French Drawings from the Collection

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

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.

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.

Théodore Géricault, Fighting Horses, c. 1820, watercolor over graphite, 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.

Honoré Daumier, Art Lovers, c. 1863, Gray and black wash, charcoal, and graphite, with watercolor, on cream laid paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Edgar Degas, Diego Martelli, 1879, charcoal and white chalk, 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.

Paul Gauguin, Head of a Tahitian Woman, 1891, graphite with stumping and graphite wash on parchment, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.

Edgar Degas, Sheet of Studies and Sketches, 1858, graphite, pen and dark brown ink, and watercolor on thick ivory wove paper, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.