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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 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

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

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 wash drawing of the Madonna and Child with Saints Christopher, Joseph and Claudius beneath draped curtains and column

Madonna with Saints Christopher, Joseph and Claudius

François Perrier, 1630

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 drawing of God in radiant light pointing to a kneeling Moses who shields his eyes, with sheep and a distant pyramid lands

Moses is called to lead Israel out of Egypt (The Burning Bush)

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1844

Grey chalk drawing of a dying saint reclining as angels and cherubs gather around him in the clouds.

Dying Saint Francis surrounded by angels

François Perrier

Brown ink and wash sketch of a winged angel waking a sleeping man in prison, with studies of a reclining figure below.

Peter in prison, awakened by an angel

Rembrandt van Rijn

Ink and wash drawing of Saint Bartholomew's martyrdom below, with the Madonna and Child and two saints among clouds above.

Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, above in clouds the Madonna with Child, on both sides the Saints John the Baptist and…

Pen and ink drawing of the Holy Family with Saint Elisabeth and children before architecture and a distant landscape.

The Holy Family with Saint Elisabeth and the boy John in a landscape

Nicolas Poussin

Brown wash drawing of angels playing lutes and other instruments among clouds within a curved arched frame.

Angels concert

Gaspare Diziani

Brown ink drawing of the Baptism of Christ with John the Baptist, a dove in a radiant halo, God in clouds and onlookers by a

Baptism of Christ

Aertgen van Leyden

Brown wash drawing of a crowd worshipping a golden calf on a pedestal, with a figure descending from clouds at upper right.

Adoration of the golden calf

Nicolas Poussin

Ink and wash drawing of three figures in an arched spandrel, a central bearded man holding a key and two reclining figures ab

Saints Peter and John as spandrel figures

Gaspare Diziani

Pen and wash sketch of a saint ascending through clouds, surrounded by cherubs and angels.

Apotheosis of a saint

Giovanni Antonio Guardi, 1735

Brown wash drawing of mourners surrounding a reclining body on a hillside, with a cross and standing figures in the backgroun

Lamentation of Christ

Matteo Rosselli

Pen and brown wash drawing of the Adoration of the Kings, with a seated Madonna and Child surrounded by kneeling and standing

Adoration of the kings

Gaspare Diziani

Pen and brown wash sketch of an enthroned Madonna and Child with three bearded saints and angels among clouds.

Thronende Madonna mit Kind mit drei Heiligen, unter ihnen Antonius Abbas

Filippo Abbiati

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a rocky coast at low tide with figures on the sand and a steamship on the sea.

Küste bei Saint Leonards-on-Sea

Fritz Bamberger, 1849

Brown wash drawing of stacked rococo cartouches showing the Assumption of Mary with clouds, angels and kneeling figures.

Assumption of Mary

Gaspare Diziani

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of the Adoration of the Shepherds, showing the infant Christ surrounded by kneeling

Adoration of the shepherds

Polidoro da Caravaggio

Red chalk study sheet with several sketches of the Madonna and Child in veiled poses, plus small figure studies.

Studienblatt: Madonna mit Kind

Otto Scholderer

Brown ink and wash drawing of a martyrdom scene with an angel and cherubs above, figures below, and an arched top.

Martyrdom of Saint John

Gaspare Diziani

Pen drawing of an enthroned Madonna and Child with Saint Christopher, two angels, and two kneeling donors.

Thronende Madonna mit dem Heiligen Christophorus, zwei Engeln und zwei Stiftern

Hans Burgkmair the Elder, 1503

Pencil drawing of an enthroned Madonna and Child between Saint Luke painting and Saint Cecilia at an organ, in Gothic arches.

Madonna mit dem Evangelisten Lukas und der Heiligen Cäcilia

Gustav Heinrich Naecke

Pen and brown wash drawing of a chaotic temple scene with figures, an ox head, a dog and overturned objects.

Jesus drives the merchants out of the temple

Gaspare Diziani

Black chalk drawing of a bearded man in a draped robe seated and writing, one bare foot raised on a block.

An eine Säule gelehnter schreibender Mann mit aufgestelltem rechten Fuß, wohl ein Evangelist

Gaspar de Crayer

Grey wash drawing on blue paper of women attending an infant in a columned interior with a draped curtain.

Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary (?)

Ink and wash drawing of a winged angel flying diagonally over clouds, with one arm extended and drapery billowing.

Angel on a cloud

Gaspare Diziani

Blue wash drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds, with the Virgin and Christ Child surrounded by kneeling figures and ange

Adoration of the shepherds

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Brown ink drawing of the Madonna and Christ child on clouds, with an armored archangel and a kneeling saint below.

Madonna in Wolken, verehrt vom Erzengel Michael und dem Heiligen Petrus

Ink and wash drawing of a banner design showing Saint Mark writing beside a winged lion, with an angel above and ornate frami

Mark the Evangelist

Gaspare Diziani

Brown wash drawing of the Birth of the Virgin: a woman in bed, attendants with dishes, and women bathing a newborn in a basin

Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Battista da Vercelli

Brown wash drawing of the Virgin Mary seated in draped robes, holding the infant Jesus on her shoulder.

Mary with baby Jesus

Bartolomeo Schedoni

Brown wash drawing of Saint Cecilia with a cellist, angels, putti and organ pipes beneath a glowing cloud in an arched frame.

Saint Cecilia, the head of a girl

Gaspare Diziani

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Virgin ascending on clouds above robed apostles gazing up beside a sarcophagus.

Assumption of Mary

Ercole Procaccini The Younger

Pen and brown wash drawing of winged angels playing instruments, including a pipe organ, within an arched lunette with clouds

Angel making music

Federico Zuccari

Brown wash drawing in an oval showing three angels before a bearded man seated beside trees.

Abraham receives the three angels

Gaspare Diziani

Pen and grey wash drawing of shepherds kneeling before a wooden shelter beside a column, with a sheep and angels above.

Adoration of the shepherds

Johann Heinrich Schönfeld, 1680

Grey wash drawing of three seated figures at a table in a forest, an old man standing beside them, a jug on the ground.

Abraham entertaining the Angels

Philips Koninck

Pen and grey wash drawing of the Madonna and Child in clouds above kneeling saints and angels, on an arched sheet.

Madonna with saints

Gaspare Diziani

Charcoal study of a Madonna holding a child, with a red chalk sketch and a bearded man in a cap below on grey paper.

Studienblatt mit einer Madonna mit dem Kind und dem Johannesknaben, dazu ein bärtiger Mann mit Mütze

Heinrich Füger

Pen sketch study sheet showing a Madonna and child, folk dancers, a guitarist, dogs and deer on beige paper.

Studienblatt: Madonna und Kind, Szenen aus dem italienischen Volksleben, Hunde und Hirsche

Adolf Schrödter

Brown wash sketch of a winged angel descending toward a kneeling man with raised arms, amid loose clouds.

Liberation of Christ (?)

Gaspare Diziani

Brown-toned drawing of a haloed saint holding a chalice with a serpent, beside a plumed figure with a sword, dated 1518.

Johannes der Evangelist mit Giftbecher

Wolf Huber, 1518

Pen and ink sketch of an angel with raised arm facing a standing draped woman holding a book, with faint cloud forms.

The Annunciation

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Brown wash drawing of a winged kneeling figure before the Madonna and Christ child with cherubs above.

A monk with wings venerates the Madonna

Gaspare Diziani

Pen and wash drawing of the Flagellation of Christ with a nude figure bound and whipped by men in an arched hall.

Flagellation of Christ

Hans Heinrich Wägmann

Brown wash drawing of a bound nude man at a column being whipped by three figures in an arched interior.

Flagellation of Christ

Melchior Steidl

Brown wash drawing of the Circumcision of Christ with a priest, attendants, a kneeling figure, and angels in radiant light.

Circumcision of Christ

Gaspare Diziani

Red chalk sketch of the Madonna and Child with angels, and a kneeling monk at right on tan paper.

Vor der von Engeln umgebenen Madonna kniet rechts ein heiliger Mönch (Franziskus?)

Nikolaus Gottfried Stuber

Pen and watercolor drawing of the Virgin Mary ascending on clouds among angels, with apostles gazing up from below.

Assumption of the Virgin

Johann Georg Bergmüller, 1714

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Madonna above two standing saints, a bishop and an armored warrior with a spear.

Madonna with Saints Spyridon and Demetrius

Gaspare Diziani

Pen and brown ink drawing of a seated Madonna with infant surrounded by turbaned figures and an ox in a stable.

Adoration of the kings

Pen and watercolor drawing of a baroque tomb with the dead Christ reclining in an arched niche, flanked by flaming urns.

Christ in the tomb

Johann Georg Bergmüller, 1757

Pen and wash drawing of a martyrdom: a bound nude figure at a post, executioners, a rider on horseback, and an angel in the s

Martyrdom of a saint

Gaspare Diziani

Pen and brown ink drawing of an adoration scene with kneeling figures beside ruined columns and a crowd at right.

Adoration of the kings

Christian Winck

Grey wash drawing of the Madonna and Child in clouds above three saints, one a bishop with a crozier, with a putto below.

Die Madonna erscheint drei heiligen Männern

Giovanni Lanfranco

Brown ink and wash drawing of a saint ascending through clouds toward a radiant cross, with angels and figures below.

Apotheosis of a saint

Gaspare Diziani

Pen and grey wash drawing of two embracing figures with putti and classical ruins in a landscape setting.

The Entombment of Christ

Johannes Zick, 1759

Pencil drawing of a gothic arcade frieze with three arches showing religious figures, a central Madonna and angels.

Madonna mit Engeln und dem Heiligen Lukas

Konrad Eberhard

Pen and ink sketch of the Madonna with saints Joseph, Anthony of Padua and John the Baptist, with angels in clouds.

Madonna mit den Heiligen Joseph, Antonius von Padua und Johannes dem Täufer

Gaspare Diziani, 1754

Pencil sketch of a crucified figure on a cross with a stone base, surrounded by loose sketched landscape and foliage.

Crucifix

Grey wash drawing of the Baptism of Christ with John the Baptist, a dove in light, an angel and onlookers in an arched frame.

Baptism of Christ

Martin Johann Schmidt, 1780

Pen and ink sketch of a seated saint, a standing figure with a staff, a flying angel and a putto.

Madonna von zwei Heiligen verehrt

Gaspare Diziani

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated Madonna holding a child, with a drapery study in the upper right corner.

Sitzende Madonna mit Kind

Michelangelo Anselmi, 1525

Pen and ink drawing of a crowned saint with a sword standing beside a broken wheel, dated 1506.

Saint Catherine

Martin Kaldenbach, 1506

Pen and ink sketch of the Madonna and infant Christ on clouds, with a kneeling saint below and putti in brown wash.

Madonna auf Wolken, von einem Heiligen verehrt

Gaspare Diziani

Pencil sketch of mourners lowering the body of Christ, with loose studies of additional figures on the right.

Entombment of Christ

Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann

Black and red chalk drawing of a seated veiled woman in flowing robes holding a small shrine aloft.

The religion

Giuseppe Cesari, 1585

Pen and ink drawing of the Annunciation: an angel approaches the Virgin beneath a radiant burst of light and clouds.

The Annunciation

Gaspare Diziani, 1747

Pencil sketch of a veiled Madonna gently embracing the infant Christ, who rests his head against her cheek.

Madonna with child

Pen and brown wash drawing of Saint Jerome with a crucifix and a lion in a rocky wooded landscape.

Saint Jerome

Red chalk sketch of a winged angel pointing upward with lilies, beside a seated figure at lower left.

The Annunciation

Johann Heinrich Tischbein, 1766

Pen and ink sketch of an angel on clouds gesturing toward a seated man who gazes upward, with a kneeling figure below.

The Annunciation

Christian Winck

Pen and wash drawing of a quadrangular ceiling design with angels and clouds around a central heavenly scene and rococo ornam

Veneration of the Trinity

Red chalk drawing of livestock gathered by rocks, with robed figures kneeling and a woman with a child at right.

Moses's spring water miracle

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Pen and ink sketch of the Assumption of Mary with angels and clouds above kneeling figures around an altar.

Assumption of Mary

Christian Winck

Pen and wash drawing of robed figures instructing a seated man beneath a tree, with a crucifixion and crowd in the background

Ein am Baum der Erkenntnis Sitzender erhält Unterweisungen von Moses und Johannes dem Täufer, im Hintergrund Gesetzes…

Brown wash drawing in an oval of the Madonna holding the Christ Child while the young John the Baptist leans in beside them.

Madonna mit dem Kind und dem Johannesknaben

Adam Friedrich Oeser

Pen and grey wash drawing of the Nativity: a kneeling haloed Virgin beside the infant Christ, with onlookers at a window and

The Nativity

Hans von Kulmbach, 1512

Pen and ink drawing of the Nativity with kneeling Mary and Joseph, an infant in a manger, an ox and donkey, and angels.

The Nativity

Hans Baldung Grien, 1509

Circular pen drawing of the Madonna on a crescent moon with the Christ child, and a kneeling armored knight at left.

Die Madonna auf der Mondsichel mit einem knienden Ritter als Stifter

Pen and grey wash drawing of Christ among a crowd of robed figures, one holding a stone, in a lively group composition.

Jesus Christ and the woman taken in adultery

Master of the Egmont Albums, 1575

Pencil drawing of the Santa Chiara church tower and houses in Assisi, with a stone archway on the right.

Saint Chiara in Assisi

Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kraenzlin, 1851

Red chalk drawing of the Madonna holding the infant Christ on her lap, with three angel heads in clouds above.

Madonna mit dem Kind auf dem Schoß und drei Engelsköpfchen

Johann Ludwig Ernst Morgenstern

Pen and ink sketch of a seated woman holding an infant, with a bearded older man leaning over them.

Holy Family

Pencil drawing of the Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua with multiple domes, spires, bell tower and an equestrian statue.

Saint Antonio in Padua

Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kraenzlin, 1850

Colored crayon drawing of the Nativity with a haloed Virgin and child under a red arch, outlined in bold black like stained g

The Nativity

Brown ink and wash drawing of a standing horned figure gesturing to a seated man beneath a palm tree on blue paper.

The Temptation of Christ

Georg Anton Urlaub, 1755