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Watercolors

11,528 works

Watercolor of the cream-hulled warship U.S. Battle-Ship Chicago with orange funnels and American flag on choppy seas.

U.S. Battle-Ship Chicago

Red chalk drawing of a weeping elderly man with closed eyes, wrinkled brow and pursed mouth, with handwritten description bel

Weeping

Eduardus Jacobus, after 1698

Bust of Helmeted Warrior in Profile

possibly Giuseppe Cesari, called Il Cavalier d'Arpino, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of fishermen netting in shallow water beside moored sailboats, a tall wooden tower and houses, dated 1768.

Fishermen Mooring Boat at Landing

John Innes, 1768

Brown wash drawing of men talking outside a farmhouse beside a canal, with a dog and a walking figure nearby.

Men Conversing Outside House Beside Canal

After Isaac van Ketweg, after 1758

Pencil and watercolor study of a figure in red cap and striped hose beside a stone arch overlooking the sea.

Study for "Wandering Minstrel"(?) (oil painting)

Edwin Austin Abbey

Grey wash drawing of a canal with a windmill, houses, a church spire, sailboat, and fishermen in a rowboat under a tree.

Houses and Windmill Beside Canal

After Isaac van Ketweg, after 1758

Pencil and ink sketch of a branch with pink blossoms arching across a pale sheet of paper.

Sketch of a flowering tree

Edwin Austin Abbey

Grey wash drawing of a Dutch canal town with a church spire, sailing boat, windmill, and figures on the banks.

Old Dutch Town on Canal

After Isaac van Ketweg, after 1738

Abstract geometric composition of overlapping pastel shapes in pink, green, blue and red, signed G. Valmier, 1922.

Composition (No. 7888)

Georges Valmier, 1922

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a standing woman with short auburn hair wearing a long pink empire-waist gown.

Sketch of a woman in pink - costume study for a play?

Edwin Austin Abbey

Portrait of a young man (unidentified sitter)

Edwin Austin Abbey

Charcoal and chalk drawing of timber houses and trees on a hillside, with a small shrine niche and a path curving below.

Houses and Ruined Wall Overlooking River

I. B. F. Keim, 1877

Pen and ink sketch of a bearded God the Father in clouds with putti, plus architectural studies and a console table.

God the Father

François Boitard, n.d.

Watercolor pastoral landscape with cattle at a pool, a herdsman at right, classical buildings and a warm sunset sky.

Arcadian landscape

the younger George Barret, 1820-42

Watercolor drawing of an Arcadian landscape with a statue of Apollo, classical colonnade, pond, and bathing figures.

Arcadian Landscape with several Figures and a Statue of Apollo

Gerard Melder, 18th century

Design study with hand-lettered title The Land of the Midnight Sun above yellow and orange sun motifs with radiating rays on

The Land of the Midnight Sun - illustration for a book jacket(?)

Edwin Austin Abbey

Watercolor sheet of women in corsets and underclothing with gilt frames and handwritten French captions, 1882-90.

Etudes sur les femmes

Henri de Montaut, 1882-90

Pencil and color drawing of geometric planes and diagonal lines in perspective, with an ochre panel and black bars on beige p

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El Lissitzky, 1922

Seated Girl with Basket

Edith Langdale, 1876

Pen drawing in a circle of a chariot drawn by two stags, with an hourglass, sickle, and winged figure.

The Triumph of Time (recto); Sketch of a Stag (verso)

Style of Dirk Vellert, c. 1517

Head of Christ, in Three-Quarter Profile, to Right

Possibly Giovanni Antonio Guardi, n.d.

Pen and watercolor drawing of a crowded piazza before a pink palazzo with clock tower, carriages, and a tall Roman column.

The Lottery in Piazza di Montecitorio

Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1743-1744

Watercolor of three dandies in top hats beside a wall of theater playbills, with a pig and a water spout on a city street.

The Soap-Locks or Bowery Boys

Nicolino Calyo, 1840

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bearded monk's bust in a stone niche flanked by serpents and ivy, with Latin inscriptions.

Bust Portrait of Carmelite Monk in Niche

Johannes Lanoy, n.d.

Sepia wash and pencil drawing of a standing female nude in side view, signed A. Rodin in the lower right.

Nude Standing, Side View

Sepia drawing of a young woman in a flowing Regency gown holding flowers, with a billowing scarf and strapped sandals.

Young Woman Bearing Flowers

Attributed to Samuel Lane, 1812

Brown wash drawing of a seated queen on a throne with kneeling figures, guards, and a bearded man holding a staff.

Scene from Racine's Athalie

Charles Abraham Chasselat, 1817

Pen and ink drawing of Pontefract Castle with crenellated towers, stone walls, grazing sheep and a village on the hill.

Pontefract Castle

J. Marsden, 1774

Pen and ink study of the winged head of Mercury above hatched drapery on aged paper.

Mercury

Attributed to Pieter de Jode I, c. 1600