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Drawings depicting dramatic historical or biblical events with dynamic compositions, showcasing figures interacting within rich landscapes.

The Skeletons, from Grotteschi(Grotesques). Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720-1778
The Skeletons, from Grotteschi(Grotesques). Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720-1778
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Feather sketches by Annibale Carracci depicting scenes from 'Domine Quo Vadis' with a city gate in the background, showing figures in motion.
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Italian 16th Century, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 16th century The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
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Le triomphe de la Mort: Le combat , Death, Skeletons, Campaigns & battles, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)
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Pastoral Scene with Classical Figures, c. 1640-1645. Claude Lorrain (French, 1604-1682). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown and gray wash over graphite; sheet: 19.2 x 25.8 cm (7 9/16 x 10 3/16 in.); image: 19 x 25.4 cm (7 1/2 x 10 in.).
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The finding of the child Moses. Colour lithograph by L. Gruner after N. Consoni after Raphael.
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Album Drawing, Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, undated, Graphite and pen and ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 8 3/4 × 6 1/2 inches (22.2 × 16.5 cm) and Binding: 8 3/4 inches (22.2 cm)
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Capitulation of a Town Capitulation of a Town
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Illustration for a Book: Attacks on the Walls of a City. Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1696-1770 Madrid). Dimensions: 3 x 6-1/16 in. (7.6 x 15.4 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.
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The Rescue of the Survivors of the Raft of theMedusa. Artist: Théodore Géricault, French, 1791-1824
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Matout, Louis (n.1811-03-19-D.1888-01-24), Saint Louis rendering justice at the foot of a oak (main title), 1864. pencil, pen, black ink, wash and raises of Gouache on blue paper glued to cardboard paper. Drawing put on the tile. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.
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Elephants in triumphal of Caesar; Triumph of Caesar.
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City-paid to Neptune or a flow god. Allegory with a group of city-sungers around a water-inspiring Neptune or flow god. Design for a print.
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IN Copper exhibited in the Forest by Moses; Bili Ska-Bohdanowiczowa, Anna (1854-1893); 1882 (1882-00-00-1882-00-00);Académie Julian (Paris-1867-1968), Bohdanowicz, Antoni (1858-1928), Bohdanowicz, Antoni (1858-1928)-collection, Israelites (Bible), Julian, Rodolphe (1839-1907), Merson, Nicolas Luc-Olivier (1846-1920), Moses (Bible), Robert-Fleury, Tony (1837-1911), Old Testament (Bible), Copper hose (Bible), Patients, Dar (provenance), academic drawings, collective scenes, healing (iconogr .), died, death
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Paul suffers shipwreck off the coast of Malta; Scenes from the acts of the apostles. .
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Roman scene with an emperor and a general, An emperor receives a general in his palace hall, emperor, throne room, making a bow to a ruler, officer, Mattheus Ignatius van Bree, 1783 - 1839, paper, chalk, h 276 mm × w 364 mm
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Drawing, The Retreat of the Turks after the Siege of Vienna, 1529; Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus (Flemish, 1523-1605); Netherlands; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over graphite on laid paper; 10.2 × 14.4 cm (4 in. × 5 11/16 in.)
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Bathsheba at Her Bath. Artist: Laurent Cars. Draughtsman: anonymous. After Jean François de Troy. Dating: after 1729. Measurements: h 207 mm × w 322 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Design for a Ceiling: Apotheosis of Callisto (recto), and Sketch of Figures (verso). Jacob de Wit; Dutch, 1695-1754. Date: 1731. Dimensions: 203 x 319 mm. Pen and black ink with brush and gray and brown wash, over red chalk, partially squared in graphite and red chalk (recto), and red chalk (verso), on ivory laid paper. Origin: Holland. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Saint-Aubin, Gabriel de (n.1724-04-14-D.1780-02-14), horse race at the Champs-Elysées. (Dummy title). Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.
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Ragotin lie par les parents du fou. Dated: 1727. Dimensions: overall: 32.8 x 28 cm (12 15/16 x 11 in.). Medium: black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Jean-Baptiste Oudry.
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Ten miners on their way to work, Karl Meunier, After Constantin Emile Meunier, 1874 - 1894 print paper etching miner
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Temple of Jupiter, Athens. Joseph Pennell; American, 1857-1926. Date: 1913. Dimensions: 264 x 380 mm (image); 298 x 444 mm (sheet). Etching in brownish ink on cream laid paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.
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The Fall of Phaeton. Dated: 1745/1750. Dimensions: Overall (approximate): 40.7 x 33 cm (16 x 13 in.) support: 50.6 x 43.4 cm (19 15/16 x 17 1/16 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink over red chalk with brown and gray wash on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: GASPARE DIZIANI.
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Musicians and riders, 1537 print Group of seven musicians on horseback. Second plate in the triumphal parade of Keizer Karel V, 1537. Germany paper chariot, triumphal car
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The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand. Dated: c. 1514. Dimensions: overall: 21.3 × 29.7 cm (8 3/8 × 11 11/16 in.). Medium: red chalk on laid paper, with unrelated short pen strokes. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Vittore Carpaccio.
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Harnessed man and a half -naked man try to walk through a spikkest forest, Jan Luyken, 1710 print Amsterdam paper etching armour. forest, wood
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Woodcut showing the Blue King leading the Hermelin King's daughter, part of the Weißkunig series of Emperor Maximilian I, by Leonhard Beck, 1514-1516, carved on wooden stick.
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732 - 1806), The Muleteer Attacking Don Quixote as He Lies Helpless on the Ground, 1780s, brush with brown and gray washes over black chalk on laid paper
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François Boucher, The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1758 1760 The Adoration of the Shepherds
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Three Scenes from the Passion of Christ (recto) Architectural Sketch (verso) , 1500s. Northern Italy, 16th century. Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk; framing line (left edge) in brown ink; sheet: 26.9 x 14.4 cm (10 9/16 x 5 11/16 in.).
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A Merry Company; Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, 1593 - 1678); about 1644; Watercolor over black chalk, heightened with white gouache; 21.9 x 23.8 cm (8 5,8 x 9 3,8 in.)
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The Triumphs of Caesar: The Elephants, c. 1485-1490. Giulio Campagnola (Italian, 1482-1515). Engraving;
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The Locations in the Haarlemmerhout, Jacques Kuyper, 1791 drawing Possibly a design for a print. ink pen pavement, terrace in front of inn or restaurant Haarlemmerhout. Haarlem
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Cartoon for Cotton Printing: 'Les Quatre Saisons', B. M. Lebert, 1759-1836, J. L. Lebert, French, early 19th century, Hartmann et Fils, (Munster, France), Pen and brown ink, brush and grey wash, on cream paper, pieced; squared in graphite for transfer, In the upper left, Flora seated in a landscape is being kissed by Zephyr lying on a cloud-bank, while a river god sleeps to the left and two children drive sheep to pasture to the right (symbolizing Spring). In the lower left, figures offer children, fruit, and other foods to Ceres, seated in a bower, while in the distance, figures are seen dancing in a wheat field (symbolizing Summer)., Probably Munster, France, 1815-20, textile designs, Drawing, Drawing
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Possibly a design for a print, The lodgings in the Haarlemmerhout, draughtsman: Jacques Kuyper, 1791,
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Artist: Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561-1623, After: Jost Amman, Swiss, 1539-1591, active Germany, Marching Soldiers with a StandardBearer, Engraving, platemark: 4.6 × 17.9 cm (1 13/16 × 7 1/16in.), Made in Flanders, Flemish, 16thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints
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Allegorical Figure Representing Europe Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo Italian This work is part of a series of the allegorical representations of the Four Continents that originally served as overdoors. Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo based his figure of Europe on symbols codified in Cesare Ripas Iconologia (1593): the scepter signifying her power and the model of a church signifying the preeminence of Catholicism. Like representations of saints or other figures that artists aimed to identify, these attributes were important signals to historical audiences, though in the case of the Four Continents, they eventually fed into racialized stereotypes. Like the other large-scale allegorical frescoes in this gallery, this panel was probably detached around 1900 from the Palazzo Valle Marchesini Sala in Vicenza.. Allegorical Figure Representing Europe 437813
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The sledevaart on 24 January 1776 organized by the Leiden Society Veniam Pro Laude on the occasion of the second centenary of the Leiden relieved (October 3, 1574) and the establishment of the University of Leiden (8 February 1575). The fourteen slows in three rows among each other.
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A Mounted Prince Hunting Lion in a Rocky Landscape, c. 1600. Khem Karan (Indian). Opaque watercolor on paper; page: 33 x 22.2 cm (13 x 8 3/4 in.). A Mughal prince encounters a lion in the wilderness and, maintaining his composure, dispatches it with a single blow of his sword. Equally fearless, his horse lunges toward the wild animal, one foreleg turning in to counter the force of the blow. This image recalls the feats of a Persian epic hero. This drawing may have been a study for a full-color composition. The areas of white around the key figures indicate that the artist was working out the ideal positioning of features and elements. The prince is calm and confident, in contrast to the anxious expression on the face of his attendant. The lion hunt is an ancient kingship display of courage and power, especially in Iran and the Near East-areas to which the Mughals trace their cultural roots. As though by contrast in the background, a shepherd tends sheep in the peace and safety assured
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Triumph of Mars (Ares). Orley, Jan van (Flemish, 1665-1735) (author of design) draughtsman Leyniers, Urbanus (Flemish, 1674-1747) (workshop) weaver Leyniers, Daniel II (Flemish, 1669-1728) (workshop) weaver c. 1700-1720 Tapestry Dimensions: H 12'7" x W 18'5" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: French & Co. purchased from Marchese crossed out & replaced with "Varvars", 12/1921 SS 11393. French & Co. purchased from Wadsworth Lewis, invoiced 5/5/1927 SS 30384. Inscriptions: Woven signature in central field at bottom, right: V. Leyniers D.L. Mars in chariot drawn by 2 lions as Nike () crowns him, accompanied by soldiers on foot carrying spoils of war, soldiers on horseback, captives, & winged female figures (L, LWR & R BRD) guilloche encircling palmettes, flanked by smaller bands of ribbon twisted around rod, & bead-&-reel molding; acanthus-leaf cartouches in corners French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 11393 also lists: 4408
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The Conversion of Saint Paul Made 1587-1589 Italy. This large and elaborate study for an altarpiece (illustrated below) in the Church of San Francesco in the Italian city of Bologna rivals the final painting in its ambition. The artist invented a mixed pen-and-oil technique to evoke in his drawings the kind of spectacular contrasts between light and dark characteristic of his paintings.The drawingís bold technique and sharply opposing diagonals generate a drama of centrifugal force as Saint Paul, struck by a flash of light, falls from his rearing horse and soldiers rush to his rescue.. Pen and iron-gall ink, with brush and iron-gall ink wash, heightened with white oil paint, over traces of black chalk, on laid paper prepared with a brown oil wash, laid down on paper . Lodovico Carracci
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Drawing by Jean Michel Moreau depicting John the Baptist, executed with black feder, brush, and watercolor.