Masterworks of Printmaking and Drawing
- Dürer, Saint Christopher
- Claesz, Vignette with a Sphinx
- Tempesta, Turkish Soldiers
- Goltzius, Apollo
- Ribera, The Poet
- Callot, Les Danseurs
- Rembrandt, Nude Man Seated
- Ostade, The Hunchbacked Fiddler
- Everdingen, The Dilapidated Cottage
- Piranesi, The Well
- Goya, Esto Si Que Es Leer
- Descourtis, L'Amant Surpris
- Daumier, Aspect de le la Salle
- Meryon, Le Petit Pont
- Lessore, Barge Builders
- Lalanne, Rade de Bordeaux
- Andrieux, Don Quixote Telling
- Whistler, Wheelwright
- Buhot, Dèbarquement en Angleterre
- Toulouse-Lautrec, Repetition Generale
- Cross, Champs-Elyseè
- Zorn, The New Maid
- Munch, Alte Männer und Knaben
- Delâtre, Standing Peasant
- Vallotton, La Nuit
- Kollwitz, Tod Hält Mädchen
- Matisse, La Persane
- Sloan, Romany Marye's
- Villon, La Petite Mulatresse
- Walkowitz, Two Figures Seated
- Campigli, Woman with a Veil
- Eby, The Storm
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3. Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630) Turkish Soldiers Besieging a Fortress |
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Turkish Soldiers Besieging a Fortress
Brown ink and wash over black chalk with touches of white gouache, 260 x 324 mm., ex collections: Richard Cosway, 1740-1821 (Lugt 628); Anonymous French collection (not in L.). Dramatic, finished compositional study, with drawn framing lines indicating, perhaps, that it was meant to be engraved (no matching print by Tempesta has been found). Drawn on laid paper without visible watermark in iron-gall ink, which has eaten through the paper in small places, and in a larger area at the top which has been restored. The left bottom of the sheet has also been lost, before its acquisition by Cosway (his stamp is on the replacement paper). A long tear has been well mended. The drawing bears an old and mistaken attribution to Tintoretto. It compares well with the three examples of Tempesta drawings given by N. Turner in his volume on Florentine 16th-century drawings.
