Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Jean Antoine Watteau, Study for "The Romancer" (Le Conteur), c. 1716, red chalk; red and black chalk (upper left figure), Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

François Boucher, The Presentation in the Temple, c. 1770, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, and black chalk, heightened with white paint; framing lines in pen and brown ink, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Nicolas Poussin, Nymphs and a Satyr (Amor Vincit Omnia), c. 1625–27, oil on canvas, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Noël Nicolas Coypel, The Miracles of Saint James the Greater, 1726, oil on canvas, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Longton Hall Porcelain Factory, Figure of Britannia, c. 1756, soft-paste porcelain, 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.

Jean-Marc Nattier, Portrait of a Woman as Diana, 1752, oil on canvas, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.