Work on Paper

Our Works on Paper department presents an outstanding selection of drawings, watercolours and works on paper, from Renaissance studies to Baroque compositions and beyond, reflecting the intimate creative process of the greatest draughtsmen.

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Portrait of Hu Xuan-Zhai

Self-portrait as a terrified man

Self-portrait as a wounded man

Mushrooms No. III

A Group of Traders gathered at the outskirts of the Old City of Jerusalem

Woman with closed eyes

Portrait of Mademoiselle Elisa Hintz

Venice: A Panoramic View of the Bacino di San Marco with San Giorgio Maggiore, the Punta della Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute

Mujer Echada

Pobre Trabajador (r.) / La Celestina (v.)

Female torso

Head of a Girl

Antique Roman fragments studies on a sarcophagus

Studies of Roman fragments after the Antique

Studies after the colossal statue of Mars Ultor (Pyrrhus)

Sarah Bernhardt as Tosca

An imaginary view of the Forum Romanum with the restoration of the Temple of Castor and Pollux

The Carpet Seller

Head study of an adolescent

Head of a Man (Christ)

Portrait of Carletto Thieben

A rostrum of musicians in a loggia

An ideal head of a woman with an elaborate headdress

Portrait of a man from Kayes, wearing a Fulani fibre hat

Portrait of a Woman from Arles

Portrait of Marie-Thérese-Baptistine Hains, at her tambour frame

A merchant carrying a rifle, helmet and fabrics, study for Marchand ambulant au Caire

A seated and turbaned musician playing a spike fiddle, seen from behind, a study for The Sword Dance

A seated man in prayer

Standing Arnaut seen from behind, with a curved sword

Standing Arnaut with pistol and dagger

Standing figure seen from behind, study for The Carpet Merchant

A statue of Venus

A couple in courtship

Chats (inv. 4)

Étude pour le livre-album Fêtes secrètes

Les Carcans (inv. 131)

Set Design for 'La Megere Apprivoisée'

Sketches for mask designs

Sorcière volante

Sphinx (inv. LF/WP047)

Squellette

Studies for sphinxes (recto and verso, inv. 169)

Studies for sphinxes and heads (recto and verso, inv. 170)

Three standing turbaned figures

Untitled (A dance and a flying creature)

Untitled (Two Standing Figures)

Various studies for sphinxes (inv. 175)

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