Imagination in the Age of Reason

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, A Spring Shower, 1797–1804, pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk; framing lines in brown ink over graphite on antique laid paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

François Boucher, Fountain with Two Tritons Blowing Conch Shells, c. 1736, Black chalk with stumping, and red chalk, heightened with white chalk on beige laid paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Canaletto, Capriccio: A Palace with a Courtyard by the Lagoon, c. 1750–55, pen and brown ink and brush and gray and black washes over traces of graphite (?); framing lines in pen and brown and black ink, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, A Young Woman Buying a Pink from a Young Man, c. 1740, black crayon (wetted and rubbed) heightened with white chalk on faded blue paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.