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| Raphael Eight Seated Bishops ca. 1516 drawing Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
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| Giovanni Baglione Jael and Sisera 1585 drawing Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
"And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle. And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. She opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him. Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No. Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died."
– from the Book of Judges (Authorized Version, 1611)
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| Ludovico Carracci Figure study for Hercules 1588 drawing Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Juno 1596 wash drawing Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Minerva 1596 wash drawing Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
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| Domenico Maria Canuti Study for Head of Faun 1635 drawing Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
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| Giovanni Maria Morandi Boreas abducting Orithyia 1640 drawing Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
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| Giovanni Maria Morandi Boreas abducting Orithyia 1640 drawing Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
"Four sons were born to Erechtheus, and four daughters also. Of these daughters, two were of equal beauty, of whom thou, Procris, didst make happy in wedlock Cephalus, the grandson of Aeolus. Boreas was not favoured because of Tereus and the Thracians [since the home of Boreas was in the north, he was included in the hatred felt at Athens for Tereus and the Thracians]; and so the god was long kept from his beloved Orithyia, while he wooed and preferred to use prayers rather than force. But when he could accomplish nothing by soothing words, rough with anger, which was the north-wind's usual and more natural mood, he said: 'I have deserved it! For why have I given up my own weapons, fierceness and force, rage and threatening moods, and had recourse to prayers, which do not at all become me? Force is my fit instrument. By force I drive on the gloomy clouds, by force I shake the sea, I overturn gnarled oaks, pack hard the snow, and pelt the earth with hail. So also when I meet my brothers in the open sky – for that is my battleground – I struggle with them so fiercely that the mid-heavens thunder with our meeting and fires leap bursting out of the hollow clouds. So also when I have entered the vaulted hollows of the earth, and have set my strong back beneath her lowest caverns, I fright the ghosts and the whole world, too, by my heavings. By this means I should have sought my wife.'"
– from the Metamorphoses of Ovid, translated for the Loeb Classical Library by Frank Justus Miller (1916)
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| Guillaume Courtois Young woman carrying a pot 1645 drawing, colored chalks, blue paper Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
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| Charles Alphonse Dufresnoy Adoration of the Magi 1628 wash drawing Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
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| Simon Vouet Man with raised arm behind parapet 1648 drawing Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
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| Elisabetta Sirani Madonna and Child 1660s drawing Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
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| Giovanni Battista Gaulli Study for a young man dancing ca. 1680-82 drawing Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
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| Antonio Molinari Judith with the Head of Holofernes 1690 wash drawing Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |