Two Sketchbook Pages: Dramatic Scenes from Classical Literature

Two Birds, One Perched and One in 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

Standing Woman in Turkish Costume

Claude Gillot, 18th century

Black ink and red chalk wash on toned cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink

Ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, Rome

Red chalk on cream antique laid paper

Drawing

Standing Bird; 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

Saint Genevieve (tracing of Balechou's engraving)

Jean Joseph Balechou, 18th century

Profile Portrait of a Woman

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, 1780

Red chalk on cream antique laid paper

Michel II Corneille, 17th-18th century

Pegasus with Nymphs

Brown ink and gray wash with touches of white gouache and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, darkened

17th-18th centuryFrench

Two Pheasants; 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

Head of a Child, after Rubens

Black, red and white chalk on beige antique laid paper

The Death of Caesar (The Roman Album)

Jacques-Louis David, 1775-1780

Brown ink and brown wash over black crayon on cream antique laid paper, mounted on beige modern laid paper with folio 12a (possibly same paper as album sheets)

Christ Blessing the Children