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Chalk drawing on blue-grey paper of two reclining nude figures, a winged cherub, and drapery, titled Diana and Endymion.

Diana and Endymion

Januarius Zick, 1745-97

Pen and wash drawing of a hexagonal heraldic cartouche with a central shield, winged putti, garlands and scrollwork.

Design for a Coat of Arms with Putti holding Garlands

Tobias Stimmer, 1550-84

Pen drawing of an oval design with a flower garland framing a domed pavilion, cherubs and a reclining figure.

Design for a Navette

Hubert François Gravelot

Ink and wash drawing of a symmetrical classical facade with caryatids, balustrades, and a frieze of figures and a chariot.

Design for a Stage Set

Claude Nicolas Ledoux

Head of a Horse, after the Parthenon

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1825

Two watercolor designs for a rectangular box with canted corners, showing blue and pink borders, laurel garlands and pink bow

Two Separate Designs for the Top and Bottom of a Rectangular Gold Enameled Box with Canted Corners

Watercolor of a reclining man and seated woman in embroidered dress on a sunlit terrace with cushions and a rug.

A Moroccan Couple on Their Terrace

Eugène Delacroix, 1832

Red and black chalk drawing of an elderly bearded man embracing a young woman who looks down, within an oval frame.

The Illmatched Couple

Jacob Matham, 1602

Six studies for Corréard and Savigny in the "Raft of the Medusa"

Théodore Géricault, 1818-1819

Head of a Young Girl and Studies of Hands and of her Right Foot

Charles de La Fosse, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing of putti around a panel showing a nude archer aiming at pigeons.

Putti grouped around a rectangular panel

Half Figure of a Woman

Thomas Blanchet, 1660

Pen and grey wash drawing of a plump child with flowers, an urn on a pedestal, and a distant landscape with a tree.

Design for an Emblem with a Child Picking Flowers

Georg Strauch, 1633-75

Watercolor of a domed classical pavilion behind a formal garden with elegant strollers, a rocky basin and tall trees.

The Garden Façade of Bagatelle

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, 1779

Ink and wash drawing of a woman holding a child in a room with a bearded man, a pot, and a lattice window.

Mother and Child with a Doll

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Watercolor of imagined Roman ruins with arches, columns, carved reliefs, a statue in a niche, and overgrown stones.

Architectural Fantasy with Roman Ruins

Charles-Louis Clérisseau

A Lyre Bird

Charles Meryon, ca. 1846-55

Pencil sketch of a bird of paradise on a perch with long trailing tail feathers and handwritten French color notes.

A Bird of Paradise

Charles Meryon, 1835-68

Pencil sketch of a jay perched on a ledge, head turned upward, with handwritten French notes at the top.

A European Jay

Charles Meryon, ca. 1863

Blue-toned wash drawing of an angel appearing to shepherds at night beside sheep, a cow, a donkey, and a cottage.

Annunciation to the Shepherds

Jean Jacques Lagrenée, 1775

Dark charcoal drawing of a row of small houses under a pale dusk sky, with a tall tree trunk at the right edge.

Landscape with Houses

Georges Seurat, 1881-82

Brown wash drawing of musicians and singers around a harpsichord, with a lute player and women in plumed headdresses.

A Concert

Louis Licherie de Beurie, ca. 1679

Chalk drawing of a woman with a red headband and piled dark hair, staring wide-eyed with a furrowed brow.

Medea

Charles-Antoine Coypel, ca. 1715

Brown wash drawing of a nude woman lifted by a draped goddess among clouds, with a deer and kneeling figures below.

Sacrifice of Iphigenia

Charles de La Fosse, ca. 1678

A Golden Eagle

Charles Meryon, after 1859

Black chalk drawing with white highlights of a seated woman holding an infant, with an attendant holding a torch at left.

Allegorical Figures for a Ceiling Decoration

Michel Corneille the Elder, 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of a donkey-riding figure departing between columns, with an armoured guard, attendants, dogs and onlook

The Departure of Sancho Panza for the Island of Barataria

Charles-Joseph Natoire, 18th century

Pen and ink drawing of a formal assembly hall with a canopied dais, seated dignitaries, and armed guards along barriers.

Assemblée des Notables, Versailles, 1787

Jean-Michel Moreau, 1787

Sepia watercolor of Roman ruins with columns, two figures in the foreground, an arched bridge, and cypress trees.

Fantasy View of the Roman Forum

Victor-Jean Nicolle, n.d.

Watercolor of a winged sphinx above a reclining nude woman in red drapery, with a jeweled urn in a dark grotto.

Sphinx in a Grotto (Poet, King and Warrior)

Gustave Moreau, 1887-1888