Tom Tying the Hands of an Attempted Rapist

Two Birds Taking Flight; verso: blank

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 18th century

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

Herod Returning Christ to Pilate

Bernard Picart, 1714

Black ink and gray and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper, partially incised, adhered to a decorated mount

Two Flying Putti Holding Palm Fronds

Unidentified Artist, 18th century

Black ink, brown wash, black ink framing line on cream antique laid paper

18th centuryFrench?

Study for a Bas-Relief for the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel

Merry-Joseph Blondel, 18th-19th century

Red ink tracing on oiled antique laid paper

A Boy with a Finger to His Lips

Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié, 18th century

Red chalk counterproof heightened with white chalk on toned tan antique laid paper

Maidens Making an Offering to a River God

Unidentified Artist, 18th century

Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk

18th centuryFrench?

Seated Male Nude, His Left Arm Raised

Unidentified Artist, c. 1760-1780

Black and white chalk, stumped, on buff antique laid paper

Study for Hippolytus and Phaedra; verso: Study of a Seated Figure

Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, 18th-19th century

Black chalk and charcoal on off-white wove paper, mounted to light tan laid paper

Hubert Robert, 18th-19th century

Study of Kneeling Women

Graphite and red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, framing lines in black ink

Achille Leclère, 18th-19th century

Grottaferrata

Graphite and gray-brown wash on off-white antique laid paper

Two Pheasants Perched on a Branch; verso: blank

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 18th century

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

Unidentified Artist, 18th century

Hagar and the Angel

Brown ink and brown and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink