Red Chalk – Northern European Drawings – 1700-1800

Joshua Reynolds
Ariadne on Naxos attended by Satyrs and a Boy 
(after an unidentified Italian painting)
ca. 1752
drawing
British Museum

Anonymous Artist
Sculpture Group of Nymph and Satyr
(documentary drawing commissioned by dealer/collector Charles Townley)
late 18th century
drawing
British Museum

Anonymous Artist
Antique Bust of Clytie
(documentary drawing commissioned by dealer/collector Charles Townley)
late 18th century
drawing
British Museum

Richard Dalton
The Farnese Hercules
1742
drawing
Tate Gallery

Hendrik de Flines
Académie
ca. 1784-98
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Cornelis Joseph d'Heur
Académie
before 1762
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Cornelis Joseph d'Heur
Académie
before 1762
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Stuart Threipland
Académie
ca. 1740
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

Stuart Threipland
Académie
ca. 1740
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

Allan Ramsay
Académie
ca. 1754-56
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

Allan Ramsay after Raphael
Personification of Moderation
1755
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

Allan Ramsay
Portrait of Margaret Lindsay (reading aloud)
1776
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

Allan Ramsay
Study of Left Hand holding a Baton
ca. 1737-38
drawing
National-Galleries-of-Scotland

Mattheus Verheyden
Study of Left Hand
ca. 1740-50
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Mattheus Verheyden
Study of Right Hand
ca. 1740-50
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Red Chalk – French Drawings – 1600-1700

Pierre Brébiette after Paolo Farinati
Figure of Summer flanked by Pomona and Ceres
ca. 1630
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Eustache Le Sueur
Drapery Study of Roman Toga, and Study of Hand
before 1655
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Michel Corneille the Younger
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
ca. 1680-90
drawing
Harvard Art Museums

Jean de Saint-Igny
Personification of the Sense of Taste
before 1647
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Jean de Saint-Igny
Bust of a Young Man
before 1647
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Claude Villaume after Annibale Carracci
Atlante supported by Putti
(after a fresco in Palazzo Magnani, Bologna)
1646
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Jacques Sarazin
Study for a Statue of Autumn
(for the Château de Wideville, Crespières)
after 1632
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Claude Vignon
Cleopatra
1647
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Claude Vignon
Cavalier
ca. 1640-50
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Claude Vignon
The European Sibyl
ca. 1635
drawing
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Guillaume Courtois
Figure and Drapery Study of a Woman in Motion
ca. 1664-66
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Guillaume Courtois
Dock Scene
ca. 1660-64
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Guillaume Courtois
Study for Portrait of a Man
before 1679
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Guillaume Courtois
Two Studies for God the Father
ca. 1664-66
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Guillaume Courtois
Study for God the Father
ca. 1660
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

European Sixteenth-Century Quality - IV

Riccio (Andrea Briosco)
Shepherd Daphnis playing a Pipe
ca. 1520-30
bronze statuette
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

workshop of Riccio (Andrea Briosco)
Kneeling Satyr
ca. 1525
bronze statuette
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

workshop of Riccio (Andrea Briosco)
Oil Lamp in the form of a Sphinx
ca. 1525
bronze
Art Institute of Chicago

Riccio (Andrea Briosco)
Virgin and Child
ca. 1520-25
terracotta
(surviving fragment of full-length statue)
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Francesco Salviati
Design for a Fan Handle
before 1563
drawing
British Museum

The Maldive Shark

About the Shark, phlegmatical one,
Pale sot of the Maldive sea,
The sleek little pilot-fish, azure and slim,
How alert in attendance be.
From his saw-pit of mouth, from his charnel of maw
They have nothing of harm to dread,
But liquidly glide on his ghastly flank
Or before his Gorgonian head;
Or lurk in the port of serrated teeth
In white triple tiers of glittering gates,
And there find a haven when peril's abroad,
An asylum in jaws of the Fates!
They are friends; and friendly they guide him to prey,
Yet never partake of the treat –
Eyes and brains to the dotard lethargic and dull,
Pale ravener of horrible meat.

– Herman Melville (1888)

Giuseppe Salviati
The Resurrection
before 1575
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Giampietro Silvio
Holy Family with St John the Baptist and St Jerome
ca. 1520-25
oil on panel
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Sodoma
Christ at the Column
(from the Life of St Benedict cycle)
ca. 1505-1508
fresco
Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore, near Ascanio

Pellegrino Tibaldi
Battling Tritons and Battling Men on Hippocampi
before 1596
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Paolo Veronese
Creation of Eve
ca. 1570-80
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

workshop of Paolo Veronese
Personification of Charity
before 1588
oil on canvas
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

workshop of Paolo Veronese
Personification of Faith
before 1588
oil on canvas
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

workshop of Paolo Veronese
Personification of Fortitude
before 1588
oil on canvas
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

workshop of Paolo Veronese
Personifications of Justice and Prudence
before 1588
oil on canvas
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Nineteenth-Century Figure Studies (Draped)

Jacques-Louis David
Empress Josephine kneeling at her Coronation
(study for painting)
1806
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Andrea Appiani
Figure of Temperance
(study for fresco)
1808
drawing
British Museum

Simon Andreas Krausz
Study of Draped Arm
before 1825
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Study for the figure of Stratonice
ca. 1834-40
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

David Pierre Giottino Humbert de Superville
Seated Man Reading
before 1849
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

To Any Reader

As from the house your mother sees
You playing round the garden trees,
So you  may see, if you will look
Through the windows of this book,
Another child, far, far away,
And in another garden, play.
But do not think you can at all,
By knocking on the window, call
That child to hear you. He intent
Is all on his play-business bent.
He does not hear; he will not look,
Nor yet be lured out of this book.
For, long ago, the truth to say,
He has grown up and gone away,
And it is but a child of air
That lingers in the garden there.

– Robert Louis Stevenson (1885)

Pietro Fancelli
Drapery Study of Reclining Woman
before 1850
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Victor-François-Eloi Biennourry
Roman Soldier
(study for mural)
1851-52
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Edgar Degas
Studies of Draped Figure
1857-58
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Edward Burne-Jones
Winter - Study of Flying Drapery
1866-67
drawing
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (West Midlands)

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Woman writing at a Table
before 1875
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

Théodore Valério
Studies of Draped Woman
before 1879
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Henri Lehmann
Draped Lamenting Figure
before 1882
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Louis-Georges Brillouin
Drapery Study
before 1893
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Man reclining on steps reading
(study for Boston Public Library mural)
ca. 1895
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum