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Rijksmuseum

7,992 works

Pen drawing of looping calligraphic flourishes surrounding a block of 17th-century English script text.

Design for a writing sample: Some man keepeth silence (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Grey wash drawing of a domestic interior with a woman, a child, an elderly seated woman, and two children at a table.

Interior with a family with children

Jan Josef Horemans, 1692

Grey wash drawing of a Roman scene with a seated emperor, attendants, columns, and a helmeted soldier gesturing.

Roman scene with an emperor and a general

Mattheus Ignatius van Bree, 1783

Pen drawing of a calligraphy exemplar with German text framed by elaborate looping flourishes and decorative capitals.

Design for a writing sample: Es ist (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Red chalk drawing of a crumbling stone fountain beneath a large tree, with a river and hills in the distance.

Italian landscape with ruined fountain

Frans Boudewijns, 1700

Pencil sketch of six standing figures in long robes and caps, one gesturing with a raised hand, on pale paper.

Six standing professors

Henk Henriët, 1936

Grey wash drawing of a river with sailing boats, a farmhouse on the right and a church spire in a village on the left.

View of het Kalfje

Engelbert Michaël Engelberts, 1783

Red chalk drawing of an Italianate landscape with a tall tree beside a rock, a hilltop tower, and a river.

Italian landscape with a tree by a rock

Frans Boudewijns, 1700

Pencil sketch of two muscular giant figures working, one lifting a bundle, the other carrying a load on his shoulders.

Two building giants

Henk Henriët, 1936

Pencil sketch of a group of standing figures in hats and robes, with fainter sketched heads around them.

Group of standing figures

Henk Henriët, 1936

Pencil study sheet with caricatured male heads in hats and a standing male figure, on tan paper.

Several figures with hats

Henk Henriët, 1936

Pencil sketch of embracing giant figures with a small figure below, drawn on grey paper.

Giants embracing each other and a small figure

Henk Henriët, 1936

Pencil sketch on beige paper of a woman's upper body and a larger study of her head, by Henk Henriët, 1913.

Upper body and head of a woman

Henk Henriët, 1913

Pencil sketch of a reclining giant with an open mouth, small figures beside it, and three old faces in the lower right.

Reclining giantess with an open mouth and three heads of old people

Henk Henriët, 1936

Pencil sketch of four large seated giant figures beside a tiny standing figure, drawn in loose overlapping lines on pale pape

Four giants and a small figure

Henk Henriët, 1936

Pencil sketch of a large reclining woman on a bed with five small hooded figures around and on her body.

Large reclining woman on a bed next to and on whom stand five small figures

Henk Henriët, 1936

Pencil sketch of a standing man in a feathered hat raising a cup, beside two sketched upper bodies of men.

Standing man and two upper bodies of men

Henk Henriët, 1936

Pencil sketch of a large figure in a plumed hat and ornate collar, with three small heads and tiny standing figures.

Giant, small figures and three faces

Henk Henriët, 1936

Pencil sketch of two men seated at a table, one raising a cup, the other wearing a hat, on cream paper.

Two men sitting at a table

Henk Henriët, 1936

Pencil sketch of a water carrier on a rocky slope beside a moored cargo boat with a tall mast, with handwritten notes.

Composition with water carrier and cargo ship

Willem de Famars Testas, 1858

Pencil sketch of figures in a rough interior with a seated man, standing figures, and a rider on horseback below.

Composition with figures in a room with mummies

Willem de Famars Testas, 1858

Grey wash drawing of two poor people sitting and eating on stone steps by a doorway, with a railing and cobblestones.

Two poor people eating on the stairs of the Diaconie Oude Mannen en Vrouwenhuis

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Ink and wash drawing of three men on a panorama viewing platform overlooking a hazy city skyline with a church tower.

Christiaan Andriessen and Anthony Andriessen visit the new panorama of Amsterdam

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Ink and wash drawing of three men in cloaks and tricorn hats, two of them helping a third dress, with Dutch inscription below

Three men helping each other dress for the funeral of Caspar Vredenburg

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Ink and grey wash sketch of two standing men in period dress, one holding an umbrella and the other a cane.

Lutheran clergyman J. Tissel and his son

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Brown wash drawing of a woman in a cloak talking to a man in a top hat by a railing, with other figures behind them.

Conversation on the Hogesluis, possibly about the length of the skirt of the woman in the foreground

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Watercolor sketch of two 18th-century men in red and black coats gesturing in conversation, one holding a walking stick.

Two main characters from the opera Doktor und Apotheker by Karl Ditter von Dittersdorf

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Brown wash drawing of a family group in an interior, women in empire gowns and bonnets admiring a fur-trimmed coat.

Family admires the new coat of the sister of Christiaan Andriessen

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Ink and wash drawing of a nursemaid with a parasol walking with two children in long dresses.

Babysitter with two children under a broken umbrella

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Pen and watercolour sketch of figures battling wind and rain on a street, with a woman in a bonnet and a man with an umbrella

Maid with a very long sunbonnet, a funeral caller and Christiaan Andriessen brave wind and rain

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806