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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

Pencil sketch of a gabled house behind a stone wall, with tall poplars and a leafy tree beside it.

The Plaster Mill in Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1869

Engraving of a colonnaded academy hall with many scholars among globes, instruments, maps and books.

The Academy of Arts and Sciences

Sébastien Leclerc

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crowded classical scene with soldiers, a seated figure, and columned architecture.

Death of Virginia

Gabriel François Doyen, 1757

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

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 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 and wash drawing of horsemen and hunting dogs chasing and bringing down a stag across a sketched landscape.

Stag hunt on horseback

Jacques Courtois

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

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 a dim vaulted underground chamber with stone arches and a bench in an alcove.

Underground arch

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

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

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 sketch of three pigs in varied poses, with faint pencil underdrawings visible on pale paper.

Three pigs

Friedrich Nerly, 1828

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, 1520

Brown ink drawing of horsemen, hunters and dogs in a classical landscape with trees and rocks.

Hunt of Meleager and Atalanta

François Chauveau, 1634

Ox to the right

Max Josef Wagenbauer

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

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

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

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

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 on blue paper of a seated woman in a headscarf milking a horned goat beside a bucket.

Woman milking a goat

Max Josef Wagenbauer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Red chalk landscape drawing of a castle on the left, tall trees on the right, and two boys seated on a path.

Landscape, a castle on the left, trees on the right, two boys sitting by the path in front

Frans Boudewijns, 1737

Red chalk drawing of a seated allegorical woman with two putti beside a tablet reading Moderatio, in classical architecture.

Allegory of Moderation ("Moderatio")

Edmé Bouchardon

Pencil sketch on blue-grey paper of four cattle in various poses, including a reclining cow, a seated calf and standing cows.

Four cattle

Max Josef Wagenbauer

Grey wash drawing of three robed figures standing before a kneeling man, with servants and classical architecture in the back

Abraham and the three angels

Sébastien Bourdon, 1650

Pen and wash drawing of a rustic courtyard with barrels, a donkey, a cart wheel, and villagers watching from a balcony.

Allegory of the fall of the Barry family

Hubert Robert, 1774

Two cattle, standing and lying

Max Josef Wagenbauer

Chalk drawing on blue-grey paper of three sheep heads, one awake with open eyes and two asleep, by Jean-Baptiste Huet.

Three sheep heads, awake and asleep

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1768

Pen and wash drawing of a mythological bacchanal with nude figures, satyrs, a seated woman and a flying putto in a landscape.

Bacchus and Ariadne

Raymond de Lafage

Graphite sketch sheet with a kneeling saint, several kneeling angels, head studies and peasant women figures.

A kneeling saint, with two angels, various kneeling angels, heads and in the left corner two peasant women from Dachau

Ferdinand Ferdinand Fellner Fellner

Watercolor drawing of a couple with sheep, goats and a dog in a pastoral woodland landscape with roses.

Shepherd Scene

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1780

Pen and wash drawing of a reclining woman on a couch surrounded by nude revelers, a lute player and a horse in a landscape.

Marriage of Bacchus and the sleeping Ariadne

Raymond de Lafage

Brown wash drawing of a family and children gathered in a rustic farmhouse interior with timber beams and a hearth.

Family scene inside a farmhouse

Jacques François Amand

Angel with lowered head in profile to the left

Pen and grey wash drawing of soldiers attacking a fleeing crowd toward an arched city gate.

The Toulousans chase the Huguenots out of their city

Raymond de Lafage, 1682

Watercolor of a figure in red hurrying through a rock cave toward a bright opening with a wooden gate and bare trees.

A painter runs with his drawing board into a rock cave that can be closed with a massive gate

Grey wash drawing of ruined stone tombs with overgrown trees, seated figures in the foreground and a brick building at right.

Tomb of the Horatii and Curiatii

Pen and wash drawing of a farmhouse, two cows, and chubby putti climbing a leafy vine trellis.

At a farmhouse two cows and five putti climbing a vine

Gerard Gerard Hoet Hoet d. Ä

Pen and brown ink drawing of robed men and soldiers viewing a plan among classical buildings and workers with stones.

A city founder is shown a plan

Raymond de Lafage

Brown ink and wash drawing of a three-masted ship at anchor beside a lighthouse across a calm harbor.

Marine, a three-master on the left, a lighthouse on the right

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 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

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

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

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

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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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