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Cleveland Museum of Art

2,542 works

Charcoal drawing of the Palace of Versailles across a reflecting pond, with trees and two figures on the grassy bank.

View of Versailles

Antoine Vollon, 1800s

Pen and wash drawing of three draped figures with a vessel, with faint pencil figure studies on the reverse.

Lot and His Daughters (recto); Sketch for Lot and His Daughters (verso)

Pietro da Cortona, 1600s

Pen drawing of a winged Cupid statue in a wall niche with drapery, flanked by decorative neoclassical wall panels.

Statue of Cupid in a Wall Niche

Paolo Vincenzo Bonomini, late 1700s

Left: watercolor landscape with a stream and rocks. Right: pencil studies of a deer and animal heads on pale paper.

Landscape (recto); Studies of Animals (verso)

Antoine-Louis Barye, c. 1823-75

Pen and wash drawing of the baroque Santa Maria in Vallicella church facade in Rome with a square and rooftops.

Eighteen Views of Rome: The Church of Santa Maria in Vallicella

Liévin Cruyl, 1665

Graphite sketch on grey paper: a seated draped figure at left and two men pulling a long pole at right.

Drapery Study; Two Figures Pulling a Pole

John Singleton Copley, 1785-86

Monochrome drawing of a wooded path opening toward a bright cloudy sky between dark trees.

Landscape with Trees

Jean-Philippe George, 1833-88

Charcoal sketch of a seated nude woman with head bowed and arms around her knees, set against a faint rocky landscape.

Study of a Female Nude (possibly for an unrealized allegorical painting) (recto)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Pen and wash drawing of a street vendor under an umbrella selling small heads, with a cloaked customer and caricature face.

Study for "Au Bouquet de persil," (A Bouquet of Parsley)

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, 1833

Pencil drawing of the Eddystone Lighthouse on a calm sea with a sailboat at left and soft clouds above.

Eddystone Lighthouse

Mary Altha Nims, 1840

Painted drawing of varied seashells and red coral on a green seaweed background, labeled Shells in Seaweed.

Shells in Seaweed

Mary Altha Nims, 1800s

Pen and wash drawing of the Quirinale palace in Rome with a mounted guard, carriage, and horse statues.

Eighteen Views of Rome: The Quirinale

Liévin Cruyl, 1664

Watercolor landscape of a stream flowing past dark rocks toward distant green trees under a pale hazy sky.

Landscape (recto)

Antoine-Louis Barye, c. 1823-75

Pencil drawing of a valley with mountains, trees, shrubs and a winding path, signed R. Fry 1921.

Landscape

Roger Fry, 1921

Watercolor of a rocky shoreline with seaweed-covered stones, grassy slopes, and a pale sea under a grey sky.

Over the Ledges

Dwight Blaney, 1922

Watercolor sketch of the Bercy riverbank with a cart, a stone bridge, city buildings and a cloudy blue sky.

Bercy

Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1868

Pen and wash drawing of two large oak trees beside a dirt road, with a wooden structure and figures on the right.

Landscape (recto)

Georges Michel, 1800-1843

Pencil drawing of crumbling stone arches and a wall with an arched window, overgrown with vines and scattered rubble.

Ruins

Mary Altha Nims, c. 1840

Grayscale drawing of a harbor with sailboats, a paddle steamer, a stone pier, and a rowboat with figures.

Harbor Scene

Mary Altha Nims, 1850s or 60s

Soft grey drawing of a gothic stone church with crenellated towers and pointed windows beside a bare tree.

A Gothic Church by Moonlight

Mary Altha Nims, 1840

Watercolor of cows resting on a sandy beach beside cliffs and calm sea under a hazy sky.

Landscape

Thomas Francis Wainwright, 1885

Sheet of pencil and ink studies of a seated old man in a cap and long cloak holding a walking stick, with hand sketches.

Le roi Pierre de Serbie

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Shaded drawing of an obelisk tomb behind an iron lattice fence with arched corners and shrubs, under a pale sky.

Tomb of Messina

Mary Altha Nims, 1800s

Watercolor drawing of a butterfly with green red-veined wings, blue-grey lower wings and rust-colored eyespots on cream paper

Butterfly

Mary Altha Nims, 1800s

Pencil sketch of sand dunes with trees and driftwood along a calm lakeshore, drawn on pale paper.

Sand Dunes, Lake Ontario

Homer Dodge Martin, c. 1874

Watercolor of a man standing in a small boat spearing eels on calm water, with a shingled house on the shore.

Spearing Eels

Soft grey drawing of a crenellated castle tower and walls under a pale moon in a misty sky.

Ruins by Moonlight

Mary Altha Nims, 1840

Pencil drawing of Chillon Castle with towers, dark roofs and flags on a hill, with a tree at left.

Chillon Castle

Mary Altha Nims, 1800s

Painting of several moored schooners with red masts and rigging at a wharf, reflected in calm harbor water.

Idle Days, Gloucester, Massachusetts

Caroline E. Coit, c. 1920

Loose painted sketch of a woman in white bending over a seated child on white bedding, with soft golden light.

Child Worship

Charles Sims, c. 1926