Historical Drawing Studies

Sketches and studies of figures, highlighting the forms and poses of people, often used as preparatory work for larger artistic endeavors.

Study for Pero, in a 'Caritas Romana', Study for Pero, draughtsman: Giovanni Martinelli, (attributed to), 1620 - 1668, paper, h 357 mm × w 225 mm

Study for Pero, in a 'Caritas Romana', Study for Pero, draughtsman: Giovanni Martinelli, (attributed to), 1620 - 1668, paper, h 357 mm × w 225 mm

Lot's Daughters Fleeing Sodom 1615-1620 Flanders. Black chalk, with touches of pen and black ink and white chalk, on tan laid paper . Lucas Emil Vorsterman

Bliżej Kultury Verlag Gerlach & Schenk in Vienna (1882 1901)

Study of a Kneeling Youth and of the Head of Another. Artist: Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci) (Italian, Città della Pieve, active by 1469-died 1523 Fontignano). Dimensions: 8 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (22 x 11.5 cm). Date: 1500. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Juno. Artist: Attributed to Jacopo Palma the Younger (Italian, Venice ca. 1548-1628 Venice); Previously attributed to Anonymous, Italian, Roman, 16th century. Dimensions: 9 3/16 x 4 7/8in. (23.3 x 12.4cm). Date: 16th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Study of Drapery (Probably After the Antique ) 1520-40 Circle of Domenico Beccafumi Italian. Study of Drapery (Probably After the Antique ). Circle of Domenico Beccafumi (Italian, Cortine in Valdibiana Montaperti 1484-1551 Siena). 1520-40. Red chalk. Drawings

Red chalk study sheet by Baldassare Franceschini showing two figures kneeling to the left, a half-sitting male with arms crossed over the chest, and repeated head studies, on white-grown gray paper, dated 1676-1683.

Standing Woman Facing Right. Artist: Nicolas Lancret (French, Paris 1690-1743 Paris). Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 4 5/8 in. (21.6 x 11.7 cm). Former Attribution: Formerly attributed to Antoine Watteau (French, Valenciennes 1684-1721 Nogent-sur-Marne). Date: early 18th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Andrea di Leone (1610-1685); Aniello Falcone (1607-1656), man with burden on back, 1600-1656

Head of a Woman. Artist: Giovanni Battista Piva (Biva) (Italian, documented Belluno, died ca. 1750). Dimensions: 6 3/4 x 5 13/16in. (17.1 x 14.7cm). Date: 1729-50.Giovanni Battista Piva (sometimes called Biva) is a rather shadowy figure, a painter and etcher said to have been a pupil of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770). Donated to the museum in memory of Lawrence Turcic (1949-1988), curator in the Department of Drawings, this drawing with the head of a woman - possibly the Virgin Mary - is delicately rendered in black chalk and was correctly attributed to the elusive artistic personality of Piva by the anonymous eighteenth-century collector known as 'The Reliable Venetian Hand.' In addition to the present example, the 'Reliable Venetian Hand' attributed to Piva two other drawings: an "Infant Hercules Strangling a Serpent", presented by James Byam Shaw to the Fondazione Cini, Venice (see: Bettagno, 1966, no. 12 6, repr.), and a "Moses and Aaron", presented by Jean-Luc Baroni to th

Head of a Woman 1729-50 Giovanni Battista Piva (Biva) Italian Giovanni Battista Piva (sometimes called Biva) is a rather shadowy figure, a painter and etcher said to have been a pupil of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770). Donated to the museum in memory of Lawrence Turcic (1949-1988), curator in the Department of Drawings, this drawing with the head of a woman - possibly the Virgin Mary - is delicately rendered in black chalk and was correctly attributed to the elusive artistic personality of Piva by the anonymous eighteenth-century collector known as 'The Reliable Venetian Hand.' In addition to the present example, the 'Reliable Venetian Hand' attributed to Piva two other drawings: an "Infant Hercules Strangling a Serpent", presented by James Byam Shaw to the Fondazione Cini, Venice (see: Bettagno, 1966, no. 12 6, repr.), and a "Moses and Aaron", presented by Jean-Luc Baroni to the Frits Lugt Collection, Fondation Custodia, Paris (see: Byam Shaw, 1983, 1, no. 299 A, 3, pl. 510).Th

Knielende wenende vrouw (Maria Magdalena). Schetsbladen met figuurstudies (series title). Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: 1610 - 1630. Place: Verona. Measurements: h 196 mm × w 282 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Apollo - Lucretia's Sacrifice, by Signorelli Luca, 1498 - 1498, 15th Century, black pencil. Italy, Tuscany, Florence, Uffizi Gallery, Drawings and Prints Cabinet. Detail. Apollo nude: naked sitting anthropomorphic features playing string instrument (violin).

Allegorical Figure of Purity with a Unicorn (recto); Study for Drapery (verso) 1650 Baldassarre Franceschini (il Volterrano) Italian. Allegorical Figure of Purity with a Unicorn (recto); Study for Drapery (verso) 338750

Curved old woman, Simon Andreas Krausz, 1770 - 1825

Four heads of men in succession, Parmigianino, 1513 - 1540 drawing Four heads of men, one of which sticks out his tongue. paper. ink pen

A black chalk drawing by Balthasar Anton Dunker depicting a Swiss farmer sitting to the left, created in the 1790s.

Half-Length Figure of a Woman with Outstretched Arms. Artist: François-Claudius Compte-Calix (French, Lyon 1813-1880 Chazay d'Azergues). Dimensions: 6 13/16 x 8 15/16 in. (17.3 x 22.7 cm). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: FRANCOIS-CLAUDIUS COMPTE-CALIX.

Seated Woman with Studies of Arms and Legs (recto); Studies of Kneeling Youths(verso). Artist: Aurelio Lomi, Italian, 1556-1622

Anonymous drawing depicts a youth with exposed upper body standing to the right, holding a pumpkin in the left hand and taking a coat with the right, created in red chalk, showing posture and gesture.

Study of a Male Figure with Right Arm Raised. Pietro Berrettini (called Pietro da Cortona) (Italy, Cortona, 1596-1669). Italy, circa 1662-1665. Drawings. Black and white chalk on oatmeal paper

Study of a kneeling man with sword ..

A figure study by Eustache Le Sueur for the work 'Sermon of St. Paul in Ephesus,' drawn in black chalk with white heightening on gray-brown paper.

Seated Ecclesiastic. Artist: Etched by Stefano della Bella (Italian, Florence 1610-1664 Florence). Date: ca. 1662. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Standing Female Figure with Large Medallion ca. 1700-1750 Attributed to Pedro Duque Cornejo For the attribution of this drawing to the sculptor Pedro Duque Cornejo, see M. García Luque, 'Dibujos de Duque Cornejo en el Álbum Jaffe (I): la colección del Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philiostrato. Revista de Historia y Arte, no. 3, 2018, cat.no.34.. Standing Female Figure with Large Medallion 336601

Madonna and Child on Clouds. Artist: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century (Italian, active Central Italy, ca. 1550-1580). Dimensions: 6-1/6 x 5-1/6 in. (15.7 x 13.1 cm). Date: 16th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Joost van den Vondel, sleeping in a chair.

Sea monster or triton with around the head bent arms.

Standing woman in long cloak, Jan Josef Horemans (II), 1724 - 1790, Standing woman in long cloak holding a pair of shoes in left hand., draughtsman: Jan Josef Horemans (II), 1724 - 1790, paper, h 256 mm × w 179 mm

Sitting child and a youthful John the Baptist, draughtsman: Jacopo Palma (il Giovane), 1587 - 1594, paper, pen, h 370 mm × w 241 mm

Standing Hunter Holding a Rifle. Artist: Nicolas Lancret (French, Paris 1690-1743 Paris). Dimensions: 9 x 4 13/16 in. (22.9 x 12.3 cm). Date: 18th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Standing Woman Looking to Left Background. Artist: Francesco Vanni (Italian, Siena 1563-1610 Siena). Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 6 9/16 in. (24.8 x 16.7 cm). Date: 1596-98.Saint Hyacinth, a thirteenth-century Polish Dominican missionary, was canonized in 1594, and shortly thereafter Francesco Vanni received two important commissions for paintings representing miracles of this saint for Dominican churches in Siena (see also inv. 1975.131.55). Here, this keenly observed preliminary study after the live model served for the design of a female onlooker on the right foreground of Vanni's painting of 'Saint Hyacinth Resurrecting a Drowned Boy', circa 1595-96, which was intended for the Bargagli Chapel at the church of Santo Spirito in Siena. In the painting the woman looks directly down at the miracle, which occurs in the immediate foreground. Here, the artist unified the luminous effects he obtained with the dry red chalk by reworking areas of intermediate shadow with a transparent wash of red cha

Lattanzio Gambara, Study for a Prophet, 1567 1573 Study for a Prophet

Study of a Seated Man Smoking a Pipe, Jan Havicksz. Steen, c. 1650 - c. 1655, draughtsman: Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1648 - 1653, paper, brush, h 157 mm × w 134 mm

A Praying Youth ca. 1645-50 Attributed to Anthonie van Borssom Dutch. A Praying Youth. Attributed to Anthonie van Borssom (Dutch, Amsterdam 1630/31-1677 Amsterdam). ca. 1645-50. Pen and brown ink.. Drawings

Drawing, Bearded Man with Scroll; Italy; pen and ink, brush and wash on paper

Red chalk drawing by Jan Josef Horemans showing a man kneeling viewed from the back, highlighting posture and body gesture.

Study for St Mark (recto); Sketch of Half-length Male Figure, Looking Upwards to Right (verso) 1602-1605 Italy. Pen and brown ink (recto), and red chalk (verso), on ivory laid paper . Jacopo Palma Il Giovane

Head of a Man in a High Cap, Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1629 print paper etching head-gear: cap (+ men's clothes)

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

Young man looking down to right, from the series of 'Small Heads in Oriental Headdress' ca. 1645-50 Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) Italian. Young man looking down to right, from the series of 'Small Heads in Oriental Headdress' 370185

John Singleton Copley, 1738-1815, American, active in Britain (from 1776), Study of Sailors Raising a Flag for the Victory of Lord Duncan, undated. Black chalk, white chalk on moderately textured, medium, blue wove paper.

Study of a Headless Draped Figure with Arms Crossed; verso: Figure of a Man in a Voluminous robe, Seen from Behind late 16th-mid-17th century Attributed to Abraham Bloemaert Netherlandish. Study of a Headless Draped Figure with Arms Crossed; verso: Figure of a Man in a Voluminous robe, Seen from Behind 335075

Curved old woman.

Standing woman in Lange Mantel, Jan Josef Horemans (II), 1724 - 1790 drawing Standing woman in long cloak with a pair of shoes in the left hand. paper. pencil. chalk shoes, sandals (+ women's clothes). standing figure - AA - female human figure

Seated Figure Receiving an Object Presented by a Smaller Figure. Artist: Micco Spadaro (Domenico Gargiulo) (Italian, Naples 1609/10-1675 Naples ()). Dimensions: 6-9/16 x 6 in. (16.6 x 15.3 cm). Date: 1609/10-1675. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Astrology. Artist: Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, Parma 1503-1540 Casalmaggiore). Dimensions: sheet: 6 7/16 x 3 13/16 in. (16.3 x 9.7 cm). Date: early 16th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Bartolomeo Cesi, A Boy Gazing Upward in Adoration, c 1594 A Boy Gazing Upward in Adoration

Study of characters sitting in an omnibus (p.72 of the album). Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875). Study of characters sitting in an omnibus (p.72 of the album). Drawing between 1870 and 1875.

Pencil drawing by Josef Neugebauer depicting the Madonna holding the Christ child, with attention to figure, posture, and interaction.

Boy with a hat with a feather. Leaf 1 Recto from a sketchbook with 30 sheets.

Seated man putting on his stocking, draughtsman: Alessandro Allori, 1545 - 1572, paper, brush, h 330 mm × w 235 mm

The Reclining Headless Body of Holofernes; Study of Female Semi-Nude Figure (on a small separate, unrelated sheet of blue paper, pasted onto the lower left of the large sheet). Artist: Guido Reni (Italian, Bologna 1575-1642 Bologna) (the study of Holofernes only). Dimensions: 15 x 10 1/4 in. (38.1 x 26 cm). Date: 1625-40.This large sheet contains a study, probably drawn from life, for the left arm and shoulder of the headless body of Holofernes in a painted canvas portraying Judith and Holofernes executed by Reni in the mid-1620's. The Metropolitan Museum owns three reproductive engravings after this composition (nos. 51.501.4564; 51.501.4574; and 51.501.5060), and moreover, an exquisite study for the head of the Old Testament heroine (no.1992.70), which was formerly from the collection of the Earls of Leicester at Holkham Hall.The delicately drawn study of a half-draped female figure at lower left, also by Guido Reni, is a separate sketch that has been pasted by a collector, most li

Portrait of an unknown man with fur hat. Portrait bust of an unknown man with a fur hat on the head and a fur collar.

Anonymous / 'Standing Friar'. XVII century. Black chalk on laid paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Bust of a young woman.

Saint Matthew; Correggio (Antonio Allegri) (Italian, about 1489 - 1534); Italy; about 1523; Red chalk; 12.1 x 11.1 cm (4 3,4 x 4 3,8 in.)

Standing boy, seen from behind, 1648 drawing Zwolle paper. chalk

Study for the decor of the church Saint-Germain-des-Prés: two apostles on the left, sketch for the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Sitting man with bare feet, anonymous, 1600 - 1699 drawing Netherlands paper. chalk

Chalk drawing of a standing male figure in front view, draped with a long cloth, executed with feathering and lavated shading by an anonymous artist.

Standing Prophet with a Book and Scroll. Taddeo Zuccaro; Italian, 1529-1566. Date: 1562-1566. Dimensions: 262 x 141 mm. Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over red chalk, on ivory laid paper, squared in black chalk. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Rijn, Rembrandt van, Netherlands, Drost, Willem, Physician measuring the pulse of a child, verso lower left - stamped, A physician holding the pulse of a reclining child with his left hand. Mirrored copy of the physician in a print by Rembrandt (Hol 99)., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 69 mm, width 52 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1633 - 1659, print maker, prentmaker, 1643 - 1670, second quarter 17th century, tweede kwart 17e eeuw, third quarter 17th century, derde kwart 17e eeuw, paper, papier, etching, etsen, Work conception, 1606-07-15 - 1669-10-08

Seating woman holding on her knees the bust of a child spilled back (MCB 46) Pierre Puis de Chavannes (1824-1898). Seating woman holding on his knees the bust of a child spilled back (MCB 46). Black stone on paper put to the tile glued right on cardboard.

Study for the Pietà 1604 Giulio Cesare Procaccini Italian 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).. Study for the Pietà. Giulio Cesare Procaccini (Italian, Bologna 1574-1625 Milan). 1604. Charcoal, highlighted with white gouache, squared in charcoal, on blue paper. Drawings

Italian 17th Century, A Young Man, 16th century A Young Man

Holy Family, 17th century. Anonymous. Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk or charcoal; sheet: 10.3 x 8 cm (4 1/16 x 3 1/8 in.).

The Virgin, in open country, with her right hand resting on the handle of a basket in which the Child lies. At right, in the background, is a farmhouse. Framing line. Date: 1820-1850. Brush and brown-gray watercolor on paper. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Saint Joseph Leaning on a Table. Sassoferrato (Giovanni Battista Salvi) (Italian, 1609 - 1685)

A stone drawing by Johann Christoph Lischka depicting figurines and detailed studies of robes, including annotations on types and poses.

Bent old woman. Draughtsman: Simon Andreas Krausz. Dating: 1770 - 1825. Measurements: h 91 mm × w 78 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (il Guercino) red chalk drawing depicts a woman in half-figure facing right, focusing on posture and gesture.

Le Syndic des Prud'hommes. Félicien Victor Joseph Rops (Belgium, Namur, 1833-1898). Belgium, no date. Prints; etchings. Etching

Study of a Seated Man, Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786-1846, British, undated, Graphite on medium, smooth, beige, wove paper, Sheet: 6 × 3 3/4 inches (15.2 × 9.5 cm)

Seated John the Baptist, Jacopo Palma (il Giovane), draughtsman: anonymous, 1560 - 1640, paper, h 160 mm × w 125 mm

Fleeing Barbarian. Dimensions: sheet: 17.8 x 12.1 cm (7 x 4 3/4 in.) mount: 27.2 x 21.2 cm (10 11/16 x 8 3/8 in.). Medium: black chalk on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: POLIDORO DA CARAVAGGIO.

Drawing by Jean-Baptiste Greuze depicting a woman with a child and a cat on a cradle, executed in red chalk.

Old man with long beard: bust ..

Eugène Carrière, Maternity, 1896 Maternity

Seated female figure with cross and building model, Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 -1770, d. 1773, Red chalk on paper, Seated female figure with a cross in her right hand. In her left is a model of a building. A dove, possibly the Holy Spirit, is above her head., France, ca. 1759-70, figures, Drawing, Drawing

Man sitting on the back, women's or men's head with hat, Cornelis Pietersz. Bega, 1642 - 1664 print Proef pressure for first state Netherlands paper etching male sex; man. female sex; woman

A youth and the head of an old man (Homer). Study by Andrea del Sarto (1486-1531) Staatliche Museen, Berlin ca 1521 Sanguine on paper 23,9x27,7 Italy, Florentine School Renaissance Portrait Graphic arts

Meekness. Draughtsman: anonymous. After Rafaël. Dating: 1500 - 1620. Measurements: h 234 mm × w 125 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Drawing, St. Mary of Egypt from St. Peter's colonnade; Jean-Robert Ango (French, active in Rome 1759 -1770, d. 1773); After Lazzaro Morelli; France; red chalk on paper

Study of a Standing Dancer with an Outstretched Arm by Watteau, Jean Antoine (1684-1721) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam 1710 Black and white chalk, sanguine, pastel 27,2x18,9 France Rococo Music, Dance,Genre Graphic arts

Drapery Study of a Reclining Figure, 1860-62. Pencil on cream-toned paper. Artist: Edward Burne-Jones

Beggar and beggar.

Sleeping man with hat. .

Pen and pencil drawing by Johann Evangelist Scheffer von Leonhartshoff depicting the finding of Mosi, showing figures and setting.

Study of standing woman holding hands with a child (p. 29 of the sketch book). Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875). Study of standing woman holding hands with a child (p. 29 of the sketch book). Drawing, 1871. Museum of Fine Arts in the city of Paris, small palace.

Woman with fan, Hermanus Fock, After Abraham Bloemaert, 1781 - 1822 print A woman with a big hat and a fan in her left hand. She makes a gesture with her right index finger. print maker: Amsterdamafter drawing by: Netherlands paper etching fan

Old man playing on a lute, draughtsman: Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli, 1560 - 1563, paper, pen, brush, h 242 mm × w 120 mm

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