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Grey wash drawing of a grand chapel interior with galleries of spectators, courtiers below, and angels in clouds above.

Reception of the Knights of the Order of the Holy Spirit in the Chapel of Versailles during the Great Promotion of Ju…

Jacques Rigaud, 1724

Black and white chalk drawing of a soldier seen from behind, with a musket on his shoulder and a tricorn hat.

Standing soldier in rear view

Charles Parrocel, 1723

Red and black chalk drawing of a woman with a veil, head tilted upward, by François Lemoyne, 1726.

Head of a woman with a veil (Vestal, guarding the fire)

François Lemoyne, 1726

Pencil sketch of a crowned king and armored warriors with shields above swirling waves and clouds on tan paper.

King Charles' sea travels

Ferdinand Ferdinand Fellner Fellner

Red chalk drawing of a young man with wavy shoulder-length hair looking toward the viewer, head and shoulders.

Portrait of an unknown youth

Philippe de Champaigne

Red chalk drawing of a sleeping child's head turned right, with curly hair and closed eyes on a pale background.

Head of a sleeping child to the right

Red chalk drawing of Christ beside Ionic columns reaching toward a lame man on a pallet, with a crowd and landscape behind.

Christ heals a lame man

Pencil drawing of a girl in a headscarf sleeping on the grass, head resting on her arm, one bare foot extended.

Sleeping girl

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek

Head of a river god turned to the left with a reed wreath

Red chalk drawing of a seated male nude twisting his torso, with arm raised behind head and grey shading on tinted paper.

Seated male nude

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Chalk drawing with red accents showing robed figures before classical buildings and an arched bridge.

David's atonement

François François-Alexandre Verdier Verdier

Red chalk drawing of a lion lying on the ground facing right, head turned toward the viewer, with a full mane.

A lying lion to the right

Youth in three-quarter profile to the left

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Pen and wash sketch of figures in distress, including a woman with raised arms, crawling men and men hauling rope.

Staffage for a shipwreck

Red chalk and white heightened drawing of a veiled woman's bust, face turned upward, on a tan paper ground.

A nun's bust

Pen and brown wash drawing of an old woman reading a glass with three young women in a rustic interior.

Old woman, telling the future to three young women from a glass

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Pen and wash drawing of many playful putti swarming around a tall herm pillar among trees and clouds.

Dozens of putti swarm around an elongated Pan herm

Louis-Félix Delarue

Brown wash drawing of a clergyman with a cross and censer over a kneeling woman held by attendants, under an arched hall.

A clergyman exorcises a woman

Laurent de La Hyre

Brown wash drawing of a woman and boy leaving a doorway led by a bearded man, with a watching figure and landscape behind.

Expulsion of the Hagar

Pierre Mignard I

Brown wash drawing of women pouring water into a large vat in a rocky underworld, with a seated bearded man at left.

The vat of the Danaids in the underworld

Charles Le Brun

Pen and brown wash drawing of a ruined castle on a rocky hilltop with small figures on a winding path below.

Castle ruin

Johann Adam Klein

Pen and brown wash drawing of a bacchanal procession with a chariot, satyrs, maenads, putti and a big cat in an oval frame.

Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne

Pencil drawing of the Johanniter Chapel in Nieder-Weisel with steep roof, round arches and a rose window.

The Johanniter Chapel in Butzbach-Nieder-Weisel

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1868

Bald old man to the right

Portrait of Johann Jakob Dorner, friend of the artist

Johann Peter Krafft

Pencil sketch of a tall medieval tower with a pointed spire and corner turrets above an arched gateway.

The Stöberlein Tower in Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1869

Engraving of a colonnaded academy hall with many scholars among globes, instruments, maps and books.

The Academy of Arts and Sciences

Sébastien Leclerc

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crowded classical scene with soldiers, a seated figure, and columned architecture.

Death of Virginia

Gabriel François Doyen, 1757

Pencil sketch of a gabled house behind a stone wall, with tall poplars and a leafy tree beside it.

The Plaster Mill in Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1869

Pen and wash drawing of a helmeted female figure on a throne with putti, a lion, an angel with a banner, and a radiant light.

France on the throne, surrounded by allegorical figures

Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen, 1764

Pen and grey wash drawing of a draped catafalque with candles and seated figures in a Gothic church choir, with crowds on bot

Catafalque in the choir of the Parisian church St. Gervais

Sébastien Leclerc, 1700

Pencil sketch of a carved Gothic fountain bowl detail with inscription and scrolling ornament, plus small arched window trace

Detail of the bowl of the fountain in Maulbronn Monastery

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1871

Brown wash drawing of Venus on a cloud above smiths forging armour and a shield in a cave workshop.

Venus in the workshop of Vulcan, who is forging the weapons of Aeneas

Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen, 1752

Pen and wash drawing of a candlelit church interior with a draped catafalque, clergy, and mourners during a requiem mass.

Requiem mass in St. Gervais in Paris

Sébastien Leclerc, 1700

Pencil sketch of Gothic choir stall carving with a pointed arch, quatrefoil tracery and scrolling foliage on yellow paper.

Detail of the choir stalls in the Basilica of Maulbronn Monastery

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1871

Pen and grey wash drawing of a reclining effigy on a tomb with a seated, veiled mourning woman in drapery beside it.

Tomb of Nicolas de Bautru, Marquis de Vaubrun

Charles Le Brun, 1677

Brown wash drawing of the Adoration of the shepherds with an infant, kneeling figures, an ox, sheep and a classical arch.

Adoration of the shepherds

Sébastien Bourdon

Pen drawing of a seaport with sailing ships, small boats, towers and a large rock on the right.

Seaport with ships, on the right a large rock

Red chalk drawing of a crumbling ruin with arched openings, overgrown with shrubs, in an open landscape.

View of a ruin

Jacques Jacques Dumont le Romain Dumont

Brown ink drawing of a crowd in a torch-lit vaulted hall around a body laid out on a platform.

Exhibition of the body of a French Revolution hero

Louis Jacques Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau Durameau

Red chalk drawing of a windblown tree and small figures, with a tall tower and hilltop town on the right.

Landscape, on the right on a hill a large tower, on the left a tree section and some figures

Pencil drawing of Apollo with a lyre offering a wreath to a woman, a winged horse behind them, and trees in the background.

Apollo presents the wreath to Poetry

Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen, 1766

Pencil drawing of wooden huts at a forest edge with tall trees, small figures and a distant church spire.

Woodcutter huts at the edge of the forest

Aignan-Thomas Desfriches, 1765

Pen drawing of a deer hunt with horsemen and hounds below a large villa on a hill, with a distant town.

Landscape with deer hunt

Pen and wash drawing of horsemen and hunting dogs chasing and bringing down a stag across a sketched landscape.

Stag hunt on horseback

Jacques Courtois

Red chalk drawing of Samson struggling with a lion beside a tree, with a rocky landscape and distant buildings.

Samson tears the lion

Michel Corneille the Younger

Pen and watercolor drawing of a timber mill on stilts above a river, with a rower in a boat in the foreground.

Mill near Charenton

Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier, 1774

Brown wash drawing of the Adoration of the Kings with the Virgin and Child, kneeling king, attendants and classical arch.

Adoration of the kings

Gilbert Francart, 1677

Pen and grey wash drawing of the Visitation with two women, a man with staff, a donkey, and a town beyond.

The Visitation of Mary

Michel Corneille the Younger

Brown wash drawing of a dim vaulted underground chamber with stone arches and a bench in an alcove.

Underground arch

Pen and brown ink drawing of a bearded old man, a young woman in flowing drapery, and a head study beside them.

Lot flees with his daughters

Raymond de Lafage

Pen and ink sketch of three pigs in varied poses, with faint pencil underdrawings visible on pale paper.

Three pigs

Friedrich Nerly, 1828

Grey wash drawing of a winged angel at an empty tomb with three veiled women, one kneeling and one holding a jar.

The angel with the three Marys at the empty tomb of Christ

Pen and ink drawing of a seated man beside pigs at a trough, with a tree at right and a distant town under cloudy sky.

The prodigal son tends the pigs

Raymond de Lafage

Pencil sketch of a harnessed ox standing with a rope trailing behind, drawn on blue-grey paper.

Harnessed ox

Max Josef Wagenbauer

Red chalk drawing of a bacchante on a goat beside a Pan herm, and a satyr fighting a buck in a rocky landscape.

Bacchante, sitting backwards on a goat on a Pan herm, and a satyr fighting a buck, placed in a landscape

Michel Corneille the Younger, 1520

Pen and wash drawing of armored soldiers seizing a robed figure at an altar with a crucifix behind.

A bishop is attacked by soldiers at the altar

Raymond de Lafage

Ox to the right

Max Josef Wagenbauer

Pen and brown wash drawing of an ornate fireplace with a seated allegorical figure, standing figures, cherubs and a coat of a

Richly ornamented fireplace

Pen and brown ink sketch of mounted warriors and horses fighting in a dense battle scene.

Equestrian combat

Raymond de Lafage

Pencil sketch on grey-blue paper of a lying cow and calf, with studies of other cattle heads and bodies above.

Lying cow with calf as well as other cattle

Max Josef Wagenbauer

Brown ink drawing of horsemen, hunters and dogs in a classical landscape with trees and rocks.

Hunt of Meleager and Atalanta

François Chauveau, 1634

Red chalk drawing of dancing nymphs and a piping satyr in a landscape, with seated figures in the foreground.

Dancing nymphs and satyrs

Raymond de Lafage

Pencil sketch on blue paper of a seated woman in a headscarf milking a horned goat beside a bucket.

Woman milking a goat

Max Josef Wagenbauer