In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
This sheet of studies in red chalk was made in preparation for the composition Miriam Leading the Chorus of Women Who Give Thanks for the Routing of Pharaoh, a final episode in the story of the Israelites' exodus from Egypt. The Bolognese artist Marcantonio Franceschini painted the cartoon of the complete composition between 1711 and 1712, and it was used to decorate an important papal building, the Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome, where it remains today. While the studies of feet and the head and shoulders with raised arms are for the principal figure of Miriam playing the tambourine, the arm on the right and the two hands holding a rod are studies for an attendant figure who plays the triangle behind Miriam.
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The Last Communion of Saint Mary of Egypt
Cartoon Fragment for Adolescent Angel Leaning on a Tablet or
The Birth of Adonis
Allegorical Figure of Purity with a Unicorn
Saint Luke Holding a Painting of the Virgin and Child
Allegorical Figure of Faith
Saint Lawrence Standing and Holding the Grill, Instrument of
Allegorical Figure of Charity
Anonymous, French, 17th century — Studies of Heads and Hands
Federico Barocci — Studies of a Man's Head and of His Hands
Jacob de Wit — Study of Two Hands
Giovanni Larciani ("Master of the Kress Landscapes") — Studi
Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594–1665) — Three Heads and Other 
Cecco Bravo (Italian, 1607–1661) — Study of a Standing Male 
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) — Lucretia
Camillo Procaccini (Italian, 1546–1629) — Study of Hands (ve
Carlo Maratti — Four Studies of Recumbent Female Nudes (Gala
Antonio d'Enrico Tanzio (Tanzio da Varallo) — Studies for an
Abraham Bloemaert (Dutch, 1566–1651) — Two Female Heads
Charles Le Brun — Two Muses