This is a major collecting area for the Snite. Its holdings sweep in time from the Renaissance, to Old Masters, to well-known 19th-Century European and American artists. It contains fine examples by some of the most prominent European draftsmen of 1600 to 1900.

Highlights include rare groups of drawings by artists such as, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Edgar-Hilaire-Germain Degas, François Boucher, and Eugène Delacroix; The John D. Reilly Collection of Drawings; The Mr. and Mrs. Allan J. Riley Collection of 18th-and 19th-Century British Drawings; and the Jack and Alfrieda Feddersen Collection of Rembrandt Etchings

	Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Italian, 1682 - 1754 HEAD OF A YOUNG BOY IN PROFILE TO THE RIGHT, ca. 1715-1718 Black chalk with touches of white on grey-brown paper backed to a sheet of thin mulberry paper. Gift from Mr. John D. Reilly, Class of 1963 2000.074.026
	Jacques-Louis David French, 1748 - 1825 PORTRAIT OF THE BARONESS JEAMN AND HER DAUGHTER, 1821 Black chalk on buff paper On loan from Mr. John D. Reilly 1996.070.004