Designs for the Printmaker

Antoine-Denis Chaudet
The Transformation
(scene from The Golden Ass of Apuleius)
ca. 1795
drawing (print study)
Morgan Library, New York

Stefano della Bella
Head of a Young Woman
ca. 1645
drawing (print study)
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini)
Design for Frontispiece
1660
drawing (print study)
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

Luigi Sabatelli
Half-Length Figure Study
ca. 1800-1810
drawing (print study)
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

Luigi Ademollo
Joseph interpreting Dreams in Prison
ca. 1820-30
drawing (print study)
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

Luigi Ademollo
Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery
ca. 1790-1800
drawing (print study)
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

Henri Goussé
Woman with a Muff
ca. 1900
gouache on cardboard (print study)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

Maarten van Heemskerck
Clothing the Naked
(from the Seven Acts of Mercy) 
1552
drawing (print study)
Morgan Library, New York

Maarten van Heemskerck
Pope Clement VII besieged in Castel Sant'Angelo during the 1527 Sack of Rome
1554
drawing (print study)
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Maarten van Heemskerck
The Devil fills the Human Heart
with Lust for Power, Riches and Pleasure
ca. 1548-50
drawing (print study)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Giovanni Paolo Melchiori
Blessed Pope Celestine in Meditation
ca. 1729
drawing (print study)
Morgan Library, New York

Albert Meyering
Italianate Landscape with Fountain
ca. 1695
drawing (print study)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Richard Cosway
The Genius of Painting
(Minerva with Putti)
1802
drawing
(print study for memorial to Robert Udney)
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Pietro Antonio Novelli
Alexander the Great in the Studio of Apelles
ca. 1775
drawing (print study)
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

Félicien Rops
Priestly Love
ca. 1880
drawing (print study)
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Carlo Raimondi after Correggio
St Philip and St Thaddeus
(figures from the cupola of Parma Cathedral)
1841
watercolor (print study)
Galleria Nazionale di Parma

Paudeen

Indignant at the fumbling wit, the obscure spite
Of our old Paudeen in his shop, I stumbled blind

Among the stones and thorn-trees, under morning light;

Until a curlew cried and in the luminous wind
A curlew answered; and suddenly thereupon I thought
That on the lonely height where all are in God's eye,
There cannot be, confusion of our sound forgot,

A single soul that lacks a sweet crystalline cry.

– W.B. Yeats (1914)