French Drawings (click images for more information)
Claude Lorrain (1600–82) Landscape with Trees and Buildings
c. 1640–46
Graphite, brown and gray wash, black chalk, brush, and dark brown ink
Samuel Courtauld Trust: Princes Gate Bequest, 1978
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) Carmelite Friar, Standing
c. 1715
Black and red chalk
Samuel Courtauld Trust: Princes Gate Bequest, 1978
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) Satyr Pouring Wine
1717
Black, red, and white chalk
Samuel Courtauld Trust: Princes Gate Bequest, 1978
Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700–77) The Life Class at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture
1746
Pen, black and brown ink, gray wash and watercolor, and traces of graphite, over black chalk
Samuel Courtauld Trust: Witt Bequest, 1952
Hubert Robert (1733–1808) Terrace in an Italian Garden
c. 1760
Red chalk
Samuel Courtauld Trust: Princes Gate Bequest, 1978
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) Young Girl Seated
1785
Red chalk
Samuel Courtauld Trust: Princes Gate Bequest, 1978
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867) Study for La Grande Odalisque
1814
Graphite
Samuel Courtauld Trust, purchased with the assistance of The Art Fund and V&A Purchase Grant Fund, 1995
Théodore Géricault (1791–1824) Sheet of Figure Studies
c. 1817–18
Pen and two shades of brown ink over graphite
Samuel Courtauld Trust: Witt Bequest, 1952
Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) Sheet with Two Studies of a Female Nude
1847
Graphite
Samuel Courtauld Trust: Princes Gate Bequest, 1978
Honoré Daumier (1808–79) Le Malade imaginaire (The Hypochondriac)
c. 1850
Black chalks, black ink wash, watercolor and touches of gouache, with pen and point of the brush in brown and black-gray ink
Samuel Courtauld Trust: Samuel Courtauld Gift, 1934