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![A sketchbook of eighty-one drawings, including An expressive male head ( illustrated b); Study of a draped female nude; Profile of a bearded man; Profile of a man, possibly taken from a Roman bust; Profile of a bearded man, possibly taken from a Greek statue; Three figures in Renaissance costume; Life study for a standard-bearer; A draped male nude seen from behind; A reclining river nymph ( illustrated e); Two life studies of a draped female nude; A muscular male nude ( illustrated c); A male nude seated on a step; A seated female nude wearing a hair net; Profile of a young girl in prayer; Cupid; David playing the harp; Study of a woman's arm; A seated male nude holding a thunderbolt; Life study of a female nude in a Mannerist pose; A reclining male nude; Two seated male nudes in Classical costume; Andromeda ( illustrated a); Sketch of a reclining female nude; Composition study for 'The Rape of Persephone' ( illustrated i); Two male figures in Biblical drapery; Composition study for 'Hector parting from Andromache and Astyanax'; Life study of a seated male nude; Designs for hairstyles for 'Juno presenting the Cestus to Venus'; The infant Hercules strangling the serpent; Studies for 'The Resurrection' ( recto and verso ); Studies of shoulder muscles; Composition study with labourers and a wagon in a barn; Study of cattle; Study of two infants and two grotesque heads; Petitioners appealing to a lord ( illustrated g); Venus and Cupid; Four life studies of a seated female nude; A cloaked, seated Native American warrior; Life study of a seated male nude; Philosophers disputing; Study of a doorway; Seven studies of écorché limbs; Two composition studies showing a robed, chained figure in a hall before a judge; A young woman in the presence of a ruler; Study of a putto ( illustrated e); Two sheets of studies of figures in contemporary dress; Narcissus; A robed, bearded figure, possibly an Apostle; Narcissus and Echo; Sketch of Narcissus; Two classical male figures in an interior [half the page has been excised]; 'Noli me tangere'; Esther before Ahasuerus; A kneeling female figure; Study for 'The Death of Epaminondas' ( illustrated f); Two composition studies for pastoral scenes; A Roman orator addressing troops before a temple; Study for 'Hector parting from Andromache and Astyanax'; Sketch of a sacked city, possibly Troy; Aphrodite bringing Helen to Paris ( illustrated d); Study of two figures, probably for 'Rinaldo and Armida'; A young man fording a river with two horses; Venus requesting armour for Aeneas from Vulcan; Composition study of Thetis supplicating Zeus; and Head of a bearded man](https://vasari-public.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/auction-images/lot-533590-thumb.jpg)
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expand_moreMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston, United States · Acquired 2020 · Accession 2020.216 · Oil on paper mounted to canvas
Gift of the Honorable Joseph P. Carroll, KM and Prof. Roberta L. Carroll, MD
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston, United States · Acquired 2020 · Accession 2020.501 · Oil on paper mounted to canvas
Gift of the Honorable Joseph P. Carroll, KM and Prof. Roberta L. Carroll, MD
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston, United States · Acquired 2020 · Accession 2020.502 · Oil on canvas
Gift of the Honorable Joseph P. Carroll, KM and Prof. Roberta L. Carroll, MD
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston, United States · Acquired 2018 · Accession 2018.126 · Oil on canvas
Museum purchase funded by the Long Endowment for American Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2016 · Accession 2016.349 · Graphite
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2016
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 2015 · Accession 2015.217.1 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, tipped onto mount with aquatint border in brown on cream wove paper
Prints and Drawings Purchase Fund
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2015 · Accession 2015.653.26 · Wood engraving
Gift of Donato Esposito, 2015
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston, United States · Acquired 2014 · Accession B.2014.8 · Lithograph on wove paper mounted on the original wove support sheet with gray-brown aquatint
The Bayou Bend Collection, funded by the Museum Collectors in memory of Michael K. Brown
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2010 · Accession 2010.144 · Brown ink applied by brush and pen, black chalk underdrawing; laid paper prepared with a light golden brown wash
Gift of Maurice J. Cotter, in memory of his mother, Muriel Josephine Cotter (1902–2003), 2010
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston, United States · Acquired 2007 · Accession 2007.1461.A,.B · Black chalk, pen and brown ink and watercolor, heightened with touches of white, grey and blue bodycolor and brown wash, on oatmeal paper
Museum purchase funded by the Long Endowment for American Art and the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund, with additional gifts in honor of Meredith Long and Company on the occasion …
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2003 · Accession 2003.192 · Pen and brown ink on wove paper
Bequest of Thomas Rayner Todd, 2002
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2003 · Accession 2003.436 · Pen and brown ink, brown ink washes, black chalk, and graphite on off-white (now oxidized) laid paper.
Gift of Diane, Daniel, and Mathew Wolf, in memory of Diane R. Wolf, 2003
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Benjamin West dies
Jan 1, 1820
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Benjamin West born
Jan 1, 1738