Poets Present their Manuscripts to a King

Profile Portrait of a Portly Man

Annibale Carracci, 16th-17th century

Red chalk on beige antique laid paper

Carlo Maratti, 17th century

Sheet of Studies

Brownish red and white chalk on off-white antique laid paper prepared with a red chalk wash, laid down on cream card

Scene with Two Soldiers; verso: Man Kneeling by a Stream (counterproof)

Salvator Rosa, 17th century

Red chalk on cream antique laid paper; laid down on verso of counterproof

Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio), 17th century

Truth (after Bernini)

Brown ink and brown wash, some traces of black chalk, on cream antique-laid paper, laid down

Giovanni-Domenico Desiderii, 17th century

Clearing in a Forest

Brown wash and black chalk on cream antique laid paper

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), 17th century

Saint Francis Praying

Brown ink and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper

Andrea Boscoli, 16th-17th century

Apollo

Brown ink and brown wash heightened with white gouache on brown paper; possibly some black chalk underdrawing

Saint Gregory and Saint Augustine

Unidentified Artist, 17th century

Brown ink heightened with white gouache over red chalk on green-gray antique laid paper

Saint John in the Wilderness

Annibale Carracci, 16th-17th century

Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on buff antique laid paper

Study of a Reclining Angel

Cristofano Roncalli, called Il Pomarancio, 16th-17th century

Red chalk on off-white antique laid paper

Female Allegorical Figure

Federico Zuccaro, 16th-17th century

Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on blue-green antique laid paper, laid down