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Salomon Gessner · 1777-1778 · illustrated book with 20 engravings and early nineteenth-century polished calf binding, spine gilded in compartments, inner gilded dentelles, and marbled endpapers ·  Accession ID  2000.138.1

Shown from the chest up, a woman’s body faces us as she looks slightly off to our left in this vertical drawing. Her face and features are shaded in detail with white highlights that suggest pale skin. She has round eyes with heavy lids under lightly raised brows, a straight nose, and full lips in an oval-shaped face. Her headdress wraps around her neck and head and falls over her shoulders. She is enclosed by a drawn frame with rounded corners at the top and a curved bottom. The artist’s initials are partially visible within the frame near the lower right, “H.H.” Ink writing was added to a few areas of the drawing or has transferred from another page to this image.
Hans Holbein the Elder, Portrait of a Woman [recto], c. 1508, silverpoint with brush and black and brown ink over charcoal and leadpoint, heightened with white on white prepared paper, Woodner Collection, 1991.182.18.a

Portrait of a Woman [recto]

Hans Holbein the Elder · c. 1508 · silverpoint with brush and black and brown ink over charcoal and leadpoint, heightened with white on white prepared paper ·  Accession ID  1991.182.18.a

Hans Holbein the Elder, Study of a Bearded Man [verso], c. 1508/1510, silverpoint and charcoal heightened with white on white prepared paper, Woodner Collection, 1991.182.18.b

Study of a Bearded Man [verso]

Hans Holbein the Elder · c. 1508/1510 · silverpoint and charcoal heightened with white on white prepared paper ·  Accession ID  1991.182.18.b

Martin Schongauer, Saint Lawrence, c. 1490/1491, engraving, Rosenwald Collection, 1944.2.71

Saint Lawrence

Martin Schongauer · c. 1490/1491 · engraving ·  Accession ID  1944.2.71

Drawn with brown ink on tan paper, a nude woman stands with her back to us, looking up and to our right with her hands together in prayer on this vertical sheet. Taking up most of the composition, she stands with her weight on her right foot and her left foot extended behind her and to the side. A scarf wraps around her hair and one end trails down her left shoulder. The edge of her right cheek and the tip of her nose are visible. Thin strokes outline the ample contours of her body and loose, parallel, curved strokes are used to create shadows on her arms, back, and legs. Tightly packed lines create darker shadows on her face.
Albrecht Dürer, Female Nude Praying, 1497/1500, pen and brown ink on laid paper, Woodner Collection, 1999.31.1

Female Nude Praying

Albrecht Dürer · 1497/1500 · pen and brown ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1999.31.1

Leonhard Beck, Berno of Reichenau, Gloriosorum christi confessorum Uldarici & Symperti, 1516, bound volume with six woodcut illustrations, Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, 2000.57.1

Gloriosorum christi confessorum Uldarici & Symperti

Leonhard Beck, Berno of Reichenau · 1516 · bound volume with six woodcut illustrations ·  Accession ID  2000.57.1

Hans Burgkmair I, Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg, Das buch granatapfel im latin genant Malogranatus.., 1510, bound volume with 6 woodcut illustrations and blindstamped vellum backed wooden boards, Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann, 2000.57.2

Das buch granatapfel im latin genant Malogranatus..

Hans Burgkmair I, Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg · 1510 · bound volume with 6 woodcut illustrations and blindstamped vellum backed wooden boards ·  Accession ID  2000.57.2