Anonymous French artist Bust of Roman soldier 1801 drawing British Museum |
Camille Auguste Gastine Head of a man 19th century drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
John Flaxman Mercury carrying Pandora to Earth ca. 1807-14 drawing British Museum |
The neo-classical drawing above is described by curators at the British Museum as "a rejected design for Flaxman's illustrations to Hesiod's 'Works and Days' ... The final design for this subject, which was engraved as Plate 6, shows Mercury in profile rather than in the more complex foreshortened frontal representation indicated in this drawing."
Below, also from the British Museum, "a sketch of a standing woman in classically inspired dress with her arms crossed over her head. The blunt and forceful use of ink, and the abstracted planes and volumes all bear an affinity to Géricault's series of figure studies inspired by antique statuary made around 1815, many after the intermediary designs of John Flaxman."
Théodore Géricault Standing woman ca. 1815 wash drawing , gouache British Museum |
Auguste Paul Charles Anastasi Scene in the Forest of Fontainebleau mid-19th century drawing British Museum |
Carlo Ferrario Massive Staircase 19th century drawing Morgan Library, New York |
Georges Seurat House at dusk 1881-82 Conté crayon Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Francesco Bagnara Seaport (design for the stage) early 19th century wash drawing Morgan Library, New York |
Louisa Anne Beresford Child with book ca. 1888 drawing National Portrait Gallery, London |
Joseph Benwell Clark Portrait of Alphonse Legros 1880 drypoint National Portrait Gallery, London |
Achille Devéria Head of a woman 19th century drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
Franz von Stuck Die Sinnlichkeit (Sensuality) ca. 1889-91 etching, drypoint British Museum |
Georges Seurat An Indian Man ca. 1878-79 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
Gustave Courbet Self-portrait with upraised arm ca. 1840 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |