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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Sketchbook page with black crayon and red chalk studies of women in skirts and hats, including a dancing couple.

Blatt eines Skizzenbuchs: versch. Frauengestalten (Studien zu einem Tanzpaar, Wäschermädel)

Josef Engelhart, 1888

Pencil sketch of a bay with a hillside city, church tower, distant mountain, and rocky foreground walls on tan paper.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris (recto); Man with Cane (verso)

Eugène Cicéri, 1840-90

Pen and brown ink study sheet with reclining and standing nudes, a helmeted head, a horse head, and putti.

A sheet of studies after the Antique

Marten van Heemskerck, 1532

Oil study of craggy rocks with green shrubs and a slender tree against a pale sky, with pencil lines visible on bare canvas.

Studie einer Felslandschaft

Watercolor of pollarded willows along a ditch, a cow behind a wooden fence, and a dirt path in soft green tones.

Knotwilgen aan een sloot

Geo Poggenbeek, 1863

Pastel drawing of an artist's studio with a seated nude woman, blue bowl, gilded mirror, and cane chair.

Studio of Robert F. Blum

Robert Frederick Blum, 1883

Pencil sketchbook page with standing woman, head studies of women in hats, and reclining figures in an interior.

Blatt eines Skizzenbuchs: verschiedene Figuren- u. Kopfstudien auf Vorder- und Rückseite

Josef Engelhart, 1884

Pencil and watercolor landscape of a wooded hillside overlooking a hazy plain with a distant tree line.

View onto the Main plain

Oil sketch of three tree trunks on a grassy slope overlooking rolling hills and a pale distant horizon.

Landschaftsstudie mit drei Bäumen

Pencil sketchbook page with studies of standing and reclining figures, a man in a hat, and a sunburst motif.

Blatt eines Skizzenbuchs: verschiedene liegende und stehende Figuren

Josef Engelhart, 1936

Pen and ink sketch of soldiers in shako hats at a dress parade, with a crowd and parasol-holding women, and a verse below.

Dress Parade (from Sketchbook)

James McNeill Whistler, 1852

Oil sketch of rolling hills, a dirt path, and faint distant mountains under a pale hazy sky.

Landschaftsstudie

Snowy forest path with bare trees and two dark-coated figures standing in the center, drawn in gray and white tones.

Winter Scene with Two Men

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Pen and watercolor drawing of a forest stream with mossy rocks, ferns and bare trees under a green canopy.

Waldbach

Pen and ink sketch of a seated man and woman in armchairs, with pencil studies of figures on the same sketchbook page.

40 and 50 (Man and Woman Seated) (from Sketchbook)

James McNeill Whistler, 1854

Charcoal sketch of an open-air stage with a standing performer, rigging ropes, and an animated audience of seated spectators.

Blatt eines Skizzenbuchs: Volksbühne im Freien

Josef Engelhart, 1887

Oil sketch of a rocky sea bay with waves, cliffs, stone ruins, an agave plant and a distant sailboat under clouds.

Felsige Meeresbucht

Graphite sketchbook page with loose studies of seated and reclining figures, some hatched shading, and a color scale bar at b

Blatt eines Skizzenbuchs: volkstümliche Paare u. Einzelfiguren (Rückseite: Aktstudien und Kostümfiguren)

Josef Engelhart, 1888

Loose oil sketch of rocky southern cliffs and a blue sea bay under a cloudy sky, by Wilhelm Klose.

Südliche Felsenlandschaft vor Meeresküste

Pencil sketch of a heraldic shield with a tree and birds on a cream sketchbook page, with handwritten inscription above.

Blatt eines Skizzenbuchs: Wappenentwurf (Neulerchenfeld; Baum mit 3 Schwalben) (Rückseite: Studien zu einer Figur im…

Josef Engelhart, 1889

Pencil sketch of a crucified Christ figure on yellow paper, with a small head study and an animal drawing beside it.

Sketch for "The Yellow Christ

Watercolour of a pale river ford with a flax plant, two distant riders, and blue mountains under a cloudy sky.

Ford on the Waiau

James Crowe Richmond, 1864

Pen and ink sketch of mourners in robes gathered around a reclining corpse, with faint pencil studies on the left.

Trauernde um einen Leichnam versammelt

Pencil sketch on a sketchbook page: a nude woman standing, a seated figure in ruffled dress, and a playing putto with a fan.

Blatt eines Skizzenbuchs: Wäschermädel (?), Aktfigur Fächerentwurf mit musizierendem Putto, (Rückseite: weibl. Aktfig…

Josef Engelhart, 1887

Pencil sketch of a palm tree and three women carrying loads on their heads along a path beside dense tropical trees.

La Guaira

Camille Pissarro, 1852

Landscape study of pale rocks in front of autumn trees under a blue sky, painted in warm ochre and grey tones.

Landschaftsstudie mit Felsen vor Bäumen

Pencil sketchbook page with studies of dancing women in skirts, a standing woman, and an embracing couple.

Blatt eines Skizzenbuchs: Wäschermädel-Ball

Josef Engelhart, 1887

Watercolor drawing of tall pink hollyhock plants with green leaves and buds inside a thin ruled border.

Rosellas

Painted landscape of a barren plain, rocky cliff edge, and distant purple mountains with a hilltop building under a pale sky.

Karge bergige Landschaft

Grey pencil sketch of a rocky river landscape with boulders, a stream, small figures by the water, and trees on a slope.

Maiquetia River

Camille Pissarro, 1852

Blatt eines Skizzenbuchs: weibl. Akt und andere Figurenstudien

Josef Engelhart, 1884

Oil sketch of rocky cliffs with cave openings, a seated figure, and a small cross on a ridge under pale sky.

Felsige Landschaft mit Kreuz