Red Chalk – Italian Drawings – 1500-1525

Andrea del Sarto
Study for the Head of Julius Caesar
ca. 1520-21
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Andrea del Sarto
Drapery Study
ca. 1517
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Andrea del Sarto
Figures behind Balustrade
1522
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Fra Bartolomeo
Child with Raised Arm
before 1517
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Il Sodoma
Study of Standing Figure
ca. 1510
drawing
private collection

Jacopo Pontormo
Figure for Vertumnus and Pomona
ca. 1519
drawing
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Jacopo Pontormo
Figure for The Visitation
ca. 1514-15
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin

Perino del Vaga
St Mark and St John with Putti
ca. 1525
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Parmigianino
Torso with Raised Arms
ca. 1522-24
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Parmigianino
Self Portrait at Age 20
ca. 1524
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Raphael
Study for Christ's Charge to Peter
ca. 1514
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Raphael
The Three Graces
ca. 1517-18
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Raphael
Two Figures
1515
drawing
Albertina, Vienna

Raphael
Putto carrying the Attributes of Vulcan
1518
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Anonymous Italian Artist
Study of Foot
ca. 1500-1525
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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

Pink Paper – European Drawings – 1400-1900

Pisanello
Allegory of Luxuria
ca. 1426
drawing
Albertina, Vienna

Filippino Lippi
Head of Elderly Man
ca. 1495
drawing
Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig

Girolamo Romanino
Standing Soldier with Plumed Hat
ca. 1519-35
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Parmigianino
Winged Victories
ca. 1531-35
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Hans Holbein
Portrait of William Parr, later Marquess of Northampton
ca. 1538-42
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Peter Candid
Two Studies of a Standing Man with a Sword (Alexander the Great)
ca. 1601
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Peter Paul Rubens
Portrait of the Artist's Daughter, Clara Serena
ca. 1623
drawing
Albertina, Vienna

Palma il Giovane
Portrait Head of a Man
before 1628
drawing
Harvard Art Museums

Guercino
Apollo
ca. 1637
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Pietro Testa
Study for Allegorical Figures of Virtues
ca. 1642-44
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

attributed to Giovanni Lanfranco
Study of Foreshortened Figure
before 1647
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Giacinto Gimignani
Figure Study
before 1681
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Carlo Maratti
Portrait of Faustina Maratti
1686
drawing
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Portrait of a Boy pointing upward
ca. 1740-45
drawing
Albertina, Vienna

Edgar Degas
Dancer Seated
1873-74
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York