Public-domain drawings
200 public-domain plates · 9th century to 20th century · 4933 attributed
200 public-domain drawings in the archive, every one released under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) or equivalent public-domain dedication spanning the 9th century to 20th century. Free to view, download and reuse for any purpose. Of these, 4933 carry a named artist or maker.
Artists & makers in this set
Subjects covered
Museum sources
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German Prisoner Type
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Drawing
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Sniper at Chateau Thierry
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Drawing
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Drawing
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Drawing
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Portrait of a Couple in the Guise of Angelica and Medoro
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The Old Barn, Arreton, Isle of Wight
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A Pastoral Landscape with Shepherds Playing a Viola and Panpipes
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Au Jardin d'Acclimatation (In the Zoological Garden)
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A Fakeer at the Door of a Mosque, Constantinople
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Iris ochroleuca
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South-West Point, Conanicut
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The Annunciation
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Taj Mahal
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Study for "Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveler" (recto); Study for "Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveler" (verso)
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Seated Male Nude with Raised Right Hand
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Virtues Crowning the Bust of Canova
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Saint Anthony of Padua (recto); Bust of a Child and Head of an Angel (verso)
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The Prophecy of Basilides
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Four Male Heads
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Saint Paschal Baylon in Ecstasy
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The Battle of Munda
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Head of a Sheep
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Moonlit Landscape with a River and Castle
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Adéle de Saussure and Marie-Louise Ravel, the Artist's Wife, in His Studio
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A Kneeling Friar in Prayer
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Head of a Nun
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A Young Boy Seated Beneath a Tree
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Virgin and Child with the Apple (verso)
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a) Study of a Man Kneeling, Looking Upward (recto); b) Studies of the Same Figure (verso)
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Cupid and Psyche
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Four Actresses in Theatrical Costume
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Coastal View in Normandy, with a Beached Boat
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A Scene in an Historical Play Exhibited on the Chinese Stage
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Troilus and Cressida, Act IV, Scene V: The Fight Between Hector and Ajax II
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Seated Boy with Head Down
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Children Parodying a Triumph of Bacchus
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Figures Deciphering an Inscription, with Two Women Seated [Study for Oeuvres de Bossuet, IV]
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Self-Portrait Writing with a Companion
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A View of the Piazza San Marco in Florence
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The Declaration of Love
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Design for a Wall with Two Doors and a Sculpture
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A Shepherd and a Shepherdess Resting
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The Fall of the Rebel Angels
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An Academy Study of a Reclining Male Nude
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Jupiter
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Décoration de sallon pour Brunoy (Design for the Interior of the Château de Brunoy)
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Design for a Decorative Panel with Two Sirens Holding a Vase Embellished with Dolphins and other Decorative Motifs
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A Young Shepherd Playing a Pipe for Two Young Shepherdesses
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A Stage Design for an Opera with Actors
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The Finding of Moses
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A Cliff Overhung with Trees
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Portrait of a Man
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Programme de théâtre (recto); Etudes (verso)
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Agnès Entering a Grotto
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King David (Design for a Lunette)
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Jeremiah (Design for a Lunette)
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Daughter of Jephthah
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The Assumption of the Virgin with Two Bishops and Other Figures
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Christ in Glory with Angels and a Saint Kneeling in Adoration
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Portrait of a Man
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Workmen before an Inn
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Bust of Francesco I d'Este
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Virgin of the Immaculate Conception
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Contending Group after Nature [A Lion Fighting a Tiger and a Leopard]
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Scene of Witchcraft
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Euterpe (Personification of Music)
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The Adoration of the Shepherds
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Studies for Christ Before Caiaphas
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Tangier
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Granada
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Generalife
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Untitled
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Cordoba
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Building with Washing
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A Street, Tunis
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A Loggia
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Church and Street, Camprodon
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Quayside Scene with Church
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Statuette of a Buddha
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Vevey
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Self-Portrait
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Study for 'Les cinq peintres' (The Five Painters)
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A Drover with Sheep, a Church Beyond
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The Village Pond at Bishopstoke
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The Pier, Harwich
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Oberwesel on the Rhine
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Old Billingsgate, London
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Study for "Rachel Came with Her Father's Sheep" (recto); The Death of Rachel (verso)
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The Virgin Giving the Girdle to Saint Thomas, between Saints Francis and Catherine of Siena
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Netley Abbey, Hampshire
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Gentle Critics (The Portfolio)
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A Seated Man
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Study for the Sibyl of the Casa Budrioli
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a) Studies of Figures and a Hand (recto); b) Studies of a Bull (verso)
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A Hawking Party Setting off from a Country House
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The Finding of Moses
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Saint Catherine of Siena on a Cloud
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Design for an Altar
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Pusterla dei Fabbri, Milan
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The Heather or Broom Gatherers
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Path in the Countryside, Vichy
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The Coming Storm: A Fishing Boat Making for Home off Whitby
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Study of Bay Leaves
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The Kingfisher's Haunt
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The Madonna and Child Enthroned with a Bishop Saint and a Kneeling Ecclesiastic
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The Transfiguration
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A Farm near the Sea at Margate, Kent
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Sketches of Tombs
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Adrien Perlet, Actor
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Landscape
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Tom -- Florence
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America
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Arcadian Landscape
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Coastal Seascape
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Leaf 8 from an antiphonal fragment (verso)
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Leaf 8 from an antiphonal fragment
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Isaac Sending Esau Out to Hunt
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Leaf 7 from an antiphonal fragment
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Leaf 6 from an antiphonal fragment (verso)
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Leaf 6 from an antiphonal fragment
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Leaf 5 from an antiphonal fragment
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Leaf 4 from an antiphonal fragment (verso)
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Leaf 4 from an antiphonal fragment
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Leaf 3 from an antiphonal fragment (verso)
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Leaf 3 from an antiphonal fragment
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Leaf 2 from an antiphonal fragment (verso)
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Leaf 2 from an antiphonal fragment
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Leaf 1 from an antiphonal fragment (verso)
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The Three Maries at the Tomb with the Angel of the Resurrection
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Head of a Spanish Monk
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The Steps of a House at Mousehole, Cornwall
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Virgin and Child with the Prophet Daniel and Mary Magdalene
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Bust of a Young Woman in Profile
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Wooded Landscape with Figures outside a Cottage
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The Yorke Family
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The Holy Family with Saint Philip Neri in Adoration, an Angel, and Putti
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Young Girl Standing by a Stream
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Tomb with Death Standing
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Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
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A Female Figure Seated on an Entablature, Holding a Distaff
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Tobit Burying the Dead
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Landscape with Three Tall Trees
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A Roman Capriccio
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Design for a Ceiling: Aeolus Seated on Clouds Surrounded by Putti
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David Playing the Harp Before Saul
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Ludlow Castle, Shropshire
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A Man Drawing
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After the Bath: Woman Drying Herself
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Ruins of the Church of the Saints-Innocents, Paris
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Two Figures in a Landscape
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Study for "Rêve d'amour"
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A Roman Cloister
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Study of a Male Nude and Other Studies
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Arab Horseman at the Gallop
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A False Scalping Performed by Iowa Tribe Members in Paris
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Saddled Horse with a Study of a Rider
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Two Studies of the Head of a Young Man Crowned with a Laurel Wreath
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Head of a Man
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The Presentation in the Temple
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View of Oxford from Headington Hill
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The Wrekin, Shropshire
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The Ramparts, Mont St. Michel, France
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Bristol Cathedral from College Green
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Stags in Knole Park, Kent
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Trees at Fordland, Devon
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Wooded Landscape beside a River
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A Soldier in Ancient Roman Costume with Pike and Shield
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Acanthus Ornament
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Navigation (Allegory of the Navy)
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A Wooded Path at Treslong, near Hillegom
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Study of a Male Nude
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Autumn Landscape in the Forest of Fontainebleau
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Hunting Trophy with Hare and Bay Leaves
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Hunting Trophy with Mallard, Partridge, Goldfinches, and Onions
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Standing Soldier, Facing Right
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The Vision of Saint Angelus
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Kneeling Angel
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Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata
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The Angel Appearing to Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness
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The Penitent Magdalene
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Standing Boy in a Landscape
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Young Girl Reading
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Au Théâtre Antoine
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Design for "The Prima Macchina for the Chinea of 1774: Hercules and the Dragon in the Garden of the Hesperides"
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The Stoning of Saint Stephen
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Study of an Angel in Flight
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Saint Michael and the Rebel Angels
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The Baptism of Christ
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The Meeting of Jacob and Rachel
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Fantastic Landscape with a Man Sleeping on a Rock
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Madonna and Child with Angels, Saint Benedict, and Saint Scholastica
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Mandolin Player in Popular Costume of Abruzzi
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The Madonna and Child Seated on a Dais with Tobias and the Angel and a Saint Presenting Two Children
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Christ with Doubting Thomas and the Apostles
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Dieppe Cathedral
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The Siege of Tortona, or The Thirst of the People of Tortona (La Costanza dei tortonesi)
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Studies of Sheep
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A Sheep
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Works in this set
- German Prisoner Type A catalogued work
- Drawing A catalogued work
- Sniper at Chateau Thierry A catalogued work
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- Drawing A catalogued work
- Portrait of a Couple in the Guise of Angelica and Medoro A catalogued work
- The Old Barn, Arreton, Isle of Wight A catalogued work
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