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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Pencil sketch of a village street with gabled houses, chimneys, smoke rising on the left, and trees on the right.

Plein met huizen

David Teniers, 1620

Twee schetsen van een staande man met een stok

David Teniers, 1620

Pencil sketch of rustic village houses with steep roofs, a tall tree and wooden fence posts on paper.

Schets van huizen

David Teniers, 1620

Pencil studies of a cannon on its carriage, with a standing man and a red chalk running figure on aged paper.

Schetsen van een kanon en twee figuren

David Teniers, 1640

Pencil sketch of a bearded schoolmaster standing before seated pupils in a classroom interior.

Een schoolmeester voor zijn klas

David Teniers, 1640

Pencil and wash drawing of a gabled castle beside a moat, with a wooden footbridge and a small boat.

Gezicht op het kasteel Cantecroy (?)

Lucas van Uden, 1605

Pencil and wash drawing of a wooden well winch beside a wall, with a small bird sketch and handwritten notes on the left.

Een waterput

Lucas van Uden, 1605

Pen and wash drawing of a forest road with tall trees on both sides and a distant sea glimpsed on the left.

Boslandschap

Lucas van Uden, 1605

Drawing of a nude male athlete with a strigil standing on a pedestal, rendered in graphite and white chalk on tan paper.

Apoxyomenos (Statue eines antiken Athleten)

Anton Heinrich Peschka, 1906

Pen sketch of a man in cap and jacket, arm raised, bracing on a mound, on pale paper.

Arbeitender Bauer

Josef Kriehuber, 1876

Architectural drawing of a round bathhouse with an elevation view above and a circular floor plan below, in ink and watercolo

Architekturstudie - Badehaus

Karl Ludwig Schiele, 1834

Study of a Standing Female Saint

Peter Paul Rubens, n.d.

Watercolor elevation drawing of a classical villa facade with Ionic columns, arched doorway and curved iron railing.

Architekturstudie - Fassade einer Villa

Karl Ludwig Schiele, 1834

Pencil drawing of a symmetrical classical garden palace facade with central portico and pediment, framed by trees and shrubs.

Architekturstudie - Fassade eines Gartenpalais

Karl Ludwig Schiele, 1834

Brown ink and wash drawing of a scowling bearded satyr face with curly hair on an oval sheet.

Head of a Satyr (Silenus)

Peter Paul Rubens, ca. 1620-30

Ink and wash architectural drawing of the Parthenon front elevation with a frieze section of horsemen below.

Architekturstudie - Parthenon-Tempel in Athen

Karl Ludwig Schiele, 1833

Pen and ink study of a bearded man's head tilted downward, with curly hair and beard, on toned paper.

Head of Silenus

Peter Paul Rubens, early 17th century

Pen drawing of a Doric temple front elevation with four fluted columns and pediment, plus a side elevation and scale bar.

Architekturstudie - Portikus Parthenon-Tempel in Athen

Karl Ludwig Schiele, 1833

Oval drawing of a mythological feast with a donkey-riding figure, revelers at a table, and cherubs, in white ink on blue pape

King Midas Feasting At The Arrival of Silenus

Bernard Picart, late 17th-early 18th century

Pencil sketch of tall archive shelves filled with books and folders above a tiled floor, with notes at right.

Archivstellage mit Büchern und Faszikeln (Studie zum Ferdinand Raimund Zyklus in Schloß Kogl, Attergau?)

Josef Engelhart, 1912

Oval drawing on blue paper of nymphs reclining and dancing beside satyrs, one lifting a vessel, under a tree.

Nymphs And Satyrs

Bernard Picart, late 17th-early 18th century

Red chalk drawing of a reclining nude figure with long flowing hair and a twisted torso, on pale paper.

Hermaphrodite

Peter Paul Rubens, 17th century

Black chalk drawing of a nude man turned left, with a bearded satyr head sketched beside him on pale paper.

Half-Figure of a Nude Man Facing Left, Head of a Satyr

Peter Paul Rubens, n.d.

Pencil drawing of patrons seated at tables in an arcaded café with an ornate balcony and staircase, dated 1899.

Arkadenhof im Café Central, 1., Herrengasse 14

Wilhelm Gause, 1899

Pen and white-heightened drawing of nymphs dancing in a circle in a wooded glade, with seated musicians at the edges.

Dancing Nymphs in a Glade

Bernard Picart, late 17th-early 18th century

Pen and white heightened drawing on blue paper of classical gods feasting at a table among clouds, with cupids overhead.

Feast of the Gods

Bernard Picart, late 17th-early 18th century

Oval drawing of gods on clouds above sprawled nude giants among rocks, one figure holding a torch and a ladder nearby.

Fall of the Giants

Bernard Picart, late 17th-early 18th century

Charcoal and white chalk study of a muscular bent arm and hand on brown paper, signed A. Peschka.

Armstudie

Anton Heinrich Peschka, 1907

Brown and white wash drawing on blue paper of hunters on horseback and a nude man spearing a charging boar, with hounds.

Hunt of the Calydonian Boar

Bernard Picart, late 17th-early 18th century

Pen and white-heightened drawing on blue paper of Niobe's children being struck by arrows, with horses and a temple in the ba

Death of Niobe and Her Children

Bernard Picart, late 17th-early 18th century

Drawing of Perseus holding Medusa's head amid fallen warriors in a columned palace hall, with a banquet at left.

Fight Between Perseus And Phineus in the Palace of Cephus

Bernard Picart, late 17th-early 18th century

Pencil sketch of a man's head resting on a pillow with closed eyes, signed Arthur Krapp and dated 1938, on grey mount.

Arthur Krapp auf dem Totenbett

Josef Engelhart, 1938