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Artworks
Silver monstrance executed in 1727
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy
metalwork, print — black ink on white paper · 1730
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
A Court Scene
Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian
architecture, drawing — pen and brown ink; brush and gray, blue and pale rose wash on white paper, laid down · 1700
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Plate 10, from set of Flowers in a Basket
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, French
Etching on white paper · 1680
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Standing Male Figure: Study for a Portrait
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo
Pen and brown ink over black chalk underdrawing on off-white paper (recto); black chalk (verso) · 1670
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Trophee médallique et impérial (Medal and Imperial Trophy)
Jean Le Pautre, French
ornament, print — engraving support: off-white paper · 1661
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Faust
Rembrandt van Rijn
etching, drypoint and burin on a heavy white paper · 1652
National Gallery of Art
The Exposition of the Holy Sacrament, Attended by Louis XIV and His Mother, Anne of Austria
Stefano della Bella, Italian
architecture, print — engraving with black ink on white paper · 1650
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Canal with an Angler and Two Swans
Rembrandt van Rijn
Etching and drypoint on off-white paper · 1650
Art Institute of Chicago
Saint Francis and Saint Clara Adoring the Infant Jesus
Cornelis Galle I, Flemish
religion, print — engraving on white paper · 1630
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Joseph's Coat Brought to Jacob
Rembrandt van Rijn
Etching and drypoint on laid white paper · 1628
Art Institute of Chicago
The Martyrdom of St. Peter Martyr
Francisco Camilo
Pen and brown ink, brown wash over black chalk, highlighted with white on off-white paper. Squared in red chalk and traces of construction lines in black chalk, close to borders · 1615
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Landscape with Abraham and the Three Angels
Cornelis Visscher, Netherlandish
print — engraved on white paper · 1614
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Angels Ministering to St. Sebastian
Alonso Cano
Black chalk on off-white paper. On lower left traces of unrelated lines in pen and dark brown ink · 1601
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Virgin Interceding for Those in Purgatory
Alonso Cano
Pen and dark brown ink over black chalk underdrawing. Composition outlined in black chalk, and in dark brown ink (seeped onto sheet from the outlines on the secondary paper support. On off-white paper · 1601
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Juno Appearing to Sea Gods
Cornelis Cornelisz.
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over traces of black chalk, on off-white paper prepared with pink watercolor; traces of framing lines in pen and brown ink · 1582
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Virgin and Child
Hieronymous Wierix
Engraving in black on off-white paper · 1570
Art Institute of Chicago
Grotesque with Deities. Plate 01 “Saturne” 2nd state
René Boyvin, French
Black ink on white paper · 1540
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Grotesque with Deities. Plate 04 “Juno,” 2nd state
René Boyvin, French
Black ink on white paper · 1540
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Nude Man Seen from Behind (Narcissus?)
Francesco Mazzola, called Parmigianino, Italian
mythology, print — chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in green and black on white paper · 1527
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Landscape (recto); Landscape (verso)
Perugino
Brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, on gray-green prepared paper (recto); pen and brown ink on unprepared off-white paper (verso) · 1489
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Landscape (recto); Landscape (verso)
Pietro Perugino
Brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, on gray-green prepared paper (recto); pen and brown ink on unprepared off-white paper (verso) · 1489
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Querfüllung auf hellem Grund (Horizontal Ornament)
Martin Schongauer, German
Engraving on white paper · 1470
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Study of Cosmos
Sophia L. Crownfield, American
nature studies, drawing — brush and watercolor on white paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Study of Dahlias
Sophia L. Crownfield, American
nature studies, drawing — brush and watercolor, graphite on white paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum