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Works on paper

With more than 90,000 artworks, our collection of works on paper is one of the largest in the world.

Highlights

Ornament with Two Genii Riding on Two Chimeras, 1544

(Hans) Sebald Beham
Saint Matthew with two Angels (Design for a lunette), ca. 1485-1490

Pintoricchio (Bernardino Pinturicchio)
Justice (Iusticia) from the E-Series set of Tarot cards (The Mantegna Tarots), ca. 1465

Master of the E-Series Tarocchi
Justus Sustermans, from The Iconography, ca. 1630-1632

Anthony van Dyck
Saint John the Evangelist Meditating the Gospel, 1645-1650

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Salt Flats at Le Croisic, ca. 1671-1673

Lambert Doomer
Young Men in Ancient German Costumes, 1570

Melchior Lorch
A Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) with a Tiger Moth, a Butterfly, a Snail, and a Beetle, ca. 1730

Barbara Regina Dietzsch
Study of a man with upraised hand (Orator), ca. 1625

Jusepe de Ribera

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