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Rijksmuseum

13,729 works

Pencil sketch of a standing bearded man surrounded by a crowd, some kneeling or fallen, with Gothic buildings behind.

Man about to descend a staircase

Edouard Taurel, 1834

Watercolor of a bearded painter at his easel in a cluttered studio with two cats on the floor.

Studio of a modern painter

Leo Gestel, 1908

Pencil sketch of a bearded painter at his easel in a cluttered studio with a cat on the floor.

Painter working in his studio

Leo Gestel, 1908

Charcoal and chalk portrait drawing on brown paper of a man with pince-nez glasses, mustache and loose cravat.

Portrait of Leendert Adriaan Schilt

Leo Gestel, 1907

Pencil drawing of a forest edge with tall pine trees on the right and a small wooded group on the left.

Forest view at Klarenbeek

Jan Frederik Tack, 1825

Portrait of a boy

Benoit Taurel, 1804

Watercolor landscape of large trees beside a stream, with a meadow and distant hills under a cloudy sky.

Tall trees along which a stream runs

Augustin Taurel, 1838

Eight caricatural heads

Johannes Tavenraat, 1868

Pencil drawing of a cottage on a dike near a distant town, with tall trees at left and a figure standing at right.

Hut on the dike near Enkhuizen

Willem Bastiaan Tholen, 1870

Pencil drawing of a rural yard with a half-timbered house, wooden gate, two seated figures, fence and trees.

Country houses

Willem Bastiaan Tholen, 1870

Pencil drawing of a stone gateway with arched passage, ornate pediment and a small figure walking through, by Willem Bastiaan

Staverse little gate at Enkhuizen

Willem Bastiaan Tholen, 1870

Pen and watercolor drawing of a family resting under trees in an Arcadian landscape with a distant classical building.

A happy Arcadian Family

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Watercolor design sheet showing decorative wall panels, green chairs, drapery swags and dimension notes for a dining room.

Design for decoration on three walls of the dining room of G. ten Hoopen

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Pencil drawing of a sailing boat in the foreground with moored ships and low hills across calm water.

Sailing ship with ships at anchor in the background

Willem Bastiaan Tholen, 1870

Pen and watercolor design for a room wall with blue panels, classical statues, garlands, and a fireplace at right.

Design for a room wall

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Watercolor design of a decorated interior wall with pilasters, a central fireplace and a painted frieze.

Design for wallpaper painting

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Pen and watercolor design for a room wall with a central river landscape and boat, flanked by garland ornaments.

Design for room wall

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Vertical watercolor drawing of trees over a meadow with a pale cloud, a design for a Dutch landscape wall painting.

Design for wall painting with Dutch landscape

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Watercolor drawing of a Dutch river landscape with tall trees, a farmhouse, a moored rowboat and reeds under a cloudy sky.

Design for wallpaper painting with Dutch landscape

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Pen and wash design for a wall with a fireplace, a classical medallion and two landscape panels with trees, a bridge and figu

Design for room wall with fireplace with grisaille with medallion

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Design drawing of a room wall with two landscape panels and a central fireplace with an ornate overmantel scene.

Design for room wall with chimneypiece of the Baptism of the eunuch

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Pen and wash drawing of two men at open doors viewing a winged statue of Time with a scythe, with Dutch verses below.

Two men look at a statue of Time

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1806

Pencil sketch of a tree with figures below and an all-seeing eye with rays above, beside handwritten Dutch text.

Group of people around a tree, beneath the All-Seeing Eye

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1806

Pen and wash drawing of figures on a quay beside a sailing ship, with a city skyline and church spires across the water.

Family Bakhuysen and De Hooghe on the Mussel pier at the IJ

Ludolf Bakhuysen, 1700

Pencil and grey wash studies of three hunting horns on paper, one shaded in detail, signed J. E. Ridinger 1723.

Three studies of hunting horns

Johann Elias Ridinger, 1723

Brown wash drawing of a tavern interior with men drinking and talking, a woman in a bonnet, and two dogs on a tiled floor.

View in an inn with talking and drinking people

A. van den Bosch, 1890

Hand-coloured drawing of a woman pointing to her chest before a seated man with spectacles, a standing man with cane nearby.

Woman with chest wound

Jacob Willemz. de Vos, 1800

Drawing of a doctor with an enema syringe beside a naked child lying on a bed under a red canopy.

Doctor treats a child with an enema syringe

Jacob Willemz. de Vos, 1800

Drawing of a kneeling man receiving a red sash from an officer in white uniform, watched by two men in a columned hall.

Presenting an award

Jacob Willemz. de Vos, 1800

Hand-coloured drawing of a man at a desk pausing from his studies while rocking a cradle draped in red cloth.

Studying man rocks a cradle

Jacob Willemz. de Vos, 1800

Colored drawing of guests seated at a long dinner table in period dress, a standing servant, and trumpeters on a balcony.

Company at dinner

Jacob Willemz. de Vos, 1800

Seated man in black gown beside a chest labeled PARADYS, drawn in watercolor within a circular vignette.

Man on chair underneath which chest with inscription 'Paradys

Jacob Willemz. de Vos, 1800

Watercolor portrait of a young woman in a white dress with red coral necklace and earrings, set in a circular frame.

Young woman

Jacob Willemz. de Vos, 1800

Hand-coloured drawing of a yellow coach pulled by four horses, with a postilion and two footmen in livery.

Carriage with four horses

Jacob Willemz. de Vos, 1800

Pen drawing of an Amsterdam street facade with an arched passage, shopfronts with awnings, and a stepped gable building.

View of the Beurspoortje at the Vijgendam

Hermanus Petrus Schouten, 1757

Grey wash drawing of four figures in an interior with a table, books, chairs and a standing woman in a bonnet.

Regents of the Leper Asylum in Amsterdam

Johannes Franciscus Barbiers, 1834

Pen drawing of a narrow street with an archway, gabled houses and a notary sign, showing the Beurspoortje on the Vijgendam.

View of the inside of the Beurspoortje at the Vijgendam

Hermanus Petrus Schouten, 1757

Pencil drawing of a garden gate with a woman and young girl on steps, a lily pond, and flowering shrubs.

View of the entrance of the Rijksmuseum gardens on Jan Luijkenstraat

Henriëtte de Vries, 1916

Pencil and wash drawing of small pavilions, fences and figures among trees, with a larger scene on the right.

View of animal enclosures in Artis

Willem Hekking jr., 1838

Pencil and wash drawing of a garden with tall trees, a pavilion and strolling figures, with three small vignettes beside it.

View of the pheasantry in Artis

Willem Hekking jr., 1838

Pencil drawing of gentlemen in hats and a woman and child in an interior with leaded windows and drapery.

Regents of the Leper Asylum in Amsterdam

J. Dillhoff, 1700

Watercolor of a canal-side café with red roof, wooden waterwheel and tall trees, with a brick townhouse at right.

View of the Polderhuis on the Boerenwetering

Jean Charles Louis Landré, 1885

Pencil sketch of a reclining putto with loose overlapping construction lines on pale paper.

Reclining child (putto)

August Allebé, 1848

Pen and watercolour design for a clock with a rooster on top, a floral-wreathed dial, and two reclining putti at the base.

Design for a mantel clock

Charles-François Hutin, 1750

Grey wash drawing of a canal with trees, a boat of figures, a domed pavilion and a distant church tower.

View of the Plantage Muidergracht

Jan de Vlaming, 1756

Pencil design drawing of an ornate classical cabinet with figure reliefs, medallions and urn-shaped vases, by Dugourc, 1788.

Design for a jewelry cabinet for a queen

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, 1788

Pen drawing of a symmetrical chandelier design with scrolling acanthus arms, twisted central column and cherubs at base.

Design for a chandelier

Jean-Jacques Feuchère, 1835

Pencil sketches of a tiered tabletop centerpiece with draped female figures, cherubs and standing figures on pale paper.

Sketches for a centerpiece with male and female figures

Jean-Jacques Feuchère, 1835

Pen sketches of lobed cups and a rounded vessel on pale paper, with a lower study of a rounded form.

Three sketches, two of which for a lobed coupe

Jean-Jacques Feuchère, 1835

Pen drawing of several three-masted ships on a calm sea, sketched as studies across one sheet of paper.

A sheet of studies of three-masters in a calm sea

Willem van de Velde, 1693

Pencil sketch of cavalry riders on a tree-lined forest path, with a sentry beside a small building at right.

Cavalry in a forest

Louis Charles Hora Siccama, 1817

Brown wash drawing of a tree-lined avenue with tall trunks and arching canopies receding toward a pale opening.

Tree-lined avenue

Louis Charles Hora Siccama, 1872

Brown wash drawing of soldiers feasting and drinking at a table in a rustic farmhouse interior.

Soldiers enjoying themselves in a farmhouse

Hendrik Jacobus Scholten, 1887

Grey wash drawing of a cobbled alley and courtyard with brick houses, a bare tree, a child with a bucket, and chickens.

View of Amstel 22-24

Gerrit Lamberts, 1786

Brown wash drawing of a family gathered around a sick woman in a canopy bed, with a girl in a bonnet in front.

The birthday of the sick grandmother

Hendrik Jacobus Scholten, 1834

Brown wash drawing of a pensive woman in a dark dress beside a candle lit table in a dim interior room.

Pensive lady by candlelight

Hendrik Jacobus Scholten, 1834

Portrait drawing of a bearded man in a ruff collar and fur-trimmed coat, with a Latin caption below.

Portrait of Jacobus Arminius

Jan Schuitemaker, 1800

Grey ink wash drawing of an attic interior with exposed beams, a ladder, a table with seated figures, and a window.

Attic room

George Washington Schwartze, 1867

Pen and ink landscape with a farmhouse, a church tower behind trees, and a cloudy sky over an open field.

Landscape with farmhouse and tower

Johann Georg Schwartze, 1868

Grey wash drawing of two men in period clothing above a mountain landscape with a goat and seated child.

Study of two men and a mountain landscape

Schwartze, 1800

Grey wash drawing of a sailing ship and rowing boat on choppy water before a walled fort with a flag on the shore.

Fort Zeelandia

Hendrik Huygens, 1849

Pen and watercolor design for a wall with two landscape panels, a boat on a river, cattle, and a central clock ornament.

Design drawing for a wall panel

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1760

Brown wash drawing of a riverside plantation with a masted ship and a sailboat with figures on the Suriname river.

Jagtlust plantation on the Suriname River

Hendrik Huygens, 1849

Grey wash drawing of a plantation with wooden buildings, a windmill, palm trees, a canal, boats and workers.

View of a plantation, possibly Rust en Werk

Hendrik Huygens, 1849