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Vanity Case (Nécessaire) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Vanity Case (Nécessaire)

Unrecorded maker

c. 1760 · Miscellaneous, gold, agate, interior fitted with gold-mounted implements, mirror

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Various Sketches of the Madonna and Child (recto); Architectural Studies (verso) [partially visible on recto] by Paolo Veronese, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Various Sketches of the Madonna and Child (recto); Architectural Studies (verso) [partially visible on recto]

Paolo Veronese (d. 1588)

c. 1570 · Drawing, pen and brown ink (iron gall) and brush and brown wash

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Various Sketches of the Madonna and Child (recto) by Paolo Veronese, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Various Sketches of the Madonna and Child (recto)

Paolo Veronese (d. 1588)

c. 1580 · Drawing, pen and brown ink (iron gall) and brush and brown wash

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View across the Moat towards the Thomasschule and the Thomaskirche in Leipzig by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, The Cleveland Museum of Art

View across the Moat towards the Thomasschule and the Thomaskirche in Leipzig

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (d. 1872)

1817 · Drawing, Pen and black ink and graphite on ivory wove paper

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Untitled (Case with portraits of a man and woman and hair ornaments) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Untitled (Case with portraits of a man and woman and hair ornaments)

Unrecorded maker

c. 1870s · Photograph, Photographs: photographs on enamel, framed in copper alloy metal frames; hair lockets: hair with pen and black and ink on cream-colored backing; case: leather with metal push-clasp and velvet-lined interior

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The Rabbit Hunt by Pieter Bruegel, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Rabbit Hunt

Pieter Bruegel (d. 1569)

1560 · Print, etching

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Pen from a Writing Set by John Hamilton Mortimer, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Pen from a Writing Set

John Hamilton Mortimer (d. 1779)

c. 1830 · Miscellaneous, hardstones including lapis lazuli, malachite, carnelian, agate, gold; original fitted velvet-lined case

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A Faun Grasping a Bunch of Grapes by Peter Paul Rubens, The Cleveland Museum of Art

A Faun Grasping a Bunch of Grapes

Peter Paul Rubens (d. 1640)

after 1616–18 · Drawing, black chalk and brush and brown wash; framing lines in pen and black ink

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The Three Theological Virtures: Faith, Hope, and Charity, Surrounded by the Four Evangelists by Pieter I de Jode, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Three Theological Virtures: Faith, Hope, and Charity, Surrounded by the Four Evangelists

Pieter I de Jode (d. 1634)

before 1634 · Drawing, Pen and ink, brush and wash over chalk with indications of transfer

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