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

Nereid; Verso: Women's act in a sitting position; Thoma, Hans (1839-1924); 1880-1920 (1880-00-00-1920-00-00);

Pencil drawing by Georg Philipp Rugendas depicting a wounded figure on the ground, showing posture, expression, and uniform details.

An anonymous drawing of a semicircular grave executed in red chalk on brownish paper, squared, cut out and glued into a rectangular format.

Pencil sketch by Emerich Alexius Swoboda showing a crouching figure, possibly Minerva, highlighting posture, anatomy, and figure form.

Design for a Decorative Wall Panel with Hunting Motif, Pless Chateau, Silesia. Artist: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise (French, died 1897); Eugène-Pierre Gourdet (French, born Paris, 1820-1889). Dimensions: sheet: 15 x 8 11/16 in. (38.1 x 22.1 cm). Date: second half 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Allegory of the 'Treaty of Friendship and Commerce between the States General of the United Netherlands and the United States of America', The Hague, 7 October 1782, anonymous, 1782 - 1785 painting Allegory on the 'Tract of Friendship and Commerce between their high Mogenden The Staaten General of the United Netherlands and the United States of America', 1782. Three figures representing the Dutch Virgin sitting on a barrel with the Heath of Freedom on a lance and left the American Virgin with a helmet with feathers, in hand a lance with medallions and a helmet and the cadeucus. The virgins shake hands. In the background a man with feathers headdress and bare torso that empties a horn of abundance on the floor. There are fallen on the ground Virginiatabak. Coming from a house on the Nieuwe Haven 32a in Dordrecht. Netherlands canvas. oil paint (paint) America represented allegorically; 'America' (Ripa). 'Cornucopia', Horn of Plenty. personifications of countries, nations, states, distri

Allegory with putti with arm and current god, draughtsman: anonymous, draughtsman: Abraham Meertens, (rejected attribution), 1700 - 1800, paper, pen, brush, h 181 mm × w 267 mm

A burglary in a house. Design for a print, The husband, the wife and the thief / Le Mari, la Femme et le Voleur Illustrations for fables by Jean de La Fontaine (series title), draughtsman: Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1732, paper, brush, h 311 mm × w 260 mm, h 242 mm × w 190 mm

The Mocking of Christ. Artist: Domenico Tintoretto (Italian, Venice 1560-1635 Venice). Dimensions: 9-5/16 x 16 in. (23.7 x 40.6 cm). Date: 1560-1635. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Arras. Alonso Pérez, Mariano (1857-1930), painter, unknown, factory

Drawing, Female Figure Among Clouds; Resurrection, Study after Panetti; Designed by Felice Giani (Italian, 1758-1823); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk on heavy white wove paper; 15 x 23.2 cm (5 7/8 x 9 1/8 in.)

Ekman, Robert Wilhelm, Sketch for a Regina von Emmeritz subject for painting, drawing, 26 cm x 31.5 cm

Allegorical scene (the gods of Olympus) Henry Cros (1840-1907). Allegorical scene (the gods of Olympus). Pencil and watercolor on white paper.

Sketchbook with 63 magazines, Jacob Toorenvliet, c. 1701 Sketchbook consisting of 63 sheets with mythological figures, ornaments and a genre performance. paper. watercolor (paint). ink. pencil. chalk. boekband: parchment (animal material) brush / pen Sketchbook consisting of 63 sheets with mythological figures, ornaments and a genre performance. paper. watercolor (paint). ink. pencil. chalk. boekband: parchment (animal material) brush / pen

The Good Shepherd. Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1618-1682). Black and red chalk. 33.6 x 23.3cm.

Drawing (Italy); Felice Giani (Italian, 1758-1823)

Brown ink and gray-lavated watercolor drawing by Pierre Paul Sevin from 1689-1698 depicting a ceiling field with scattered floral motifs on paper.

Preparatory drawing for a lunette painting, 1834, by Giuseppe Sogni (1795-1874), Bar Soci (Members Bar), ground floor, Palazzo Spinola, Milan, Lombardy, Italy.

Our Lord and St. John the Baptist. Date/Period: 1845/1846. Salt, from a calotype negative. Width: 6.2 cm. Height: 7.8 cm. Author: Nikolaas Henneman.

Virgil, 1804 print Vergilius. Print no. 14 on page 8 in the album 'Raccolta di Soggetti pictures', a Prentalbum with 42 numbered etchings on 28 pages of Luigi Sabatelli (I) himself and from students to his design. paper etching portrait of a writer. writer, poet, author

Juno turns Callisto into a bear, c. 1547 - c. 1550 print Juno Callisto is centrally. Callisto has turned into a bear. Her chariot with peacocks is in a large clouds. whole: Paper etching Callisto changed into a bear: Juno changes Callisto, who is attending the young Arcas (her son by Jupiter), into a bear

Landscape 17th century Anonymous, Italian, Roman-Bolognese, 17th century Italian. Landscape 340066

Four putti on a seesaw, 1696 Page 2 Recto from a sketchbook with 30 sheets. paper. chalk Cupids: 'Amores', 'Amoretti', 'Putti'. Bascule Bridge

Plate 3, Livre de vases (Book of Vases), François Boucher, French, 1703 - 1770, A. Bouchet, French, active ca. 1730-1740, Chez Le Pere et Avaulez, Paris, France, Etching on cream laid paper, Folio 3, plate 3 of a series of 12. Folio 2, plate 2 of a series of 12. Design for a vase or perfume burner to be executed in metal with curving fluted forms, placed on a pedestal. Two climbing figures of putti decorate the lid. At the sides, busts of winged female figures. At the front, a shell-like form. Smoke clouds in the background. At the base of the vase, leafy branches., Paris, France, 1738-72, metalwork, Bound print, Bound print

Klingholz Fritz (1861-1921): Illustration for music champions

Bacchanaal, Battista Franco, 1520 - 1561 print A bacchanal with a saat on a goat, a bacchane and putti with an urn full of grapes. paper etching bacchanal: Bacchus with his wine-flushed train (thiasos). cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'. satyr(s) (in general)

Design for a Frontispiece: Shepherds with Flock, Hubert-François Gravelot, 1699-1773, French, active in Britain (1733-45), undated, Pen in black ink, over graphite, squared in red chalk, incised for transfer on medium, slightly textured, blued white laid paper mounted on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, with gold leaf, watercolor, pen in black and red ink, border lines, Mount: 11 3/8 × 11 1/8 inches (28.9 × 28.3 cm), Contemporary drawn border: 5 1/8 × 6 5/8 inches (13 × 16.8 cm), and Sheet: 3 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches (9.5 x 13.3 cm), barefoot, dog (animal), figures (illustrations), flock, frontispieces (illustrations), garments, main, genre subject, men, sheep, shepherds, structure (single built work), trees

Study for Pilgrim's Progress (). Dimensions: overall: 16.5 x 24.2 cm (6 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.). Medium: pen and gray ink over graphite on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JOHN FLAXMAN.

A collection of sketches by Alexander Rothaug created around 1900 using pencil, showing varied subjects and forms.

Two peasants in a doorway, dogs and men's and women's heads.Leaf 48 Verso from a sketchbook with 98 sheets.

The Rape of Ganymede ca. 1694 Attributed to Sophia Blesendorf German. The Rape of Ganymede 380426

Rest During the Flight into Egypt. Artist: Philipp Veit (German, Berlin 1793-1877 Mainz). Dimensions: sheet: 9 x 11 3/4 in. (22.9 x 29.8 cm). Date: 1800-1877. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Study of Two Figures. Artist: Jacques Callot (French, Nancy 1592-1635 Nancy). Dimensions: 6 7/16 x 9 1/8 in. (16.3 x 23.2 cm.). Date: ca. 1617. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Sketch sheet with horses. Draughtsman: Leo Gestel. Dating: 1891 - 1941. Measurements: h 210 mm × w 260 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Luca Cambiaso / 'Dibujo para unas volutas con la forma de una arpía'. Last third of the XVI century. Pencil, Pencil ground, Grey-brown ink on blue paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Drawing by Stefano della Bella showing an old man on horseback holding a lance, accompanied by a servant, with a dog opposite, executed around 1633-1634.

Krishna's Arrival at Mathura. India, Rajasthan, Kishangarh, 1775-1800. Drawings. Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

Drawing, Decoration for the Ceiling of a Bedroom in Villa Aldini, Montmorency; Designed by Felice Giani (Italian, 1758-1823); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash with cream laid paper; 25.6 x 42.3 cm (10 1/16 x 16 5/8 in.)

The Triumph of St George, 1502, by Vittore Carpaccio (ca 1465- ca 1526), sketch.

Lazio Latina Sermoneta Castello Caetani14. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Post-medieval: Views of other architectural structures in proximity; architecture, architectural sculpture (17th century) interiors include furniture, wall paintings (16th century), sculpture German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

'Decor of the Corner Part of a Plafond'. France, 18th century. Dimensions: 25,2x36,7 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Gilles-Marie Oppenort ( ).

Philosopher. Dated: 1779. Medium: aquatint and stipple in blue and black. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Katharina Prestel after Giorgio Vasari.

Young Woman Seated Holding a Musical Score.

Ornament of musical instruments. Draughtsman: Abraham Meertens. Dating: 1767 - 1823. Measurements: h 171 mm × w 238 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Drawing, Adoration of the Shepherds; Arcangle St. Michael after Raphael; St. Margarite after Raphael; Aloof de Wignancourt by Caravaggio; Putti; Study of the Flood; Verso: Disposition after Volterra; St. Ceclia after Raphael; Portion of Marriage of Henry IV to...; Designed by Felice Giani (Italian, 1758-1823); Italy; pen and dark brown ink over traces of graphite on cream laid paper; 35 x 31.7 cm (13 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.)

Design for a ceiling with Truth, Time and Love. Draughtsman: Mattheus Terwesten. Dating: 1680 - 1757. Measurements: h 309 mm × w 411 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Adoration of the Burning Heart: Ceiling Design. Artist: Anonymous, Italian, Roman-Bolognese, 17th century. Dimensions: 6-5/8 x 8-7/8 in. (16.8 x 22.6 cm). Date: 17th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Studies for Grotesque Masks and Birds (recto); Candelabra Grotesques with Ewers and Vases (verso) ca. 1545-60 attributed to Andrés de Melgar Spanish. Studies for Grotesque Masks and Birds (recto); Candelabra Grotesques with Ewers and Vases (verso) 337486

Diana in a Chariot Drawn by TwoWomen. Artist: Unknown After: Pietro Buonaccorsi, called Perino del Vaga, Italian, 1501-1547

Miscellaneous Figures, William Henry Pyne, 1769-1843, British, 1802, Etching and aquatint on wove paper, Sheet: 9 1/2 x 13 1/2in. (24.1 x 34.3cm) and Plate: 9 x 11 1/2 inches (22.9 x 29.2 cm)

Shown here are sletches made by Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.

View up a Street in Sorrento verso. Dated: c. 1822 or later. Dimensions: overall: 29.3 x 45 cm (11 9/16 x 17 11/16 in.). Medium: charcoal and white chalk on blue paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: François-Édouard Bertin.

Sketches G. Hayter, Hayter, Sir George, 1792-1871, graphite, ink, watercolor, 1816

Textile, La Route de St. Cloud ou de Poissy; Made by Favre Petitpierre (France); France; printed by engraved roller on cotton plain weave.; Warp x Weft: 232 x 83 cm (7 ft. 7 5/16 in. x 32 11/16 in.) Repeat H: 47.5 cm (18 11/16 in.); Bequest of Elinor Merrell; 1995-50-173

Henry IV, Favre Petitpierre, (France, 1802-1818), Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved copper plate on plain weave, Two scenes of courtiers and the King. In purple which has faded to brown., Nantes, France, ca. 1805, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Textile, Textile

Two studies of two fighting men, Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, 1813 - 1862 drawing Two studies of two men fighting in the billiard room. paper. chalk inn, coffee-house, public house, etc.. fist-fight.

The liberal arts. Artist: Michelangelo. Artist: Antonio Pollaiuolo. Artist: Giulio Romano (possibly). Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: 1550 - 1570. Place: Nederlanden. Measurements: h 153 mm × w 225 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Nineteen Studies of Horses, Hands, and Feet (r.); Studies of Heads and Figures (v.). Artist: Eugène Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798-1863 Paris). Dimensions: Overall: 16 7/16 x 10 3/4 in. (41.8 x 27.3 cm). Date: 1820-63. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Anonymous drawing of a small figure with a barrel and carriage, completed in ink on yellowish paper after 1520.

Study for Nelson Sealing the Copenhagen Letter, Sir David Wilkie, 1785-1841, British, ca. 1835, Pen and brown ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper, Sheet: 2 3/4 × 5 1/4 inches (7 × 13.3 cm) and Frame: 8 1/2 × 10 1/4 × 1 1/2 inches (21.6 × 26 × 3.8 cm), figure study, marine art

Couple with baby, sitting. Draughtsman: Gesina ter Borch. Dating: c. 1652. Place: Zwolle. Measurements: h 67 mm × w 93 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Hokusai Manga, Vol. IX Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849). Hokusai Manga, Vol. IX, 1817. Paper, 9 x 6 1/4 in. (22.9 x 15.9 cm). Asian Art 1817

Remnants of study into male nude and ornaments, anonymous, 1662 drawing paper. chalk sitting figure

Young man and two girls, master of the Amsterdam cabinet, 1478 - 1482 print A fashionably dressed man sitting on a stool between two young women dedicated him. Together they look on a strip of paper with text. With brush, perhaps later, clouds above the figures and shadow are applied behind the woman on the right. Germany paper drypoint / brush the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) (+ young male (human being)). the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) - AA - female human figure (+ young female (human being)). reading

Sofa, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746-1809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on beige laid paper, Sofa., Rome, Italy, 1746-1809, furniture, Drawing, Drawing

Emblem: Pest, Jan Luyken, 1695 - 1705 print A street scene of a city that is plagued by plague. There are dead and sick people everywhere. In the foreground, a man tries to give a dying bullying some water. Print Maker: Amsterdampublisher: Nuremberg paper etching Abstract Ideas and Concepts. plague. street. nursing, tending the sick

Vengeance !!

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