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Watercolors

11,514 works

Watercolor of a nude seated figure crowning a soldier with a laurel wreath before classical columns and attendants.

Allegory of Victory: Soldier Being Crowned by Laurels

Franz von Hauslab the Younger, ca. 1814

Architectural drawing with a watercolor elevation of a domed temple above a colored triangular floor plan.

Project for a Temple Dedicated to the Trinity, Elevation and Plan

Jean Nicolas Sobre, ca. 1783

Watercolor elevation and cut-away section of a domed neoclassical pleasure villa with columns and garden terrace.

Project for a "Maison de plaisance pour un grand seigneur", Elevation and Section

Jean Nicolas Sobre, ca. 1783

Three sepia watercolor perspective sketches of a Gothic-style church with tall towers and arched entrances, side by side on p

Saint Gabriel's Church, Chicago, Illinois, Perspective Sketches

Burnham and Root, c. 1889

Circular drawing with washes of a submerged man reaching toward a fruit tree with scrolls, framed in wood with gold edge.

Tantalus

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1535/1540

Watercolor of Ceres on a chariot pulled by two winged dragons through clouds, holding a sickle and wheat.

Carro di Cerere (Chariot of Ceres)

Pietro de Angelis

The Sphinx

Odilon Redon, 1883

Charcoal drawing of a glowing nebula-like orb with radiating rays and stars in a dark night sky above a horizon.

Le Nebuleuse

Odilon Redon, 1875/80

Vision

Odilon Redon, 1895/97

Drawing of a young man in a powdered wig and white collar, one hand on an open book at a table.

The Little Abbot Reading the Ramayana

Odilon Redon, 1883

Brown drawing of a helmeted figure leaning over a cauldron holding a skull and a pale face amid dark smoke.

Cauldron of the Sorceress

Odilon Redon, 1879

Charcoal drawing of a pale face with large eyes atop a curved stem, dark petals behind it, and fallen leaves on the ground.

Strange Flower (Little Sister of the Poor)

Odilon Redon, 1880

Brown ink and wash drawing of figures in a courtyard beneath a large arched wooden structure.

Noah's Ark

Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1660

Pen and brown ink sketch of thatched farm buildings beside a waterway, with a moored boat and trees in the foreground.

A Farm on the Amsteldijk, Seen from the Northwest

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650/53

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated nude woman with bowed head on a stool, against a shaded background.

Seated Female Nude

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1660/62

Watercolor design for a neoclassical wall with blue and cream panels, classical figures, garlands and urn motifs.

Design for Wall, Hôtel de Beaujon, Paris

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1872

Medieval prayerbook page with a large gold and blue illuminated initial H, floral borders and red and blue text initials.

Illuminated Initial "H" from a Prayerbook

Unknown artist, 15th century

Watercolor drawing of mythological figures by a pool with swans and cupids, framed by trees in a wooded landscape.

The Judgment of Paris [recto]

Guillaume Guillon Lethière, c. 1812

Watercolor of a spotted star-shaped Stapelia flower and spiny green succulent stems on a pale sheet with gold border.

A Stapelia Variegata

Nicolas Robert, 17th century

Watercolor design of a classical rotunda with colonnades, a rocky fountain, and figures in a garden framed by trees.

Project for a Fête Decor

Louis Pierre Baltard, n.d.

Colored caricature of historical rulers and revolutionaries waiting at a bus stop labeled Omnibus des Enfers, with a Peace Da

The Bus from Hell to Earth, Peace Day, 1919

Georges Tiret-Bognet, ca. 1919

Album page with black calligraphy in a central cartouche, surrounded by painted animals including deer, gazelles and a lion a

Album Page with Calligraphic Specimen and Animal Border

Unknown artist, , late 17th century (border); c. 16th century (calligraphy)

Brown wash drawing of a rocky cliff, winding path and hills, with two small figures and a dog on the horizon.

A Hilly Landscape with Figures Near a Ravine

the elder Jan Brueghel, 1595

Graphite drawing of a man with bowed head and thick wavy hair, eyes lowered, shown in three-quarter view on pale paper.

Self-Portrait

Simeon Solomon, 1860

Pen and brown ink drawing of a classical colonnaded hall with a banquet table, seated guests and robed figures in the foregro

Feast in the House of Simon

Probably Giovanni Battista Lanzeni, n.d.

Watercolor perspective of a wooden cottage-villa with bracketed gables and veranda, with a floor plan below.

Design for a Cottage-Villa in the Bracketted Mode, Constructed in Wood (perspective and plan)

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1842

Self-Portrait

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1928

Watercolor and pencil landscape of a twin-peaked volcano with smoke rising, under cloudy sky, with sketched town and trees be

Panoramic Views of Vesuvius and Monte Pellegrino

Carl Rottmann, 1827

Watercolor trompe l'oeil of folded papers, playing cards, drawing tools, a garden plan, and a flower urn on a ruled ground.

Trompe l'oeil

Giuseppe Voltolini, 1846

Watercolor of a farm boy in a straw hat carrying a pumpkin through a field of vines, with hills behind him.

For to Be a Farmer's Boy

Winslow Homer, 1887