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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Blue-toned drawing of a skeleton with a scythe reaching toward a seated old man beside a canopy bed.

Der Tod und der Sterbende

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1731

Blue monochrome drawing of a bearded seated man reading beneath a tree, with a castle and arched bridge in the distance.

Hippokrates und Demokrit

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1732

Grey wash drawing of a baroque festival arch with a central statue niche, cherubs, a sunburst, fountains and candelabra.

Design for Festival Architecture for an Entry into Paris for the King of Sweden, Fredrerick I of Hesse

Guillaume Thomas Raphaël Taraval, 18th century

Ink and wash drawing of trumpeters on horseback leading cavalry into battle across an open landscape.

Schlachtenszene: Trompeter blasen zum Angriff der Kavallerie

Jacques Courtois, 1640

Pencil sketch of rolling hills with scattered conifer trees under a pale, empty sky.

Berglandschaft (Bleistiftskizze)

Karl Wiener, 1943

Blue-toned drawing of a kite bird over prey beside a waterfall, rocky cliffs and trees, with a distant town.

Der Milan und die Nachtigall

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1732

Pencil sketch of a harbor with a steamship labeled Zeeland, masted boats, smoking funnels and small rowboats.

Vlootschouw ter gelegenheid van de inhuldiging van koningin Wilhelmina, 1898

Hendrik Willem Mesdag, 1898

Architectural design drawing of a stove with front elevation, side section, floor plan and gilded lion-head brackets, 1821.

Ontwerp voor een secretaire

Carl Wilhelm Marckwort, 1821

Architectural design drawing of a secretary desk with front elevation, side section, and floor plan, with lyre and star motif

Ontwerp voor een secretaire

Carl Wilhelm Marckwort, 1820

Brown wash drawing of a trumpeter on a rearing horse amid a battlefield with fallen soldiers and horses.

Schlachtenszene: Trompeter auf einem Pferd

Jacques Courtois, 1640

Watercolor view of a long French château with slate roofs and corner towers above a formal garden with figures.

View of a Château

Nicolas Pérignon the Elder, 18th century

Bildnis einer jungen Frau, Gürtelstück nach links

Philipp Jakob Becker

Pencil sketch of a hatched mountain ridge under a pale moon, with handwritten inscription in the lower right corner.

Berglandschaft bei Judenburg

Karl Wiener, 1943

Brown wash drawing of a satyr family with goats in a wooded landscape, a large tree at left and a child at right.

Satyrfamilie in einer Landschaft

Gaspard Dughet, 1601

Watercolor of tall pines on a slope overlooking a blue lake and hazy mountains under a pale sky.

Blick über den Genfer See bei Montreux

Gustave Doré, 1876

Pen and ink sketch sheet with a rearing horse and rider, ornate chariot scrollwork, and studies of male heads.

Sheet of Sketches: Sculpture for a Banquet Honoring Queen Christina of Sweden

Giovanni Paolo Schor, early 17th-late 17th century

Pencil drawing of misty mountain ridges with dark conifer slopes in the foreground and soft clouds above.

Berglandschaft bei Leoben

Karl Wiener, 1943

Brown wash drawing of a pastoral landscape with trees, grazing sheep, seated figures and classical buildings on a hill.

Arkadische Landschaft mit Schafherde

Gaspard Dughet, 1601

Grey wash drawing of a forest path framed by large trees, with small figures resting on the left and distant ruins beyond.

Wooded Landscape

Paulus van Liender, 18th century

Brown wash drawing of Venus with Cupid between Bacchus and Ceres, with grapes, drapery and a distant landscape.

Venus mit Cupido zwischen Bacchus und Ceres

Daniël Kellerthaler, 1609

Grey wash drawing of a colonnaded loggia with arches, a domed building beyond, and two figures on the paved floor.

Szene in einer Loggia vor einer antiken Stadtlandschaft

Gaspard Dughet, 1601

Watercolor of a rocky hillside with a ruined tower and arch, two figures and sheep in the foreground, and a distant plain.

Berglandschaft mit Ruine

Martin von Molitor, 1797

Loose oil sketch of a crowd in white robes among dark columns and arches under a yellow awning.

Roman amphitheatre, sketch

Wandalin Strzałecki, 1900

Pencil panorama of layered mountain ridges under a pale sky with a small moon, with handwritten labels below.

Bergpanorama (von der Hohen Kanzel aus)

Karl Wiener, 1943

Red chalk drawing of a hilltop town with a tower, trees and houses on a slope, with a wide plain to the right.

Blick auf den Aventin

Gaspard Dughet, 1601

Red chalk sketch of a standing cow with horns turned right, with faint outlines of another animal on cream paper.

Standing Cattle

Charles-François Daubigny, n.d.

Engraved Holy Family scene: seated Virgin with infant Christ, Saint Joseph offering flowers, donkey and tree beside them.

Aedes Walpolianae, or a Description of the Collection of Pictures at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Seat of the Right…

Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, 1550-early 20th century

Brown wash drawing of a mountain landscape with a tower, a walking figure with a staff, and a large tree.

Gebirgige Landschaft mit Burg im Mittelgrund, vorne mythologische Szene

Gaspard Dughet, 1601

Oval watercolor of a Tyrolean valley village framed by trees, with purple mountains and green meadows beneath a cloudy sky.

Bergtal in Tirol

Joseph Höger, 1875

Pencil sketch of a rider in a wide-brimmed hat leading loaded pack horses along a road.

Study

Charles-François Daubigny, c. 1850

Drawing of a lightly clouded sky in white chalk on blue paper, with grey hatched shading on the right.

Leicht bewölkter Himmel

Johann Georg von Dillis

Brown wash drawing of an Arcadian landscape with a large tree, reclining figures, a ruined hilltop castle and grazing animals

Arkadische Landschaft mit lagernden Figuren im Vordergrund

Gaspard Dughet, 1601