Sketchbook page

Two Squawking Ducks in the Water; verso: blank

Watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper

Four Swallows, One Perched and Three in Flight; verso: blank

Watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper

Charles de La Fosse, 17th-18th century

Allegorical Battle Scene

Black, red, and white chalk on blue antique laid paper

17th-18th centuryFrench

A Sacrificial Bull with His Executioner (The Roman Album)

Jacques-Louis David, 1775-1780

Brown ink on cream laid paper, laid down to pale green laid paper with folio 6b

Standing Merganser Looking Backward; verso: Soaring Bird

Watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper

Unidentified Artist, 18th century

Drawing

Standing Duck Looking to the Left; verso: blank

Watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper

Seated Male Nude; verso: Drapery Study

Antoine Coypel, 17th-18th century

Black and white chalk on tan antique laid paper

17th-18th centuryFrench

Nicolas Antoine Taunay, 18th-19th century

The Halt at the Fountain

Watercolor, black ink, brown wash and white gouache on off-white (?) antique laid (?) paper, framing lines in black ink and black chalk, laid down

18th-19th centuryFrench

Astolphe Brings Back the Head of Orrile, for Canto XV of Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso"

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1785

Black chalk and brown wash on cream antique laid paper

The Instructive and Appetizing Meal: Voltaire and Three Dinner Companions(?)

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1778

Black and brown ink and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in gray and brown ink