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 (possibly Ithell Colquhoun)

Sarah Bernhardt as Tosca

Head study of an adolescent

Study of a boy pulling a rope

Study of a young girl

Study of arms for “L’a.b.c”

Study of hands for “Les Méduses Bleues”

Female torso

Head of a Girl

Portrait of Carletto Thieben

Woman with closed eyes

Study of a female head

A couple in courtship

Bust-length portrait of a young man

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

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

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

Portrait of Hu Xuan-Zhai

Portrait of a Woman from Arles

A rostrum of musicians in a loggia

Head of a woman

An ideal head of a woman with an elaborate headdress

Portrait of Mademoiselle Elisa Hintz

Mujer Echada

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

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

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

Portrait of a Young Girl, possibly the Artist’s Daughter Louise

Head of a Man (Christ)

A King Crab, Lizards, Spiders and a Beetle

A rose with garden whites

Butterflies and moths

Flying lizards, snakes, a scorpion and a chameleon

Insects

Mushrooms No. III

Self-portrait as a terrified man

Self-portrait as a wounded man

Head of a bald, sinewy man looking downwards

Three heads in profile

Chats (inv. 4)

Étude pour le livre-album Fêtes secrètes

Les Carcans (inv. 131)

Set Design for 'La Megere Apprivoisée'

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