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18,219 works

Sepia etching of a wooded hill with robed figures preaching above a crowd and sheep, with a sea and distant city beyond.

Liber Veritatis: No. 138, A View of the Sea, with Christ Preaching on the Mount (the water below may probably be inte…

Richard Earlom, 1776

Etching of a kneeling old man in a dark robe beside a skull in a rocky, shadowed setting, dated 1858.

Saint Jérôme (Le Grand)

Bisson Frères, 1858

Grey wash drawing of Christ at a well speaking with a seated woman holding a jug, with a town in the distance.

Christ and the Woman of Samaria [verso]

Unknown artist, c. 1600

Etching of a bearded man with curly hair looking upward, shoulders faintly drawn, signed Stefano Della Bella.

Head of Saint Peter repentant

Stefano Della Bella

Ink and grey wash drawing of a robed bearded figure with arms raised, surrounded by reclining nude figures reaching upward.

Moses Staying the Plague (?) [recto]

William Blake, c. 1780/1785

Grey wash drawing of a robed figure preaching to seated listeners in a shadowed architectural setting.

Christ preaching

François-Alfred Delobbe

Pencil sketch of ghostly figures near a tomb under a crescent moon, with loose, unfinished lines on tan paper.

A Resurrection Scene (The Gambols of Ghosts) [recto]

William Blake, 1805/1808

Pencil sketch on pink paper: a long-haired dog study beside a seated Virgin and child with angels in a framed panel.

Study for a dog and for a virgin and child (recto) / Three studies (verso)

François-Alfred Delobbe

Drawing of a nude young child standing barefoot, raising one hand in blessing, rendered in white highlights on brown paper.

The naked Child Jesus blessing

François-Alfred Delobbe, 1876

Pencil drawing of a nude young child standing with one hand raised in blessing, with small studies of a hand and legs at righ

The Child Jesus blessing - Fragmentary study of a figure lying down on the verso

François-Alfred Delobbe

Pencil studies on tan paper of a standing toddler, a seated mother holding a child, and a sketch of a seated child.

Three studies for the Virgin and Child Jesus blessing (recto and verso)

François-Alfred Delobbe

Pencil sketch on blue-grey paper of a seated nude child with raised hand, plus studies of hands.

The Child Jesus blessing

François-Alfred Delobbe

Pencil sketch of the Virgin seated with the Christ Child under a classical pedimented canopy, on tan paper.

Virgin and Child blessing

François-Alfred Delobbe

Pencil sketch of three seated draped female figures with veils, studying folds of cloth and hand positions.

Three studies of Virgin and Child

François-Alfred Delobbe

Pencil sketch of a rider on a donkey entering a crowd beneath palm branches, with studies of reclining and crouching figures.

The entry of Christ into Jerusalem and six studies (recto) / Studies (verso)

François-Alfred Delobbe

Brown ink drawing of a haloed preacher addressing a crowd in a columned hall, with kneeling women in the foreground.

Saint Paul at Ephesus

Jean-François Brémond

Watercolor study of a winged angel holding a sphere within a decorative church pendant with ornamental borders.

Pendant decorated with an angel carrying a sphere at the church of Saint-François d'Assise (recto); decoration (verso)

Arthur-Joseph Gueniot, 1898

Engraving of Saint George on a white horse lancing a dragon, with a kneeling woman and a landscape behind.

Saint George fighting the dragon after Raphael (Dutuit p. 558)

Lucas Vorsterman, 1628

Engraving of a reclining nude woman holding a sleeping child, with a stag, deer and pheasant in a wooded landscape.

The Penitence of Saint John Chrysostom

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1509

Black chalk and white highlight study of a bearded half-length male figure on blue paper, turned to the right.

Half-length Figure Study for Saint Paul

Jacopo Bassano, 1561/65

Engraving of Christ in Limbo raising a figure from the dead beside a bound devil, with nude figures and a crowd behind.

The Passion: Christ in Limbo

Martin Schongauer, c. 1480

Woodcut of mourners lowering Christ's body beside a crown of thorns, with a hilly town landscape behind.

The Passion: The Lamentation

Lucas Cranach, 1509

Pen and ink drawing of the seated Virgin holding the infant Christ, both with haloes, on toned paper.

Virgin and Child (recto); Putti (verso)

Florentine or Vicentine, n.d.

Engraving of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, angels above, kneeling figures, retinue and a hilly landsca

The Adoration of the Magi (Bartsch 6)

Etching of Saint Sebastian, a nude male figure bound to a tree with raised arms, with dark hatched foliage and distant hills.

Saint Sebastian

James Barry, c. 1776

Black chalk drawing on blue paper of an angel with outstretched arms and feathered wings, modeled with white highlights.

Angel

Jacapo Bassano, c. 1575

Engraving of the Adoration of the Shepherds with angels above, a manger, ox and donkey, and ruins in the background.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Battista Franco Veneziano, c. 1552

Pen and ink sketch of a papal figure in a vaulted hall surrounded by seated and standing robed courtiers.

Study for Pius IV Investing Cosimo I as Grand Master of the Order of Saint Stephen (?)

called Passignano Domenico Cresti, c. 1596

Engraving of the prophet Elijah walking as a winged angel offers him a cup and bread across a sparse landscape.

Elijah to whom an angel brings his sustenance after Rubens (Dutuit 26)

Peter Paul Rubens

Engraving of the Annunciation: a winged angel speaks to the Virgin Mary beside a lectern with an open book and candle, with p

The Annunciation after Rubens (Dutuit 3)

Peter Paul Rubens

Engraving of the Nativity with Mary kneeling by the infant Jesus in a manger, Joseph, an ox, and angels above.

The Nativity after Rubens (Dutuit 7)

Peter Paul Rubens

Pen and ink drawing on blue paper of Christ walking on water beside a boat with startled figures and a billowing sail.

Christ Walking on the Water, Peter Following

Domenico Campagnola, c. 1550