Dramatic Sketches and Religious Themes

This collection includes sketches portraying religious and emotive subjects, conveying depth through ink and wash techniques from the 17th to 19th centuries.

David Decapitating Goliath. Raphael, 1483-1520. Salamanca, Antonio, -1562. Prints. 1870. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Sketch, Enthroned Figure with Figures Fighting over Child. Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash on paper. Date: 1820-1850. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

The Ascension of Christ. Artist: Hans Georg Asam (German, Rott am Inn 1649-1711 Sulzbach). Dimensions: sheet: 7 1/4 x 13 1/8 in. (18.4 x 33.3 cm). Date: late 17th-early 18th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes / 'Curarlos, y a otra'. 1810. Red chalk on ivory laid paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

The History of Human CiviIIzation invention of the telegraph (image 10) Matejko, Jan (1838 1893)

Hell. Drawing. Graphite on moderately thick slightly textured cream wove paper. Height: 146 mm (5.74 in); Width: 238 mm (9.37 in). Author: GEORGE ROMNEY.

Anonymous / 'The Assumption of the Virgin'. First third of the XVIII century. Grey-brown wash, Pencil, Red chalk on dark yellow paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

David Decapitating Goliath. Raphael, 1483-1520. Salamanca, Antonio, -1562. Prints. 1870. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Dogs attacking adeer. After (?): Frans Snyders, Flemish, 1579-1657

Men who wear jugs and two men in conversation, 1658 - 1728 Page 14 Recto from a sketchbook with 33 sheets. paper. ink. pencil pen the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa). carrying something

Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786-1846, British, Study for a Battle Scene, undated. Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper.

Sebastiano Ricci, Biblical Scene (verso), 1720 1730 Biblical Scene verso

Three walkers in a landscape, Moses ter Borch, 1653, draughtsman: Moses ter Borch, (mentioned on object), Zwolle, 8-Apr-1653, paper, h 110 mm × w 205 mm

Artist: Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish, 1568-1625, The Virgin Mary and St. Joseph and the Christ Child, St. John, and angels playing with the Instruments ofPassion, Pen and brush, brown ink and brown wash, with black chalk, 22.6 × 31.8 cm (8 7/8 × 12 1/2in.), Made in Flanders, Flemish, 17thcentury, Works on Paper - Drawings andWatercolors

The Three Graces and Putti; verso: Various Studies early 19th century Bertel Thorvaldsen. The Three Graces and Putti; verso: Various Studies. Bertel Thorvaldsen (Danish, Copenhagen 1770-1844 Copenhagen). early 19th century. Graphite. Drawings

Satyr Picture with garlands adorn, Gerard Melder, 1725.

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)

Study to the composition "Obluscie Sluis"; Scholtz, Julius (1825-1893); 1876-1886 (1876-00-00-1886-00-00);Albrecht Brave (Prince Saski - 1443-1500), Miśnia (Germany), Schlesisches Museum der Bildenen Künste (Wrocław - 1880-1945) - collection, Scholtz, Hanna (Flow. Ca 1912) - gift, wall decorations, wall painting, wall German, fresco studies, composition sketches

David in Abigaïl, c. 1650 - C. 1799 Also a study of a group of figures around a lying naked man. Both drawings in frameworks. Page 33 from a sketchbook with 72 pages. Italy (possibly) paper. pencil. ink pen / brush meeting of David and Abigail, who kneels before him

Project for a Ceiling, Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844, Pen and ink on paper, A winged genii with two trumpets. Beside him is another one flying. Below are two groups of flying putti., Italy, 1775-1800, figures, Drawing, Drawing

Study magazine with men in gown and a kneeling man. Leaf 26 Verso from a sketchbook with 33 sheets.

Kitchen piece, 1605 - 1678 Woman at a table with a displayed food. On the table is (among other things) a fruit bowl and lies dead poultry. In the background a window with a cat or dog in the windowsill. Page 15 Recto from a sketchbook with 15 sheets. paper. ink. pencil pen / brush kitchen-interior with foodstuffs in foreground (Dutch: 'keukenstuk'). laid table as still life. adult woman. window

Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite, draughtsman: Artus Quellinus (I), (possibly), 1619 - 1668, paper, pen, h 181 mm × w 304 mm

A graphite pencil drawing by an anonymous artist from 1788-1790 depicting Hungarian and Moravian folk life, showing figures, attire, and daily activities.

Arthur-Joseph Guéniot (1866-1951). Two seated man studies, arm raised. Graphite pencil. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. Drawing, 19th XIXth 19th 19th 19th 19th century, 20th XXth XX 20th 20th 20th century

Allegorical performance, c. 1650 - c. 1799 Combination of different allegorical representations including an allegory on art (s) with a woman with palette and brushes and a man with a lute. Also two chained (possibly tortured) men sitting and lying on a pillar. Page 16 from a sketchbook with 72 pages. Italy (possibly) paper. pencil. ink pen / brush 'Pictura', symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ painting; 'Pittura' (Ripa)

Ink drawing by Josef von Führich depicting the mythological figures Jupiter, Minerva, and Apollo, lavated, circa 1825.

Composition study in an architectural framework (MCB 19) Pierre Puis de Chavannes (1824-1898). Study of composition in an architectural frame (MCB 19). Graphite pencil, feather and brunette ink on paper layered in full.

Ekman, Robert Wilhelm, work, Väinämöinen in Tuonella, Original drawing for the series of drawings 'Kalewala, Finsk National-dikt, prättäd i tekkningnaf R.W.Ekman', original 1860/1861, drawing, 33.5 cm x 51 cm

Gabriel Jacques de Saint Aubin, Sketches of Dancers and Heads of Putti, 1748 Sketches of Dancers and Heads of Putti

Still life with scales with food on a table. Leaf 9 Recto from a sketchbook with 21 sheets.

Selling of Cupids, Giovanni Battista Cipriani RA, 1727-1785, Italian, active in Britain (1755-85), undated, Graphite on medium, slightly textured, white laid paper, Sheet: 5 1/4 × 6 3/8 inches (13.3 × 16.2 cm), angels, cupids, religious and mythological subject, selling

Inferno XXXI, Sandro Botticelli (Florence, Italy, 1445 - 1510) 1887

Bacchants with Satermasters, Gerard Melder, 1725 print Bacchants and nymphs on the banks of a river with busmasks in the form of satie heads. In the foreground on the left a Sater, who plays on a pan flute, while a nymph guides him on a shepherd's whistle. On the left a boy who is sitting in a tree and piss a dog in the mouth. Amsterdam paper etching bacchanal: Bacchus with his wine-flushed train (thiasos)

Six Figure Studies, including four for The Poor Italian Family early 19th century Théodore Gericault French. Six Figure Studies, including four for The Poor Italian Family 337179

Composition Study, Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786-1846, British, undated, Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 2 3/4 × 4 3/8 inches (7 × 11.1 cm), composition, crowd, figure study, figures, movement

Sheet of Satirical Studies (Amorini Riding Phalli), c. 1650s. Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673). Pen and brown ink, wash, and red chalk ; sheet: 14 x 36.7 cm (5 1/2 x 14 7/16 in.).

Two sculptures of naked women. Studies of a naked woman sitting on a water theater, possibly a fish, and a sitting naked woman with a cloth to her legs draped. Leaf 24 Recto from a sketchbook with 58 sheets.

Two putti with a banderole, draughtsman: anonymous, 1627 - 1691, paper, h 238 mm × w 194 mm

Group of Five Male Figures in Half-length 1640-50 Stefano della Bella Italian This drawing was previously considered anonymous, until an attribution to Stefano della Bella was proposed on the mount by Anna Maria Petrioli Tofani and Carmen C. Bambach. The drawing is datable to the 1640's, when della Bella was intending to draft his treatise on drawing, "I principii del disegno.". Group of Five Male Figures in Half-length 341954

Inferno XVII, Sandro Botticelli (Florence, Italy, 1445 - 1510) 1887

Pencil and wash composition sketch of a boar hunt by Friedrich Gauermann, based on Rubens' Eber hunt in Dresden, 1826-1833.

Sir George Hayter, 1792-1871, British, Banditti of Kurdistan Assisting Georgians in Surprising and Carrying off Circassian Women, 1827. Pen and brown ink, graphite, and brown wash, squared and numbered for transfer on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper.

Pencil and watercolor drawing by Julius Victor Berger depicting an allegorical representation of spring.

Study magazine, including with a lying woman and a love couple, 1849 - 1917 Rear bract from a sketchbook with 35 sheets. pencil lying figure (+ female (human being) (not to be used where -AA- is prescribed)). lovers' meeting

France, French Crown, Paris, Mariette, Pierre (I), Bella, Stefano della, Diversi capricci, Diverse representations, Old satyr looking at a small satyr and a goat in a landscape, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 82 mm, width 99 mm, Italian, 1610-05-18 - 1664-07-27, print maker, printmaker, 1632 - 1664, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Publication (Event), Publication, French, 1596 - 1657, publisher, uitgever van privilege

A chalk drawing by Giovanni Battista Trotti (Malosso) of a standing bishop with a martyr palm, focusing on figure, posture, and iconographic attributes, from 1555-1619.

A lead pencil drawing by Bartolomeo Altomonte from around 1720 depicting a cart carrying victims of the plague, showing figures in distress.

Cybele, c. 1701 Cybele as an earthmother with a crown in the shape of a wall with towers driving in a car drawn by two lions. She wears a key in her right hand. Page 25 Recto from a sketchbook with 63 sheets. paper. chalk Cybele as an earthmother with a crown in the shape of a wall with towers driving in a car drawn by two lions. She wears a key in her right hand. Page 25 Recto from a sketchbook with 63 sheets. paper. chalk

Drawing (Italy); Felice Giani (Italian, 1758-1823); brush and wash, pen and ink on paper

Sketch sheet with scribbles of the country, a cow, dancers, tourists and fantasy characters, draughtsman: Ludwig Munthe, 1851 - 1896, paper, h 250 mm × w 354 mm

Inferno XXXII, Sandro Botticelli (Florence, Italy, 1445 - 1510) 1887

Design for a painting, Kneeling saints Nicholas and Dominic near a Mary sailing to heaven., draughtsman: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1706 - 1770, paper, pen, brush, h 182 mm × w 265 mm

Print (France)

Design for an Overdoor, Piat Joseph Sauvage, French, 1744 - 1818, Pen and ink, brush and sepia washes, The medallion portrait of a prince is held by a flying girl who holds a trumpet in her left hand. Another girl is busy with a garland framing the medallion, over which a crown is shown in a glory of rays. A trophy of arms at the bottom., Netherlands, 1785-1790, Drawing, Drawing

Johann Georg Platzer's brown ink drawing of the Star of Bethlehem, referencing the Massacre of the Innocents, laved.

Landscape with love couple spied on by satyrs, Abraham Genoels, 1650 - 1723, draughtsman: Abraham Genoels, , 1650 - 1723, paper, pen, h 302 mm × w 285 mm

God the Father in Glory. Possibly after Pietro Testa (Italian, 1611/12-1650); or after Jacques Stella (French, 1596-1657). Date: 1630-1657. Dimensions: 288 x 550 mm. Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on tan laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Rev. William Warren Porter, 1776-1804, British, Scene from 'The Mysteries of Udolpho', undated. Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Henry Thomas Alken, 1785-1851, British, Symptoms: of Doubtful Amusement - or Craneing, of Anxious Amusement - or Sure of a Bite, of Public Amusement - or No Taxes, Dangerous Amusement - or a Slapper, Private Amusement - or Cruelty, between 1822 and 1827. Graphite and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, blued white, wove paper.

Anonymous (Copy Tintoretto, Jacopo Robusti) / 'Saint Roch in Glory'. Late XVI century. Wash, White lead, Grey ink on blue paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Seated Male Figure with Putto and Armor. Paris Bordone (Italian (Venetian), 1500 - 1571)

Five naked men who wear beams or tablets, 1658 - 1728 Leaf 20 Verso from a sketchbook with 33 sheets. paper. ink. pencil pen the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa). carrying something

Pencil drawing depicting the death of Dido, showing figure, posture, and composition on paper.

Photo production of drawing by F. Barria: Virgilius scene from the Bucolica, man with winch in landscape.

Death of Heactor from Pope's Illiad John Flaxman (British, 1755-1826). Death of Heactor from Pope's Illiad. Ink on paper, sheet: 8 3/4 x 11 in. (22.2 x 27.9 cm). European Art

Sketch titled 'The Resurrection' by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance. Dated 16th Century

Persons on a balustrade with Festoenen, Cornelis Holsteyn, 1633 - 1638 drawing paper. chalk Africans. Asiatic races and peoples. balustrade Palace Honselaarsdijk

Figures from the Farnese Palace and from Life, c. 1710, pen and brown ink and red chalk with traces of graphite on laid paper, overall: 25.9 x 38.4 cm (10 3/16 x 15 1/8 in.), Briganti 1996, no. 154, Gaspar van Wittel (artist) Dutch, 1652/1653 - 1736, Annibale Carracci (artist after) Bolognese, 1560 - 1609

Godenhjelm, Berndt Abraham, work name: Bible Deluge. Noah's family (), pencil and marker, drawing, 44 cm x 61 cm

A study sheet by Stefano della Bella from around 1633-1634 showing figures and animals, including cloaked men, a horse, coffin, soldiers, and a donkey, executed in chalk and feather.

Gray brush and chalk drawing by Leonaert Bramer depicting Jupiter enthroned on clouds, with traces of white highlights on gray paper, showing the figure in a celestial setting.

A chalk and feather drawing by Pompeo Cesura showing three musicians sitting on clouds, with the left playing Viola da Braccio and the right playing harp, with brown laved shading and whitewashed highlights.

Paradisio XIV, Sandro Botticelli (Florence, Italy, 1445 - 1510) 1887

Photo reproduction of an engraving: civilization from Zutphen through the Spaniards (O.L.V. Don Frederik), 1572 ..

Punchinello as Tailor's Assistant late 18th-early 19th century Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo Italian. Punchinello as Tailor's Assistant 459937

Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, Album Drawing, undated. Graphite and pen and ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Coriolanus before the Women of Rome, late 1780s Coriolanus before the Women of Rome

Recueil de morceaux d'architecture et de divers fragmens de monumens antiques fait en Italie par Marie Joseph Peyre architecte du Roy ancien pensionnaire de Sa Majesté à Rome, Peyre, Marie-Joseph, 1730-1785, pencil, ink, pen, wash, black and red chalk, watercolor, 1786, Album of architectural drawings with sketches and some fully realized drawings includes drawings of architectural fragments and details (some with measurements), two views, ancient and Baroque sculpture, urns and coffers, and designs for fountains and buildings.

Caricatures; Memories of a cozy hour, dedicated to my friend Klaas. Sheet with caricatural sketches from the café and cabaret life, annotated from the top left to the bottom right.

Composition studies with figures. Composition studies, possible allegories and allegorical figures. Page 58 from a sketchbook with 72 pages.

Ekman, Robert Wilhelm, work, Forging of the Golden Maiden, sketch for a Kalevala-themed series of drawings; Exercise of the figure of Ilmarinen on the front pole (double-sided work), sketch 1864, drawing, 33.8 cm x 52 cm

The Love Garden. Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: 1500 - 1549. Place: Nederlanden. Measurements: h 194 mm × w 284 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Image of a water nymph in the garden of Versailles, 1920 Probably one of the images at the parterre d'Eau. Page 16 from a sketchbook with 18 sheets. Versailles paper. pencil statues, sculptures in garden. Naiads, river- and spring-nymphs; usually carrying an urn; 'Naiadi, ninfe de' fiumi' (Ripa) Castle of Versailles

Annunciate Angel (recto); Sketches of Seated Figure, and Upper Portion and Right Hand of Annunciate Angel (verso) 1500-1602 Genoa. Pen and brown ink (recto and verso) on ivory laid paper .

Frieze with Acanthus Rinceau with Grotesques 16th century Anonymous, Italian, second half of the 16th century Italian. Frieze with Acanthus Rinceau with Grotesques 363214

Design for a fan with the judgment of Paris. Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: 1700 - 1800. Measurements: h 315 mm × w 535 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Angel Musicians; Morazzone (Pier Francesco Mazzuchelli) (Italian, 1573 - 1626); Italy; about 1598 - 1599; Black chalk, brown wash and white gouache heightening on blue paper (recto); Black chalk (verso); 39.5 x 24.8 cm (15 9,16 x 9 3,4 in.)

The Dioscuri on Monte Cavallo; verso: Study of a Spiral Staircase. Artist: Maarten van Heemskerck (Netherlandish, Heemskerck 1498-1574 Haarlem). Dimensions: sheet: 8 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. (21.6 x 24.8 cm). Date: ca. 1533. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

James Bruce, 1730-1794, British, Studies of Two Men with Staffs, undated. Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

A decorative draft by Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem depicting Jupiter and Juno representing Air, executed in black chalk and gray brush with geometric design, circa 1658.

Godenhjelm, Berndt Abraham, Sketch for the altarpiece 'Communion', pencil on paper, drawing, RELIGION; NT; communion, 32 cm x 48.6 cm

The Massacre of the Innocents. Dimensions: overall: 27 x 41.9 cm (10 5/8 x 16 1/2 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink with gray wash and white gouache heightening over red chalk. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini.

"Chalk and feather drawing by Giovanni Paolo Pannini depicting the Tedess sign at S. Marus Curtius, using gray and brown lavis to emphasize details, structure, and spatial composition."

Venus Leaving the Bath, and Cupid 17th century Anonymous, Italian, Roman-Bolognese, 17th century Italian. Venus Leaving the Bath, and Cupid 340535

Giulio Campi, An Ascension and Other Studies An Ascension and Other Studies

Apollo and Diana for 'The Destruction of Niobe's Children', George Romney, 1734-1802, British, undated, Brown ink and graphite on medium moderately textured beige laid paper, Sheet: 12 5/8 x 20 5/8 inches (32.1 x 52.4 cm), Apollo and Diana kill Niobe's children, arrows, children, destruction, Greek, heroine, legend, murder, religious and mythological subject, suffering, Suffering, misfortune of Niobe, Boeotia, Greece, Thebes, Voíótía

Sketches of people, including a female nude, Gustave Doré, 1842 - 1883, paper, pencil, watercolor (paint), brush, h 210 mm × w 355 mm

Depiction of a ceiling mirror featuring putti in decorative poses, highlighting architectural and ornamental elements, painted with gray brush and colored watercolor.

Drawing, Design for Palazzo Conti; Designed by Felice Giani (Italian, 1758-1823); Italy

Feder drawing by an anonymous artist depicting Josua standing still, executed in brown-gray washes around 1600.

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