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Grey wash drawing of a hooded robed figure gazing upward in a rocky cave beside trees.

Saint Francis in the cave

Laurent de La Hyre

Pen and brown ink drawing of helmeted soldiers and workers before a spiraling tower and classical buildings.

Tower of Babel

Raymond de Lafage

Grey wash drawing of rocky ruins, stone arches and a pine tree beside a small white gateway under a hazy sky.

Study made on the Route du Pont Salert in Rome

Joseph Vernet, 1758

Brown ink and wash drawing of a laundry interior with a woman washing cloth, a child, a large vat, and hanging linen.

The interior of a laundry

Jean-Baptiste Lallemand

Pen and wash drawing of Moses raising a staff toward a serpent in the sky as crowds of writhing figures surround him.

Moses and the brazen serpent

Raymond de Lafage

Watercolor of a ruined castle on a rocky hill with two figures on a path, overlooking a distant valley and hills.

Castle ruin, two men in front on a bridge

Bonaventure Laurens

Watercolor of a stag with antlers on a rocky lakeshore, snow-capped mountains and a conifer behind it.

A wounded deer seeks refreshment at a mountain lake

Johann Erdmann Gottlieb Prestel

Grey wash drawing of a three-masted ship and smaller sailing boats in rough sea under a cloudy sky.

Bark in rough sea

Petrus Johannes Schotel, 1852

Pencil sketch of a church with a tall spire, rounded apse and small turret, with a tree at left.

The Evangelical Town Church in Schlitz

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1880

Wash drawing of children gathered at a table reading in a columned interior, with adults and a dog around them.

The Competition/Children's Scene: Contest or Instruction in Reading

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1780

Pen and wash drawing of the Holy Family with children, a sheep, a washerwoman and a donkey beside classical columns.

The Holy Family with Elisabeth and the John the Baptist boy with the washerwoman

Sébastien Bourdon

Pencil drawing of a stone tower, a gabled house, a tree and a covered well in Schlitz, dated 1880.

The Vorderburg in Schlitz with a covered well

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1880

Grey wash drawing of a woman and two children pleading with a man beside a forge and anvil in a smithy.

In a smithy a woman with two children implores a man

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Grey wash drawing of cascading waterfalls among rocks and dense trees, attributed to François Boucher, 1730.

The Waterfalls of Tivoli

François Boucher, 1730

Sepia wash drawing of a vaulted gallery filled with timber scaffolding, with figures in period dress walking in the foregroun

The Great Gallery in the Louvre

Constant Bourgeois, 1791

Watercolor of a herd of horses and foals on a grassy plain, with a saddled white horse and distant riders on a hill.

A saddled military horse returns to its wild herd

Johann Erdmann Gottlieb Prestel

Pastel drawing of a bearded old man with bowed head and bald crown, on blue-grey paper.

Head of a bearded old man

Carle van Charles André van Loo Loo, 1750

Brown wash drawing of a robed figure blessing loaves of bread before a crowd on rocky ground under a radiant sky.

The miraculous multiplication of loaves

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre

Brown wash drawing of travelers outdoors under a tree, with a woman playing guitar, a seated mother and child, and hanging cl

Traveling people outdoors

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, 1777

Chalk study sheet by Jean-Baptiste Huet showing several overlapping heads with varied expressions, including a grimacing old

Study sheet with various heads

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1772

Red chalk drawing of soldiers carousing outside a tavern beside a barrel, with a street and church spire behind.

Carousing soldiers in front of a tavern

Charles Parrocel, 1728

Red chalk drawing of a seated huntress with a rifle, a hunter, and four dogs beside a large tree in a landscape.

Hunting party, huntress and hunter with four dogs in a landscape

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1713

Red and black chalk drawing of a reclining female nude seen from behind, head tilted back, on tan paper.

Reclining female nude

François Lemoyne, 1720

Black and red chalk sketch of a smiling boy in a wide-brimmed hat, drawn as a bust on cream paper.

Bust of a beggar boy with a wide-brimmed hat

Gottlieb Welté

Watercolor of an old woman spinning yarn at a wheel while a child holds up a bird in a rustic interior.

An old woman spins yarn, with a child with a bird

Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers

Pencil drawing of a dilapidated barn with a sagging thatched roof, exposed rafters, and a weathered wooden fence.

Dilapidated barn

Bartholomeus Pietersz. Barbiers

Bust of a young girl in profile to the right

Gottlieb Welté

Watercolor interior of a woman spinning yarn at a large wheel beside a seated woman, with a window and hanging cloth.

Two women, busy with spinning yarn and flax heckling

Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers

Black chalk drawing of three winged angels or putti floating in the air, one in the foreground with curly hair, on pale paper

Three angels floating in the air

François Boucher

Pen and ink sketch of two riders on a horse with a man carrying a sack walking behind, on tan paper.

Two riders, followed by a man carrying a sack

Ink and wash drawing of a harbor with ships, a rocky cliff on the right, a mule driver, and a distant city.

Marine, on the right large rocks, in front a mule driver, in the background a city

Chalk drawing of six cherub heads with wings arranged among soft clouds, some eyes closed and others gazing aside.

Six angel heads in clouds

François Boucher

Pen sketch of two peasant figures seen from behind, one with a long tool over his shoulder, on a light brown sheet.

Two peasants in back view during the harvest

Pen drawing of a river landscape with a ruined fortress, bridge, sailing ship, small boats and figures on the shore.

Near a ruined fortress a bridge over a river navigated by boats, on the left a large ship

Red and black chalk study of a man's contorted face with curly hair, with a raised arm sketched above.

Head of Petrus from Rubens's The Raising of the Cross of Peter

Nicolas Guibal, 1637

Pen and brown ink drawing of a six-horse carriage with riders and attendants in procession, on tinted paper.

Six-horse carriage

Brown wash drawing of a tavern interior with men drinking, a barrel, a fireplace and a reclining figure on the floor.

Three drinking farmers

Ignace Duvivier

Brown ink and wash drawing of a boy handing a letter to an old man at a house door, with a dog in a courtyard.

At a house door a boy brings a man a letter

Charles Charles Eschard Echard, 1783

Sepia wash drawing of children feeding a donkey at an altar beside an ancient statue in a columned hall.

In front of an ancient statue children let a donkey eat from an altar

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Red chalk drawing of a nude figure leaning over a pool in a wooded landscape with trees and rocks.

Narcissus contemplates his reflection in the spring

Michel Corneille the Younger

Brown wash drawing of St. Peter's Square in Rome with the basilica, obelisk, colonnades and small figures.

St. Peter with St. Peter's Square in Rome

Antoine François Antoine-François Peyre Peyre

Grey wash drawing of a laurel-crowned ruler offering sacrifice before a Cupid statue, with cherubs in the clouds above.

A ruler crowned with a laurel wreath has sacrifices offered before the statue of Cupid

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre

Sepia drawing of a frieze of twelve playful winged putti wrestling and climbing among clouds beneath a tree.

Twelve playing putti

Louis-Félix Delarue

Pencil portrait drawing of a young woman with upswept hair and earrings, head and shoulders in an oval frame.

Portrait of Virginia de Vezzo da Velletri

Claude Mellan, 1626

Pencil study of geometric floor mosaic with diamond motifs and chevron borders on cream paper.

Details of the mosaic floor in the castle chapel in Marburg

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1863

Brown wash drawing of a bearded man speaking with a seated young woman in front of two large urns.

A dwarf and a young woman in conversation

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1774

Pencil and chalk portrait of a woman with curled hair and pearl necklace, set in an oval mount on grey-blue paper.

Portrait of a Lady

Claude Mellan, 1636

Pencil sketch of a small gothic chapel with a steep roof and bell turret, framed by shrubs and nearby buildings.

The Siechenkapelle in Marburg

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1863

Pen and brown ink sketch of a gaunt bent man standing on two crutches, drawn in loose hatched lines on tan paper.

Beggars with two crutches

Red chalk drawing of a bearded man in a turban and long robe standing outdoors and reading an open book.

Reading Turk

Louis-Félix Delarue

Pencil sketch of a rocky cliff covered with trees, with a small figure on a path at right and rock outcrops at left.

The Bodensteiner Lay near Villmar

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1864

Pen and brown ink sketch of a soldier with a plumed hat and staff driving two goats forward on tan paper.

Two soldiers drive two goats before them

Pen and ink drawing of four men carrying a body through trees, with a reclining river god at left and winged figures above.

Four men carry a dead man, a river god on the left

Raymond de Lafage

Pencil study of Gothic architectural tracery and moldings with heart-shaped and foliate ornament on cream paper.

Detail of the choir stalls of the Basilica of the Monastery Maulbronn

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1871

Red chalk drawing of a robed friar holding a cross aloft, standing on a pedestal, study for a statue.

Statue of a Saint Francis

Edmé Bouchardon

Pen and grey wash drawing of nymphs and fauns dancing around a pan herm, with a reclining nude in the foreground.

Bacchanal, nymphs and fauns dance around a pan herm

Raymond de Lafage

Pencil sketch of Gothic choir stall details with lattice panels, trefoil arcades and a carved finial, dated 1871.

Details of the choir stalls of the Basilica of the Monastery Maulbronn

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1871

Chalk drawing of a woman with lowered eyes wearing a light headscarf, shown in bust length on reddish paper.

Bust of a woman looking down with a headscarf

Nicolas Bernard Lépicié

Pen and ink drawing of a crowded temple sacrifice scene with Corinthian columns, plus smaller studies of fallen and kneeling

A man dies during a sacrifice in the temple of Juno

Sébastien Leclerc

Pencil sketch of a tall tower with a half-timbered gallery, pointed roof and arched doorway.

The Rheintorturm in Konstanz

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1871

Pen and pencil sketch of a Roman street with an archway, a bell tower, and figures in the foreground.

Street in Rome with an archway and the bell tower of Santa Sabina

Heinrich Hübsch, 1818

Watercolor drawing of elegant figures in an outdoor setting, with women holding a parasol, seated men, a dog, and a girl by t

Outdoor society

Niclas Lafrensen

Pencil sketch of a small chapel with a domed turret beside trees, with church spires rising behind it.

The St. Michaelskapelle in Marburg

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1874

Pen drawing of a church facade with a rose window, bell tower with spire, adjacent house, and hills in the distance.

The church S. Giuliana near Perugia

Heinrich Hübsch