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Drawings & Sketches

75,818 works

Brown wash drawing of a mounted rider dividing his cloak with a kneeling beggar beside a colonnade.

Saint Martin Dividing His Cloak with a Beggar

Lorenzo Lotto, about 1530

Drawing of a nude man riding a bull with onlookers on the left and figures on a rocky outcrop above.

A Man Riding a Bull, and Other Figures

Antonio da Correggio, about 1517-1519

Dyer Sharp Wynkoop

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1800

Pen and ink study of a crowned woman with flowing hair beside several grotesque and caricatured male heads.

Studies of Heads (recto); Studies of a Male Figure (verso)

Hans Baldung Grien, about 1512-1513

Degas and Other Sketches

Edgar Degas, 1877

Portrait of a Woman (from McGuire Scrapbook)

Thomas F. Hoppin, ca. 1841

Baronne de Domecy

Odilon Redon, about 1900

Brown wash drawing of masked commedia figures in pointed hats attending a seated man in an armchair in a paneled room.

Punchinello is Helped to a Chair

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, about 1791

Red chalk drawing of a reclining male nude with raised arm, curly hair, and legs resting on draped cloth.

Reclining Male Nude

Francesco Salviati, about 1550

Watercolor sketch of a street with shopfronts, a woman in a doorway, and small figures walking on the pavement.

Chelsea Shop

James McNeill Whistler, 1897/1900

Brown ink and wash drawing of broad coltsfoot leaves and grass growing on the ground.

Study of Coltsfoot Leaves

Franz Innocenz Kobell, about 1797-1819

Pen and brown ink drawing of a bed scene, a central group of three figures, a domed church and a walking traveler.

Taddeo Returning Home with the Sack of Stones and in Bed Recovering from His Fever

Federico Zuccaro, about 1595

Pencil and red chalk drawing of a man in a red jacket threshing beside a wooden wagon, with farm buildings behind.

A Man Threshing Beside a Wagon, Farm Buildings Behind

Peter Paul Rubens, 1615-1617

Brown ink and wash drawing of men lowering a pale body wrapped in a shroud in a dark setting.

The Entombment (recto); Partial Study of the Entombment (verso)

Anthony van Dyck, 1617-1618

Red chalk drawing of a bearded standing man in a draped cloak, one arm raised, with a radiant burst at his feet.

Study of a Male Figure (Empedocles and/or Saint Roch)

Rosso Fiorentino, about 1538-1540

Pen and wash drawing of a bearded saint ascending on clouds, surrounded by angels and putti, with devils below.

Apotheosis of Saint Elias

School of Carlo Maratti, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of ruined Roman stone arch and fluted columns with plants growing from cracks, dated 1623.

The Arch of Septimius Severus, Rome

Cornelius van Poelenburgh, 1623

Red chalk drawing of a man smoking a pipe beside a figure raising a jug to drink.

Studies of a Man Smoking and a Man Drinking (recto); Studies of a Man Smoking, a Head, and Calligraphic Flourishes (v…

Dirk Helmbreker, about 1650-1660

Red chalk drawing of three nude women embracing in a landscape, one seen from behind, with clouds and hills behind them.

The Three Graces

Pieter Tanjé, n.d.

Red chalk sketch of a bearded man in an elaborate headdress with an outstretched hand, by Giovanni Antonio Guardi.

Half Length Figure of a Magi (verso: A Seated Ruler Half-Length Carrying a Scepter)

Giovanni Antonio Guardi, 1750-1760

Watercolor of a shepherd, dog, children, sheep and ducks by a village wall in spring, with a stork on a roof.

Spring Has Arrived

Ludwig Richter, 1870

Pen and ink drawing of a market scene with women in traditional dress, a horse, a dog, and an obelisk in the distance.

Market Scene

Saverio della Gatta, n.d.

Neoclassical drawing of two embracing draped women, a bearded man with staff, and a statue of Apollo in a niche.

The Father of Psyche Consulting the Oracle of Apollo

Baron François-Pascal-Simon Gérard, about 1796

Pen drawing of street vendors and children gathered around a sorbet stall in a town square, with a seated man eating in the f

Vendors of Gelati and Caramelle

Saverio della Gatta, n.d.

Watercolor of a pink double hollyhock on a tall stem with buds and leaves, with a spiral shell at the base.

A Hollyhock

Herman Saftleven, September 21, 1682

Pen drawing of a sickbed scene with a man holding herbs, women tending a patient in a canopy bed, and attendants by a doorway

Sickbed Scene

Attributed to Saverio della Gatta, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a lion attacking a coiled snake, with a nude figure study drawn below.

Lion attacking a snake over nude figure study

Théodore Géricault, 1812-1814

Pencil sketch of seated Venus on a cloud with winged figure and several putti drawn around her.

Venus with Putti

Giovanni Battista Cipriani, n.d.

Drawing of Christ crowned with thorns, surrounded by mocking soldiers and onlookers beneath a Gothic arch, in brown ink on ta

The Mocking of Christ

Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, about 1513-1514

Pen and brown wash drawing of the Virgin seated before shuttered window, holding infant Christ on her lap, on blue paper.

Virgin and Child

After Giovanni Bellini, n.d.

Kneeling bearded saint with gold halo praying toward a haloed Christ pointing from stars within a blue historiated initial L.

Praying Saint (Moses?) with Christ in a Historiated Initial "L", from a Choirbook

Unknown artist, c. 1300

Grey drawing of three haloed women approaching a tomb, with an angel seated on the lid and a sunburst in the sky.

The Three Women at the Tomb [recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1600