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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Pencil sketch of a standing woman in a fringed shawl, long ruffled dress and hat, holding a fan.

Berta Alt (d. J.) in ganzer Figur

Rudolf von Alt, 1880

Grey ink and wash drawing of a bearded man, a veiled woman, a kneeling figure and a torch in a stone interior.

Witch of Endor

Ary Scheffer, 19th century

Pencil sketch of a standing frontal female nude with long hair and raised arms on tan paper.

Stehender weiblicher Akt, frontal

Berta Alt, im Fauteuil sitzend und lesend

Rudolf von Alt, 1865

Pen and wash drawing of an ornamental vase with two female figure handles and a garland, within a ruled border.

Design for Vase

Jacques Francois Joseph Saly, mid-18th century

Pen and wash drawing of an elegant interior with a seated woman, attendants, an elderly man with a cane and a dog.

König Heinrich von Navarra vor Königin Elisabeth I. von England

Hubert François Gravelot

Watercolor of hills, scrub and a winding road below a blue mountain range under clouds.

In Collingwood district

James Crowe Richmond, 1869

Pen and brown ink drawing of figures lowering a nude body onto a stone ledge, with mourners, a tree and rocks behind.

Die Grablege Christi

Pen drawing of a flat landscape with a distant town and a large tree with exposed roots on the right.

Landschaft bei Kopenhagen

Caspar David Friedrich, 1797

Watercolour of a garden with vines, bare trees, marble busts on pedestals, and a blue distant hillside and sea under an eveni

Garden with ruins

Walter Crane, 1890

Open sketchbook with a pink watercolor caricature head on the left and a pencil sketch of a nude torso on the right.

Karikatur: Kopf / Weiblicher Akt

Arnold Böcklin, 1874

Grayscale drawing of two winged nude figures with comedy and tragedy masks above carved busts of playwrights.

Comedy and Tragedy

Anne-Louis Girodet, 1814

Madame Henri Rouart im Sessel vor einem Tischchen mit Tanagra-Statuette

Edgar Degas, 1884

Grey wash drawing of a glacier descending a valley between dark mountains, with a tiny figure standing on the ice.

Fox Glacier, looking up

George Sturtevant, 1896

Open sketchbook with pencil studies of a figure beside a tree and a faint blue wash on the left page.

Kompositionsentwurf

Arnold Böcklin, 1874

Pencil sketch of Mars with a rearing horse, a winged Victory figure behind him, and a veiled figure on the right.

Mars Crowned by Victory and Listening to Moderation

Antoine-Jean Gros, n.d.

Ink and wash drawing of a prophet speaking to a crowned king seated under a canopy, with a prostrate figure in a gothic hall.

Der Prophet Nathan vor König David; Davids Buße

Sigmund Holbein

Watercolor of a coastal road with palm trees, a blue house, hazy mountains, a bay with a sailboat, and pack animals.

Rio de Janeiro

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1878

Pencil sketch of a house among trees on a sketchbook page, with handwritten notes on the facing blank page.

Haus zwischen Bäumen

Arnold Böcklin, 1874

Weibliche Halbfigur mit großer Blüte und Profilkopf

Odilon Redon, 1890

Loose oil sketch of a cottage with chimneys beside tall trees and a meadow under a cloudy sky.

Willy Lott's House (recto); Landscape Sketches with Trees and Church Tower (verso)

Pen and brown ink drawing of The Last Supper with apostles around a long table under a draped curtain.

The Last Supper

Master of the Egmont Albums, 16th century

Watercolor sketch of a Breton fisherman bent over a boat beside a seated woman in a headscarf, in muted yellow and blue tones

Bretonisches Fischerpaar im Boot

Paul Gauguin, 1894

Oil study of billowing clouds over a grassy coastal slope with a strip of sea and small figures at lower left.

Study of Clouds over a Landscape

John Constable, 1821

Pen and brown ink drawing of a bearded man and other figures in classical dress before draped curtains and a chariot.

Part of The Truimph and Exploits of Furius Camillus

Francesco de'Rossi, called Salviati, after, n.d.

Pencil sketch of robed figures beneath three crosses on an open sketchbook page, with a blank facing page.

Die Kreuzigung

Arnold Böcklin, 1874

Pen and watercolor drawing of an elderly monocled man examining a box beside a seated woman, with a servant and urn.

The Connoisseur

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1800

Grey monochrome painting of a river flowing up a steep mountain valley past rocks and forested slopes under a cloudy sky.

Looking up the Karangaroa River from below junction with the Twain

George Sturtevant, 1895

Watercolor drawing of a woman in a pink gown gesturing toward a horned beast holding a basket of jewelry beneath a tree.

Beauty and the Beast

Thomas Rowlandson, 18th-19th century

Open sketchbook with a loose pencil drawing of a jagged tree stump on the left page; right page blank.

Baumstubben

Arnold Böcklin, 1874

Charcoal portrait of a woman in a headscarf, face shaded in dark tones, signed J. González and dated 1926.

Marie-Thérèse mit Kopftuch

Julio González, 1926

Watercolor of three children playing with a wagon beside a stone wall, with village cottages behind them.

Children playing

Kate Greenaway, 1879