Dido, Queen of Carthage

Study of a marriage procession for the Shield of Achilles by John Flaxman, after a description in Homer's Iliad

English, 1818

pen and grey ink with brown wash

British Museum

Study of vintagers for the Shield of Achilles by John Flaxman, after a description in Homer's Iliad

English, 1818

pen and grey ink over graphite

British Museum

Three studies of a battle scene for the Shield of Achilles by John Flaxman, after a description in Homer's Iliad

English, 1818

pen and grey ink and graphite

British Museum x x x

Sketch for the mosaic of Minerva by Elihu Vedder

American, c. 1895

graphite and chalk on paper

Library of Congress

Sketch of a woman and child, for The Holy Family Adored by Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist, by Guido Reni

Italian, c. 1640-1642

black, white, and red chalk

J. Paul Getty Museum

Allegory of Forgetfulness and Allegory of Sleep by Giorgio Vasari, possibly sketches for ceiling decoration of a bedroom

Italian, c. 1570

Pen and brown ink with grey wash over traces of black chalk

Metropolitan Museum of Art 

Sketches of the head of a woman (and detail), studies of the head of Leda for a lost painting of Leda and the Swan, by Leonardo da Vinci

Italian, c. 1505-1508

pen and ink with black chalk on paper

Royal Collection Trust

Cupid Shooting Arrows at the World Globe, attributed to Otto van Veen

Netherlandish, perhaps 1608 or shortly before

brush and gray ink, over black chalk, with white gouache

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Landscape with Sheep and Two Figures (recto) and Faint Sketch of a Figure with a Hat (verso), attributed to Jacob van der Does

Dutch, 17th century

brown wash with black chalk (recto); red chalk (verso)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Landscape with Fields, Two Trees, and Bushes, Men Standing in Foreground by Esaias van de Velde, from an album of drawings by his pupil Jan van Goyen 

Dutch, 1626

pen and brown ink on paper

British Museum

The Seven Sages of Greece by Peter Paul Rubens

Flemish, 1625

watercolor, gouache, white lead, and ink on laid paper

Museo del Prado

Sketches of Diana and her nymphs by Peter Paul Rubens. Flemish, 1611-1616. Brown ink on paper. Rijksmuseum.

Sketches of the Daughters of Cecrops by Peter Paul Rubens. Flemish, 1611-1616. Brown ink on paper. Rijksmuseum. 

Sketch of Archimedes, in the pose of a river god, by Gaspare Diziani

Italian, 18th century

brown ink with red wash

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Cybele Opposing Vesuvius to Protect the Cities of Stabiae, Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Resina (with detail of Vesuvius) by François-Edouard Picot, preparatory sketch for the ceiling painting in the Egyptian Galleries of the Louvre 

French, c. 1828

oil on canvas

private collection

At the Louvre: The Etruscan Sarcophagus by Edgar Degas

French, c. 1879

graphite and gray wash on blued white wove paper

Clark Art Institute 

Details from The Battle of the Centaurs and Lapiths by the circle of Charles de la Fosse. French, 17th or 18th century. Red chalk with red-brown wash on paper. Via Christie’s.