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Rijksmuseum

13,729 works

Brown wash drawing of mythological gods at a banquet in a forest, with musicians, cupids and a distant classical building.

Banquet of the Gods

Unknown artist, 1580 - 1613

Brown ink drawing of a kneeling man at an altar with fire, an angel above holding a branch, and worshippers around.

The sacrifice of king David

Felice Giani, c. 1812

Walking skeleton

Gesina ter Borch, c. 1656

Brown ink drawing of an allegorical frontispiece with a blank cartouche, classical ruins, figures and four corner medallions.

Frontispiece Design from Corpus Inscriptionum

Jan Goeree, c. 1707

Pencil and pen sketch of six figures in varied poses, including a child in a cap and a woman holding an infant, with a handwr

Six figures in different poses

Isaac van Ostade, 1645 - 1649

Red chalk drawing of a dancing skeleton holding an hourglass and a dart beside an open grave.

Skeleton dancing next to an open grave

Gesina ter Borch, c. 1656

Chalk drawing on blue-grey paper of a seated man hunched forward, head bowed, arms resting on his knees, in a cloak.

Seated, Hunched Over Man

Adriaen van Ostade, c. 1620 - c. 1685

Brown wash drawing of terraced garden with cypress and pine trees, two women with vessels, and a distant plain.

View of the terraces of the Villa d’Este in Tivoli

Unknown artist, 1761 - 1817

Pencil sketch of a couple walking toward a lady at an arched doorway of a country house, with trees and a dog nearby.

Couple Greeting a Lady at the Door of a Country House

Gesina ter Borch, c. 1659

Grey watercolor of carved stone capitals and column fragments among ivy and grass, with a cylindrical fragment at right.

Five Capitals in the Villa Mattei in Rome

Joseph August Knip, c. 1809 - c. 1812

Pencil sketch of a vine-covered pergola with wooden posts, a stone wall, and a distant landscape beyond.

A vineyard in Olevano

Unknown artist, 1843

Pencil design drawing of an ornate Renaissance style pendant with scrollwork, a central square panel, and pear-shaped drops.

Design for a Renaissance Style Pendant

Henri Cameré, c. 1864 - c. 1894

Watercolor of Roman ruins and arches on a wooded hill, with cypress trees and a palm in the foreground.

View of the Palatine Hill in Rome, with the Arch of Constantine

Joseph August Knip, c. 1809 - c. 1812

Grey wash drawing of a village street with a church tower, tall trees, a barn with a cart, and walking figures.

Klokhuis in Overveen

Pieter Louw, 1735

Brown and white wash design drawing of an ornate elongated pendant with a central floral medallion on a tan background.

Design for a Pendant

Henri Cameré, c. 1864 - c. 1894

Watercolor of ruined brick arches of the Aqueduct of Nero in Rome, overgrown with plants, with a small figure on a path.

The Aqueduct of Nero in Rome

Joseph August Knip, c. 1809 - c. 1812

Pen drawing of a Batavia street scene with a canal, trees, and figures, plus a row of standing figures below.

Street scenes Batavia

Jan Brandes, 1779

Colored drawing of gentlemen in 18th-century dress playing cards around a green-covered table in an interior with a mirror.

Gentlemen playing cards in interior

Pieter Louw, 1735

Muted watercolor of Roman ruins with a large brick arch, a stone fragment, and the basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano in th

The basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano, with in the foreground the temple of Minerva Medica

Joseph August Knip, c. 1809 - c. 1812

Grey wash drawing of a ruined gateway, canal, figures and a church tower behind a town, with a horse and cart on the road.

Remains of the Veerpoort in Heukelom

Pieter Jan van Liender, 1737

Pen and grey wash drawing of a crowd and soldiers in a town square before a domed colonnaded rotunda, 1787.

Swearing-in of the Government Regulations on the Grote Markt in Haarlem, September 5, 1787

Vincent Jansz. van der Vinne, 1787

Watercolor and pencil sketch of Rome showing a hilltop city panorama and three churches and ruins below.

Santa Sabina on the Aventine Hill and Sant’Agnese fuori le Mura and Santa Costanza in Rome

Joseph August Knip, c. 1809 - c. 1812

Grey wash drawing of the Arkelpoort gate and town wall in Gorinchem, with anglers on the bank and a church tower behind.

Arkelpoort in Gorinchem

Pieter Jan van Liender, 1737

Grey wash drawing of a crowd celebrating around a tall tree in a town square lined with gabled houses and civic buildings.

Revolution in Haarlem, January 19, 1795

Vincent Jansz. van der Vinne, 1795

Grey watercolor of whitewashed buildings, umbrella pines and cypresses above a vine trellis, with hills behind.

In the surroundings of Genzano

Joseph August Knip, c. 1809 - c. 1812

Grey wash drawing of a canal town with a gate tower, windmill, fishermen and a horse carriage on a road.

The Benskoper Gate at IJsselstein

Pieter Jan van Liender, 1752

Grey wash drawing of a brick manor house with stepped gables across a moat, with a footbridge, trees and a distant church tow

House Oosterwyk, seen from the back

Paulus van Liender, 1750

Grey wash drawing of a hilltop village beneath mountains, with houses, a cypress and a stone wall in the foreground.

View of Marone, and houses in or near Rome

Joseph August Knip, c. 1809 - c. 1810

Grey wash drawing of Geldermalsen Castle with gabled buildings, a large tree, a wooden gate and small figures on the path.

Geldermalsen Castle

Pieter Jan van Liender, 1737

Pen and watercolour drawing of a shepherd and sheep passing large trees on a road under a cloudy sky.

Shepherds with flock in wooded landscape

Jacob van Liender, 1706

Watercolor of the round temple of Vesta in Rome with fountain, oxen, cart and figures in an open square.

The temple of Vesta in Rome

Joseph August Knip, c. 1809 - c. 1812

Grey wash drawing of soldiers and townspeople crossing a snowy Haarlem square toward a large church with a tall spire.

Arrival of French at the Grote Markt in Haarlem, 1795

Vincent Jansz. van der Vinne, 1795

Pen and grey wash drawing of a Batavia street scene with crowded figures, a bare tree, and a carriage on blank paper.

Street scene Batavia

Jan Brandes, 1779

Grey watercolor of a crowd and veiled figures in a procession below ruined Roman arches and walls on a hillside.

A Procession at the Foot of the Palatine Hill in Rome

Joseph August Knip, c. 1809 - c. 1812

Grey wash drawing of a circular church interior with an ornate organ, galleries, tall windows and small figures on the floor.

Interior of the Ronde Lutherse Kerk

Hendrik Keun, 1770

Pale ink drawing of a canal with a city gate, gabled houses, windmill and church tower, and figures on the banks.

View of the Haarlemmerpoort from the Hoogendijk

Dirk Verrijk, 1744

Grey wash drawing of the ruined Basilica of Maxentius in Rome, showing three large coffered arches and scattered stones in th

The Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine in Rome

Joseph August Knip, c. 1809 - c. 1812

Portrait of an unknown woman

Herman Lugt, 1916

Ink drawing of a standing bald man in a three-piece suit with patterned tie, signed Pit 1925 by Huib Luns.

Portrait of Adriaan Pit

Huib Luns, 1925

Watercolor drawing of Roman churches, a villa, and arcaded palace ruins with blue mountains in the distance.

S. Giovanni e Paolo, the Villa Mattei and the Imperial Palaces

Joseph August Knip, c. 1809 - c. 1812

Pen and watercolor drawing of a bearded hermit standing in an arched niche of a ruined stone chapel beside a clay jug.

Hermit before a stone chapel

Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers, 1782

Pen drawing of a stone portico with columns and a 1639 pediment on a brick building, with an arched iron gate and leaded wind

Portico of the Zuiderkerk in Enkhuizen

Huib Luns, 1938

Pencil and watercolor drawing of mossy boulders overgrown with shrubs, with tall trees sketched in the background.

Overgrown rocks

Joseph August Knip, c. 1809 - c. 1812

Watercolor drawing of a rustic timber hermit's hut with a bell and cross, and a small saint statue, among trees.

Hermit's hut with statue of a saint

Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers, 1782

Pencil drawing of a sculptural group of two intertwined figures on a carved pedestal, with budding branches at left.

Mercury kidnaps Psyche

Huib Luns, 1929

Grey wash drawing of Roman Baths of Caracalla ruins with a church, aqueduct and fragments in the foreground.

The Baths of Caracalla and two capitals in the Villa Mattei in Rome

Joseph August Knip, c. 1809 - c. 1812

Grey wash drawing of a snowy winter farmhouse with bare trees and two people gathering firewood in the foreground.

Winter landscape with wood gatherers in front of a farmhouse

Pieter Pietersz. Barbiers, 1838

Pen drawing of a gabled stone portal and brick church wall with a Gothic window and tiled rooftops, by Huib Luns, 1938.

Portal of the Sint-Gommaruskerk in Enkhuizen

Huib Luns, 1938

Watercolor of weathered Aurelian Wall in Rome with towers, arches, ivy, and a small figure at lower left.

The Aurelian Wall in Rome

Joseph August Knip, c. 1809 - c. 1812

Grey wash drawing of a stone tower with an angler seated by an arch and a woman walking a road in the foreground.

Landscape with angler and walking woman near a fortress tower

Pieter Pietersz. Barbiers, 1838

Colored pencil drawing of a garden staircase with a terracotta urn, stone pillars with urns, and leafy trees.

Staircase in garden in Taormina

Huib Luns, 1939

Pencil sketch of a seated painter at an easel in a studio, with a draped model at left and plaster casts on shelves.

Painter working from model

Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers, 1782

Watercolor stage design of a marble colonnade with Corinthian columns opening onto a loggia and distant landscape with a spir

Design for a stage set of a colonnade with loggia

Pieter Barbiers, 1779

Three designs for posters for the exhibition of Vereniging Rembrandt

Huib Luns, 1920

Pencil drawing of a street vendor with a barrel cart talking to a woman and child on a cobbled quay with ship masts behind.

Children with a street vendor along a quay

Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers, 1782

Pen and watercolor design of a symmetrical church interior with gilded columns, a central altar, and a saint statue, dated 17

Design for a stage set of a church interior

Pieter Barbiers, 1779

Pen drawing of an ornate historic house facade with carved cornices, a wrought iron gate, and a bare tree branch overhead.

Snouck-van-Loosen House in Enkhuizen

Huib Luns, 1938

Grey wash drawing of a lagoon with rowing boats, fishing nets, a flagged vessel, tree-lined shores and cattle on the bank.

Governor Loten and his Entourage on Negombo Lagoon

Pieter de Bevere, 1754

Pen and watercolor design of a neoclassical room with green paneled walls, gilt mirror, console table and two tall windows.

Design for a stage set of an interior

Pieter Barbiers, 1779

Watercolor of a frozen harbour in winter with skaters, moored sailing boats, gabled houses and a clock tower.

Winter view in Harlingen

Nicolaas Baur, 1777

Pencil drawing of a fortified harbor front with sailing ships and rowboats on calm water under a pale sky.

View of Colombo

Pieter de Bevere, 1755

Red chalk drawing of a man in a curled periwig and buttoned coat, shown in bust length, dated 1700.

Portrait of Mattheus Brouerius van Nidek

Frans Berkhuys, 1700

Hand-coloured drawing of a village of domed huts on a green hillside, with cattle grazing on the slopes above.

Village of the Gonaqua

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Panoramic engraving of sailing ships on calm water with a wooded coastline, hills, and shoreline buildings under a pale sky.

View of the fort in Galle in Ceylon

Pieter de Bevere, 1755

Pen drawing of an ornate arched frame design with scrolling foliage and two putti on either side.

Design for a frame with two putti

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1700

Hand-coloured drawing of a grey eland antelope with spiral horns standing on grassy ground with shrubs.

South African antelope

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Watercolor of a grassy park with footbridges, red-roofed houses, a church tower and apartment blocks beyond a waterway.

View of the Jan van Galenpark

Frans Everbag, 1938

Watercolor of a star-shaped striped flower, green succulent stems and a pale bud, framed by blue lines.

Sea Star Flower (Stapelia hirsuta)

Nicolaas Juweel, 1675

Watercolor drawing of a winding river through a broad valley, with a herd of cattle grazing in the foreground under cloudy sk

At the Bushman River

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Watercolor of a brick church with a tall tower beside a canal, with barges, houses and figures on the towpath.

View of the Saint Augustine Church from the Postjeskade

Frans Everbag, 1887

Brown watercolor sketch sheet showing rooftops, masts, women in bonnets, a child, and geese and ducks in a yard.

Sketch sheet with the Nieuwebrug and various female figures

Christiaan Andriessen, 1785

Watercolor of a hunter firing at a charging rhinoceros on a plain, with mounted riders and a wagon caravan in the distance.

Rhinoceros is shot

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Pencil sketch of a man in a long coat and fur hat, seen from behind, hand on hip, leaning on a table edge.

The Artist Nicolaas Pieneman Standing at a Table

Cornelis Kruseman, 1824

Grey wash drawing of a calm canal with wooden houses, a rowboat with one figure, and clouds reflected in the water.

View of the Slotervaart from the Surinameplein

Anthonie van Teijn, 1927

Watercolor drawing of a grey rhinoceros with a reddish horn walking left across a grassy field with shrubs.

Rhinoceros

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Pen and red chalk drawing of a bearded figure with radiating halo, a standing figure on a cloud, and angels.

The Holy Trinity and the Fall of Man

Agostino Masucci, 1701

Brown ink and red chalk drawing of Christ rising above angels while soldiers react below beside a tomb.

The Resurrection of Christ

Giacinto Calandrucci, 1656

Watercolour of a grassland plain with ox wagons and mountains under blue clouds, labelled Cafferlands Bergen tegen 't Noorden

Amathole Mountains

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Grey wash drawing of a hall with arched windows, a central stove and chandelier, and figures seated at a table.

The hall in the Kloveniersdoelen in Dordrecht where the National Synod was held in the years 1618-1619, 1836

Johannes Rutten, 1836

Pencil and white chalk drawing of a man in a long coat with a walking stick and bundle, standing on grey paper.

Ferdinand Huyck returns from abroad. Illustration for the book of the same name by Jacob van Lennep

David Bles, 1887

Watercolour drawing of a standing Xhosa woman with a young girl holding a bowl, both wearing beaded necklaces, on grass.

Xhosa woman and daughter

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Grey-wash satirical drawing of a gallows with a banner of names, a hanged figure, and onlookers by a river.

Satirical print of the 24 judges who condemned Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, 1619

Jan Stolker, 1734

Drawing of a printed Dutch poem in an allegorical stone frame with a sword, laurel wreath, skull and Libertas scroll.

Poem in honor of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt in allegorical frame, 1619

Gerard van Nijmegen, 1778

Hand-coloured drawing of a standing man with spears, leopard-skin cloak, beaded necklace and feathered headband, dated 1776.

Xhosa man

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Pencil drawing of a procession with a crowned queen on a canopied cart, winged torch bearers on horseback, and walking men.

Rhetoricians' procession with a horse-drawn cart with queen, 1620

S. van Zanten, 1800

Pen and watercolour drawing of a gothic church interior with banners, columns, and a man, child and dog in the foreground.

Interior of the Old Church

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, 1736

Hand-coloured drawing of a standing woman with a child on her back, holding a walking stick, on grassy ground.

Xhosa woman and child

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Pen and grey wash drawing of a woman working in a tiled kitchen, with an open door onto a leafy garden.

Kitchen interior with view of a garden (by Abraham van Strij)

Abraham van Strij, 1790

Pencil drawing of a canal with gabled houses, a footbridge, moored boats and figures on the quay.

View of the Zoutkeetsgracht

Willem Antonie van Deventer, 1854

Hand-coloured drawing of a standing woman with beaded necklaces, a feathered headdress and a spotted staff on grass.

Xhosa woman

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Grey wash drawing of a timber plantation house with shingled roof, boats on the bank, and a thatched hut beside palm trees.

View of the mill and the boiling house of sugar plantation Waterland

Dirk Valkenburg, 1708

Watercolor of a canal with a bridge, rowing boat, tree-lined quay, gabled houses and pedestrians under a cloudy sky.

View of the Eilandsgracht

Hendrik de Winter, 1745

Hand-coloured drawing of a wooded mountain ridge with ox wagons traveling a dirt road below under pale clouds.

Groot Bruintjieshoogte (left half)

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Grey wash drawing of a wooden plantation house and a thatched barn with numbered labels, by Dirk Valkenburg, 1708.

Residence and a Barn on the Surimombo Plantation

Dirk Valkenburg, 1708

Pen and wash drawing of a canal with gabled houses, a raised drawbridge, moored boats and a sailing vessel under cloudy sky.

View of the Brouwersgracht

Jan Hillebrand Wijsmuller, 1865

Pen and wash drawing of a busy market square with a tavern, pedestrians, a horse cart and gabled houses.

View of the spring market on the Haarlemmerplein

A. Goedkoop, 1850