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| Eustache Le Sueur Executioner for Martyrdom of St Lawrence before 1655 drawing (figure study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| Eustache Le Sueur Executioner for Martyrdom of St Lawrence before 1655 drawing (figure study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| Eustache Le Sueur Executioner for Martyrdom of St Lawrence before 1655 drawing (figure study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| Eustache Le Sueur Executioner for Martyrdom of St Lawrence before 1655 drawing (figure study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| Giorgio Vasari after Raphael Jacob wrestling with the Angel ca. 1530-40 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Angel appearing in a Dream to St Joseph before 1804 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| workshop of Quentin Metsys Angel appearing to St Clare, St Agnes and St Colette ca. 1510-20 oil on panel Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon |
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| Pierre Mignard Angel before 1695 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Paolo de' Matteis Tobias and the Angel before 1728 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Angel of the Annunciation (after fresco by Francesco Albani) ca. 1620 drawing British Museum |
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| Jacob Jordaens Three Angels supporting a Crown before 1678 drawing (ornamental design) Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Angel sounding Horn ca. 1674 drawing (study for cupola decoration, Château de Sceaux) Musée du Louvre |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari) Group of Soldiers before 1640 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Salvator Rosa Two Soldiers Gesturing before 1673 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Eustache Le Sueur Study of Soldier Kneeling before 1655 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Eustache Le Sueur Study of Soldier Sleeping before 1655 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Tommaso Minardi Apparition displaying the Gospels to Sleeping Soldier before 1871 drawing Musée du Louvre |
"We only labour to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. Like birds who fly abroad to forage for grain, and bring it home in the beak without tasting it themselves, to feed their young, so our pedants go picking knowledge here and there out of books, and hold it at the tongue's end, only to spit it out and distribute it abroad. And here I cannot but smile to think how I have paid myself in showing the foppery of this kind of learning, who myself am so manifest an example: for, do I not the same thing throughout almost this whole composition? I go here and there, culling out of several books the sentences that best please me, not to keep them (for I have no memory to retain them in), but to transplant them into this – where, to say the truth, they are no more mine than in their first places."
– Michel de Montaigne, from Of Pedantry (1580), translated by Charles Cotton (1685)