Brown Paper – Northern European Drawings – 1600-1900

Johann Carl Loth
The Lamentation
before 1698
drawing
British Museum

Johann Carl Loth
Triumph of Neptune
(study for ceiling decoration)
before 1698
drawing
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Nicolas de Largillière
Two Figures struggling together
1709-1710
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jonathan Richardson, Senior
Roman Bust
before 1745
drawing
British Museum

Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Portrait of Louis de Silvestre
ca. 1753
drawing (colored chalk)
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Richard Wilson
Portrait of Thomas Jenkins
before 1782
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Joseph Mallord William Turner
Study of a Cast of the Borghese Gladiator
ca. 1793
drawing
Tate Gallery

Joseph Mallord William Turner
Académie
ca. 1794-95
drawing
Tate Gallery

Richard Parkes Bonington
Académie with Bearded Man and Boy
1820
drawing
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

David Wilkie after Michelangelo
Copy of the Libyan Sybil (Sistine Ceiling)
ca. 1830
wash drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Adolph Menzel
Man unbinding his Sash
1850s
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Adolph Menzel
Artist’s Model in back view putting on an Eighteenth-century Uniform
ca. 1850
drawing
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University

Edward Burne-Jones
Model posing as Soldier
(figure studies for painting, The Princess led to the Dragon)
1865-66
drawing
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (West Midlands)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Study of a Sleeping Woman
ca. 1867
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Burne-Jones
Draped Male Figure
ca. 1888-91
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Brown Paper – Italian Drawings – 1400-1800

attributed to Pietro Perugino
Head of the Virgin
ca. 1480
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Anonymous Artist after Baldassare Peruzzi
Discovery of the True Cross
(copy of lost drawing)
ca. 1515-20
drawing
British Museum

attributed to Bartolomeo Montagna
Figure standing beside a High Pedestal
before 1523
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Domenico Beccafumi
Figure of a Swordsman
ca. 1530-35
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

 

Girolamo da Carpi
Study of Antique Relief
before 1556
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

 

Agostino Carracci
Study for Caryatids
1590s
drawing
British Museum

attributed to Giovanni Battista Naldini
Thetis receiving from Vulcan the Shield of Achilles
before 1591
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Giovanni Alberti
Figure Study
ca. 1596-1600
drawing
National Gallery of Canada

Bartolomeo Schedoni
Winged Boy
ca. 1600
drawing
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Annibale Carracci
Head of a Youth
before 1605
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

 

Palma il Giovane
Two Seated Women (one dressing the other's hair)
before 1628
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Giacomo Cavedone
Head of a Young Woman
before 1660
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Jacopo Vignali
Sketches of Three Female Figures
before 1664
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Sigismondo Caula
Two Seated Figures
before 1713
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Self Portrait
ca. 1730
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Preparatory Drawings from Seventeenth-Century Italy

Pietro Testa
Study for Massacre of the Innocents
before 1650
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Giacinto Calandrucci
Studies for St John the Evangelist and St Matthew
late 17th century
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

attributed to Giovanni Battista della Rovere
Study for Angels in Pendentives
before 1630
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Luca Giordano
Sketch for The Abduction of Europa
ca. 1686
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

from On the Hours in the Night Garden

                                        III.
The body is only at home on this earth, finally tied
                                   As it is to all matter: the currents of the arteries

Wild as water coursing the river's embankment,
                                   Pulse constant as the globe in its spheric weight,

The planisphere of the body moving among all
                                   Forms – wishing to be held fast in love's gravity;

                                        IV.
The cell's honeycomb fragile as that of wasps',
                                  Which hangs down midday under a branch of

Fresh laurel; Yes, only at home on this earth –
                                  And as such makes as best it can its place in it;

And love, as it does, the things of the flesh.

                                        V.
Love: the heart's arch resistance against the
                                  Arbitrary – bulwark against the siege of time,

Love seeking to build, braid, knit together
                                  Two breaths, preciously hewn twin desires,

To hoard in Love's heat a last few minutes
                                  Saved from the deep, timeless hour of after –

– Ellen Hinsey (The White Fire of Time, Wesleyan University Press, 2002)

Cherubino Alberti
Studies for a Fountain of Neptune
early 17th century
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Guercino
Jacob blessing the Sons of Joseph
ca. 1620
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Jacopo Ligozzi
Tobias with the Angel Raphael
ca. 1605
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Pier Francesco Mola
Hermione and the Shepherds
before 1666
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

attributed to Ventura Salimbeni
Bishop Saint exorcising Demons from a Woman
early 17th century
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Raffaello Vanni
Battle Scene
(study for fresco - Clovis defeating Alaric II at the Battle of Vouillé)
1653
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

attributed to Camillo Procaccini
Mercury and Argus
before 1629
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Donato Creti
Rinaldo and Armida
ca. 1693
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Domenico Piola
Agony in the Garden
late 17th century
drawing
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Lorenzo Garbieri
Christ stripped of his Garments
ca. 1654
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Death of Cleopatra (Monochrome)

Baccio Bandinelli
Death of Cleopatra
ca. 1530-40
drawing
British Museum

Adam Lenckhardt
Cleopatra
1632-35
ivory statuette
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Severo da Ravenna
Cleopatra
ca. 1500-1525
bronze statuette
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Ignaz Elhafen
Death of Cleopatra
ca. 1697-1715
ivory relief
Victoria & Albert Museum

from Dirge

Pure spirit! O where art thou now!
     O whisper to my soul!
O let some soothing thought of thee,
     The bitter grief control!

'Tis not for thee the tears I shed,
     Thy sufferings now are o'er;
The sea is calm, the tempest past,
     On that eternal shore.

No more the storms that wrecked thy peace
     Shall tear that gentle breast;
Nor summer's  rage, nor Winter's cold,
     Thy poor, poor frame molest.

             *                  *              *

Farewell! With honour, peace, and love,
     Be thy dear memory blest!
Thou hast no tears for me to shed,
     When I too am at rest.

– Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1808)

Guercino
Cleopatra
ca. 1630-40
drawing
British Museum

Pierce Tempest (publisher)
Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt
ca. 1678-1717
mezzotint
British Museum

Augustin Hirschvogel
Death of Cleopatra in a Landscape
1547
etching
British Museum

Sebald Beham
Cleopatra
1529
engraving
British Museum

Barthel Beham
Cleopatra
ca. 1520-24
engraving
British Museum

Pietro da Cortona
Death of Cleopatra
ca. 1625
drawing
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Agostino Veneziano
Cleopatra
ca. 1519-30
engraving
British Museum

Luca Cambiaso
Death of Cleopatra
before 1585
drawing
National Galleries of Scotland

Jan Harmensz Muller after Adriaen de Vries
Death of Cleopatra
ca. 1654-66
engraving
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Giovanni David
Cleopatra
ca. 1776
etching
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Willem Basse
Cleopatra
ca. 1628-48
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam