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Classical Figure Drawings

Sketches of standing figures in various poses, showcasing drapery and body form, rendered in chalk, pencil, and woodcut styles.

Standing woman, accustomed to the left, intermediary draughtsman: Parmigianino, draughtsman: anonymous, 1523 - 1620, paper, pen, brush, h 154 mm × w 87 mm
Standing woman, accustomed to the left, intermediary draughtsman: Parmigianino, draughtsman: anonymous, 1523 - 1620, paper, pen, brush, h 154 mm × w 87 mm
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Rustend Genius, Charles Le Brun, 1630 - 1690 drawing paper. chalk brush 'Genio' (Ripa)Head of a man, seen from behind ..Drapery Study for a Cleric (lower register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858). Artist: Isidore Pils (French, Paris 1813/15-1875 Douarnenez). Dimensions: 18 7/8 x 12 3/16 in. (47.9 x 30.9 cm). Date: 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Study for a letter of the department of the lower SeineAngel reading on a cloud in a book. Draughtsman: Giuseppe Cesari. Dating: 1578 - 1640. Measurements: h 312 mm × w 180 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.Terpsichore. Artist: Léon Davent (French, active 1540-56); After Francesco Primaticcio (Italian, Bologna 1504/5-1570 Paris). Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 8 3/4 × 6 15/16 in. (22.3 × 17.7 cm). Series/Portfolio: The Muses and the Three Great Goddesses. Date: ca. 1542-45. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Standing Boy, draughtsman: Willem Drost, (attributed to), draughtsman: Nicolaes Maes, (rejected attribution), draughtsman: Rembrandt van Rijn, (rejected attribution), Amsterdam, c. 1650 - c. 1655, paper, pen, brush, h 94 mm × w 52 mmStudy for Clovis (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858); verso: Head of a Soldier (unrelated to Sainte-Clotilde decorations). Artist: Isidore Pils (French, Paris 1813/15-1875 Douarnenez). Dimensions: 13 11/16 x 10 5/8 in. (34.8 x 27.0 cm). Date: 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.An Angel Supporting Two Escutcheons, c. 1470. Attributed to Nikolaus Gerhaert von Leyden (German). Black chalk or charcoal; framing lines in red pencil and graphite; sheet: 17.3 x 21.2 cm (6 13/16 x 8 3/8 in.).Saint Paul dechirant ses vêtements, Raphael, Raffaello S., 1517.Anonymous / 'Study for a Standing Figure'. Early XVII century. Pencil, Ink on laid paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.Poetry, plate 27 from Arts and Sciences 1460-1470 Italy. The deck of fifty so-called Tarocchi are not tarots in the modern, fortune-telling sense, nor were they intended as playing cards. No cut-out impressions mounted for play are known, and they lack the suits and numbers of a regular deck. Instead, these delicately engraved didactic allegories are grouped in five numbered ranks describing the workings of the spheres of man, the muses, the liberal arts, the cosmos, and the heavens in order of increasing significance, and offer a didactic sequence to educate courtly youths or possibly university students, who could have used them as flashcards or a pamphlet.. Engraving in black on ivory laid paper . Master of the E-Series TarocchiSaint Jerome. after Agostino Carracci; Italian, 1557-1602. Date: 1590-1600. Dimensions: 238 x 210 mm. Red chalk, with stumping and pen and brown ink, on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.Sultane Attributed to Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809). "Black sultane". Drawing. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, small palace.Saint-Aubin, Gabriel de (n.1724-04-14-D.1780-02-14), woman sitting at the window. (Dummy title). Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.Chalk drawing by Gaetano Gandolfi on brownish paper showing a bearded tiger facing a young man in profile, who holds a mug at his knee, with white highlights.Design for a Box-Lid 18th century Hubert François Gravelot French. Design for a Box-Lid 335443'Sheet of Studies: Half-Figure Wearing a Helmet, Part of a Bent Leg in Draperies'. France, 1640s ( ). Dimensions: 34x23,9 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: SIMON VOUET.Francisco Bayeu / 'Minerva'. Before 1769. White chalk, Black chalk on green paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.Poetry, plate 27 from Arts and Sciences. Master of the E-Series Tarocchi; Italian, active c. 1465. Date: 1460-1470. Dimensions: 178 x 98 mm. Engraving in black on ivory laid paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.'Man in a Big Cloak seen from behind', 1752, (1928). Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.Sketches, Fragment Head of a Woman Wearing a Kerchief Made 1863-1875 France. Woodcut fragment from a partially printed block on tan wove paper with separate matting and original backing with inscription in dark brown ink on white wove lined card . Jean François MilletStill Life with Birds and Implements of the Hunt. Dating: 1684. Measurements: h 64 cm × w 54 cm; d 8 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: William Gowe Ferguson.