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Red chalk sketch of two men in period dress with walking staves and a standing woman in a long gown.

Two Pilgrims and a Standing Woman in Profile

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1709

Pen and brown wash drawing of a crowd worshipping at a fiery altar beneath a large tree, with a wide landscape beyond.

The Adoration of the Golden Calf

Claude Lorrain, 1653

Grey wash drawing of houses on steep rocky cliffs with trees and a domed building in the hazy distance.

Houses on high rocks

Jean Jacques de Boissieu

Pencil and wash study of tall plants, broad leaves and low foliage on pale paper, attributed to Watteau.

Plants

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1709

Watercolor and pen drawing of a Neapolitan cathedral interior with clergy at an altar and a kneeling crowd in the foreground.

The Blood Miracle of Saint Januarius in the Cathedral of Naples

Louis Jean Desprez, 1780

Pen and brown wash sketch of three male figures in caps, one leaning on a draped table and two standing at right.

Three farmers

Jean Jacques de Boissieu

Watercolor landscape of thatched cottages beside a large tree, a dirt road with small figures, and a cloudy sky.

Landscape with a ruined farmstead

Louis Gabriel Moreau, 1790

Brown wash drawing of three men in an Egyptian tomb firing a pistol near two nude corpses and sarcophagi.

The poet Aaron Hill and three other Egypt travelers find two corpses in a tomb chamber

Augustin Félix Fortin, 1790

Two heads of old men, en face and in profile to the left

Jean Jacques de Boissieu

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

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