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Pen and brown ink drawing of a six-horse carriage with riders and attendants in procession, on tinted paper.

Six-horse carriage

Red chalk drawing of a nude figure leaning over a pool in a wooded landscape with trees and rocks.

Narcissus contemplates his reflection in the spring

Michel Corneille the Younger

Brown wash drawing of St. Peter's Square in Rome with the basilica, obelisk, colonnades and small figures.

St. Peter with St. Peter's Square in Rome

Antoine François Antoine-François Peyre Peyre

Grey wash drawing of a laurel-crowned ruler offering sacrifice before a Cupid statue, with cherubs in the clouds above.

A ruler crowned with a laurel wreath has sacrifices offered before the statue of Cupid

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre

Sepia drawing of a frieze of twelve playful winged putti wrestling and climbing among clouds beneath a tree.

Twelve playing putti

Louis-Félix Delarue

Pencil sketch of a rocky cliff covered with trees, with a small figure on a path at right and rock outcrops at left.

The Bodensteiner Lay near Villmar

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1864

Pen and brown ink sketch of a soldier with a plumed hat and staff driving two goats forward on tan paper.

Two soldiers drive two goats before them

Pen and ink drawing of four men carrying a body through trees, with a reclining river god at left and winged figures above.

Four men carry a dead man, a river god on the left

Raymond de Lafage

Pencil study of Gothic architectural tracery and moldings with heart-shaped and foliate ornament on cream paper.

Detail of the choir stalls of the Basilica of the Monastery Maulbronn

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1871

Pen drawing of a church facade with a rose window, bell tower with spire, adjacent house, and hills in the distance.

The church S. Giuliana near Perugia

Heinrich Hübsch

Pen and grey wash drawing of nymphs and fauns dancing around a pan herm, with a reclining nude in the foreground.

Bacchanal, nymphs and fauns dance around a pan herm

Raymond de Lafage

Pencil sketch of Gothic choir stall details with lattice panels, trefoil arcades and a carved finial, dated 1871.

Details of the choir stalls of the Basilica of the Monastery Maulbronn

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1871

Watercolor drawing of elegant figures in an outdoor setting, with women holding a parasol, seated men, a dog, and a girl by t

Outdoor society

Niclas Lafrensen

Pen and wash drawing of the Madonna and Child with Saints Christopher, Joseph and Claudius beneath draped curtains and column

Madonna with Saints Christopher, Joseph and Claudius

François Perrier, 1630

Pencil sketch of a Gothic church with a tall spire and domed turret, surrounded by trees and open land.

The Liebfrauenkirche in Hadamar

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1875

Pen and wash drawing of winged angels playing lute, viola and songbook among clouds, with a pipe organ beside them.

Angelic concert in the clouds

Pierre Mignard I, 1640

Pastoral drawing in grey chalk showing shepherd women, a man and sheep resting by a well and tree.

Jacob and Rachel at the Well

Charles-Joseph Natoire, 1732

Pencil sketch of trees and a path beside church walls and buildings, drawn in 1876 by Carl Theodor Reiffenstein.

The north side of the Leonhardskirche in Frankfurt am Main

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1876

Grey wash drawing of a knight on a bier attacked by cloaked ghosts with swords in a moonlit graveyard.

Graveyard scene (knight on a bier, ghosts attack him)

Ferdinand Fellner, 1817

Pen and chalk drawing on blue paper of Bacchus and Ariadne reclining under a tree with cherubs bringing grapes.

Bacchus and Ariadne

Charles-Joseph Natoire, 1742

Pencil sketch of a stone tower with a pointed roof, a gabled porch, and an arched gateway beside a long building.

The Höchster Porcelain Manufactory

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1880

Two heads and a hand

Robert Nanteuil

Blue-toned drawing of a kneeling woman tending a wounded armored knight, with a helmeted companion and a horse nearby.

Herminia with the wounded Tancred

Charles-Joseph Natoire, 1755

Grey wash drawing of soldiers on horseback and on foot with women and a child beside a rocky slope.

Soldiers on horseback and on foot at a field fortification with women and children

Charles Parrocel

Pen drawing of a rocky seashore with a castle on cliffs, figures beside bales of goods, and a sailing ship at sunrise.

Seashore on high rocky shores, on which a lighthouse and a castle stand, in front five people and two bales of goods

Gabriel Pérelle

Pen and grey wash drawing of masted ships at a wooden landing, with men lounging on the shore in the foreground.

Landing ships, men lounging on the shore

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, 1759

Pencil drawing of a wide Campagna landscape with rocky cliffs, a winding road, and distant mountains under cloudy sky.

Roman Campagna with Monte Genaro

Johann Christoph Erhard

Watercolor of robed clergy, a haloed saint, a harpist and a kneeling axeman in a wooded landscape with a church.

The introduction of the arts into Germany by Christianity

Philipp Veit, 1855

Brown ink and wash drawing of Venice's lagoon with ships, gondolas, the Doge's Palace and figures on a terrace.

View on Venice

Friedrich Nerly

Pencil sketch of pollarded willows with laundry hanging, a woman and child resting below, and a village with a church tower b

Laundry is being dried under willow trees, below lies a woman with a child, in the background a village

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1917

Pencil sketch of a seated woman in a blouse raising her arms to braid long hair, with a patterned cloth draped over her legs.

Roman woman braiding her hair

August Lucas, 1850

Pencil sketch on grey paper of a curly-haired putto leaning forward inside a faint circular frame.

Putto between vines

Moritz von Schwind

Drawing of rocky sea stacks rising from calm water, with a shepherd and sheep in the scrubby foreground under a cloudy sky.

The Cyclops rocks near Sciacca

Pen drawing of Moses striking a rock as water gushes out while people kneel and gather it in jugs beneath a figure in clouds.

The Children of Israel are fed and watered in the desert

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1827

Pencil sketch of a nude putto seen from behind, holding grapes and twisting within a circular scroll frame.

Putto between vines, in rear view

Moritz von Schwind

Brown wash drawing of a Roman countryside with a large tree in the foreground, rolling hills, and a distant castle under clou

Area near Lunghezza, countryside of Rome

Pen drawing of the Beheading of John the Baptist: an executioner beside a body in a prison, a woman holding a platter.

Beheading of John the Baptist

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1857

Pencil sketch of a nude putto within a circle, lifting a conch shell to its lips on grey paper.

Putto between vines, blowing a conch shell

Moritz von Schwind

Pencil landscape drawing of ruined arches and a broken masonry structure on a wide plain under cloudy skies, with hills on th

View of the Alban Hills

Pen drawing of a boy dancing before seated figures, a lute player, a hookah and dogs under trees, 1833.

Boy dancing before an assembly of Orientals

Johann Michael Wittmer, 1833

Pencil sketch of a sleeping winged putto curled within a circular decorative frame on grey paper.

Putto between vines, sleeping

Moritz von Schwind

Pen drawing of brick Roman ruins and an arch beside a dirt road, with a rider on horseback and trees under a cloudy sky.

Dolabella's arch

Ludwig Metz, 1861

Pencil drawing of a camel caravan passing a city gate, with turbaned figures, a horse at a fountain, and a dog.

Caravan at the bridge gate

Johann Michael Wittmer, 1833

Brown wash drawing of a river with a sailing boat, a round stone tower, ruined arches and a distant windmill.

Flat coastal landscape with an old tower and windmill

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1769

Pen drawing of a wooded landscape with an overhanging tree, rocky path, distant hills and a small building on the right.

Andechs on the Ammersee

Watercolor of a river valley with mountains, a hilltop castle, grazing cows and two figures on the riverbank.

A Swiss valley with a river between fir forests, on the right on the mountain a castle, in front five cows

Nicolas Pérignon

Brown wash drawing of a round stone tower on a riverbank, figures in the foreground, and a ruined bridge across the water.

River landscape, in the foreground a round tower, in the middle ground on an island a square tower, with ruins of a b…

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1769

Pen drawing of a valley landscape with a large tree, shrubs, a grazing animal, and rolling hills under cloudy sky.

In the Würm valley near Munich

Pencil drawing of St. Peter's Basilica dome and Vatican buildings in a wide panoramic view over Rome.

St. Peter's, Vatican and Belvedere in Rome

Johann Wilhelm Schirmer

Pencil sketch of Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome across the Tiber, with a stone bridge, a rowing boat and riverside houses.

Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome

Ernst Fries, 1825

Sepia drawing of a wide landscape with a large tree at right, rolling hills, small figures in a meadow, and clouds.

The Calvary hill near Andorf

Watercolor of two gnarled oak trees in a forest with undergrowth and water at lower left, in muted grey-brown tones.

Oak trees in the forest

Johann Wilhelm Schirmer

Pencil sketch of a dog lying on its side, head resting forward, legs stretched out, with light hatching for shading.

Dog lying on its side

Ernst Fries, 1825

Brown ink drawing of a country road with a cart, grazing cattle, a resting figure, and large trees beside a distant village.

Road leading to a village

Esaias van de Velde, 1616

Pencil drawing of the ruined round tomb of Caecilia Metella in a hilly landscape with pine trees and a shepherd.

The tomb of Caecilia Metella

Pen drawing of God in radiant light pointing to a kneeling Moses who shields his eyes, with sheep and a distant pyramid lands

Moses is called to lead Israel out of Egypt (The Burning Bush)

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1844

Drawing of a decorated locomotive carriage with sea creatures, putti, a trident-bearing god and a hammer-wielding figure unde

Allegory of steam power

Johann Baptist Scholl

Pencil drawing of three young women in peasant dress standing together against a pale background.

Three peasant girls in Upper Hessian costume

Carl Engel von der Rabenau

Coastal bay with fishermen mending nets on rocks, sailboats on water, a tall cliff on the right, and a distant ruined tower.

Bay with large rocks on the right and fishermen

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1769

Pencil sketch of a kneeling man tending an injured figure beside a standing donkey, on tan paper.

The Good Samaritan

Pen and grey wash drawing of a large tree beside a small hut and riverside landing stage with figures.

The ferry landing stage at the Schaumaintor in Sachsenhausen

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1842

Pen sketch of a harnessed horse and cart in a busy marketplace with crowds of people behind.

Cart foals in a marketplace in Hungarian Szolnok

August von Pettenkofen

Grey pencil drawing of a riverside town with an arched stone bridge, washerwomen, and a Gothic church on a hill.

Small town with castle, situated on a river

Carl Morgenstern

Watercolor of a sea bay with tall rocks, sailboats, fishermen in rowboats and figures with a basket in the foreground.

Sea bay with large rocks left and fishermen

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1769

Pencil landscape sketch of a village with a church tower beneath rolling hills and a distant mountain ridge.

Landscape with church

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1917

Pencil landscape drawing of a river valley with rolling hills, a tall lone tree, and a small boat on the water.

Motif from the Lahn valley

Peter Becker, 1857

Brown wash drawing of a poor farmhouse by water with laundry on a line, tall trees at left and two walking figures.

Poor farmhouse on a body of water, with laundry hung out

Jean-Baptiste Pillement

Pencil sketch of five figures in hats and a bonnet seated around a wooden tavern table, with a heart-carved chair in front.

Peasants of the Kinzig valley at a tavern table

Pencil and watercolor street view of half-timbered houses, a church tower, and a castle ruin on a hill.

Philippstein near Weilburg

Peter Becker, 1877

Brown drawing of a man and woman with a donkey beside a cottage and a large tree in a rural landscape.

Before a house under a large tree a man and a woman with a donkey

Jean-Baptiste Pillement

Grey drawing of a kneeling old woman silhouetted beside a wooden cross in a cemetery at dusk, with trees behind.

Old woman kneeling in prayer in a cemetery

Pencil sketch of saddled and grazing horses, a horse head study, and a rider with a lasso on horseback.

Tartar riding horses, on the right a rider with a lasso

Teutwart Schmitson

Pencil drawing of a woman resting beneath poplar trees beside a river, framed by trees on both sides.

Resting woman under poplar trees by the river

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1866

Pencil drawing of a small hut beside a pond with tall trees, reeds, and a winding path under a cloudy sky.

A hut on a pond

Carl Ernst Morgenstern

Pen and wash drawing of a sea horse and a winged putto among scrolling grotesque ornament.

Grotesque with sea horse and putto

Peter Flötner, 1550

Grey wash drawing of a town street with a church, rooftops and a group of figures in period dress near a halberd guard.

Labor of the month February

Matthäus Merian, 1622

Pencil sketch of a harnessed horse and cart in a busy marketplace, with figures sketched in the background.

Cart foals in a marketplace in Hungarian Szolnok (Impression of the recto)

August von Pettenkofen

Grey wash drawing of two men rowing a small boat on choppy sea under dark storm clouds, with a distant tower on the coast.

Coastal landscape with approaching storm

Franz Pforr, 1810

Pen and grey wash drawing of a village street with a church spire, a loaded wagon with barrels, horses, and travelers.

Month picture October, top right the sign of Scorpio

Matthäus Merian, 1622

Pencil sketch of a smiling woman's face cropped at the nose and mouth, with a high collar tied at the neck on tan paper.

Grinning woman (Fragment)

Pen and ink sketch of a rural landscape with farmhouses, a tower, and two men leading a laden pack animal.

Italian landscape with two men and a pack animal

Pen and wash drawing of a pastoral landscape with cows, sheep, a large tree, farmhouse and church tower by a pond.

Seasons picture summer

Matthäus Merian, 1622

Brown chalk drawing of a forest path with trees, a rocky bank, and small figures struggling at the lower left.

A forest path, a wanderer is attacked by two men

Johann Wilhelm Schirmer

Head of a horse and a foal to the left

Teutwart Schmitson

Pen and brown ink sketch of four figures around a table in an interior, with a standing woman and seated men.

Saul and the Witch of Endor

Rembrandt van Rijn

Graphite and brown wash landscape drawing with rocky hills on the left, a winding path, and hazy distant figures.

Landscape

Johann Wilhelm Schirmer

Red chalk sketch of a southern harbor with a sailing boat, stone tower, and workers loading goods beside a donkey.

Southern harbor scene, on the right bank goods are being packed and loaded onto a donkey

Johannes Lingelbach

Grey wash drawing of a winter village with skaters on a frozen river, a ruined church on a hill, and a bare tree at left.

Month picture January, top right the sign of Aquarius

Matthäus Merian, 1622

Ink and wash drawing of a helmeted soldier supporting a dying, long-haired man who lies sprawled on the ground.

A soldier supports a dying man

Nicolas Poussin, 1517

Brown wash drawing of a forest scene with three horses and a rider crossing a wooden bridge beneath large trees.

Forest scene with a bridge, over which three horses and a rider are going

Johann Christoph Erhard

Pen and grey wash drawing of gardeners working in a formal garden beside tall trees and a manor house, with a bull roundel.

Month picture April, top right the sign of Taurus

Matthäus Merian, 1622

Chalk study on tinted paper of a muscular male figure with outstretched arm, plus smaller head and draped figure sketches.

Study after Raphael's "The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple" as well as female figures

Nicolas Poussin, 1512

Ink sketch of a kneeling penitent with a scourge seen from behind, with a raven sketched in the upper right corner.

Flagellating penitent with a raven

Arnold Böcklin, 1857

Pen and wash drawing of a rural road with horsemen, farm workers, a timber barn and a distant village under a large tree.

Month picture August, top left the sign of Virgo

Matthäus Merian, 1622

Pen and ink drawing of the Holy Family with Saint Elisabeth and children before architecture and a distant landscape.

The Holy Family with Saint Elisabeth and the boy John in a landscape

Nicolas Poussin

Pencil sketch of a village with a church steeple and wooded hills behind, with figures and a horse cart in the foreground.

Zell near the Harmersbach