Historical Scenes and Figures

Various drawings illustrating historical narratives, featuring figures in prayer, mythical moments, and interactions, with an emphasis on classical themes.

Matthias and Barnabas in prayer, intermediary draughtsman: Federico Zuccaro, draughtsman: anonymous, 1560 - 1640, paper, pen, brush, h 240 mm × w 401 mm

The Departure of Sancho Panza for the Island of Barataria 18th century Charles Joseph Natoire French. The Departure of Sancho Panza for the Island of Barataria 337866

Matthias and Barnabas in prayer, intermediary draughtsman: Federico Zuccaro, draughtsman: anonymous, 1560 - 1640, paper, pen, brush, h 240 mm × w 401 mm

Adoration by the Shepherds, Anonymous, After Rafaël, 1506 - 1546 drawing paper. ink pen

Feather drawing on light brown paper by Federico Zuccari depicting a scene from an Aesop legend: Xantos with guests served by Aesop, a meal on the left, a pig in the basement, city view in the background, 1575-1579.

Bacchanal Artist's working dates 1693-1722 France. Red chalk, with traces of black chalk, on paper . Claude Gillot

Samuel van Hoogstraten depicts Tobias with a goat using brown ink, showing the figure of Tobias, the goat, gestures, and scene composition on paper around 1650.

A red chalk drawing by an anonymous artist from the 17th century showing Erminia with shepherds, a horse, and two armed men, referencing Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata.

Absoloms death reported to David (II Samuel 18.9-33). Artist: Unknown After: Stradanus (Jan van der Straet), Flemish, 1523-1605

Illustration for a Book: Two Monks Kneeling before a Doge and an Emperor (Doge Ziani and Emperor Barbarossa) 1696-1770 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Italian. Illustration for a Book: Two Monks Kneeling before a Doge and an Emperor (Doge Ziani and Emperor Barbarossa) 339282

Feather drawing by Sigismondo Scarsella titled Adoration of the Shepherds, with blue wash on brownish paper, white ground, blotches, taken contours, and numerous folds.

Drawing (Italy)

Marcus Curius Dentatus refuses the gifts of the samnites.

Hubert François Gravelot illustrated a scene depicting lost love using black pen and brown wash around 1740-1744.

Engraver's Copy After The Toilet of Venus 17th century After Francesco Albani Italian. Engraver's Copy After The Toilet of Venus 338006

Della Bella, Stefano (dit Étienne de la Belle) (n.1610-05-18-D.1664-08-22), game of fables. Amphion. Twenty-first number of a series of 52 pieces. (A. de Vesme 528; Dutuit 116) (main title), 1644. Etch. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Paul for Agrippa Tables from the Acts of the Apostles (title series), draughtsman: Pieter Fransz. de Grebber, (attributed to), 1610 - 1652, paper, brush, counterproof, h 195 mm × w 304 mm

Lupercalia (recto), and Sketches of Figures (verso) 1702-1734 England. Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over graphite (recto), and black chalk (verso), on ivory wove paper . James Thornhill

Copper engraving by an anonymous artist depicting Boccaccio writing the history of the first people, with pen retouching, late 15th century.

Drawing by Joseph Bergler the Younger depicting Susanna in the bath, executed with gray pen and brown lavings.

Drawing by Hubert François Gravelot showing a scene from Coriolan in black pen with brown wash, created around 1740-1744.

Engraver's Copy After The Toilet of Venus. Artist: After Francesco Albani (Italian, Bologna 1578-1660 Bologna). Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 11 3/8in. (21 x 28.9cm). Date: 17th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Merchants and Orientals in a harbor, Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem (possibly), 1630 - 1683, draughtsman: Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem, (possibly), draughtsman: Adam Pijnacker, (rejected attribution), 1630 - 1683, paper, brush, h 147 mm × w 226 mm

'Holy Women at Christ' s Tomb'. Italy, first half - middle of 16th century. Dimensions: 22,7x32,3 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: BACCIO BANDINELLI.

Possible design for a print, Preliminary study for a circumcision, draughtsman: anonymous, draughtsman: Jan Philipsz. van Bouckhorst, (rejected attribution), 1600 - 1699, paper, pen, brush, h 155 mm × w 261 mm

Mercury Delivers the Infant Bacchus to the Nymphs. Artist: Bénigne Gagneraux (French, Dijon 1756-1795 Florence). Dimensions: Sheet: 19 9/16 × 25 1/4 in. (49.7 × 64.1 cm). Date: ca.1789-90.This rare and impressive print characteristic of Gagneraux's elegant neoclassical style. Trained in Dijon, he won the prix-de-Rome and left in 1779 for Italy, where he would spend the remainder of his career. His contemporaries in Rome included Mengs, Sergel, Fuseli, Canova, and David. While line engravings would be popularized by Flaxman and others, Gagneraux was among the first to adopt this manner of printmaking. This impression is a proof impression, with drawing in graphite indicating where the artist intended to further work the plate. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Birth of the Virgin, anonymous, 1580 - 1620, draughtsman: anonymous, Midden-Italië, 1580 - 1620, paper, pen, brush, h 235 mm × w 340 mm

The Sword of Damocles 1785-1807 Giuseppe Piattoli Italian. The Sword of Damocles 340475

A brown ink drawing by Bartolomeo Altomonte from around 1720 showing Christ being scourged, executed over pencil underdrawing.

Historical Subject with Men and a Boy Near a Ship (recto); Anatomical Study of a Foot (verso). Artist: William Hamilton (British, London 1751-1801 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 9 7/16 in. (18.7 × 24 cm). Date: 1770-80.Hamilton belonged to a generation determined to expand the scope of the arts in Britain. He traveled to Rome as a teenager to study with Antonio Zucchi, returned to England to make decorative paintings for Robert Adam, then entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1769. From that point forward he focused on historical and literary subjects, together with portaits. This early of men recognizing the identity of a captive boy next to a ship likely derives from a literary or historical source. On the verso, the artist copied a drawing of a flayed foot from an anatomy book. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Christ Seated Disputing with the Doctors. Dated: 1654. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn.

Manius Curius Dentatus Refusing the Gifts of the Samnites, anonymous, after Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, 1635 - 1700 drawing paper. graphite (mineral). ink pen / brush

Picaresque Group with a Monkey and a Magpie. Alessandro Magnasco; Italian, 1667-1749. Date: 1720-1725. Dimensions: 478 x 372 mm. Brush and brown gouache and brush and brown wash, with touches of red and brown chalk, heightened with white chalk, over black chalk, on blue laid paper (discolored to pale brownish-gray). Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Esther Verzwens for Ahasverus, Rembrandt van Rijn (Follower of), 1640 drawing paper. paint (coating). ink pen the story of Esther

Anonymous (Copy Polidoro da Caravaggio) / 'Three Figures from a Composition of The Gathering of the Manna'. XVI century. Blue wash, Pencil, Grey-brown ink on yellow paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Eustache Le Sueur drawing of the martyrdom of Saint Gervase, in black chalk on cream paper, with squared grid and perspective lines in brown pen.

Bliżej Kultury Normand, Charles (1765 1840), Le Sueur, Eustache (1616 1655)

Satan as a bird catcher with the world as bait, Jan Luyken, 1697 - 1699 drawing Design for a print. paper. ink pen / brush activities of devil(s). bird hunting. scenes symbolizing 'Vanitas'. 'Musica', symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ music; 'Musica'(Ripa)

Stitching game on the occasion of the wedding of a prince, Pseudo-Aert Ortkens, 1510 - 1530, Design for a tapestry., draughtsman: Pseudo-Aert Ortkens, 1510 - 1530, paper, pen, h 252 mm × w 399 mm

Drawing, Men Surrounding Two Snakes; Italy; red crayon on paper

Retrieving resembles with carts. For a destroyed church there are two carts with horses. Soldiers are leaving to load the carts.

Apse with the Birth and the Visitation. Draughtsman: anonymous. After Carlo Maratti. Dating: 1750 - 1800. Measurements: h 260 mm × w 185 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

De Eed der Horatii, Jurriaan Andriessen, After Jacques -Louis David, 1752 - 1819 drawing paper. ink. graphite (mineral) pen / brush print, e.g.: engraving, etching, lithograph

Study for an Engraving of "Songs in the Opera of Flora". Artist: Hubert François Gravelot (French, Paris 1699-1773 Paris). Dimensions: 2 7/8 x 3 15/16 in. (7.3 x 10 cm.). Date: ca. 1737. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

In the center, a statue of Bacchus on a fountain. To the left several satyrs and nymphs. To the right a satyr who has placed a nymph backwards on a donkey. Nymphs and satyrs around a fountain with Bacchus Bacchanalen , print maker: Anthonie de Winter, Raymond de Lafage, (mentioned on object), publisher: Raymond de Lafage, (mentioned on object), print maker: Noord-Nederland, publisher: Rome, 1668 - 1707, paper, etching, h 151 mm × w 239 mm

Noël Cochin the Younger drawing of Maria presenting a rosary to Katharina and Domenikus, executed in brown pen with black chalk, on laminated paper with black borders.

Allegory of Justice, Seated female figure with staff, flanked by two standing women., Shaving, being shaved, Brussels, Frederik (Prince of the Netherlands), Nicolas Poussin, 1637 - 1639, paper, ink, brush, h 152 mm × w 104 mm

St. Benedict Resuscitating an Infant. Artist: Pierre Hubert Subleyras (French, Saint-Gilles-du-Gard 1699-1749 Rome). Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 6 in. (22.2 x 15.5 cm). Date: ca. 1745. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

A brown ink drawing by David Joris from 1554 showing David instructing Joab and Abisai to protect Absolom, executed in laved technique.

Pen and brush drawing by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich from 1731 depicting the death of Jacob, with figures, gestures, and composition on pea-green paper using black-gray ink and white highlights.

Work by Pierre Alexandre Wille using black chalk, pen, brush, and bister wash, showing the arrest of thieves in their hideout.

De Beeldenstorm, 1566, Jacobus Buys, 1784 - 1786 drawing IMENTS STORM IN A church, 1566. A group of men pulls a statue of Peter from a niche in the wall, other images are broken on the ground. Design for a print. Netherlands paper. ink pen / brush historical events and situations. iconoclasm

Bliżej Kultury Normand, Charles (1765 1840), Le Sueur, Eustache (1616 1655)

Drawing by Raymond Lafage of the Adoration of the Shepherds, executed in brown pen with gray wash and chalk traces.

The Banquet of Aeneas andDido. Artist: Matthaus Terwesten, Dutch, 1670-1757

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian (1696-1770), The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (recto)-Study of a Male Nude (verso), c. 1726, pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk and touches of red chalk on laid paper

The lute player.

Study for Country Festival near Antwerp. David Teniers the Younger; Flemish, 1610-1690. Date: 1641-1651. Dimensions: 210 × 361 mm. Graphite on ivory laid paper, tipped onto ivory laid paper. Origin: Flanders. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Anonymous (Copy Maratta, Carlo) / 'Rebecca and Eliezer'. XVII century. Grey-brown wash, Pencil on dark yellow paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

A drawing by Pieter Fransz. de Grebber depicting the Adoration of the Shepherds, possibly including donor portraits, executed in black chalk with a vertical fold trace.

Iris appearing to Turnus, study of a Helmet (recto), Alternative design for the recto composition (verso); Pier Francesco Mola, Italian, 1612 - 1666; 1658 - 1659; Brush and brown ink over black chalk; (verso) black chalk; 26.4 x 39.4 cm (10 3/8 x 15 1/2 in.)

Study for an Engraving of "Songs in the Opera of Flora" ca. 1737 Hubert François Gravelot French. Study for an Engraving of "Songs in the Opera of Flora" 335489

Philomela, Procne, and the Thracian King Tereus. Dimensions: overall (approximate): 10.5 x 15.4 cm (4 1/8 x 6 1/16 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink with gray wash on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Follower of Abraham van Diepenbeeck.

Landscape with pictura and sitting couple, anonymous, 1700 - 1800 drawing paper. ink. pencil pen 'Pictura', symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ painting; 'Pittura' (Ripa)

Design for a Chimney Place and Study of a Nude Female Figure. Artist: Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century. Dimensions: sheet: 7 9/16 x 11 7/8 in. (19.2 x 30.2 cm). Former Attribution: Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, Siegen 1577-1640 Antwerp). Date: n.d.. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Allegory of justice. Sitting woman figure with staff, flanked by two standing women.

A Judge and Two Gentlemen Lawyers. Dimensions: overall: 25.4 x 36.2 cm (10 x 14 1/4 in.). Medium: black chalk heightened with white on tan laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Attributed to Eustache Le Sueur.

A black ink pen drawing by Albrecht Dürer from 1515 depicting St. Antonius, focusing on figure, gesture, and religious symbolism.

Two people at a fireplace, Domenico Beccafumi, 1519 - 1547 drawing paper. chalk

Wedding of Kana, Avanzino Nucci, 1561 - 1629 drawing paper. chalk. ink pen / brush the marriage-feast at Cana (John 2:1-11)

Study for a stained glass project: stage of the life of Saint Benoît. (Dummy title)

Graphite and gray wash drawing by Jacques Stella depicting a man and three women with children seated on a wall.

Maarten van Heemskkk (1498-1574), the healed lame follows with Peter and John into the temple, 1556

Pencil drawing by Karl Karger showing a draft of a bird catcher, including figure, posture, and net.

Schout van Dordrecht receives the letter from the count; The case law of Count Willem III the good, second series.

A seated and a standing man in a landscape. .

Pencil drawing by Josef von Führich depicting a victim scene with human figures, gestures, and expression.

Illustration for a Book: Scene of a Murder in an Interior. Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1696-1770 Madrid). Dimensions: 2-15/16 x 6-3/16 in. (7.4 x 15.7 cm). Series/Portfolio: See Metropolitan Museum of Art acc. nos. 59.600.176 - 59.600.212. Date: 1696-1770. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Design for a glass window, Blossoming staff of Aaron Conquest of the Promised Land (series title), intermediary draughtsman: Dirck Pietersz. Crabeth, draughtsman: anonymous, 1545, paper, pen, h 291 mm × w 199 mm

Anonymous drawing of soldiers in a guard room with a fireplace on the right, executed in graphite pencil and brown wash.

Banditti. Drawing. Pen and brown, black and gray ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, blued white, laid paper. Height: 213 mm (8.38 in); Width: 314 mm (12.36 in). Author: Thomas Rowlandson.

Celebration scene, Gerard ter Borch (I), 1612, draughtsman: Gerard ter Borch (I), (signed by artist), Zwolle, (possibly), 1612, paper, brush, h 196 mm × w 314 mm

Studio of Rembrandt van Rijn, The Parable of the Publican and the Pharisee, 1645 1655 The Parable of the Publican and the Pharisee

Saint Francis Before the Bishop. Artist: Attributed to Niccolò Solimani (Niccolò da Verona) (Italian, Mantua act. 1461-93). Dimensions: 9 5/8 x 7 3/16 in. (24.5 x 18.3 cm). Date: ca. 1469.Saint Francis of Assisi (1181-1226), the son of a prosperous merchant, who abandoned his life of worldly pleasures in order to dedicate himself to the service of God, is portrayed here renouncing his clothing before Bishop Hugo of Assisi, who dresses and protects him. At left, Francis's father, who is angry that his son has proclaimed God as his only father, is restrained. Unlike earlier depictions of this subject in fresco cycles, in which this scene unfolds outdoors in the city of Assisi, here it takes place in a vaulted interior. The drawing was formerly attributed to Giovanni Angelo d'Antonio, a painter from the Marches region of Italy. Recently it has been identified as a preparatory study for part of a fresco series portraying the Life of Saint Francis in the Cappella della Rama in the church o

Jean Baptiste Lallemand, Figures Seated Around a Fountain, c 1755 Figures Seated Around a Fountain

Lunet with a healing through a saint and some loose figures ..

Cartoon on Louis XIV and the persecution of Protestants in France, 1689. Draughtsman: Romeyn de Hooghe. Dating: 1689. Measurements: h 334 mm × w 373 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Wonderful Spijsing, Anonymous, 1575 - 1624 drawing Low Countries paper. ink pen / brush

Thetis in the Workshop of Hephaestus; Thetis Showing the Armor to Achilles: Two Designs for Ceiling Panels in the Galeria d'Iliade, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza, Felice Giani, Italian, 1758-1823, Pen and brown ink, brush and gray-brown wash over graphite on white laid paper, In upper drawing, Vulcan shows shield made for Achilles to Thetis. In lower drawing, Thetis shows armor to Achilles, who sits in his tent beside dead Patroclus. Girl mourns; warriors observe from behind., Faenza, Italy, Italy, 1802-05, interiors, Drawing, Drawing

Return of the lost son.

Saint Augustine Converting King Ethelbert of Kent. Dated: probably c. 1793. Dimensions: overall: 28 x 40.5 cm (11 x 15 15/16 in.). Medium: graphite on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: William Blake.

Christ Appearing to the Apostles. Dated: 1656. Dimensions: plate: 16.3 x 20.7 cm (6 7/16 x 8 1/8 in.) sheet: 16.6 x 20.9 cm (6 9/16 x 8 1/4 in.). Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Rembrandt.

Party in honor of Jan Steen and his wife, Charles Onkhena, After Ignatius Josephus van Regemorter, 1816 - 1886 print paper etching public festivities

Drawing by Joseph Bergler the Younger showing soldiers entering a house through a window while women and children flee, using feather technique.

A Roman marriage (in box with 43 drawings), Louis Fabritius Dubourg, 1743 drawing paper. ink. pencil pen / brush

Christ Crowned with Thorns. Artist: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1727-1804 Venice). Dimensions: 10 9/16 x 8 5/8 in. (26.8 x 21.9 cm). Date: ca. 1748-72. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Two Women Talking late 16th-early 17th century Hans Weiner German. Two Women Talking 362487

Sketch, Urban Exterior with Classical Architecture and Draped Figures. Seated leader at center right, with supplicant () figures at lower center with reclining figure with child nearby. Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash on paper. Date: 1820-1850. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Drawing by Friedrich Philipp Reinhold from 1805-1816 depicting a strange allegory on the invention of painting, executed in black-gray ink over pencil traces with black edging lines.

John Hamilton Mortimer (British, 1740 - 1779), Mucius Scaevolo recto, pen and black ink on laid paper

Two standing figures, Monogrammist AVB (17th century), 1600 - 1699, draughtsman: Monogrammist AVB (17e eeuw), 1600 - 1699, paper, h 182 mm × w 183 mm

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