Renaissance Drawings of Figures

Elegant drawings showcasing various figures including kings, families, and religious scenes, featuring intricate details and subtle color washes on textured paper.

Worship by the Shepherds, Parmigianino, 1524 - 1540 print A group of shepherds and Mary and Joseph around the manger with the Christ child. paper etching adoration of the Christ-child by the shepherds; Mary and Joseph present

Chalk and feather drawing by Girolamo Sellari da Carpi depicting the Adoration of the Kings, with white highlights on brownish paper, partially damaged.

A drawing by Cornelis de Wael depicting a Roma family with a rider and a lady, executed in brown ink over black chalk on paper with a sloping fold and minor edge discoloration.

Drawing of a capuchin interacting with a lifted child, executed in gray, brown, and reddish brush over graphite pencil with horizon traces. Minor tears and missing points on edges noted.

Drawing by Giovanni Mauro della Rovere from 1609 with pen, wash, and white heightening on blue paper, depicting the Madonna with Saint Michael and John the Baptist kneeling on a book.

Saint Catherine Flanked by a Male and a Female Saint. Artist: Anonymous, Italian, Bolognese, 17th century. Dimensions: 4-5/8 x 3-1/8 in. (11.7 x 7.9 cm). Date: 17th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Abraham van Diepenbeeck black and gray chalk drawing showing an allegorical representation of the Catholic religion triumphing over heresy, with figures, gestures, and symbolic elements.

Worship by the Shepherds, Parmigianino, 1524 - 1540 print A group of shepherds and Mary and Joseph around the manger with the Christ child. paper etching adoration of the Christ-child by the shepherds; Mary and Joseph present

Jacques Stella depicted Maria with the Christ Child and two angels offering flowers and fruits using red chalk.

Attributed to Bernardo Strozzi, Ecclesia Surrounded by Angels Holding the Instruments of the Passion Ecclesia Surrounded by Angels Holding the Instruments of the Passion

Depiction of Elias and the widow of Sarepta, drawn with feather on brown paper with white highlights, showing figures and interaction in a biblical scene.

Red chalk and feather drawing by Domenico Maria Canuti illustrating the Testament of John on gray-lavated paper.

The Last Communion of Saint Jerome 1614-1799 Italy. Red chalk, with stumping, on ivory laid paper . Domenichino

Andreani, Andrea, Parmigianino, Italy, Trento, Antonio da, Female saint receiving the Christ child, verso - stamped, A female saint, possibly Francesca Romana, kneels and receives the Christ child from Mary. On the right two male saints, one wearing a bishop's mitre., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 321 mm, width 227 mm, Italian, 1510 - 1550, print maker, prentmaker, 1568 - 1629, first quarter 16th century, second quarter 16th century, paper, papier, chiaroscuro woodcut, Work conception, 1503-01-11 - 1540-08-24, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, 1559 - 1629, publisher

Child murder at Bethlehem, 1621 - 1688 print Desperate mothers try to protect their children against the soldiers of Herod. In the background buildings. At the top left two putti with forests palm branches on clouds. print maker: Italyafter painting by: Bologna paper etching the massacre ot the innocents; sometimes Herod looking on

Hercules en Omphale, Johann Heinrich Tischbein (1722-1789), 1732 - 1789 print Germany paper etching Hercules in love with Omphale; the hero is set to spin wool or to do other women's work among the servants, while Omphale wears his lion's skin and wields his club and bow. distaff

An Audience (recto); Sketch of a nude woman (verso) 17th century Anonymous, Italian, Roman-Bolognese, 17th century Italian. An Audience (recto); Sketch of a nude woman (verso) 340157

Thanksgiving, for the Acquittal of Susanna(Daniel 13:63). Artist: Baldassare Croce (Italian, Bologna 1553/58-1628 Rome). Dimensions: 12-11/16 x 9-7/8 in. (32.2 x 25.1 cm). Date: 1553-1628. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The Entombment 1525-1535 Italy. Etching, printed in black, on paper . Parmigianino

The Holy Family with Two Saints. Dimensions: sheet: 31.2 x 21.8 cm (12 5/16 x 8 9/16 in.). Medium: chiaroscuro woodcut printed from two blocks: black line block and yellow-brown tone block. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Antonio da Trento after Parmigianino.

Maarten van Heemskerck (1498-1574), Peter Helbrower Den Lamme Aeneas, 1573

Satan Challenges God to Remove his Protection from Job. Dated: 1562. Dimensions: sheet: 19.2 x 24.8 cm (7 9/16 x 9 3/4 in.) mount: 28.5 x 37.8 cm (11 1/4 x 14 7/8 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink over traces of graphite on laid paper, incised for transfer. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: MARTIN VAN HEEMSKERCK.

A drawing by Antoine-François Callet showing bacchants and satyrs making a sacrifice before the Three Graces, executed in pencil, pen, bister, wash, and white heightening.

The Nibelungen's End - The Death of Kriemhild 1845 Germany. Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeldís Nibelungenís Endóthe Death of Kriemhild is one of several studies for an extensive fresco cycle for King Ludwig I of Bavariaís Royal Palace in Munich. Ludwigís prominent commission had a nationalistic bent and revived medieval German historical literature. The medieval Nibelungen poem centered on a female character, in this case the powerfully vengeful Kriemhild, and was adapted into an opera. Indeed, Richard Wagner started his Ring Cycle in 1848, three years after the date of this dramatic drawing.. Graphite and brush and brown washes on tan laid paper, with added strip of tan wove paper at top (restoration), laid down on brown wove paper . Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld

Jacob and Rebecca before Isaac recto. Dated: early 18th century. Dimensions: overall: 21.8 x 31.2 cm (8 9/16 x 12 5/16 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink with wash over black chalk on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: French 18th Century.

A drawing by Raymond Lafage depicting Samuel predicting defeat, executed in brown ink with brush and gray wash, with brown border lines on both edges.

Adoration of the Magi. Artist: Anonymous, Italian, Genoese, 16th century. Dimensions: 10-5/16 x 7 in. (26.2 x 17.8 cm). Date: 16th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Kidnapping of Helena, Louis de Boulogne (I), After Guido Reni, 1637 print print maker: Romeafter drawing by: Paris paper etching (story of) Helen. Theseus and Pirithous abducting Helen

A Deathbed Scene 17th century Anonymous, Italian, Roman-Bolognese, 17th century Italian. A Deathbed Scene 340145

The Virgin and Saint Joseph find Jesus Disputing with the Doctors in the Temple. Artist: Camillo Procaccini (Italian, Bologna 1555-1629 Milan). Dimensions: 6 5/8 x 9 3/4in. (16.8 x 24.7cm). Date: 1555-1629.This pictorial oval study is stylistically similar to a sheet in the Louvre (inv.6733), which is a study for an oval fresco in the vault of the last bay to the right of the choir in the right nave of the Piacenza Cathedral. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ink drawing on brownish paper by an anonymous artist depicting a cross acceptance, using pen and white wash techniques.

Hercules robs the cattle of Geryon, Giulio Bonasone, After Polidoro da Caravaggio, 1501 - 1580 print Hercules runs to the left with three cattle and a herd of sheep. On the right is a group of women (possibly the hesperides) who begging to look at Hercules and gestures. Italian fresh under the show. Italy paper etching / engraving Hercules, driving Geryon's cattle, has to fight the Ligurians; Jupiter assists Hercules by sending a shower of stones. the Hesperides, guardians of the tree with golden apples

La recompense des Sciences. Artist: After Carlo Maratti (Italian, Camerano 1625-1713 Rome). Dimensions: sheet: 16 5/16 x 14 in. (41.5 x 35.5 cm)plate: 9 3/4 x 7 1/16 in. (24.7 x 18 cm). Date: 1640-1713. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ercole Procaccini il Giovane, Christ Appearing to the Four Marys, c 1650 Christ Appearing to the Four Marys

Mourning crowd around a dead woman, Jan Hoogsaat, 1664 - 1730 drawing paper. chalk Eurydice, while fleeing from Aristaeus, is killed by a snake

Artist: Pietro Testa, Italian, 1611/12-1650, The Sacrifice ofIphigenia, Etching with drypoint, sheet: 38.1 × 47 cm (15 × 18 1/2in.), Made in Italy, Italian, 17thcentury, Works on Paper -Prints

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The Sacrifice of Pelias to Neptune 1584 Italy. Pen and black ink and brush and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk, on blue laid paper, squared in black chalk . Agostino Carracci

Anonymous feather drawing showing a group of emigrants, with an oval stain visible at the lower right edge.

Peter Paul Rubens brown ink and ocher brown brush drawing depicting a Roma triumph, showing figures, architecture, and celebratory composition.

Clair-obscur woodcut by Giuseppe Nicola Vicentino (Rossigliani) around 1533-1540 depicting the Madonna with child and a saint, emphasizing detailed religious composition using three plates.

A brown ink and gray brush drawing by Abraham van Diepenbeeck showing the twelve-year-old Jesus among the scribes, with horizontal kink folds in the lower area.

The Sacrifice of Manoah 18th century Jacques Dumont, called le Romain French. The Sacrifice of Manoah 337078

Bliżej Kultury Verlag Gerlach & Schenk in Vienna (1882 1901)

Saint Appearing to Ruler (recto); Flying Putto (verso) Made 1600-1699 Italy. Pen and brown ink, over red chalk, on cream laid paper . Pietro Novelli

The Nativity. Artist: Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, Parma 1503-1540 Casalmaggiore). Date: ca. 1527-30. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The suicide of Dido lying on the pyre in the centre surrounded by figures 1780 Anonymous, 18th century. The suicide of Dido lying on the pyre in the centre surrounded by figures. Anonymous, 18th century. 1780. Etching and aquatint in brown. Prints

The Virgin and Child Surrounded by Saints and Angels. Dated: c. 1500. Dimensions: sheet: 22.3 x 15.3 cm (8 3/4 x 6 in.) framed: 45.7 x 38.1 cm (18 x 15 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink heightened with white lead over metalpoint underdrawing on prepared pink paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: FRA BARTOLOMMEO.

Red chalk drawing by Hieronymus Sperling showing details of Saint Anna, emphasizing facial expression and figure nuance, executed in 1723.

Vatican City, Clement VIII, Italy, Muziano, Girolamo, Villamena, Francesco, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, verso - stamped, At the foot of a tree sits Mary with the Christ Child on her lap. Behind her the young John the Baptist and his mother Elizabeth. On the right Joseph with the donkey. Dedication in lower margin., print, prints, height 207 mm, width 148 mm, Italian, 1566 - 1624-07-07, print maker, printmaker, 1597 - 1597, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), plate tone, 1528 - 1592-04-27, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, 1536 - 1605, granter of privilege

A feather drawing by Antonio Viviani GEN. SORDO D'Urbino depicting the Marriage of Mary on brownish paper with laved shading and cycling squaring techniques.

Diana in Endymion, Jacob de Wit, 1705 - 1754 drawing paper. chalk Diana (Luna) visiting the sleeping Endymion

A Youth Drinking Water offered by aWoman. Artist: Unknown After: Francesco Primaticcio, Italian, 1504-1570

A drawing by François Verdier representing an allegory of peace and abundance, made with black chalk, gray wash, and white chalk highlights.

The death of Saint Alexis Falconieri at Monte Senario 1548-1612 Bernardino Poccetti Italian This drawing depicting the Death of Alexis Falconieri at Monte Senario’ is a study for one of the lunettes frescoed around 1606 by Bernardino Poccetti in the Chiostro dei Morti’ (Cloister of the Dead) at the Santissima Annunziata, Florence. The fresco forms part of a series of twenty five similarly shaped frescoes in the large cloister called the "Chiostri dei Morti". The frescoes deal with the lives and deaths of the Servite monks. Only thirteen of the frescoes were painted by Poccetti. Others in the series were by Matteo Rosselli (1578-1650), Fra Arsenio Mascagni (Donato Mascagni, 1579-1636) and by Ventura Salimbeni (1568-1613). The Metropolitan Museum owns a total of four drawings by Poccetti which are studies for the important frescoes in the Annunziata: see inv. nos. 80.3.320 (Figure Studies), 64.48.1 (Saint Philip Benizi Converting two Women at Todi) and 200.91.1 (Seated Figure and Sandi

Study for Mercury and Herse. Laurent de La Hyre; French, 1606-1656. Date: 1644-1654. Dimensions: 276 × 235 mm. Black chalk, with brush and brown and gray wash, on paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, FLORENCIA, USA.

The Sacrifice ofIsaac. Artist: Pietro Testa, Italian, 1611/12-1650

Departure of Tobias. Unknown Artist; Italian, late 16th century. Date: 1580-1599. Dimensions: 204 x 272 mm (max.). Red chalk on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Drawing, Study for a Fresco: Allegory in Honor of Ranuccio Farnese; Francesco Salviati (Italian, 1510 - 1563); Client: Ranuccio Farnese (Italian, 1530 - 1535); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, white oxidized gouache, black chalk on white laid paper; Overall: 21 x 26cm (8 1/4 x 10 1/4in.) Mat (Mat): 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)

Francesco Monti / 'The Adoration of the Shepherds'. 1763. White chalk, Black chalk on dark yellow paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Rape of the Sabinewomen. Artist: Unknown After: Cornelius de Wael, Flemish, 1592-1667

Maarten van Heemskkk (1498-1574), Peter and John become under threats resorted, 1557

Chalk and gray ink drawing showing Mercury leading a boy representing Bacchus toward a group of nymphs, with attention to figures, posture, and composition.

Salvator Rosa genius, in: "Serie di LXXXV Disen in Varie Grandezze Composze Composze Composze Pittore Salvator Rosa ..."; Antonini, Carlo (1749-1835), Rosa, Salvator (1615-1673); 1780 (1780-00-00-1780-00-00);

The rest on the flight into Egypt prints, etchings, works on paper

The marriage of Maria and Joseph, Rutilio di Lorenzo Manetti, 1604 - 1610 drawing prepared paper. paint (coating). ink pen / brush marriage of Mary and Joseph, 'Sposalizio': they are married by the high priest

Assumption of the Virgin Artist's working dates 1683-1716 Italy. Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (discolored), over traces of black chalk on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid card . Pietro Antonio di Pietri

General in a meeting for his prince, Bernardino India (attributed to), 1538 - 1590 drawing paper. ink pen / brush

Abradatas receives a letter from Panthea, Laurent de la Hire, 1616 - 1656 drawing Episode from the history of Cyrus and Panthea: Abradatas receives a letter from Panthea. France paper. chalk brush (story of) Panthea

Return of the Lost Son, Jan van Scorel (Circle of), 1505 drawing paper. ink pen / brush the parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32)

The Lamentation. Battista Franco (Italian, 1510 - 1561)

Ulysses and Polyphemus. Dimensions: sheet: 19.7 × 25.6 cm (7 3/4 × 10 1/16 in.) (trimmed on all sides). Medium: chiaroscuro woodcut in yellow and black on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: after Francesco Primaticcio John Baptist Jackson.

Allegory of Justice, Nicolas Poussin, 1637 - 1639 drawing Sitting women's figure with staff, flanked by two standing women. paper. ink pen / brush Justice, 'Justitia'; 'Giustitia divina' (Ripa) ~ one of the Four Cardinal Virtues

Passignano (Attributed to) / 'Design for an Altarpiece, with the Virgin and Child Appearing to Four Saints'. Early XVII century. Wash, Pencil, Pencil ground, Red chalk, Grey-brown ink on yellow paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Feather drawing on brownish paper with white grown and laved details depicting Jupiter embracing Calisto disguised as Diana, showing figures, gesture, and composition.

A brown and blue ink wash drawing by Andries Both depicting a host house scene, showing figures indoors, with some restorations and minor brownish dirt.

. Vertumnus and Pomona sitting in front of the stone gate of a garden on a couch under a tree. Vertumnus seduces Pomona in the form of an old woman. Venus reaches Pomona a grape tide, to the left between the leaves. Amor emerges.

Verso: five studies of gothic monuments. Date: 1818. Pen and black ink, brush and brown wash on paper. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Maarten van Heemskkk (1498-1574), Tobias receives Raguel in Ekbatana, 1555

The Agony in the Garden , c. 1591. Santi di Tito (Italian, 1536-1602). Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white gouache with traces of black chalk on hillside above stairs, squared in black chalk, on blue paper; within brown ink framing lines. Lined with cream wove paper; sheet: 20.2 x 15.1 cm (7 15/16 x 5 15/16 in.).

Coal and brown lavated drawing by Raffaello Santi depicting a fishing train with a crowd in the foreground, showing figures, boats, and interaction on the water.

Tobias heals the blind Tobit, Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, after Maarten van Heemskerck, c. 1548 print With the bile of a fish, Tobias heals his father's blindness. Next to him the angel Rafaël and Anna, Tobias's mother. Netherlands paper the healing of Tobit: Tobias puts the gall of the fish on his father's eyes

Martyrdom of Erasmus; S. Erasm Ora Pro Nobis. The Holy Erasmus lying while executiones with a wind axle pulling the guts out of his body. In the background a watching crowd and in the air two putti with a wreath and a palm branch. Title in undermarge.

Charles de Lafosses allegorical drawing of Mars and Venus, using reddish and black chalk, brown wash, black magnification network, with circular composition at the end.

Venus and Adonis, 1713. France, 18th century. Black chalk, pen and gray ink with brown wash; matted: 29.8 x 24.9 cm (11 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.).

Ink and bister drawing by Juan Carreño de Miranda depicting the biblical scene of Tobias healing, showing figures and landscape elements.

Dutch Virgin with Liberty and Mercury, Frederik Ottens, 1717 - 1770

Scene by Abraham Bloemaert showing hippomes receiving the prize from Atalante, executed in black chalk with brown feather, washes, and white highlights, depicting figures, horses, and race elements.

Drawing, Joseph and his Brothers; Designed by Joseph Bergler the younger (Austrian, 1753 - 1829); Italy; chalk, pen and ink, brush and wash on paper

The provost of the merchants and aldermen of the city of Paris at the foot of the chass of Sainte Genevi�ve Fran�ois de Troy (1645-1730). The provost of the merchants and aldermen of the city of Paris at the foot of the chass of Sainte Genevi�ve. Paris. Black pencil, brown lavis, enhanced white gouache.

The Fall of Simon Magus (recto); The Calling of James and John (or of Peter and Andrew)(verso). Artist: Giovanni Balducci, Italian, ca. 1560-after 1631

Print, The Adoration of the Shepherds, after 1609; Print Maker: Nicolaus van Aelst (Flemish, ca. 1527 - 1613); After Annibale Carracci (Italian, 1560-1609); Italy; engraving on paper; 10.6 × 13.6 cm (4 3/16 × 5 3/8 in.); Bequest of George Campbell Cooper; 1896-3-109

Chalk drawing by Francesco Zugno of St. Karl Borromäus pointing toward the Holy Family.

Market Scene. Artist: Matthäus Gundelach (German, Hessen ca. 1566-1653/4 Augsburg). Dimensions: sheet: 5 11/16 x 8 1/16 in. (14.5 x 20.4 cm). Date: late 16th-17th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

A red chalk drawing with black chalk accents by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout depicting Hagar and the angel, with remains of an old change at the bottom.

The Triumph of Nature Over Art (design for an engraving of 'De Florum Cultura'). Artist: Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) (Italian, Cortona 1596-1669 Rome). Dimensions: 7 13/16 x 5 11/16in. (19.9 x 14.5cm). Date: ca. 1633.This drawing by the Baroque master Pietro da Cortona is a design for one of the illustrations in a treatise on gardening written by the Jesuit professor, Giovanni Battista Ferrari (1584-1655). The book, titled 'De Florum Cultura' (Rome, 1633), published this design engraved in reverse by Johann Friedrich Greuter (1590-1662). The artist illustrated an allegorical passage in Ferrari's text that tells of a contest between Nature and Art. Art, kneeling at the right with grafting knife in hand, has produced a rosebush with flowers of three colors, but Flora is about to crown Nature, who stands pointing at the miracle of her own doing. As if by magic a Chinese rose tree has sprung from the ground. Vertumnus dances, holding a sistrum aloft, and three boys -- Lucifer, M

The Finding of Moses 1638-1721 attributed to Luigi Garzi Italian. The Finding of Moses 338859

Man Seated Beneath a Statue of Bacchus, Receiving an Audience ca. 1530-61 Battista Franco Italian. Man Seated Beneath a Statue of Bacchus, Receiving an Audience 371916

Rich man and Lazarus, Jan Swart of Groningen, 1523 - 1533, The rich man is sitting with his wife and guests at a banquet in a kind of loggia. In the foreground, the poor Lazarus lies with a Lazarus flap in his hand. Three dogs are licking his wounds. Design for a print., draughtsman: Jan Swart van Groningen, 1523 - 1533, paper, pen, brush, h 273 mm × w 202 mm

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saint Basil the Great and Saint John the Baptist and Donor. Artist: Niccolò dell' Abate (Italian, Modena 1509-1571 Fontainebleau ()). Dimensions: 9 1/8 x 7 5/8in. (23.2 x 19.4cm). Date: 1540-50. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Picaresque Group with a Monkey and a Magpie 1720-1725 Italy. 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) . Alessandro Magnasco

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