Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism

Laurent de La Hyre, The Kiss of Peace and Justice, 1654, oil on canvas, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Paolo Veronese, Various Sketches of the Madonna and Child (recto); Architectural Studies (verso) [partially visible on recto], c. 1570, pen and brown ink (iron gall) and brush and brown wash, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Albrecht Dürer, Arm of Eve, 1507, point of brush and gray and black wash, brush and gray and black wash, heightened with white gouache, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Jean-François Millet, First Steps, c. 1859–66, black chalk and pastel on beige laid paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Federico Barocci, Aeneas Saving Anchises at the Fall of Troy, 1587–88, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash and yellow gouache heightened with traces of white, over black chalk, with stylus (banister); framing lines in pen and brown ink, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Fra Bartolommeo, Farmhouse on the Slope of a Hill, c. 1508, pen and brown ink, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Edgar Degas, Diego Martelli, 1879, charcoal and white chalk, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Peter Paul Rubens, The Feast of Herod (recto); Tomyris with the Head of Cyrus (verso), c. 1637–38, pen and brown ink, with black and red chalk, touched with white gouache, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Bernardo Strozzi, Allegorical Figure, c. 1635, black chalk with red chalk , Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Pietro Perugino, Saint Sebastian, c. 1493, metalpoint, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, A Flying Angel (recto); Studies of Hands Playing Instruments (verso), 1723–27, black chalk heightened with traces of white chalk, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Raphael, Studies of a Seated Female, Child's Head, and Three Studies of a Baby, c. 1507–8, metalpoint, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Domenichino, Temperance, 1628–30, black chalk heightened with white chalk, squared with black chalk, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Madonna Nursing the Christ Child, c. 1670–72, pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over red and black chalk, with traces of white; framing lines in pen and brown ink, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.