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Städel Museum

96 works

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

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 grey wash drawing of a wooded landscape with figures bathing by a stream beneath tall trees.

Landschaft mit Diana und Aktäon

Joseph Anton Koch, 1832

Brown wash drawing of four figure groups including satyrs, goats, a bearded man with a book and a wine jug.

Four groups with satyr and silenus

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

Pen and grey wash drawing of Jupiter reclining beside Alcmene, surrounded by cherubs and classical architecture.

Jupiter in de gedaante van Amphitrion by Alcmene

Pen and ink drawing on grey paper of three allegorical figures: armored Mars, crowned Venice with a lion, and bearded Neptune

Mars, Venezia and Neptune (trompe-l'œil sculpture)

Gaspare Diziani

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

Graphite drawing of a nude youth reclining on draped cloth, with a hound standing beside him at left.

The dead Adonis

Bonaventura Genelli

Pen and ink drawing with white highlights on blue paper showing three classical figures: Venus with a cupid, Mercury with win

Venus, Mercury and Minerva (trompe-l'œil sculpture)

Gaspare Diziani

Pencil sketch of Roman ruins with a vaulted arch, a bell tower, fallen columns in the foreground and a distant dome.

Blick auf den Tempel der Venus und der Roma sowie über den Campo Vaccino des Forum Romanum in Rom

Friedrich Mosbrugger

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 ink and wash sketch of a fountain design with a central standing figure and reclining figures on rocks.

Design for a nymph fountain

Gaspare Diziani

Pen and wash sketch of Jupiter reclining on clouds beside Psyche and a winged Cupid figure.

Psyche in front of Jupiter

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Pen and wash drawing of Diana aiming a bow at a satyr carrying off nymphs through a wooded landscape.

Diana verfolgt den Räuber ihrer Nymphen

Pierre Brébiette, 1626

Pen and wash drawing of seated Hercules beside standing nude Omphale, with Cupid holding a club and figures behind a pedestal

Hercules and Omphale

Gaspare Diziani

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

Adoration of the kings

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 watercolor drawing of a bacchanalian procession with a chariot, nude revelers, elephants, and a classical temple.

The triumph of Bacchus

Johann Viktor Platzer, 1625

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

Brown ink and wash drawing of a reclining nude woman on a bed as a winged figure descends from above.

Jupiter and Semele

Gaspare Diziani

Grey wash drawing of nymphs around a reclining woman in a wooded landscape, a fountain at right and a hunter with hounds in t

Diana und Kallisto, im Hintergrund der sich nähernde Aktaion

Jacob Lois, 1643

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

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

Pen and wash drawing of Venus and Cupid under a draped tent, with Flora and Zephyr embracing at left.

Venus und Amor unter einem Zelt sitzend, links von ihnen stehen Flora und Zephir

Joseph Heintz the Elder

Pen sketch of clouds, putti, a sun chariot and seated gods arranged across a celestial composition on pale paper.

Tierkreis mit Jupiter und Merkur, vor denen ein Fürst sitzt, rechts unten Phoebus auf dem Sonnenwagen, links oben der…

Pen and wash drawing of Venus seated, a vine-crowned Bacchus reaching toward her, and a flying cherub above, 1576.

Bacchus, Ariadne und Venus

Hans Friedrich Schorer, 1576

Grey pencil drawing of Venus reclining beside Adonis under a tree, with a cupid and dog in the background.

Venus and Adonis

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