Figures and Character Studies

A series of sketches focusing on human figures in various poses and expressions, highlighting elements of emotion, spirituality, and narrative in art.

Cross-Carriage, draughtsman: anonymous, after: anonymous, draughtsman: Southern Netherlands, after: Antwerp, c. 1535 - c. 1545, paper, pen, brush, h 235 mm × w 338 mm

Angel Appearing to Saint Francis of Assisi, with Saint John the Baptist in the Background (recto); Saint Francis Supported by Two Angels, with Sketch of Upper Portion of Monk's Habit 1580-1599 Italy. Pen and gray ink (recto), and pen and gray ink with red chalk squared in graphite (verso), on tan laid paper edge mounted to cream wove paper . Unknown Marchigian

Kneeling Figures, Giuseppe Passeri, Italian, 1654 - 1714, Red and white chalk on rough gery paper, Studies of kneeling man with raised arms; details of arms., Italy, 1775-1800, figures, Drawing, Drawing

Death of Adonis ( ) 1719-1773 France. Black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk, squared in red chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper . Hubert François Gravelot

The Swooning Virgin Supported by Three Holy Women and Three Studies of Men (recto); Saint George and the Dragon (verso). Cesare da Sesto (Italian, 1477 - 1523)

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes / 'Charity'. 1810. Red chalk, Conté crayon on ivory laid paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

A drawing of the Prophet Daniel by Paul Troger, executed in brown ink.

Jacob is struggling with the angel, master of the Lucas months, 1540 - 1571 drawing paper. ink pen / brush

THE REMOVED DRAPPY The draperie removed ", around 1750. Paris, Cognacq-Jay Museum.

Cross-Carriage, draughtsman: anonymous, after: anonymous, draughtsman: Southern Netherlands, after: Antwerp, c. 1535 - c. 1545, paper, pen, brush, h 235 mm × w 338 mm

A pencil drawing by Rudolf Weyr depicting a frieze with putti, showing sculptural details, ornamental motifs, and relief elements.

Unidentified Subject: Reclining Nude Male Figure and Cattle. Artist: Giovanni Angelo Canini (Italian, Rome 1615-1666 Rome). Dimensions: 9 15/16 x 7 5/16in. (25.2 x 18.6cm). Date: 1615-66. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Sitting woman with eyes saved. In addition to the woman, a second woman kneels and is a putto. Also studies of a figure that carries a bulb under the arm. Page 36 from a sketchbook with 72 pages.

Nativity (recto); Virgin and Child, Angel (verso) 1570-1603 Italy. Pen and brown ink and graphite (recto), and graphie (verso), on ivory laid paper . Filippo Bellini

Drawing, Angels with Sleeping Figure; Italy; black crayon on paper

Sketches after the Antique: Bacchic Revels; Neptune in His Chariot. Pirro Ligorio; Italian, c. 1513-1583. Date: 1530-1540. Dimensions: 93 x 212 mm. Black chalk, with pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

The judgment of Solomo, Paulus Moreelse, 1581 - 1638 drawing paper. cartridge paper. ink. chalk pen the true mother objects to Solomon's verdict. Solomon gives verdict; he commands a soldier to divide the living child in two

The Dead Christ Mourned by Saint Mary Magdalen (recto); The Holy Family with an Attendant (verso) 1778-87 Giuseppe Cades Italian. The Dead Christ Mourned by Saint Mary Magdalen (recto); The Holy Family with an Attendant (verso). Giuseppe Cades (Italian, Rome 1750-1799 Rome). 1778-87. Pen and brown ink, on beige paper (recto); black chalk (verso). Drawings

Pedro Ruiz González / 'Saint Augustine'. XVII century. Pencil on yellow laid paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Della Bella, Stefano (dit Étienne de la Belle) (n.1610-05-18-D.1664-08-22), various figures and scratches. Woman study leading a loaded horse. Fourth issue of a suite of 23 pieces. (A. de Vesme 462; Dutuit 123) (main title). Etching. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

The Rising of Nazareth () 18th century Anonymous, Italian, Bolognese 18th century artist Italian. The Rising of Nazareth () 389662

The centurion under the cross, draughtsman: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, 1692 - 1754, paper, h 335 mm × w 197 mm

Red chalk study after Titian's 'Madonna of the Pesaro', showing the Madonna, child, and supporting figures with emphasis on gestures and drapery.

Bacchanal of Three Children. 1612 - 1691. Loli, Lorenzo, 1612-1691. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

A drawing book by Josef von Führich started on May 6, 1807, containing pencil sketches emphasizing figures, landscapes, and compositional studies. Observational accuracy is a key focus.

A 1840 pencil draft by Josef Danhauser depicting a piano player, showing posture, hand position, and instrument details in a study format.

The Tribute Money. Artist: Eugène Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798-1863 Paris). Dimensions: Overall: 8 7/16 x 11 1/16 in. (21.5 x 28.1 cm). Date: 1843. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Three studies for a landscape with a girl and two kids. .

Madonna and Child with Angels Playing Lute and Viola da Braccio 17th century Anonymous, Spanish, School of Seville, 17th century Spanish. Madonna and Child with Angels Playing Lute and Viola da Braccio. Anonymous, Spanish, School of Seville, 17th century. 17th century. Pen and medium brown ink, brush and light brown wash, over black chalk underdrawing. On off-white paper. Composition broadly outlined in pen and brown ink. Drawings

Study sheet with branches and still lifes, 1605 - 1678 Page 4 Recto from a sketchbook with 15 sheets. paper. chalk trees (+ branch, stick). still life of related objects

Drawing, Mourning Over the Dead Christ; Italy; red chalk on paper

A feather drawing by Francesco la Marra as a composition study for a Pentecost festival, located at the top right of the sheet.

Study of characters in the wind (p. 86 from the album). Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875). Study of characters in the wind (p. 86 from the album). Drawing between 1870 and 1875.

Design for a Vignette with a Nymph Surprised by a Satyr. Artist: Anonymous, French, 17th century. Dimensions: 2 5/8 x 4 in. (6.7 x 10.2 cm) - oval shape. Date: second half 17th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Drawing, Three figures; Jean-Robert Ango (French, active in Rome 1759 -1770, d. 1773); France; red chalk on paper

Drawing (Italy)

The Guitarist, 1720s. Jean-Baptiste Pater (French, 1695-1736). Red chalk;

Jacob struggles with the angel ..

Stone drawing by Johann Christoph Lischka depicting the biblical scene of Abrahams sacrifice.

Plate, from Le Jugement Universal, Tommaso Piroli, Italian, 1752 - 1824, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian, 1475-1564, Etching on paper, Plate 5, Europe, 1808, Print, Print

Paris to Venus the apple.

Red chalk drawing by Elisabetta Sirani depicting the Holy Family with Saint Anna, the John boys, and an angel, showing religious figures in detail.

Paris, Chéreau, François (II), France, Boucher, François, Suite of small genre pieces and heads, Young couple drinking by a tree, verso bottom center - stamped, A young couple by a tree. The woman, sitting on the ground, with a bottle in her hand and the man standing, with a drinking cup in his hand., print, prints, height 110 mm, width 69 mm, French, 1703-09-29 - 1770-05-30, print maker, printmaker, 1727 - 1755, second quarter 18th century, tweede kwart 18e eeuw, third quarter 18th century, derde kwart 18e eeuw, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Publication (Event), Publicatie, 1717-03-30 - 1755-02-21, publisher

Death of a Saint. Artist: Anonymous, Italian, 17th or 18th century. Dimensions: Oval: 5-7/8 x 9-1/16 in. (14.9 x 23.0 cm). Date: 1600-1800. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, draughtsman: Benedetto Luti, 1676 - 1724, paper, pen, h 246 mm × w 177 mm

A lead and chalk drawing by Franz Xaver Wagenschön depicting the Venue to St. John Nepomuk (II.), showing figures, gestures, and composition.

Woman Dying( ), Man in Bedroom, Two Sketches of Same 1818-1863 France. Graphite, on tan wove paper . Eugène Delacroix

Angel Annunciate (recto); Samson and the Lion (verso) Artist's working dates 1595-1700 Italy. Black chalk, heightened with traces of white chalk (recto), and blach chalk (verso), on blue laid paper . School of Guido Reni

Death of a Saint 1600-1800 Anonymous, Italian, 17th or 18th century Italian. Death of a Saint 336360

Figure studies. Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: 1700 - 1800. Place: France. Measurements: h 303 mm × w 209 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Holy Family and a Sater by two children and a faun worn. Study magazine: At the top of a sacred family seated on the ground, underouting a Sater by two children and a faun worn to an antique sarcophagus.

Three sketches of a man waving a knot.

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes / 'Strange Devotion!'. 1814 - 1815. Red chalk on cream laid paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

An anonymous artist depicted figures moving through five arches using feder, ink, and laved techniques, showing posture, movement, and architectural setting.

A man kneeling before Time, above hovers an angel with a trumpet, The Time, draughtsman: anonymous, 1700 - 1800, paper, pen, h 151 mm × w 186 mm

Red chalk and feather drawing by Giacinto Calandrucci depicting Tobias and the angel.

Chalk drawing by Baldassare Franceschini depicting Maria Magdalena in red chalk with shading and reddening effects.

Drawing, Virgin and Child with Saints; Italy; graphite on paper

Seated Male Figure with Putto and Armor; Paris Bordone, Italian (Venetian), 1500 - 1571; Italy, Europe; about 1550; Black chalk on blue-gray paper; 17.3 x 29.5 cm (6 13/16 x 11 5/8 in.)

Saint Hyacinth Walking on the Waters. Artist: Francesco Vanni (Italian, Siena 1563-1610 Siena). Dimensions: 9 1/8 x 5 13/16in. (23.2 x 14.7cm). Date: 1599. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Untitled, from folio: Sketches in France and Germany, one of 22 sheets in FolioB. Artist: John Trumbull, American, 1756-1843

Sketch of a niche with a view on a garden vase. Draughtsman: Dionys van Nijmegen (possibly). Dating: 1715 - 1798. Measurements: h 330 mm × w 204 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Suzanna and the Ouden.

Figures Unloading Cargo from Sailing Vessels. Artist: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, Lyons 1824-1898 Paris). Dimensions: 11 x 6 9/16 in. (27.9 x 16.7 cm). Date: 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Study for the Pietà. Artist: Giulio Cesare Procaccini (Italian, Bologna 1574-1625 Milan). Dimensions: 9 5/16 x 5 7/8in. (23.6 x 15cm). Date: 1604.Nancy Ward Neilson identified this drawing as a study for the 'Pietà' in the Milanese church of Santa Maria presso San Celso, which is Giulio Cesare Procaccini's earliest known oil painting and which the artist delivered in 1604. There are only minor differences between the Museum's composition study and the painting. A sheet of pen and ink figure studies by Giulio Cesare Procaccini in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan has been convincingly connected with the same 'Pietà' by Emma Spina Barelli (Disegni di maestri lombardi del primo Seicento, Milan 1959, no. 31, and reproduced in M. Valsecchi, I grandi disegni italiani del '600 lombardo all Ambrosiana, Milan 1975, p. 43, fig. 27). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Holy Kastenschap, Anonymous, After Rijckaert Aertsz., C. 1540 drawing Southern Netherlands paper. ink pen Holy Kinship

Jacopo Zanguidi, called Bertoia, Kneeling Woman (verso) Kneeling Woman verso

Three studies of a man who is pulled on the arm by a child, Daniele Da Volterra, 1519 - 1566 drawing paper. chalk

Half figure of a young man who raises a bowl (), Parmigianino, 1530 - 1539 drawing paper. chalk

Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Louis of France Venerating an Image of the Virgin ca. 1618 Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Italian Study for a painting by Guercino dated 1618 (by an inscription in the lower right corner: "FILIJ EQUITIS LUDOVICI / NALDIJ FIERI CURARUNT / 1618") in the Church of San Francesco at Brisighella (Faenza). William Griswold (1991) states that the Museums sheet is from an early stage in the preparatory design process and that a related study in Stuttgart (Staatsgalerie, Schloss-Fachsenfeld Coll.) is closer to the executed painting. Other studies related to this commission are the recto and verso of a sheet featuring small, sketchy studies for a kneeling St. Francis, dated 1618 (London, British Museum, inv. no. 1946,0713.721; see: Turner and Plazzotta, 1991, no. 9). A date of 1618 may be determined independently of the documented commission through comparison with other drawings from the artist's early Roman period. Other pen and ink studies, likewise i

A lead and coal drawing by Franz Xaver Wagenschön depicting the Marriage of Mary, showing figures, gestures, and drapery details.

Saint Peter and Saint John Healing a Cripple at the Gate of the Temple. Artist: Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) (Italian, Florence 1501-1547 Rome). Dimensions: 9 15/16 x 7 5/8in. (25.2 x 19.4cm). Date: 1534-47. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Horse and Rider 1624-63 attributed to Francesco Allegrini Italian. Horse and Rider 338060

Black chalk and brown lavated study sheet by Willem Doudijns showing two heads, two figures, and seated scholars with a watermark of a jug and crescent moon.

Judgment of Paris. In a forest landscape, Pallas, Juno and Venus are opposite Paris with a shepherd's staff and a RAM next to itself. Above them, Amor floats that with Arrow and Arch focused on Paris. On the right, Mercury is hiding in a tree. In the undermaster a four-line Latin text.

A chalk study by Alessandro Maganza showing figures in a martyr scene along an alley before a palazzo, including people on horseback and on foot and spectators in the building.

Study of three figures (Saint Helena and servants). Elsheimer, Adam (1578-1610), draughtsman, cartoonist

Drawing by an anonymous artist depicting Christ in spring, executed in brown ink around 1520.

Beggar, warms up at a gapchoor.

The return of the prodigal son who falls at his father's feet. Artist: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola) (Italian, Zadar (Zara) ca. 1510-1563 Venice). Dimensions: sheet: 5 1/2 x 3 9/16 in. (14 x 9 cm). Date: ca. 1536-40. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Two figure studies from a sitting and a standing male nude, Théodore Géricault, 1801 - 1824 drawing France paper. pencil standing figure. sitting figure

Drawing (Italy)

Massacre of the Innocents. Circle of Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian; Italian, c. 1488-1576. Date: 1585-1600. Dimensions: 285 x 427 mm (max.). Charcoal, heightened with touches of white chalk, on gray laid paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Sitting woman with pigeon, Abraham Bloemaert, 1625 - 1629 drawing paper. ink. chalk pen lying figure. sitting figure - AA - female human figure

Two portraits of Andriana Palma. Two portraits of Andriana Palma, the artist's wife.

A drawing in lead pencil by Bartolomeo Altomonte around 1720 depicting the Allegory of Strength, showing figures, posture, gesture, and symbolic elements.

The Madonna and Child in Glory Adored by Saints. Dated: before 1613. Dimensions: overall: 31 x 21.5 cm (12 3/16 x 8 7/16 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink over black chalk, on buff laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: GIOVANNI BATTISTA PAGGI.

Della Bella, Stefano (dit Étienne de la Belle) (n.1610-05-18-D.1664-08-22), game of fables. Méléagre and Atalante. Thirty-fourth number of a series of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 509; Dutuit 116) (Main title), 1644. Eau-tie. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Figure Studies and an Entablature 16th century Anonymous, Italian, Lombard, 16th century Italian. Figure Studies and an Entablature 395768

Venus treated the dead Adonis ..

Chalk drawing by Ludovico Carracci showing studies of two semi-figures on the lower half of the paper.

William Blake, Sketch of a Swordsman Standing Over His Defeated Opponent (recto), c 1780 1785 Sketch of a Swordsman Standing Over His Defeated Opponent recto

Joseph Interpreting His Dreams to his Brothers. Style of Giuseppe Diamantini; Italian, 1621-1705. Date: 1641-1725. Dimensions: 142 x 245 mm. Pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper, laid down on tan laid paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Chalk and feather drawing by Giuseppe Milani showing a seated godfather raising his right hand and holding a globe with the left, positioned against clouds, featuring posture, gesture, and figure.

Two, I don't want to and have it; verso: bearded husband in a high hat and Or around 1810 (1805-00-00-1815-00-00);Witke-Jeżewski, Dominik (1862-1944), Witke-Jeżewski, Dominik (1862-1944)-collection, riders, horses, recovered war losses, Poland (culture), message (provenance), Polish drawings, soldiers

Mercury and Mars Artist's working dates 1639-1793 Italy. Pen and gray ink, with brush and gray wash, on buff laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper . Marco Marcola

Figures Mourning at the Bier of a Woman, George Romney, 1734-1802, British, undated, Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 12 x 19 1/4 inches (30.5 x 48.9 cm), bed, capes, death, dresses, figure study, figure study, figures, mourning, women

Study sheet with three putti, drawn in black chalk with reddish traces.

A black stone chalk drawing by Franz Anton Maulbertsch from 1756-1758 depicting the biblical scene of the merciful Samaritan.

Studies to Figuren, Peter Paul Rubens, After Hans Weiditz (II), 1587 - 1640 drawing Studies into figures in the Petrarca and Cicero illustrations by Hans Weiditz. paper. ink pen the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa)

Maria with child and H. John; Studies of cattle.

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