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Brown ink drawing of robed figures, a laurel-crowned man holding an infant, a flaming altar, and a classical rotunda behind.

Roman Scene

Polidoro da Caravaggio, 1499-1543

Figure of a muscular man with a staff, drawn in white chalk on blue paper with grid lines.

Saint Christopher Bearing the Christ Child

Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone, 1484-1539

Pen and brown wash drawing of a tapering ornamental design with allegorical female figures, cherubs, scrollwork and garlands.

Design for a Dome Compartment with Figures of Charity and Fortitude?

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Circular sketch of a bearded robed man gesturing toward a haloed child seated on rocks by the sea.

St. Augustine and the Child on the Seashore

Andrea Pozzo, 1642-1709

Brown wash drawing of a soldier and crowd gathered around a kneeling female saint on a raised platform under a beam of light.

Martyrdom of a Female Saint (Agnes?)

Camillo Procaccini, 1605-9

Pen and ink sketch of the Madonna and Child on clouds with saints and a bishop below, beside a stone balustrade.

Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist and three other Saints

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of a seated woman in drapery holding a small child close against her shoulder.

Virgin and Child

Giulio Cesare Procaccini, 1574-1625

Pen and ink design sketch of an ornate fountain with a Madonna and Child, winged figures, a lion, and a monkey on the cornice

Design Fragment for the Left Side of the 'Fonte Gaia' in Siena

Jacopo della Quercia, 1415-16

Pen and brown wash drawing of Saint Joseph holding the Christ Child on clouds, with angels and a serpent below.

Saint Joseph and the Christ Child

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Red chalk drawing of a seated Madonna holding the Christ Child, with the infant Saint John at lower left and studies above.

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist; upper left, Study for the Right Arm of the Infant Saint Joh…

Raphael, ca. 1506-7

Sepia print of a woman warming children by a fire, with a dog at her feet in a domestic interior.

A Domestic Scene: Woman Warming Clothes and Children in Front of a Fire

Vincenzio Vangelisti, 1738? or 1744-98

Pen and blue wash drawing of a crowned seated figure and standing man in a classical columned hall with putti.

An Audience (recto); Sketch of a nude woman (verso)

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Red chalk studies of nude infant figures with heads, arms and legs sketched in multiple poses on tinted paper.

Studies of the Christ Child

Raphael, 1513-14

Pen and blue wash drawing of the Madonna and Child in glory above rows of cherubs and kneeling angels in an arched frame.

Madonna and Child in Glory Adored by Angels

Bernardino Rodriguez, 1600-1650

Red chalk drawing of a woman in a headwrap holding a child against her shoulder beside a stone ledge.

Mother and Child

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Head of a boy and section of a horse's mane

Raphael, 1500-1550

Pen and ink drawing of a group of figures under a tree, with studies of a sword and a draped figure on the left.

Study for a Judgment of Paris and Other Figure Studies

Salvator Rosa, 1615-73

Graphite drawing of a child's head with curly hair, tilted and looking sideways, with shoulder outlined below.

Head of a Child, copy of engraving by Luca Ciamberlano

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Brown ink drawing of the Holy Family with infant Baptist, Saint Elizabeth, and an angel on a light ground.

The Holy Family with the Infant Baptist, Saint Elizabeth, and an Attendant Angel

Aurelio Luini, 1550-60

Pen and ink drawing of the Nativity with angels adoring the Christ Child in a manger, cherubs in clouds above.

The Christ Child Adored by Angels

Gottfried de Wedig, late 16th-mid-17th century

Pen and brown wash drawing of a seated woman with curly hair playing a lute, on aged paper.

Girl Playing a Lute

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Brown ink wash drawing of a haloed woman holding a nursing infant, with sketched cherub heads in the upper right corner.

Studies for a Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Rutilio di Lorenzo Manetti, 1571-1639

Pen and ink sketch of Christ enthroned on clouds with two kneeling female saints flanking him, one below each side.

The Virgin and Saint Rosalia Interceding with Christ

Carlo Maratti, 1625-1713

Red chalk drawing of the Madonna and Christ Child with Saint John and small angels above.

Madonna, Child, and Saint John

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and brown wash drawing of an angel with wings leading a young boy by the hand across rocky ground.

Tobias and the Angel

Paolo de Matteis, 1662-1728

Red chalk drawing of a crowned seated female figure in an architectural niche with putti and radiating light lines.

Seated Allegorical Figure of Divine Wisdom

Carlo Maratti, 1674-77

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

Brown ink drawing of the Virgin and Child on a cloud giving rosaries to kneeling Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine.

The Virgin and Child with Chaplets Appearing to Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena

Pietro Mera, 1570-1639

Sepia drawing in lunette shape of the Virgin and Child with infant John the Baptist, a lamb, and a distant city.

The Virgin and Child with the Infant John the Baptist and a Lamb in a Landscape

Tommaso Minardi, 1787-1871

Studies of Children

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century