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| Francesco del Cossa Youth ascending stairs, viewed from the back ca. 1470 drawing British Museum |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist after Michelangelo The Persian Sibyl ca. 1550-1600 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Taddeo Zuccaro The Infant Bacchus killed by the Titans and restored to life by Rhea ca. 1561-66 drawing Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
"This drawing is a rather complete and detailed study for one of the medallion frescoes in the Camera dell'Autunno on the ground floor of the Villa Farnese in Caprarola. The frescoes, probably begun in 1561 and continued after Zuccaro's death by his brother Federico and others, are considered one of the landmarks in Italian Renaissance decoration. The drawing's degree of finish and exact correspondence to the painted composition may be related to its probable use as a guide for one of Zuccaro's assistants. The subject, rather rare in the history of art, is an appropriate one for the country house of a landed aristocrat because of its theme of cyclical renewal, in which the Titans, under orders from the goddess Juno, captured the infant Bacchus, tore him to pieces, and placed him in a boiling cauldron. He was then rescued by his grandmother Rhea and restored to life."
– Bruce Davis, Master Drawings in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1997)
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| Rembrandt Study for the Portrait of Maria Trip ca. 1639 drawing British Museum |
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| Charles Le Brun Portrait Study of Louis XIV, aged 25 ca. 1663 drawing Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham |
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| Anonymous French Artist Study for a Statue of Queen Marie Leszczyńska as Juno ca. 1726-31 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein after Giulio Romano Study of a Head for The Massacre of the Innocents ca. 1780 drawing Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham |
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| Giuseppe Bernardino Bison Sheet of Classical and Decorative Studies ca. 1800 drawing Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| John Flaxman Man in a cloak, asleep on the plinth of a building before 1826 drawing University College London Art Museum |
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| John Flaxman Drapery Study before 1826 drawing University College London Art Museum |
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| Louis Lafitte Design for an Allegorical Print before 1828 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Théodore Chassériau Study for a portrait of Raymond de Magnoncourt 1851 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
"An elegant young man with large, liquid eyes reclines languidly on a large cushion, pausing to look up from his reading. Raymond Henri de Staal de Magnoncourt, elder son of the Comte de Magnoncourt, was about sixteen years old when this drawing was made and dedicated to his mother in the bottom corner. His dreamy expression, rumpled yet elegant clothes, tousled hair, and the overall ambiance of artistic beauty and inspiration vividly capture the essence of the Romantic period."
– from curator's notes at the Getty Museum
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| André Derain La Chute de Phaëton ca. 1905 drawing Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham |
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| Duncan Grant Classical Lovers ca. 1906 drawing St Peter's College, Oxford |
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| Wyndham Lewis Portrait of the artist's wife, Froanna 1940 drawing on blue paper Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham |