18th Century Master Drawings

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.

Jean Honoré Fragonard, Invocation to Love, c. 1781, Brush and brown wash with graphite squaring lines and underdrawing on cream 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.

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.

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.