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| Giulio Campi Sheep Shearing ca. 1537-38 drawing (study for fresco) Musée du Louvre |
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| Giuseppe Porta (Giuseppe Salviati) Landscape with Waterfall before 1575 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Matthijs Bril House built on Rocks in a River ca. 1580-82 drawing (study for ornamental fresco) Musée du Louvre |
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| attributed to Alessandro Casolani Sheet of Studies ca. 1590 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Girolamo Muziano Landscape with Distant Ruins before 1592 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Figure Bending and Lifting ca. 1609-1610 drawing (study for painting, Adoration of the Magi) Musée du Louvre |
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| Paul Bril View of Tivoli with the Temple of the Sibyl before 1626 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| attributed to Jan Lievens Old Man Reading ca. 1628-29 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Georges Lallemand The Procuress before 1636 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| François Duquesnoy Studies of Babies before 1643 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Rembrandt Artist in Studio painting the Portrait of a Couple ca. 1640-45 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Eustache Le Sueur Woman with a Child ca. 1647 drawing (study for painting, now lost) Musée du Louvre |
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| Francesco Maffei after Michelangelo Three Figures before 1660 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Figure Study ca. 1650 drawing (study for tapestry) Musée du Louvre |
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| attributed to Gaspard Dughet Landscape with Tower ca. 1650 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Claude Lorrain Study for Return of the Flock 1651 drawing on vellum Musée du Louvre |
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| Rembrandt Woman at a Window ca. 1655 drawing Musée du Louvre |
from Windows
Those who live there move seldom, and are silent.
Their movements are the movements of a woman darning,
A man nodding into the pages of a paper,
And are portions of a rite, have kept a meaning
That I, that they, know nothing of.
As dead actors on a rainy afternoon
Move in a darkened living room, for children
Watching the world that was before they were –
The looked-at lives, the lives that are not lived,
The windowed ones within their windowy world
Move past me without doubt, and for no reason.
– Randall Jarrell (1954)