Religious Sketches and Studies

A collection of pencil and ink studies depicting biblical scenes, figures, and compositions, showcasing dynamic figures and spiritual themes.

The Resurrection; Santi di Tito (Italian, 1536 - 1603); about 1568; Pen and brown ink over black chalk on blue paper; 37.5 x 25.4 cm (14 3,4 x 10 in.)

A drawing by Johann Georg Platzer depicting the Ascension of Mariae after Rubens, in the Lichtenstein Gallery, executed in pencil with inked edges, emphasizing figures and composition.

Chalk drawing by an anonymous artist from around 1640 depicting the Nativity scene of the Birth of Christ.

The Resurrection; Santi di Tito (Italian, 1536 - 1603); about 1568; Pen and brown ink over black chalk on blue paper; 37.5 x 25.4 cm (14 3,4 x 10 in.)

'Kneeling Madonna with the Child and St.John', 1478-1480. Artist: Leonardo da Vinci

Figure Studies: Seated Female Holding a Book, Two Heads of Bearded Men, Seated Male Nude, and Four Sketches for Christ Judging (recto); Studies for Cain Slaying Abel (verso). Artist: Jacopo Palma the Younger (Italian, Venice ca. 1548-1628 Venice). Dimensions: 10 3/8 x 7 3/8in. (26.3 x 18.8cm). Date: 1548-1628. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Sea Battle 1596-1669 Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) Italian. Sea Battle 338555

Mars Sending Gorgon to Slay the Arts. Possibly after Pietro Testa; Italian, 1611/12-1650. Date: 1632-1700. Dimensions: 365 × 253 mm. Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on tan laid paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Sketches of putti. .

Study for the Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite. Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594 - 1665)

A stone drawing by Johann Christoph Lischka depicting a stage scene with detailed studies of figures and annotations on types and positions.

Twee Portretten Van Andriana Palma, Jacopo Palma (the young), 1587 - 1593 drawing Two portraits of Andriana Palma, the wife of the artist. paper. ink pen

Fountain with Neptune and Sea Creatures Anonymous, Italian, 17th century Italian 17th century

An Old Man Taunted by Death, Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, undated, Graphite on medium, slightly textured, blued white, wove paper, Sheet: 8 9/16 x 7 5/8 inches (21.7 x 19.4 cm), cane, death, elderly, genre subject, man, skeleton

A black chalk drawing by Bartolomeo Altomonte depicts Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt, around 1720.

Seated female figure, Francesco Solimena, 1667 - 1725 drawing paper. chalk sitting figure - AA - female human figure

Anonymous / 'Allegory of Dawn'. Second half of the XVII century. Black chalk, Touches of red chalk on yellow laid paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Red chalk drawing with pink wash by Johann Heinrich Schönfeld depicting the fall of Phaeton, showing figures, posture, and movement.

A brown pen drawing by Raymond Lafage depicting the Fall, created in 1678/1679.

Martyrdom of Saint Petrus Martyr, Marco Marcola (Possible), 1750 - 1793 drawing paper. chalk. ink pen / brush St. Peter Martyr is murdered (in a forest) by two assassins with a sword; with his blood he writes on the ground 'Credo in Deum' (usually a fellow friar is also attacked or murdered)

The Crucifixion Artist's working dates 1608-1631 Netherlands. Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper, laid down on board . Jan Philipsz. van Bouckhorst

Group of Five Allegorical Figures 1624-63 attributed to Francesco Allegrini Italian. Group of Five Allegorical Figures 338036

Pen and wash studies by Marten de Vos depicting figures from the Triumph of Mordechai, dated 1560.

Unidentified Scene: Figures Watching a Fallen Giant and Another Figure Levitating 1591-1652 Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) Spanish. Unidentified Scene: Figures Watching a Fallen Giant and Another Figure Levitating 336981

Goddess Inciting a Warrior. Artist: Francesco Albani (Italian, Bologna 1578-1660 Bologna). Dimensions: 13 1/8 x 10 3/8in. (33.3 x 26.4cm). Date: 1578-1660. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Mary, Infant Christ and Saint John 1527-85 After Luca Cambiaso Italian. Mary, Infant Christ and Saint John 338333

A stone drawing by Martin Johann Schmidt around 1750 depicting Archangel Michael battling rejected angels, showing figures, wings, posture, and dynamic interaction.

A pencil sketch sheet by Rudolf Weyr containing figure and study sketches, focusing on posture, anatomy, and line work.

Anonymous red chalk drawing depicts two priests in conversation with a bearded seated figure, including red-laved shading.

A Study of Bound Male Figures being Manhandled, and Various Putti, One Holding a Palm Frond 1575-1640 Italy. Pen and brown iron-gall ink on cream laid paper . Italian School

A pencil sketch sheet by Rudolf Weyr including multiple small figure studies, emphasizing anatomical accuracy and compositional balance.

St. Bruno in Ecstasy, Marc Antonio Franceschini, Italian, 1648 - 1729, Pen and ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on paper, Figure of Saint Bruno is seen kneeling in a landscape, before a stone altar, with a crucifix. His left arm is raised in amazement, and he rests his right hand on a skull. Seraph in the sky above. A cherub reading, lower left; a seated reading monk, lower right., Italy, 1800-20, figures, Drawing, Drawing

Study for "The Romancer" (Le Conteur), c. 1716. Jean Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721). Red chalk; red and black chalk (upper left figure); sheet: 35 x 27.5 cm (13 3/4 x 10 13/16 in.); secondary support: 35.1 x 27.8 cm (13 13/16 x 10 15/16 in.).

Gaspard de Crayers drawing shows Maria with the Christ child, a kneeling John the Baptist child, and his mother Elisabeth, executed in brown ink and black chalk with feather, on paper with minor folds and damage.

The Swooning Virgin Supported by Three Holy Women and Three Studies of Men (recto); Saint George and the Dragon (verso); Cesare da Sesto (Italian, 1477 - 1523); Italy; about 1510; Pen and brown ink over red chalk; 13.7 x 19.1 cm (5 3,8 x 7 1,2 in.)

Martin Johann Schmidt, Tobias and the Angel, c 1780 Tobias and the Angel

Composition studies, a putto and figures. Page 41 From a sketchbook with 72 pages.

Alexander and Thaïs Setting Fire to Persepolis. Dated: probably c. 1592. Dimensions: overall: 21.1 x 14 cm (8 5/16 x 5 1/2 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink with brown wash and white heightening on paper washed orange-brown. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: LODOVICO CARRACCI.

The Young Bacchus with Two Companions, Black chalk, pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor on rough gray paper, Bacchus is shown frontally, sitting, and gaizing at a goblet he raises with his right hand. Oblooing is a boy with a thyrsus standing at right. Another child is at left, bending down to the ground., Netherlands, ca. 1750, Drawing, Drawing

Drawing, Figures from Last Judgment; Jean-Robert Ango (French, active in Rome 1759 -1770, d. 1773); After Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475-1564); France; red chalk on paper

Design for a title page with an allegorical performance, Gerard de Lairesse, 1650 - 1711 drawing Design for a title page. paper. chalk handwriting, writing as activity. specific aspects, allegorical aspects of Minerva; Minerva as patroness. Father Time, man with wings and scythe

Richard Cosway (1742-1821), Allegori depending fortuna on a globe surrounded by three Putti, 1st Half of 19th Century

A Hunting Party. Franz Albert Venus (German, 1842 - 1871)

Sacred Carolus Borromeus visits the bully.

Falstaff with Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page (Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 5, Scene 5). Artist: Henry Fuseli (Swiss, Zürich 1741-1825 London). Dimensions: 10 1/16 x 7 13/16 in. (25.6 x 19.9 cm). Subject: William Shakespeare (British, Stratford-upon-Avon 1564-1616 Stratford-upon-Avon). Date: 1790.This rapidly drawn sketch conveys the essence of pose and gesture in a subject found near the end of Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of Windsor (act 5, scene 5). Believing himself irresistible, Sir John Falstaff has arranged a nighttime assignation with the canny housewives Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page in Windsor Great Park, not knowing that the two women are fully aware of his ungallant intentions and intend to publicly embarrass him. Townsfolk approach at lower right, their presence signaled by the backward glance of one of the women. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Building the Bridge to Lanka. Culture: India (Pahari Hills, Kangra). Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 12 5/8 in. (26.7 x 32.1 cm). Date: ca. 1800.The monkey army is shown constructing a bridge to Lanka so that Sita can be rescued from the evil Ravana. Above, the monkey king Sugriva and his general Hanuman consult with Rama and Lakshmana, who sit in a nearby forest. Typical of late eighteenth-century Kangra painters, the artist devoted great attention to descriptive details and dramatized the composition by the use of the jutting rock formation that intercepts the composition diagonally, energizing the whole. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Wszyscy Święci w MNK Chals (fl. 1801/1815), Rubens, Peter Paul (1577 1640)

Depiction of Christ in an atrial by Friedrich Sustris using gray and brown ink, showing the figure and surrounding architectural elements.

A pencil study on paper by Hans Makart for 'The Triumph of Ariadne,' intended as a draft for the curtain of the Komische Oper in Vienna, dated 1874 or earlier.

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife. Possibly Giuseppe Passeri (Italian, 1654-1714); or Giacinto Calandrucci (Italian, 1646-1707). Date: 1666-1714. Dimensions: 178 x 142 mm. Pen and brown ink, over red chalk, on tan laid paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

In the Mountains (Decorative Design), Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838-1909, Pen and ink, graphite on heavy cream paper, Two women and a girl gather flowers. Behind them, a farmer drives a team of oxen down the slope. Doves in foreground. Framing lines, although parts of design go beyond them., USA, 1875-80, figures, Drawing, Drawing

Putti with papal insignia, anonymous, 1700 - 1800 drawing paper. pencil. ink pen / brush angel(s) represented as child(ren). insignia of the pope, e.g. tiara

Godenhjelm, Berndt Abraham, work, Exercise for the work Väinämöinen soitto, pencil on paper, drawing, FIGURE; group; man; woman; forest, 21 cm x 17.6 cm

Rembrandt van Rijn, Hagar Seated at the Fountain, 1654 1655 Hagar Seated at the Fountain

Medieval Hunting Scene. Artist: Franz Pforr (German, Frankfurt 1788-1812 Rome). Dimensions: Sheet: 9 1/4 in. × 14 in. (23.5 × 35.6 cm). Former Attribution: Moritz von Schwind (Austrian, Vienna 1804-1871 Munich). Date: ca. 1807. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Drunken Silenus and Decorative Sketches: Studies for the Tazza Farnese (recto); Two Putti Fighting: Study for the Galleria Farnese (verso). Annibale Carracci; Italian, 1560-1609. Date: 1599-1601. Dimensions: 204 x 177 mm (primary support); 284 x 177 mm (with overlays). Pen and iron gall ink, with brush and brown wash on cream laid paper edge mounted to cream laid paper (recto), and pen and iron gall ink on cream laid paper with decorative border in pen and brown ink (verso). Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Studies for Grotesque Decorations (Recto); Small Sketches and Writing (Verso). Artist: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century. Dimensions: sheet: 14 1/4 x 8 9/16 in. (36.2 x 21.7 cm). Date: 17th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Fall of the RebelAngels. Artist: Domenico Piola, Italian, 1628-1703

Sketches of Figures. Battista Franco, called Il Semolei; Italian, c. 1510-1561. Date: 1540-1560. Dimensions: 256 x 159 mm (max.). Pen and brown ink on tan laid paper, tipped onto board. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: Battista Franco.

Ornament with Two Torches, a Spindle and Flax above a Rinceau of Doves with Sacred Hearts ca. 1780-1820 Anonymous, German, 19th century German. Ornament with Two Torches, a Spindle and Flax above a Rinceau of Doves with Sacred Hearts 383970 Artist: Anonymous, German, 19th century, Ornament with Two Torches, a Spindle and Flax above a Rinceau of Doves with Sacred Hearts, ca. 17801820, Pen and brown and black ink, and graphite, sheet: 12 5/8 x 8 3/8 in. (32.1 x 21.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955 (55.540.15)

Body of the Dead Christ is worn, c. 1650 - c. 1799 The body of the Dead Christ is worn by two men. Page 62 from a sketchbook with 72 pages. Italy (possibly) paper. pencil. ink pen being carried. Christ

Study for "The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar". Dated: 1783-1786. Dimensions: sheet: 20.64 × 32.86 cm (8 1/8 × 12 15/16 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink with graphite on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: John Singleton Copley.

Study for Charity, Faith, and Hope, Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849 - 1909, Black crayon on paper, Charity holds a baby, another child stands beside her. The angel is seated and leans his left arm on her leg. Faith holds the cross on her left knee and leans her right hand on the open Bible. Hope appears as a winged figure in the center, holding the shaft of an anchor, with arms outstretched. Another unfinished sketch of Christ, lower left., USA, 1893-94, figures, Drawing, Drawing

Drawing, Design for Allegory of Sculpture; Probably Giacomo Zampa (Italian, 1731 - 1808); Italy; black and white crayon on paper

Studies of Putti and the bottom right of H. Joris or Perseus. Large sketch sheet with various performances, most with putti. At the top they shake their gifts, with a grape roos, out for a juvenile bacchus, they involve a shell and even lower, a vase. Right below the rugged holy Joris or Perseus.

Drawing, Diana Visiting the Sleeping Endymion; Italy; pencil and wash on paper

Kruisafname, Leonaert Bramer (attributed to), after Peter van Mol, 1642 - 1653 drawing Drawing is part of an album. paper. chalk descent from the cross: Christ is taken down from the cross, usually by Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathaea who are standing on the ladders (both arms of Christ detached)

Federico Panza's drawing depicts the Vision of St. John on Patmos, showing Mary floating on a kite, executed in red chalk with laved technique at the top right of the page.

Virgin and Child with Infant St John the Baptist and a Female Saint 1540-1560 Italy. Pen and brown ink on tan laid paper, tipped onto board . Battista Franco

Standing and Kneeling Figures, and Studies of Flying Putti 1565-1608 Francesco Curia Italian Francesco Curia can be rightly considered the most relevant artist active in Southern Italy during the Sixteenth century. The present sheet is one of eight pen sketches (Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. nos.1970.101.4-11) figured in an album containing "97 pezzi di Francesco Curia" (97 pieces by Francesco Curia:) once in the collection of Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654-1728), and then inherited by his son Carl Gustav Tessin (1695-1770), the greatest Swedish collector of drawings of the Eighteenth century. It seems to have been broken up in the latter's lifetime. Eighty-two of these sheets are now in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm; those in the Metropolitan Museum came to New York by way of a Swedish collector who acquired them from a collateral descendant of Tessin. In their studies, Per Bjurström and Walter Vitzthum have pointed out the importance of this group of drawings, which forms a

Three Cupids Turning a Somersault, an Eagle on the Right. Artist: After François Boucher (French, Paris 1703-1770 Paris); Louis Félix de La Rue (French, Paris 1731-1765 Paris). Dimensions: sheet: 12 1/8 x 9 7/8 in. (30.8 x 25.1 cm)plate: 10 13/16 x 8 3/4 in. (27.4 x 22.2 cm). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Diana. Artist: After Luca Cambiaso (Italian, Moneglia 1527-1585 Madrid). Dimensions: 12 5/16 x 8 1/4in. (31.3 x 21cm). Date: 1527-85. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Photo production of drawing of Federico Barocci, 'The stigmatization of Sint Francis'; From Drawings in the British Museum. Payne Knight Collection (Bequeathed).

Floating angels with banderol.

Rinaldo and Armida. Donato Creti; Italian, 1671-1749. Date: 1683-1749. Dimensions: 150 x 191 mm. Pen and brown ink, on buff laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Sheet of Figure Studies, Probably after the Antique (recto); Ornamental Designs (verso). Artist: attributed to Girolamo da Carpi (Girolamo Sellari) (Italian, Ferrara 1501-1556 Ferrara). Dimensions: 11-3/8 x 7-7/16 in. (28.9 x 18.9 cm). Date: 1501-56. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Feather drawing by Vittorio Maria Bigari showing a sitting Jupiter, a lying dog, a putto, and two standing figures in a study of faith, on brown primed paper.

Figure Studies (recto); Figure Studies (verso). Karel Skréta (Bohemian, 1610 - 1674)

Triomphe de la Mort: La Mort balaie les vices , Death, Skeletons, Vices, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)

Cartouche with attributions of war, Claude-Louis Desrais, (French, 1746-1816), Pen and ink, graphite, A winged circular medallion depicts a victorious prince in a charriot welcomed by women. Military attribtions surround the medallion., France, 1774, Drawing, Drawing

Study of an Angel with Drapery, Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849 - 1909, Graphite and black crayon on tracing paper, Angel in drapery, arms raised, possibly lying on a cloud., USA, ca. 1895, figures, Drawing, Drawing

Wedding of Peleus andThetis. Artist: Godfried Maes, Flemish, 1649-1700

Design for a ceiling painting with the roof of Ganymedes, Antoni Elliger, c. 1711 - c. 1781 drawing paper. ink pen / brush (decorated) ceiling. the rape of Ganymede: he is carried off through the air by Jupiter in the form of an eagle, or by the eagle of Jupiter

Drawing, Erminia and Vafrino Tending the Wounded Tancred after the Battle of Argento Tancrède secouru par Herminie et Vafrin après le combat d'Argante; Attributed to Jean-François de Troy (French, 1679-1752); After Pier Francesco Mola (Italian, 1612-1666); Italy; red chalk on off-white laid paper; 7 3/16 x 7 1/8 in. (18.2 x 18.1 cm)

John Flaxman, Sheet of Studies Sheet of Studies

Feather drawing by Luca Cambiaso depicting a battle between Roman and Gallic riders in a frieze format, with laved shading, longitudinal kinks, cracks, and two halves connected with adhesive tape, circa 1565.

Ekman, Robert Wilhelm, Lemminkäinen and Hiiden's horse; Original drawing for the series of drawings 'Kalewala, Finsk National-dikt, prättäd i teckningning af R.W.Ekman', original 1860, drawing, 33.5 cm x 51 cm

A brown pen drawing by Paul Troger from around 1728-1730 depicting a scene from the Flood, showing figures, landscape, and water elements.

Drawing by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich depicting Vertumnus and Pomona, executed in brown pen and lead pencil around 1740.

Rocaille Fountain with Venus, Amorini, and Swans. Dated: c. 1735. Dimensions: overall: 54.8 x 37.8 cm (21 9/16 x 14 7/8 in.). Medium: red chalk on 2 joined sheets of laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Edme Bouchardon.

Italian 17th Century, Ganymede, pen and brown ink over black crayon

The Martyrdom of Saint Stephen 1655-1665 Italy. Pen and brown ink, on tan laid paper, laid down on cream laid card . Pietro da Cortona

Two putti. A putto pulls his sword, next to him lies his helmet on a cloud. Another putto holds a laurel wreath and a lance in his hands.

Air, represented by Iris reclining on her rainbow, accompanied by a winged putto bearing a torch and another winged putto riding an eagle, from "The Elements" 1640-60 Giulio Carpioni. Air, represented by Iris reclining on her rainbow, accompanied by a winged putto bearing a torch and another winged putto riding an eagle, from "The Elements". "The Elements". Giulio Carpioni (Italian, Venice 1613-1678 Venice). 1640-60. Etching. Prints

Io in the form of a cow with her father Inachus and her sisters, Jean Restout (II) (attributed to), 1702 - 1768 drawing paper. chalk Jupiter, shrouded in a cloud, woos Io, daughter of Inachus; Juno may be watching the lovers. cow

The Last Judgment. Alart du Hameel (Netherlandish, c. 1449-c. 1506); after Hieronymus Bosch (Netherlandish, c. 1450-1516). Date: 1478-1506. Dimensions: 242 x 351 mm. Engraving in black on buff laid paper. Origin: Netherlands. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Drawing by Friedrich Sustris depicting the Adoration of the Shepherds, executed in gray and brown ink with gray wash on brownish paper.

Paradisio IV, Sandro Botticelli (Florence, Italy, 1445 - 1510) 1887

Diana 1527-85 After Luca Cambiaso Italian. Diana 338339

Minerva keeps laurel wreath above young with BUL, Simon Fokke, 1745 - c. 1747 drawing Minerva keeps laurel wreath above young with bull, around Putti with symbols of the four faculties. Design for a title page. paper. pencil (story of) Minerva (Pallas, Athena)

Christ and the scribes, Leonaert Bramer, 1624 drawing prepared paper. ink pen / brush Christ's dispute with the doctors in the temple; he counts his arguments on his fingers

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