century

Pen and ink sketch of a classical arched colonnade with a draped standing figure and an embracing seated pair.

The Return of the Prodigal Son

Lombardy- The Veneto, mid-16th century

A Hedgehog (Erinaceus roumanicus)

Hans Hoffmann, 1584

Head of a Bearded Man

School of Paolo Veronese, ca. 1565

Brown ink and wash drawing of a busy kitchen with hanging game, copper pots, a hearth fire, and servants at work.

Kitchen Scene

Copy after Leandro Bassano, late 16th century

Pen sketch sheet with studies of the Virgin and Christ Child in arched niches, plus a perspective diagram and putti doodles.

Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist; Dia…

Leonardo da Vinci, 1480

Pencil and red chalk drawing of robed saints on clouds, with a bearded elder holding a staff on the right.

Saint Stephen and Other Saints on Clouds

Friuli, late 16th century

Brown ink drawing of two lions attacking, with a leaping nude man, hounds, and a spearman on aged paper.

Hunting Scene and Lions Attacking Animals

The Veneto, late 16th century

A Bear Walking

Leonardo da Vinci, 1482

Black chalk sketch of a reclining male nude on grey-blue paper, head and raised arm at upper left.

Reclining Male Figure

Jacopo Tintoretto, 1560s

Black chalk and white heightened study of a figure in a draped ceremonial robe and cap on brown paper.

Study for a Portrait of a Doge

Circle of Tintoretto, fourth quarter 16th century

Brown wash drawing of a nude winged youth and a seated draped woman beside a lyre and tree in a landscape.

The Muse Erato Writing Verses Inspired by Love

Charles Meynier, 1797

Black chalk drawing with white highlights on grey paper showing a reclining female nude with one arm behind her head.

Reclining Female Nude

Domenico Tintoretto, early 17th century

Pen and brown wash drawing of a winged figure blowing a trumpet above clouds, with a putto beneath.

Fame

Luca Cambiaso, mid- to late 16th century

Brown wash drawing of allegorical figures on clouds, including an armored goddess, winged torch-bearer, lions, and laurel-cro

Earth Receiving the Code of Roman Law from the Emperors Hadrian and Justinian

Charles Meynier, 1802

Sketch on blue-grey paper of a seated nude figure with one arm raised to the head and legs stretched out.

Seated Female Nude

Domenico Tintoretto, early 17th century

Pen and wash study of a seated bearded man beside a small winged angel, with red chalk grid lines on paper.

Saint Matthew and the Angel

Luca Cambiaso, 1583-85

Red chalk drawing of a reclining nude woman seen from behind, with a grey sketched pedestal and architecture at right.

Reclining Nude Figure (recto); unidentifiable sketches (verso)

Jean-Antoine Watteau