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Dramatic Biblical and Mythological Scenes

Drawings capturing dramatic biblical and mythological narratives, featuring emotional figures and narratives, exploring themes of lamentation and valor.

CIncinnatus Summoned from the Field, study for the 'Storia di Cincinnato,' Gallery of the Villa Sacchetti (Now Chigi), Castelfusano, Pietro da Cortona, Italian, 1596 - 1669, pen and brown ink, Italy, 1626-1629, Drawing, Drawing
CIncinnatus Summoned from the Field, study for the 'Storia di Cincinnato,' Gallery of the Villa Sacchetti (Now Chigi), Castelfusano, Pietro da Cortona, Italian, 1596 - 1669, pen and brown ink, Italy, 1626-1629, Drawing, Drawing
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The Judgment of Paris. Drawing. Graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper. Height: 206 mm (8.11 in); Width: 260 mm (10.23 in). Author: UNKNOWN.
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Barricade at the alumni on Stefansplatz, Built May , Design, Eduard Ritter -, drawer
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Pastorale. Artist, attributed to: Jean Baptiste Hüet, French, 1745-1811
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Rama and Lakshmana Overwhelmed by Arrows: Folio from the Siege of Lanka series ca. 1725 Attributed to Manaku "Rendering himself invisible by virtue of the boon he received from Brahma, Indrajit, the son of Ravana.. loosened sharp arrows bright as lightening on Rama and Lakshmana.. so not a hair's breath on their bodies was not lacerated, pricked and pierced by these irresistible darts." The Ramayana tells us that the shafts resembled serpents, a metaphor the artist rendered literally, depicting writhing snakes covering the bodies of the two fallen heroes. Surrounding them are the distressed monkey and bear armies that carry boulders and trees in preparation for their defense. In this unfinished preparatory drawing the artist, Manaku, brilliantly conveyed the essence of the narrative. We can only imagine how much more powerful a work it would have been if finished in the characteristically robust palette of the early eighteenth-century Guler style, as seen in Rama Releases the Demon
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Robert Smirke, 1752-1845, British, Figure Studies of a Group of People in a Wooded Clearing, undated. Pen and brown inki, brown wash and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige, wove paper, mounted on, thick, smooth, brown, wove paper.
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AllegoricalStudy. Artist: John Singer Sargent, American, born Italy, 1856-1925, LL.D. 1916
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A pencil drawing by Johann Evangelist Scheffer von Leonhartshoff depicting an angel weeping over a boy, on light blue paper, highlighting figures and gestures.
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The Last Supper, after Leonardo da Vinci. Artist: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606-1669 Amsterdam). Dimensions: 14 1/4 x 18 11/16 in. (36.2 x 47.5 cm). Date: 1634-35.This unusually large red-chalk drawing by Rembrandt is closely based on an early print after Leonardo da Vinci's famous mural of the Last Supper in Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. Far from slavishly replicating his model, Rembrandt has recast all the figures, intensifying their reactions to Christ's words, and has condensed the space they occupy. The Lehman sheet is one of three drawings by Rembrandt based on Leonardo's "Last Supper," a work that profoundly captured his imagination. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn).
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General Gattamelata Mourned by thePeople. Artist: Katharina Prestel, German, 1747-1794 After: Andrea Mantegna, Italian, ca. 1431-1506 After: Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Italian, Florence, ca.1432-1498
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Roman Cavalry on the March. after Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Romano; Italian, c. 1499-1546. Date: 1676. Dimensions: 170 x 332 mm. Pen and brown ink with touches of brush and brown wash and traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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A pencil drawing by Johann Peter Nepomuk Geiger depicting a fighting scene, emphasizing figures, action, and dynamic composition.
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Joseph Sold by His Brethren 1590-1660 Giovanni Battista Discepoli ("Il Zoppo") Italian. Joseph Sold by His Brethren 338604
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David Playing his Harp before Saul, with a Servant and Other Musicians, Willem Drost (attributed to), c. 1650 - c. 1655 drawing Amsterdam paper. ink pen David playing his harp before Saul
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Annunciation to the Shepherds. Draughtsman: Rembrandt van Rijn. Dating: c. 1655. Place: Amsterdam. Measurements: h 189 mm × w 280 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Anonymous / 'Saint Bernard () giving bread to the poor'. XVIII century. Black chalk on laid paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.
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Hans Burgkmair I, The Fight in the Forest, c 1500 1503 The Fight in the Forest
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1852 pencil drawing by Franz Theodor Grosse depicting Odysseus departing from Alkinoos, Arete, and Nausikaa on Scheria, showing figures, gestures, and island landscape.
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Bilam on his donkey meets the angel, Adam Elsheimer (Possible), 1588 - 1610 drawing paper. ink pen / brush ass, donkey. Balaam saddles his donkey and departs with the Moabite messengers
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Punchinellos Felling (or Planting) a Tree. Artist: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1727-1804 Venice). Dimensions: 13 7/8 x 18 5/8 in. (35.3 x 47.3 cm). Date: late 18th-early 19th century.Domenico Tiepolo's 104 drawings illustrating the life of Punchinello, a popular commedia dell'arte character, trace the amusing story of the everyman in elaborate detail--from his parentage, birth, and childhood to his diversions and adventures in near and distant lands to his illness, his death, and the apparition of his ghost. Nine sheets from the series are in the Robert Lehman Collection. This energetic narrative of a group of Punchinello figures felling a tree may be an allusion to the so-called Tree of Liberty erected by Napoleonic troops as a symbol of their conquest of the Venetian Republic in 1797. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo.
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An anonymous circular drawing from 1563 representing Mercatura (merchants), executed in pen with gray wash on yellowish paper.
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Mixed media sketches by Alexander Rothaug around 1928 using pencil, ink feather, and color pencil showing figures, objects, and compositional studies on paper.
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Triumph of Caesar: TheElephants. Engraver Attributed to: Giulio Campagnola, Italian, 1482-1515 After: Andrea Mantegna, Italian, ca. 1431-1506
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DESASTRES DE LA GUERRA (1810-1815) - DESASTRE Nº 29 - SANGUINA - LO MERECIA - DIBUJO PREPARATORIO. Author: FRANCISCO DE GOYA (1746-1828). Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-DIBUJOS. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Saint Benedict Moving the Stone which a Demon Had Made Immobile. after Ludovico Carracci; Italian, 1555-1619. Date: 1606-1699. Dimensions: 296 x 209 mm. Pen and black ink, over black chalk, on golden-brown laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: LODOVICO CARRACCI.
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Feder drawing in gray by Luigi Sabatelli showing Aeneas saying goodbye to Kreusa, with cracks at the bottom of the sheet.
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Cavalrymen, etc., Joseph Steuart, active 1821, 1821, Etching
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Rome, Collignon, François, Italy, Billy, Nicolo, Testa, Pietro, Woman stabbing herself in the side with a sword, verso - stamped, A half-naked woman lying on an altar, possibly Dido. She is stabbing herself in the side with a sword. To the right of the altar is a group of figures., print, prints, height 200 mm, width 274 mm, Italian, 1612 - 1650, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, 1619 - 1657, paper, etching, etchings, print maker, printmaker, Publication (Event), Publication, French, 1610 - 1687, publisher, uitgever
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Pyrrhus in the House of Glaucias. Artist: Augustin Pajou (French, Paris 1730-1809 Paris); Christie's, Paris. Dimensions: Sheet: 22 5/16 × 31 5/16 in. (56.7 × 79.5 cm). Date: late 18th century.This drawing illustrates a scene from Plutarch's Lives: the infant king Pyrrhus, after he is banished from his native Epirus, is presented to the Illyrian king Glaucias and his wife to request asylum. This large and fluidly worked sheet was included among the drawings Pajou exhibited in the Salon of 1759 and was part of the collection of his former teacher, the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger (French, 1704-1778). The precisely delineated shadows evoke the shallow space of a relief sculpture, and in fact, this composition would go on to be realized in three dimensions, twice in plaster and once in leather. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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TRIOMFTOCHT van Julius Caesar, Andrea Andreani, After Bernardo Malpizzi, After Andrea Mantegna, 1599 Numbered bottom left: 7. The print is part of an album. print maker: Italyafter drawing by: Mantuaafter painting by: Mantua paper Numbered bottom left: 7. The print is part of an album. print maker: Italyafter drawing by: Mantuaafter painting by: Mantua paper
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Maria's death bed.
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Peace of Pressburg
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Nieulandt, Willem van (II), Roman ruins and coastal landscapes (series 2), Landscape with gate and ruin, recto center top outside the plate edge - handwritten, By the water are overgrown ruins, possibly the Porta Furba. On the left a gate. On the left in the foreground a road with a ridden donkey and a walker. The print is part of a series of Roman ruins and coastal landscapes after prints by Willem van Nieulandt. This series is a copy of the series, that Claes Jansz Visscher made after Van Nieulandt., print, prints, verso - stamped, 41, height 98 mm, width 157 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1584 - 1635, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, 1594 - 1685, paper, papier, etching, etchings, print maker, printmaker
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Siege of a fortified city, Anonymous, Hans Weiditz (II), 1514 - 1532 print Print is part of an album. paper letterpress printing attack ~ siege. fortified city
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Stalinteriere Met Aft Persons, Cornelis Suttleven, 1651 drawing In a barn sit at a fireplace on the left, two men and two women by the fire. In the middle there is a cat on a stool, there are two pigs on the right, with two boys. There are a goat and a sheep in the background. parchment (animal material) brush warming oneself at a fire (or hearth, stove, fire-pan, brazier). cat. cow. pig. farmers. barn. interior of the house
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The Christ Child in the Cradle surrounded by adoring figures ca. 1550-55 Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola) Italian. The Christ Child in the Cradle surrounded by adoring figures 396465
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David Playing the Harp for Saul.
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Temptation of St. Anthony (recto); Fantastic Landscape (verso) ca. 1520 Attributed to Jan Wellens de Cock Netherlandish This drawing depicts motifs associated with representations of the Temptation of Saint Anthony. The bearded saint kneels in prayer before a rock supporting a book, resistant to the torments and temptations offered by the surrounding figures. A couple approach Anthony from the left, while a variety of demons proceed past a tree toward him from the right. Though the image of the saint, his tormentors, and the burning building behind are in proper proportion to each other, they are not contiguous. The prominent, undefined areas of empty space on the sheet and the lack of relationship between the foreground figures and background, in particular, suggest that these motifs were not conceived in preparation for another work but were copied from an unknown source. The drawing style is consistent with works associated with Jan Wellens de Cock, an Antwerp-based painter and draf
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A black chalk drawing by Bartolomeo Pinelli around 1800 depicting a group of men arranged in a frieze-like composition.
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A pencil drawing by Bartolomeo Altomonte depicting Saint Aegid on the right, showing figure, posture, and composition.
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Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Domed Interior (recto); Sketches for Dome and Doors (verso) 1830-90 Eugène Cicéri French. Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Domed Interior (recto); Sketches for Dome and Doors (verso) 358939
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Battle of the Titans 1624-63 attributed to Francesco Allegrini Italian. Battle of the Titans 338045
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Pedro Ruiz González / 'Studies of Jesuit cardinals'. XVII century. Black chalk on yellow paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.
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The Crowning with Thorns. Artist: Circle of Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, Leiden ca. 1494-1533 Leiden). Dimensions: Diameter: 9 1/16 in. (23 cm). Date: ca. 1520-30. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Triumph of Julius Caesar Possibly late 15th or 16th century After Andrea Mantegna Italian. Triumph of Julius Caesar 343163
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Preparatory sketch for the painting of `The Last Supper`, c1494-c1499 (1883). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci.
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The Funeral of Saint Stephen, c. 1460. Filippo Lippi (Italian, c. 1406-1469). Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash with traces of stylus over traces of black chalk; sheet: 24.9 x 19.3 cm (9 13/16 x 7 5/8 in.); secondary support: 24.9 x 19.3 cm (9 13/16 x 7 5/8 in.).
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Calvary. Attributed to Pedro Machuca; Spanish, c. 1495-1550. Date: 1515-1550. Dimensions: 281 x 273 mm. Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white, on blue (slightly faded) laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper. Origin: Spain. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Design for a painting, Menelaus leaves for Crete and recommends Aeneas to Helena., draughtsman: Elias van Nijmegen, 1677 - 1755, paper, brush, pen, h 207 mm × w 160 mm
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Vizier on a horse, Marius Bauer, 1889 print A visor drives a horse among a crowd of people in a city. In the background buildings with domes. paper etching official; civil servant; functionary (in general) Ottoman Empire
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Artist, attributed to: Johanes Van Somer, Dutch, 1645-1699, The Story of theSoldier, 17thcentury, Charcoal, heightened with white chalk, sheet: 28.6 × 33.6 cm (11 1/4 × 13 1/4in.), Made in The Netherlands, Dutch, 17thcentury, Works on Paper - Drawings andWatercolors
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Pen and bistre drawing by Giovanni Guerra of Pratolino, showing the 'Pitth' section with lavierte shading and architectural or landscape details, created circa 1598.
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Martyrdom of Jakobus Major of Paulus, Anonymous, After Mattia Preti, 1623 - 1749 drawing paper. chalk the beheading of Paul; maybe three fountains spring from his head. beheading of James
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Drawing, Deer attacked by Lynxes above left; Deer Hunt with Hounds Tracking below left; Cloelia and her Companions escape Porsena's Camp above right; Aeneas and Dido Shelter in a Cave below right; Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus (Flemish, 1523-1605); Engraved by Hans Collaert II (Flemish, 1560 - 1628); Published by Philips Galle (Flemish, 1537 - 1612); Subject: Petrus Angelius Bargaeus (Italian, 1517 - 1596), Pseudo-Oppian (Greco-Syrian, active 212 - 217); Netherlands; pen and brown ink, brush and wash on two joined sheets of laid paper
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Pencil drawing by Johann Till depicting two Passion scenes: Judas hanging himself and Peter with the rooster, circa 1850
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Moses elects the seventy elders, Jacob de Wit, 1736 - 1737, Design for a painting., draughtsman: Jacob de Wit, 1736 - 1737, paper, pen, h 207 mm × w 292 mm
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Pastoral Scene: Shepherds and Their Flock n.d. Attributed to Michel Corneille the Younger French. Pastoral Scene: Shepherds and Their Flock 338432
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A Group of Standing Monks and other Figures 1630s-40s Jan Lievens This outstanding, large sheet by Jan Lievens is one of the rare figure studies by the artist whose drawn oeuvre is composed mostly of landscape and portrait drawings. Lievens, probably best known as Rembrandts early studio mate, spent a good deal of his career beyond the city of Amsterdam, in London, Antwerp, The Hague, and Dusseldorf and his peripatetic life is reflected in the diverse sources of inspiration and the demands of varied patronage that can be observed in his work. His varied subjects and styles have led to the artists drawings often eluding correct attribution. An 18th-century attribution to Agostino Carracci is inscribed on the mount of this drawing, however, the loose handling of the pen here relates stylistically to drawings by Lievens including a sheet of figures and head studies in the Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf and a sheet with a river god in a private collection. The nature of the group that Lievens de
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The competition for the price of the Study of Tets and the expression Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1715-1790). The competition for the price of the head study and the expression. Drawing.
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Representation of Hirschjägermeister Conrat von Rot from the Triumphal Procession of Emperor Maximilian I by Hans Burgkmair the Elder, carved on a wooden stick between 1516 and 1518.
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Classical Landscape with Ruins (recto); Two men in Roman military dress (verso) 1748-92 Style of Robert Adam British, Scottish. Classical Landscape with Ruins (recto); Two men in Roman military dress (verso) 365743