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Nude Figure Studies (recto); Sheet of Figure Studies (verso)

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century (d. 1600)

16th century · Pen and brown ink

Figure Studies for the Sistine Ceiling (verso)

Michelangelo Buonarroti (d. 1564)

1510–11 · Drawing, red chalk heightened with traces of white

Sheet of Studies

Anthony van Dyck (d. 1641)

1621–27 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

Study for "The Romancer" (Le Conteur)

Jean-Antoine Watteau (d. 1721)

c. 1716 · Drawing, red chalk; red and black chalk (upper left figure)

Sheet of Studies

Anonymous, Italian, 17th century (d. 1700)

17th century · Black chalk

Two Studies of a Flayed Man (recto)

Bartolommeo da Arezzo

1554 · Drawing, pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk; incised (both figures) and pricked (left figure)

Sheet of Male Figure Studies

Anonymous, French, 18th century (d. 1800)

18th century · Pen and black ink

Sheet of Studies: Seated Man, Head of a Dog, Seated Woman

Claude-Joseph Vernet (d. 1789)

1700s · Drawing, red chalk (seated man); black chalk (head of a dog); pen and brown ink over black chalk (seated woman)

Sketchbook of Figure Studies

Thomas Sully (d. 1872)

1810–20 · Cardboard (cover) Drawings in ink, wash, and graphite on light brown laid paper with fibers of mixed composition (sheets)

Woman Standing among the Friars (recto) Sketches of Heads (verso, left); Two Women (verso, right)

John Brown (d. 1787)

c. 1770–75 · Drawing, graphite and gray and black wash with point of brush

Sheet of figure studies: two studies of a reclining figure, and a seated figure holding a lyre (?)

Eugène Delacroix (d. 1863)

1863 · Graphite

Study of a Young Woman Playing a Tambourine, and Studies of an Arm, Hands, and Feet (Studies for "Miriam Leading the Chorus of Women Who Give Thanks for the Routing of Pharoah"

Marcantonio Franceschini (d. 1729)

c. 1711 · Drawing, red chalk