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Watercolor

16,217 works

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Virgin rising into clouds above kneeling figures beside a stone tomb.

Assumption of the Virgin

Pietro da Pietri, n.d.

Persian manuscript page with a miniature of a birth scene, a fantastical bird, and calligraphy columns on a blue background.

The Birth of Rustam, page from a copy of the Shahnama of Firdausi

Unknown artist, Safavid dynasty (1501-1722)، dated c.1620

Two painted pages of a garden scene with blossoming trees, musicians, a seated figure on a dais, and an archer, on gold groun

Garden Scene

Unknown artist, Timurid dynasty (ca. 1370-1507), mid-15th century

Drawing of three figures seated on clouds: a youth raising a bowl, a bearded man resting his head, and a gesturing figure.

Time Seated on Clouds, Flanked by Two Other Angels

Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Romano, after, n.d.

Graphite sketch of the Pietà with Mary holding the dead Christ, a bearded figure with a vessel, and a standing woman.

Pieta

School of Simone Cantarini, n.d.

Pen and brown wash drawing of a seated woman with a staff, two putti beside her, and a distant landscape.

Magdalene in the Wilderness with Two Putti

François Perrier, n.d.

Upturned Head of Saint Dominic

Lorenzo Sabbatini, called Lorenzino da Bologna, after, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a woman bound to a stake among kindling, with a kneeling figure and a helmeted warrior nearby.

Clorinda Rescues Olindo and Sophronia

Unknwon artist, 1600s

Drawing of a standing Franciscan saint holding a crucifix, with cherubs and clouds in an arched frame, in red chalk and ink.

Standing Franciscan Saint Holding Crucifix

called Il Baciccio Giovanni Battista Gaulli, n.d.

Three studies of seated women in period dress, one reading, one playing a lute, one glancing sideways, in chalk on tan paper.

Three Studies of Seated Women

Jean-Antoine Watteau, c. 1715

Design sheet with ink and pencil studies of a coffee pot, showing a floral rose motif, pearl beading, and spout details.

Ham and Pearling Design for Coffee Pot No. 6652

Tiffany and Company, c. 1882

Red chalk drawing of a bearded saint with a winged lion and putti among clouds, after Domenichino.

Saint Mark

After Domenichino, after 1627

Illuminated page with a crowned kneeling figure, red-robed attendants, a walled city, heraldic shields and a gold inscription

Pope Pius II, frontispiece to a Constitution of the Sienese Church of the Year 1464

Unknown artist, 1464; possibly 19th century copy

Brown watercolor of a stone arch bridge and waterfall on a rocky mountain road, with travelers and pack animals.

Devil's Bridge toward the Gothard Mountain in Switzerland

Franz Xaver Triner, 1785-1824

Red chalk drawing of a kneeling bearded figure in an orange robe, head bowed, hands clasped to the chest.

Christ Kneeling

After Carlo Dolci, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a mountain lake with rocky slopes, a stone hut, grazing cattle, and a small boat.

View of Oberalp Lake

Franz Xaver Triner, late 18th-19th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated woman with a table of vessels, and workers at a furnace in an arched forge interior.

Allegory of Fire (Venus in the Forge of Vulcan)

After Jacopo Bassano, n.d.

Sepia wash drawing of seated figures by a river with moored boats, trees, and a fortified building on the far bank.

Figures Seated by a River

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi ?, n.d.

Red chalk sketch of a standing bearded figure greeting a kneeling veiled woman beneath a draped canopy, with angels above.

Resurrected Christ Appearing to His Mother

Attributed to Ottavio Vannini, n.d.

Black silhouette of a boy, a dog, a child pointing, and a seated woman in a rocking chair beside a table, on pale paper.

Silhouette of Hammond Family

Auguste Edouart, 1842

Head of a Monk

Attributed to Francesco Vanni, n.d.

Drawing of two winged putti playing with swans beside a large vessel, rendered in pen and brown wash on tan paper.

Putti Playing with Swans

Circle of Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael, n.d.

Brown ink drawing of a sun chariot in clouds above a seated woman, a pointing youth, and a classical landscape with buildings

Study for the Omen of the Future Greatness of Augustus: Left Portion

After Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Romano, n.d.

Illuminated manuscript initial R showing the Virgin holding a red book, surrounded by kneeling haloed saints in gold and blue

The Virgin Adored by Saints in a Historiated Initial "R" from an Antiphonary

Unknown artist, 15th century

Medieval painted initial P showing the Nativity with Mary, Joseph, the infant Christ in a manger, animals and angels on gold.

The Nativity in a Historiated Initial "P" from a Choir Book

Unknown artist, c. 1390

Medieval manuscript page of two columns of Latin text with a decorated pink and green initial letter at lower left.

Bifolia from a Vita Sanctorum, or Lives of the Saints

Unknown artist, c. 1150

Illuminated initial A showing the Virgin Mary ascending between two angels while apostles kneel around an open tomb below.

The Assumption of the Virgin in a Historiated Initial "A" from an Antiphonary

Unknown artist, 15th century

Illuminated initial showing a bearded prophet with a halo, holding a scroll, framed by blue and red ornament on gold.

Prophet in a Historiated Initial "O" from a Gradual

Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci, 1392/99

Medieval prayerbook page with a decorated gold and blue initial G, blackletter text and leafy floral borders.

Illuminated Initial "G" from a Prayerbook

Unknown artist, 15th century

Medieval manuscript page with Latin text, a blue and gold decorated initial, and green and blue foliate borders.

Illuminated Initial "H" from a Psalter or Breviary

German or Southern Netherlandish, c. 1450s

Illuminated initial E showing three haloed women in a landscape with gold sunburst sky, framed by green foliage and gilt deco

The Three Marys at the Tomb in a Historiated Initial "E" from a Choirbook

Unknown artist, 1470/80

Illuminated initial P with a haloed friar in grey habit holding a crucifix, surrounded by gold and blue foliate border.

Saint Francis in a Historiated Initial "P"

Unknown artist, 1375/99