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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

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

Grey wash drawing of a seated draped woman holding balance scales beneath winged putti in clouds, within a circular frame.

Justice

Laurent de La Hyre, 1641

Brown ink and wash drawing of figures in Chinese-style dress gathered around a table beside a pavilion and palm plant.

Chinese family scene

François Boucher

Red chalk drawing of nude Hercules with club and lion skin inside a circular medallion with inscriptions, 1744.

Hercules with fur and club (Commemorative coin "Extraordinaire des Guerres 1744")

Edmé Bouchardon, 1744

Watercolor drawing of a Roman interior with a seated statue, Corinthian columns, coffered ceiling and small figures.

Roman room

Georges-François Georges-François Blondel Blondel, 1756

Chalk drawing of cherub heads peering from clouds, with red and black chalk and white highlights on a tan ground.

Angel heads in clouds (Birth of Christ)

François Boucher, 1750

Red chalk drawing of a seated nude smith hammering at an anvil in a forge, with a figure behind him, inside a circular frame.

Cyclops in the forge of Vulcan (Special coin "Extraordinaire des Guerres 1751")

Edmé Bouchardon, 1751

Sepia drawing of Roman ruins with a stone arch, columns, a seated statue, lions, and grazing cattle and sheep.

Agrippina's grotto

Georges-François Georges-François Blondel Blondel, 1756

Pen and brown ink wash drawing of mythological figures, including nude women and a seated man, in a wooded landscape.

The Judgment of Paris

François Boucher, 1755

Pencil sketch of a figure bearing a cross, pulled by a soldier, with a crowd of mourners in draped robes behind.

Bearing of the Cross

Edmé Bouchardon

Pencil drawing of a thatched farmhouse in the woods with figures climbing a fence and a boar foraging nearby.

A farmhouse in the woods, a man climbs over the fence

Pieter Pietersz. Pieter Pietersz Barbiers II Barbiers

Pen and brown ink drawing of nymphs and bearded river gods reclining by water jars beside reeds and a classical ruin.

Nymphs and River Gods

François Boucher, 1735

Pen and wash drawing of a young man in a lace collar and buttoned doublet, turned three-quarters to the left.

Youth with embroidered shirt collar in three-quarter profile to the left

David Bailly, 1626

Grey wash drawing of three caryatids holding a vase topped by a lion, among Roman ruins with columns and an arched niche.

Between remnants of a Roman magnificent building, three colossal caryatids carry a vase with a lion

Jacques-François Blondel

Grey wash drawing of a Roman building with a fountain where a river god and two lions pour water into a basin.

A Roman magnificent building with a fountain, at which a river god and two lions pour water

Georges-François Georges-François Blondel Blondel

Pen drawing of Christ on the cross with ornamented body, INRI plaque, and a serpent coiled at the base.

Christ on the cross

Berny, Pierre Jean Paul de Pierre-Jean-Paul Berny de Nogent, 1772

Bearded man's head with a hat

Jean Jacques de Boissieu

Red chalk drawing of Roman ruins with a cupid fountain and washerwomen working beside a wooden shed.

Under Roman ruins a fountain with two cupids, at which washerwomen are busy

Georges-François Georges-François Blondel Blondel

Portrait of Jean Calvin

Berny, Pierre Jean Paul de Pierre-Jean-Paul Berny de Nogent, 1772

Brown wash drawing of large oak trees beside a dirt path with distant hills and a pale sky.

Landschaft mit großen Bäumen

Jean Jacques de Boissieu

Black chalk sketch of a seated boy with bare legs on a rock, head turned left, with sketched foliage behind him.

Seated boy with bare legs

François Boucher

Pen drawing of King Henry IV and Gabrielle d'Estrées in period dress on a hunt, captioned in French, dated 1772.

King Henry IV of France and Gabrielle d'Estrées on the hunt

Berny, Pierre Jean Paul de Pierre-Jean-Paul Berny de Nogent, 1772

Red chalk drawing of a woman in a headscarf holding a sleeping infant against her shoulder, with draped cloth below.

Mary puts the child to sleep

Sébastien Bourdon

Brown ink and wash drawing of a kneeling woman washing feet at a banquet table with seated and standing figures.

The washing of Christ's feet by Mary Magdalene

Pen drawing of Martin Luther in an oval frame with ornate scrolls, Latin verse and dates beneath, in a robe holding a book.

Portrait of Martin Luther

Berny, Pierre Jean Paul de Pierre-Jean-Paul Berny de Nogent, 1772

Grey wash drawing of a religious procession with a priest carrying a monstrance under a canopy, clergy, and onlookers in a ch

Procession, the monstrance carried under a canopy

Laurent de La Hyre

Red chalk drawing of a seated lame man reaching for a bearded apostle in a columned temple, with a crowd watching.

Peter and John heal a lame man

Pencil drawing of a veiled nun writing at a desk, gazing up toward a dove in clouds, with bookshelves behind.

The Holy Lucilia inspired by the Holy Spirit writing at the desk

Charles Le Brun

Watercolor of white oxen and water buffalo driven by riders through a stream past a long Roman aqueduct.

Roman peasants driving a herd of oxen and buffalo through the water

Johann Erdmann Gottlieb Prestel, 1838

Pencil drawing of a ruined stone tomb with stepped blocks and a circular tower, set in a hilly landscape with a tree.

Tomb of the Horatii and Curiatii

Joseph Joseph Thürmer Thürmer, 1818

Pen and wash drawing on blue paper of a haloed figure reclining in a forest while several winged angels attend him with food.

Christ served by four angels

Charles Le Brun

Pencil sketch of a cow standing in water beside two cow heads with horns peeking through grass.

Cow in the water and two cow heads

Max Josef Wagenbauer, 1810