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Ink and wash drawing of a group of figures, two men bending over a draped form with a child at left and a faint sketched figu

Figure group with two men trying to tie the hooves of a dead hind lying on the ground

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Brown wash drawing of robed philosophers and a woman conversing near an obelisk, globe and scrolls in a classical courtyard.

Aspasia in conversation with philosophers

Michel Corneille the Younger

Grey ink drawing of a rocky cliff with a stone tower, small chapel, trees, and a wooden fence in the foreground.

Château Galliard (Les Andelys?)

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1796

Red chalk drawing of soldiers playing cards around a table in a stone ruin, with a standing onlooker and a helmet on the grou

Soldiers Playing Cards in a Ruin

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1710

Red and black chalk drawing of two heads and three hand studies on a grey-brown ground.

Head of a flutist, head of a young man with a flat beret, three hands, holding two drawing pens and a compass

Nicolas Lancret, 1730

Watercolor landscape of peasants in a horse-drawn cart fording a river below rocky banks and wooded hills.

A Group of Peasants Crossing a Ford with a Horse-Drawn [Cart] Wagon

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1793

Grey chalk drawing of a river landscape with tall trees, a calm pond, and a small figure with a dog at right.

River landscape

François Boucher, 1735

Pencil sketch of Adam and Eve discovering Abel's body on the ground, with a dog and smoking ruins behind them.

Adam and Eve find the body of Abel

Carl Joseph Begas

Watercolor of an arched stone bridge over a river, with boats, townhouses, carriages and figures on the banks.

View of the bridge of La Guillotière in Lyon

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1760

Pen drawing of couples dancing in a tiled hall while a woman plays piano and musicians play in a gallery above.

Gentlemen and ladies dancing, a lady plays piano and is accompanied by an orchestra

Brown ink drawing of the infant Moses in a basket by a river, with a kneeling woman, reclining river god and hilltop city.

The Exposure of Moses on the Nile

Francisque Francisque Millet Millet

Grey wash drawing of two mounted lancers with pennant lances seen from behind, with a smoky landscape and distant riders.

Grand Ducal Berg Troops, Patrol of Lancers

Carl Wilhelm von Heideck, 1811

Black and white chalk drawing of a man crouching on all fours on grey paper, head turned, draped garment.

Man crouching on the ground on all fours (boy playing with chicks)

Nicolas Lancret, 1730

Grey-washed drawing of cascading waterfalls down a rocky hillside with trees and a stream in the foreground.

The waterfall of Tivoli

Red chalk sketch of two standing women seen from behind, a seated woman in drapery, and a hand study.

Two standing ladies in rear view, one hand and a sitting lady

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1715

Pen and wash drawing of a cathedral and palace courtyard with towers, carriages, riders and pedestrians.

Cathedral and Episcopal Palace in Speyer before the destruction in 1689

Israël Silvestre, 1665

Pen and wash drawing of a crowded ceremonial procession past an obelisk and colonnaded classical buildings.

The Entry of Alexander into Babylon

Sébastien Leclerc, 1704

Pen and wash drawing of a dying old man on a bed with a haloed figure pointing upward, angels above, and mourners around.

The Death of Saint Joseph

Michel Corneille the Younger

Pen and wash drawing of Aeneas and companions in a wooded underworld landscape with reclining figures and armed men.

Aeneas in the underworld

Antoine Coypel, 1716

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

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

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

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

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

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

Staffage for a shipwreck

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 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