Treasures on Paper

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Madame Désiré Raoul-Rochette, 1830, graphite on cream wove paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Parri Spinelli, Navicella (recto), c. 1410s, pen and brown ink (iron gall), Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

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.

Georges Seurat, At the Concert Parisien, 1887–88, conté crayon heightened with white chalk on cream handmade modern laid paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Théodore Géricault, Fighting Horses, c. 1820, watercolor over graphite, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Honoré Daumier, Art Lovers, c. 1863, Gray and black wash, charcoal, and graphite, with watercolor, 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.

Jacob Jordaens, The Conversion of Saul with Christ and the Cross, c. 1645–47, brush and brown wash, gouache and watercolor over black and red chalk, heightened with traces of white; framing lines in graphite, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Odilon Redon, Melancholy, c. 1868, graphite on beige wove paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.