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Works of Art (32)
A Domestic Scene, Annibale Carracci (Italian, Bolognese), Pen and black ink, brush and gray and brown wash (1972.133.2) 
 
Autumn, ca. 1594, Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish), Pen and brown ink, red-brown wash, over black chalk, heightened with white (61.25.2) 
 
Bishop Saint in Prayer Seen in Bust-length, ca. 1527–30, Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, Parma), Brush with brown and gray-brown wash over stylus-ruled lines and charcoal; some contours stylus-incised (now flattened), on three glued sheets of paper (1995.306)  
 
Charles the Great's Entrance into Pavia, 1840, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (German), Black chalk, graphite, brown watercolor washes, red chalk, red chalk washes; squared for transfer in graphite with numerical indications of vertical divisions at the lower edge (2003.85) 
 
Conversion of Saint Paul, 1587–89, Ludovico Carracci (Italian, Bolognese), Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache and cream color oil paint over some black chalk underdrawing (2002.33) 
 
Cottage among Trees, 1648–50, Rembrandt (Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn) (Dutch), Dutch, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, on paper washed with brown (29.100.939) 
 
Design for a Saddle Plate, ca. 1575–80, Italian (Parma or Milan), Pen and colored washes on paper (1993.234) 
 
Design for a Sword Hilt, ca. 1540, German (probably Nuremberg), Pen, ink, and wash on paper (2000.27) 
 
Fantastic Drawing of a Sculptor at Work on a Colossal Statue, Man Blowing a Trumpet, Carl August Ehrensvärd (Swedish), Pen and brown ink, gray wash, heightened with white, on gray paper (1992.229.1) 
 
First Fruits of the Earth Offered to Saturn, Giorgio Vasari (Italian), Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over traces of red chalk (1971.273) 
 
Gardens of the Villa d'Este at Tivoli, Charles-Joseph Natoire (French), Pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, watercolor, heightened with touches of white, over black and red chalk (65.65) 
 
Landscape with Wine Harvest, 1630s, Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) (Italian), Brush and gray wash, touches of pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk, with an illusionistic frame drawn in yellow and brown wash, on off-white laid paper (2003.101) 
 
Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, Attributed to Anthony van Dyck (Flemish), Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white; contours traced with stylus for transfer (61.68) 
 
Nymphs and Satyrs in a Landscape, 1599 or before, Joseph Heintz the Elder (Swiss), Pen and brown ink, brown wash, red chalk, heightened with white body color, on yellow tinted paper (2007.174)  
 
Sailing Vessels at Wilders Plads, Copenhagen, 1830, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Danish), Pen and gray ink with brown wash (2003.180) 
 
Samson, ca. 1612–16, Jacques Bellange (French), Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, on tan antique laid paper1 (2001.568) 
 
Studies of a Seated Youth in Armor, Attributed to Vittore Carpaccio (Carpathius, Scarpazza) (Italian, Venetian), Italian, Point of brush and gray wash, highlighted with white, on blue paper (54.119)  
 
Study for The Ascension, 1774, John Singleton Copley (American), Ink ("Bistre") washes, pen and ink, black chalk, and graphite on off-white laid paper (60.44.16) 
 
The Burial of Punchinello, ca. 1800, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, Venetian), Pen and brown ink, brown and yellow wash, over black chalk (1975.1.473) 
 
The Drunken Silenus ("The Tazza Farnese"), ca. 1600, Annibale Carracci (Italian, Bolognese), Engraving from a silver plate printed in brown ink (27.78.1.150); Study for The Drunken Silenus ("The Tazza Farnese"), 1597–1601, Annibale Carracci (Italian, Bolognese), Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk, incised for transfer (1972.133.4) 
 
The Fall of Phaeton: From the series The Metamorphoses, ca. 1588, Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish), Pen and red-brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, indented for transfer (1992.376) 
 
The Garden of Love (two parts), Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish); Christoffel Jegher (Flemish), Pen and brown ink, brown and green wash, heightened with light body color, over black chalk (58.96.1,.2) 
 
The Girandola at the Castel Sant'Angelo, ca. 1783, Francesco Piranesi (Italian) and Louis-Jean Desprez (French), Etching with colored washes (69.510)  
 
The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, 1787, Jacques-Louis David (French), Black chalk, pen and black and brown ink, brush and gray and brown wash, heightened with white gouache (2006.264)  
 
The Scene of the Two Carriages, Claude Gillot (French), Pen and black ink, brush and red wash (2006.93) 
 
The Swing, 1796–97, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish), Brush and gray wash on laid Netherlandish paper (35.103.2) 
 
Turkish Lancer and Onlookers Approaching a Town, ca. 1760–70, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, Venetian), Pen and brown ink, brush and pale brown wash, over traces of black chalk; framing outlines by the artist in pen and brown ink on paper (37.165.67) 
 
Two Winged Putti, ca. 1748–50, François Boucher (French), Black chalk, brush and gray wash, heightened with white chalk, on beige paper (60.175.1) 
 
View of the Queen's Theatre from the Rotunda, ca. 1739, Jacques Rigaud (French), Ink and wash (42.79.7) 
 
Virgin and Child Attended by Angels, ca. 1495–1500, Attributed to Filippino Lippi (Italian, Florentine), Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache (68.204) 
 
Virgin and Child with Saint Elizabeth, the Infant Baptist, Saint Anthony of Padua, and a Female Martyr, Jacopo da Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci) (Italian), Red chalk, brush and red wash (19.76.11) 
 
Warwick Castle: The East Front, 1752, Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (Italian, Venetian), Pen and brown ink, gray wash (1975.1.297) 
 
Thematic Essays (4)