Allegorical Sketches

Sketches depicting allegorical themes from the mid-16th century, showcasing figures in dynamic poses surrounded by intricate landscapes and compositions.

Design for a Ceiling in a Church, Pen and black ink, brush and brown and black washes on off-white laid paper, laid down, Shows Christ in glory flanked by two figures (Mary and John) above. Below, figures appear to be raised from the dead. Subject could possibly be a Last Judgment, or The Descent into Hell', Germany, 1700-1750, interiors, Drawing, Drawing

François Collignon after Pietro Testa, The Resurrection The Resurrection

View of Guido Reni's Aurora. Design for a print.

Anonymous / 'Two allegorical figures, one holding a child in her arms'. Mid-XVIcentury. Grey wash, Pencil, Pencil ground, Grey-brown ink on yellow paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Study for "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way". Dated: c. 1862. Dimensions: sheet: 31.75 × 50.8 cm (12 1/2 × 20 in.). Medium: graphite on gray-green wove paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze.

A Bacchic scene by Justus van Egmont showing a feast with a satyr and nymphs, executed in brown ink and lavated brush with graphite pencil traces, reddish highlights, white corrections, and vertical fold on paper edge.

Leonard Thiry illustrates the Holy Family with John the Baptist as a boy in a stable, including oxen and donkeys. Another version shows Saint Joseph lying without animals. Executed in brownish ink using brush and Feder.

A Procession 1605-1615 France. Black chalk, with touches of white chalk, on cream laid paper . Ambroise Dubois

Design for a Ceiling in a Church, Pen and black ink, brush and brown and black washes on off-white laid paper, laid down, Shows Christ in glory flanked by two figures (Mary and John) above. Below, figures appear to be raised from the dead. Subject could possibly be a Last Judgment, or The Descent into Hell', Germany, 1700-1750, interiors, Drawing, Drawing

Chalk and brush drawing by an anonymous artist showing the handover of keys to Peter on gray paper with white highlights, emphasizing figures and gesture.

Anonymous / 'A Pilgrim Saint Preaching to the Crowd'. Late XVII century. Black chalk, Pencil on laid paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

A chalk and feather drawing by Giovanni Battista Merano depicting the biblical scene of Moses defending the daughters of Midians priest, with gray-lavated and whitewashed effects.

Fountain with Neptune and Sea Creatures 17th century Anonymous, Italian, 17th century Italian. Fountain with Neptune and Sea Creatures 389388

Death of a Saint 17th century Anonymous, Italian, Roman-Bolognese, 17th century Italian. Death of a Saint 340077

Red chalk drawing by Willem Doudijns depicting eight saints, including St. Gregor, and three putti seated on clouds with some damage and abrasion.

Netherlandish 16th Century, The Crucifixion, c 1520 The Crucifixion

Crossing, Anonymous, c. 1535 - c. 1545 drawing draughtsman: Southern Netherlandsafter painting by: Antwerp paper. ink pen / brush

Black chalk and reddish sketch of the Last Supper by Johann Carl Loth.

Adoration of the Magi. Artist: Attributed to Cesare Pollino (Cesare dal Francia or Franchi) (Italian, Perugia ca. 1560-1598 Rome). Dimensions: 6 3/16 x 7 13/16in. (15.7 x 19.8cm). Date: 1560-1630. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Brown ink drawing by Paul Troger depicting a study of five figures from the twenty-four oldest, circa 1740.

The Virgin Entrusting the Christ Child to Saint Francis of Assisi. Artist: attributed to Gaspare Diziani (Italian, Belluno 1689-1767 Venice) . Dimensions: 11 5/16 x 7 9/16in. (28.8 x 19.2cm). Date: 1689-1767. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Brown ink (feder) drawing by Hans Brosamer depicting the Mount of Olives (Ölberg), first half of the 16th century. Shows figures, landscape, and composition.

Red chalk drawing by an anonymous artist showing an allegorical figure of Justitia with scales and symbolic elements, emphasizing form and balance.

Group Saints from Michelangelo's Last Judgment, Domenico del Barbiere, After Michelangelo, 1541 - 1565 print A group of saints from Michelangelo's final judgment. In the middle of Bartolomeüs with a knife in his hands and his poached skin. Peter on the left with keys. Print Maker: FloraEtee Painting by: Vatican City paper engraving Last Judgement. saints

Genovevas Murderers Take Pity Made 1825-1835 Bohemia. Joseph Ritter von F¸hrich was a fresco painter and draughtsman active in Rome with the Nazarene Brotherhood, who preferred a style of drawing that employed expressive outline and clarity of detail reminiscent of Albrecht D¸rer and Raphael. F¸hrich designed illustrations for several religious themed books, including an edition of Ludwig Tieckís play The Life and Death of Saint Genoveva (1799/1800), which was based on a medieval legend of innocence betrayed. In the play, Genoveva is wrongly accused of being unfaithful by her husband, a character likely based on the 13th-century Duke Ludwig II of Bavaria. Robert Schumannís only opera was based on Tieckís play and was first performed in Leipzig in 1850.. Pen and black ink, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper, partially laid down on ivory wove paper . Josef von Führich

Drawing, Doorcase; Architect: Giuseppe Barberi (Italian, 1746-1809); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper; 23 x 14.7 cm (9 1/16 x 5 13/16 in.)

Design for a stained glass window, Sermon on the Mount of Christ Life of Christ (series title), draughtsman: Monogrammist CM (Duitsland), 1800 - 1900, paper, pen, brush, h 209 mm × w 211 mm

The Circumcision of Christ, 1588-1589, Pasquale Cati, Italian, 1537-1612, 11 5/8 x 8 15/16 in. (29.5 x 22.7 cm) (sheet)19 3/4 × 15 3/4 in. (50.17 × 40.01 cm) (outer frame), Pen and brown ink, with gray-brown wash, over charcoal, Italy, 16th century, Drawings by the Italian painter Pasquale Cati are extremely rare, and about half of his surviving studies (four sheets, including this one) pertain to one project: the decoration of the Altemps Chapel in Santa Maria in Trastevere, in Rome. The designs irregular shape corresponds to its placement in an elaborately stuccoed ceiling vault that has twenty-one frescoes depicting the lives of the Virgin and Christ.

Three Dancing Nymphs and a Satyr. Artist: Francesco Zuccarelli (Italian, Pitigliano 1702-1788 Florence). Dimensions: 6 9/16 x 8 1/16in. (16.7 x 20.5cm). Date: 1702-88. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The Smidse Van Vulcan, Pietro Pietro, 1628 - 1659 print Landscape with Vulcanus and its employees at work around an anvil. Italy paper etching (story of) Vulcan (Hephaestus). Vulcan in his smithy

The crossing.

A man helps two people, one of them a surgeon, suffering from plague. Drawing, c. 1789, after P. Mignard.

Grafleggring, Guido Reni, After Parmigianino, 1585 - 1642 print The body of Christ is laid down on a stone block. There are mourning men and women around the body. paper etching Christ's entombment (possibly by angels)

The Blinding of Zaleucus ofLocri. Artist: Frans Francken the Younger, Flemish, 1581-1642

Popiersie Napoleona, pomysł na transparent. Plersch, Jan Bogumił (1732-1817), draughtsman, cartoonist

A chalk drawing on brownish paper with white grown by an anonymous artist depicting the Adoration of the Kings.

King Solomon AdoringIdols. Artist, style of: Hans Rottenhammer I, German, 1564-1625

Greek women and a Turkish warrior, Theodoor Schaepkens, 1825 - 1883 print paper etching

Chalk drawing by an anonymous artist depicting the birth of Mary, using white highlights on blue paper, showing figures, interior space, and drapery.

Moses Drawing Water from the Rock 1700-1799 France. Brush and gray wash, with touches of green and black chalk, on ivory laid paper, squared in black chalk . Charles Le Brun

Greek women and a Turkish warrior. .

Nebuchadnezzar in wonder about the presence of four young people in the fiery oven; History of the three young people. On the right the king is under a canopy, behind him a group of hovelings; On the left two other men. For the king, servants killed by the intense heat of the oven (Daniel 3: 24). Design for a print.

A chalk drawing on blue paper depicting Salome, showing the female figure in a pose with drapery, executed with feather details.

Two seated figures and angels on clouds. Two seated figures (the holy Nicasius of Reims) and angels on clouds.

The Baptism of Christ. Artist: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1727-1804 Venice). Dimensions: 10 1/8 x 7 13/16in. (25.7 x 19.8cm). Date: 1727-1804. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Solomon's verdict, draughtsman: Paulus Moreelse, 1581 - 1638, paper, pen, h 180 mm × w 278 mm

Christ in Limbo: Design for the Standard of a Confraternity 1550-1604 Filippo Bellini Italian. Christ in Limbo: Design for the Standard of a Confraternity 338185

Man and woman, woman en face and horseman attacking footmen, Girolamo da Carpi (follower of), 1530 - 1600, Study sheet with at top a seated man near a standing woman and at right a woman en face; at bottom a horseman attacking some footmen., draughtsman: Girolamo da Carpi, (follower of), 1530 - 1600, paper, pen, h 260 mm × w 199 mm

Paolo de Matteis (1662-1728), Hostieunder with Virgin Maria and Angels, 1662-1728

A drawing by Francesco la Marra depicting a sleeping nymph being surprised by a satyr, executed in feather on a white surface, composed of seven pieces.

Bacchanal Scene 1600-1699 Italy. Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper . Unknown artist

The Abduction of Ganymede. Artist: Giorgio Vasari (Italian, Arezzo 1511-1574 Florence). Dimensions: 9-1/8 x 7-1/16 in. (23.1 x 18 cm). Date: 1511-74. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The Age of Iron 1520s-30s Attributed to Alonso Berruguete Spanish. The Age of Iron 352279

$Chalk drawing on brown paper by Giovanni Battista Benaschi showing a scene from Jacob's story, with two folds and multiple fractures along the edges.$

The Adoration of the Shepherds 1599 Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink Netherlandish. The Adoration of the Shepherds 418344

Painting by Martino Altomonte depicting a saint adoring the Madonna, executed on stone around 1748.

Federico Zuccari's drawing shows Christ's body supported by angels, with the head on a movable paper as a pentimento, executed in ink and feather.

Raising of Lazarus, Adriaan de Weerdt, 1510 - 1590, Design for a print., draughtsman: Adriaan de Weerdt, 1510 - 1590, paper, pen, brush, h 247 mm × w 398 mm

Design for a Fountain, Unknown, Italian, Pen and brown ink, brush and wash, graphite on paper, Pluto abducting Proserpine and a putto driving Cerberus with a trident are on top of a rock, out of which flames lick., Italy, 1650-1700, sculpture, Drawing, Drawing

Two Men Before a Judge in a Crowded Courtroom late 17th century Egbert Jasperszoon van Heemskerck I Dutch. Two Men Before a Judge in a Crowded Courtroom. Egbert Jasperszoon van Heemskerck I (Dutch, Haarlem 1634/35-1704 London (active England)). late 17th century. Red chalk heightened with white chalk. Drawings

Fortunato Duranti, Figure Carrying a Torch and Other Figures and Horses, 1797-1863, pen and brown-gray ink over graphite on paper.

Presentation of a Chest, Italy, 16th-19th centuries, Drawing, Drawing

Piero Buonaccorsi, known as Perino del Vaga, created red chalk and black pen drawings of the Adoration of the Christ Child with a saint around 1533-1534, emphasizing figures, gestures, and religious iconography.

Susannah and the Elders before Daniel 1530-40 Attributed to Pomponio Amalteo Italian. Susannah and the Elders before Daniel 338096

Eurydice killed by a snake. Eurydice, in the company of four women and amor with arrow and bow, is bitten in her foot through a snake.

A 17th-century chalk and feather drawing with brush wash depicting Rahel seated on her father's hidden gods, based on Exodus 31:33-34.

Recto: Landscape with Trees and Figures ( Remarks on the Winds and the Lay-out of the City; Vitruvius, Book 1, Chapter 6, nos. 2, 3): Verso: Blank. 1530-45 Attributed to a member of the Sangallo family Italian. Recto: Landscape with Trees and Figures ( Remarks on the Winds and the Lay-out of the City; Vitruvius, Book 1, Chapter 6, nos. 2, 3): Verso: Blank. 383099 Artist: Attributed to a member of the Sangallo family, Florence, ca. 15301545, Author: Original Treatise Written by Marcus Pollio Vitruvius, Roman, active late 1st century B.C., Recto: Landscape with Trees and Figures ( Remarks on the Winds and the Lay-out of the City; Vitruvius, Book 1, Chapter 6, nos. 2, 3): Verso: Blank., 153045, Pen and dark brown ink, sheet: 6 5/16 x 5 1/2 in. (16 x 14 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, by exchange, 2008 (2008.105.6)

Red chalk drawing by Joachim von Sandrart the Elder depicting the allegorical theme of time revealing truth over envy and defamation, with border lines emphasizing composition.

The Large Lion Hunt, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1641 print paper etching / drypoint lion hunt

Virgin and Child Worshipped by Three Bishops. Artist: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century (Italian, active Central Italy, ca. 1550-1580). Dimensions: 10-11/16 x 8-1/8 in. (27.2 x 20.7 cm) (irregular). Date: 16th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Design for a title page with Apollo and the muses. .

Flaminio Torri depicted the Madonna with the child within an architectural setting, surrounded by angels, with saints John the Baptist, Hieronymus, Karl Borromäus, and Nicholas of Tolentino, using chalk with white highlights; part of the sheet is missing and a restored crack is visible.

Francesco Solimena, The Marriage of Bacchus and Ariadne The Marriage of Bacchus and Ariadne

Siege of the house of Lot. Draughtsman: anonymous. Draughtsman: Giovanni Andrea Donducci. Dating: 1680 - 1720. Measurements: h 269 mm × w 396 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Lamentation over Christ, Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746-1786, Pen and brown ink, brush and wash, black chalk on off-white laid paper, laid down, Vertically arranged figure group. In the center, Virgin Mary cradles Jesus' body. Joseph stands on the left with his arms outstretched and several angels fly overhead., Naples, Italy, ca. 1800, figures, Drawing, Drawing

The Sacrifice of Noah Aureliano Milani Italian 17th century

Madonna and Child with Angels Playing Lute and Viola da Braccio. Artist: Anonymous, Spanish, School of Seville, 17th century. Dimensions: 8-9/16 x 6-3/4 in. (21.8 x 17.2 cm). Date: 17th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Sericulture, Unwinding Cocoons, Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523-1605, Pen and brown ink on white laid paper, Horizontal rectangle. Verso: Several women are seated at tables on which the silk worm cocoons are place, and are in the process of unwinding the cocoons, the thread being wound on large spools. Woman stands at right, holding a child in her arms. Another tends the fire in left foreground., Netherlands, ca. 1590, figures, Drawing, Drawing

Depiction of the baptism of Christ by Elisabetta Sirani, executed with metal pen, chalk, feather, and paintbrush.

Confirmation of a rule of order: Person kneeling before a bishop, Person kneeling before a bishop, draughtsman: Marco Ricci, (manner of), 1686 - 1779, paper, pen, h 201 mm × w 276 mm

A Bearded Prophet in Glory Attended by a Bishop, Two Other Male Saints, and Angels (Design for a Section of a Dome). Artist: Giovanni Lanfranco (Italian, Parma 1582-1647 Rome). Dimensions: maximum sheet: 11 1/2 x 10 5/16 in. (29.2 x 26.2 cm), very irregular borders. Date: 1634-35.Rapidly drawn on a page taken from a sketchbook, this dynamic, highly utilitarian working drawing portrays a figural scene of religious glory, conceived in a perspective "as if seen from below" and within the outlines framing a tall, pointed, curving area between two ribs of a dome. The prominent, semi-nude bearded male saint at center is accompanied by three other male saints more schematically articulated on the right, seated amidst clouds, and supported by a number of quickly outlined flying angels. The sketch was produced by Giovanni Lanfranco for his famous, though ill-fated frescoes on the dome of the church of the Gesù Nuovo, Naples, painted in 1634-35, and highly praised by Lanfranco's early biographe

Christ Preaching in the Temple. Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) (Italian, 1528 - 1588)

A chalk drawing by Heinrich Friedrich Füger on pink-tinted paper depicting L'Aperthose d'Hercule, showing figure, posture, and composition.

Design for a print, Hunting monkeys in Ethiopia Hunting parties, dl. 2 (series title), draughtsman: Jan van der Straet, 1533 - 1578, paper, pen, brush, h 204 mm × w 292 mm

Bacchanal: Arrival at the Wine Vat. Artist: Joseph Marie Vien (French, Montpellier 1716-1809 Paris). Dimensions: sheet: 6 5/16 x 16 9/16 in. (16 x 42 cm). Date: ca.1755. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Anonymous drawing showing a parrot and muses making music, with two poets ascending a mountain on the left, executed in chalk and feather with washes.

Paris to Venus de Appel, François Boitard, 1680 - 1715 drawing paper. ink pen the Judgement of Paris (without Mercury)

Depiction of Henry IV of France in a humble posture with a kneeling page holding scepter and crown, accompanied by a warrior and additional figures behind, drawn with red chalk on brownish paper around 1566.

Studies for an Altarpiece with the Virgin Enthroned, Attended by Four Saints (recto); Various Figure Studies, Some Possibly for a Deposition of Christ (verso). Artist: Polidoro da Caravaggio (Italian, Caravaggio ca. 1499-ca. 1543 Messina). Dimensions: 7-15/16 x 11-3/4 in. (20.2 x 29.8 cm). Date: 1530-35. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Temporalis Aeternitas. Date/Period: 1655. Engraving. Etching on paper. Height: 182 mm (7.16 in); Width: 260 mm (10.23 in). Author: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione.

The Baptism of Christ. Dated: c. 1475. Dimensions: overall (approximate): 19.3 x 19.8 cm (7 5/8 x 7 13/16 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink; verso, pen and brown ink over black chalk (Draped figure holding a book), and black chalk (Man wielding an ax with a figure satyr? defining himself). Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: PIETRO PERUGINO.

The Death of Seneca (recto), Study of a Man (verso); Sebastiano Ricci, Italian, 1659 - 1734; about 1705; Pen and brown ink, brown wash, and black chalk (recto); pen and brown ink (verso); 17.8 x 17.5 cm (7 x 6 7/8 in.)

St Cecilia at the Organ. Date/Period: 1620 - 1629. Drawing. Pen and brown ink, over black chalk on paper pen and brown ink, over black chalk on paper. Height: 276 mm (10.86 in); Width: 378 mm (14.88 in). Author: DANIELE CRESPI.

Virgin in Clouds, Supported by Angels 1489-1534 Italy. Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on cream wove card, laid down in album . Antonio da Correggio

Allegorical Composition: Music and Justice with the Spinola Arms. Artist: Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio) (Italian, Genoa 1639-1709 Rome). Dimensions: 7-13/16 x 5-5/16 in. (19.9 x 13.5 cm). Date: 1639-1709.Once owned by the distinguished French collector Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774), this highly finished drawing appears in the 1775-76 sale catalogue of his collection. It has been identified as preparatory for the frontispiece of "Il Corradino," a libretto for a tragedy set in medieval Naples, written by Antonio Caraccio (1630-1702), and published in Rome in 1694 (see Rome 1994, and Bibliography). The fasces held by a cherub at the upper right and the scales are attributes of Justice, who prominently bears a shield with the arms of the Spinola, among Genoa's oldest patrician families. "Il Corradino" was dedicated to Giovanni Battista Spinola, then governor of Rome. The seated female figure holding an array of wind instruments may personify Euterpe, the Muse of lyric poetry a

Unidentified Subject: Reclining Nude Male Figure and Cattle 1615-66 Giovanni Angelo Canini Italian. Unidentified Subject: Reclining Nude Male Figure and Cattle 338368

Albrecht Dürer The Entombment Drawing; pen and gray ink on laid paper; overall: 29.2 x 21 cm (11 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.);

Study for Vignette in Voltaire's "La Pucelle d'Orleans", with Sketches of Heads and Nude Figures. Hubert François Gravelot; French, 1699-1773. Date: 1762-1773. Dimensions: 166 × 107 mm. Pen and brown and gray ink, over graphite and red chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Judgment of Paris, Zacharias Dolendo (attributed to), 1580 - 1596 print In a forest landscape, Pallas, Juno and Venus are opposed to Paris with shepherd's staff and a ram next to him. Above them, Amor floats with a bow and arch on Paris. Mercury is hidden in a tree on the right. In the lower margin a four -line Latin text. Amsterdam paper engraving the Judgement of Paris (Mercury present)

Studies of Putti 1450-99 Anonymous, Italian, Paduan, second half of the 15th century Italian. Studies of Putti 339166

An ink and feather drawing showing the Madonna in front view holding a sleeping child in her lap.

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