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Watercolor

16,217 works

A Justice of the Peace

Jean François Léonor Mérimée, ca. 1798-99

Full-length watercolor of a man in a purple judicial robe and cap holding a rolled paper, labeled Tribunal Criminel.

A Judge of the Criminal Court

Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, ca. 1798-99

Red chalk sketch of a seated child with a loosely drawn outstretched leg below, on a pale paper sheet.

Study for Christ Child

Giacomo Cavedone, 1610/12

Three chalk head studies of a man in a striped cap, drawn in red and black on toned paper.

Three Studies of the Head of a Turbaned Black Man

Nicolas Lancret, 1720/30

Charcoal drawing of a pale road curving through a dark valley toward a flat-topped mountain ridge under a dusky sky.

Algerian Landscape

Albert Lebourg, 1873

Chalk drawing on blue paper of seated musicians playing violin and flutes beside a set of organ pipes.

Concert Scene

Florentine or North Italian, n.d.

Brown ink drawing of Laocoön and two sons struggling against large serpents, rendered in sepia wash on pale paper.

Laocoön

Unknown artist, 1550/59

Brown ink drawing of a seated allegorical woman beside a column, with putti, a lion and a coat of arms above.

Allegorical Figure of Fortitude, with Coat of Arms Above

Attributed to Giovanni Battista Coriolano, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a turbaned, bearded seated man raising an arm while a younger figure leans at his knee.

Samuel Enthroned

Cesare Nebbia, 1586/89

Graphite drawing of a bearded monk reaching upward toward a vision of Christ and angels within an arched frame.

Christ Appearing to Monastic Saint in Ecstasy

Follower of Carlo Maratti, n.d.

Grey-washed drawing with white highlights of a horseman with a raised staff, a wild boar, a dog, and sketch studies.

Copy of Scene from the Life of Sulla fresco, in the Hall of Saturn, Pitti Palace

possibly Cesare Dandini, after 1665

Brown ink and white heightened drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds with kneeling figures, a Virgin and Child, a donkey

Adoration of the Shepherds

After Polidoro Caldara, called Polidoro da Caravaggio, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing of two embracing women on stone steps beside columns, with onlookers, after Andrea del Sarto.

Visitation

After Andrea del Sarto, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing of a reclining bearded man with nude figures and draped cloth beside a stone wall.

Drunkenness of Noah

after Michelangelo Buonarroti, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of two bearded standing men draped in robes, placed side by side in a rectangular niche.

Two Standing Prisoners in a Niche

Bernardino Campi, c. 1549

Pen and ink drawing of Saint Benedict raising his arm as men strain to move a stone beside classical columns and trees.

Saint Benedict Moving the Stone which a Demon Had Made Immobile

after Ludovico Carracci, after 1606

Pencil drawing of Christ leaning on a cross, with a chalice and drops falling from his hand at lower left.

Christ with the Cross

Circle of Rosso Fiorentino, c. 1530

Handwritten French letter in brown ink on aged paper, addressed to Monsieur le Directeur, with a signature at lower right.

Charles Meryon Autographed Letter

Charles Meryon, March 24, 1854

Brown wash drawing of women examining tablets in a colonnaded setting, with cherubs in the upper left corner.

Women Looking at Religious Tablets

after Lazzaro Baldi, n.d.

Pencil study of a standing armored warrior with a spear in an arched stained glass design, labeled Epaminondas.

Study for a Stained Glass Window

John La Farge, c. 1875

Susan in a Straw Bonnet

Mary Cassatt, c. 1883

Girl Plaiting her Hair (La Natte)

Berthe Morisot, 1894

Pencil study of a crowd scene with a rearing horse, a seated figure on a pedestal, and kneeling figures in the foreground.

Study

Attributed to Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari, c. 1686

Red chalk drawing of a seated youth in a monk's habit holding a book, with white highlights and faint grid lines.

Seated Youth Wearing a Monk's Habit: Study for Saint Benedict

Bartolomeo Cesi, 1590

Brown wash drawing of a sick man on a bed with kneeling men and winged angels beneath a shaft of light.

Healing of the Paralytic

Possibly Johann Gottlieb Prestel, n.d.

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of two reclining beggars and a seated woman holding a child beside steps.

Two Reclining Beggars, and Seated Mother and Child, at Foot of Steps

after Girolamo Macchietti, n.d.

Red chalk drawing of a nude male figure leaning forward beside a pillar, with a handwritten inscription on the lower strip.

Copy after Drawing by Carlo Maratta

the elder Francisco Vieira de Mattos, 1731

Brown ink drawing of the Virgin Mary rising on clouds with angels, above an open stone tomb.

Assumption of the Virgin

School of Carlo Maratti, n.d.

Hand-colored lithograph of two women in gowns facing a bearded ragpicker with a basket on a city street.

"What are you looking for here, Philosopher?"

Paul Gavarni, 1847

Brown wash drawing of Christ kneeling on a rock with an angel above and three sleeping disciples in the foreground.

Agony in the Garden

after Taddeo Zuccaro, c. 1600

Ink and wash drawing of a seated woman at a fountain with attendants while a man reaches toward her beside classical architec

David and Bathsheba

Possbily after Giuseppe Passeri, n.d.

Pencil sketch of draped Bacchic figures and Neptune with a trident riding a chariot drawn by two sea horses.

Sketches after the Antique: Bacchic Revels; Neptune in His Chariot

Pirro Ligorio, c. 1535