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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Pencil sketch of a leafy shrub with loose foliage and stems, with a faint hill behind it, on cream paper.

Study of plants

Engraved-style drawing of a military review with pikemen blocks, mounted cavalry, banners and rolling hills in the background

Das kaiserliche Heer Karls V. vor Wien: Heerschau über die Reichstruppen am 3. Oktober 1532 (rechte Bildhälfte)

Albert von Camesina, 1870

Grey wash drawing of a rearing white horse, a turbaned rider, and panicked soldiers and horses, with a distant battle.

The Defeat of Sennacherib

Pieter Soutman, 1618

Brown wash drawing of a chaotic lion hunt with hunters on horseback, spears raised, and lions attacking.

Lion Hunt

Pieter Soutman, 1615

Faint pencil sketch of a small child lying on its side, with loosely drawn limbs and head, on pale paper.

A child

Grey wash drawing of the Arch of Constantine in Rome with three arches, columns, reliefs and small figures.

Konstantins triumfbåge i Rom

Bartholomeus Breenbergh

Grey ink and wash drawing of a ravine with arched stone grottoes overgrown with trees and a cliff with waterfall.

Ravin med murade grottor

Bartholomeus Breenbergh

Standing Dog

Frans Snyders, 1600

Pencil sketch of men seated at a café table, one in a top hat and one in a bowler hat, with patrons behind a window.

Café Scene

Charles Samuel Keene, 1870/91

Pencil sketch of a bare, gnarled tree crown seen from below, with twisted branches and small patches of foliage.

Kahle Baumkrone in starker Untersicht

Pen and wash drawing of soldiers on horseback with trumpets and foot soldiers carrying a head on poles before a distant city.

The Triumph of David

Style of Jan Luyken, c. 1700

Pen drawing of two men in a room: one reclines in an armchair beside a desk, the other gestures while seated, a top hat on th

Solicitor and Client

Charles Samuel Keene, 1870/91

Oval brown ink and wash drawing of a nude woman with a wreath, a child, a centaur, and a bust on a pedestal under laurel.

Antique Subject

Style of Angelica Kauffmann

Pen and brown wash drawing of a woman in a hat standing before a seated woman while a clerk writes at a desk in an office.

At the Employment Office

Charles Samuel Keene, 1870/91

Pen drawing on parchment of Gothic architectural motifs, with columns and pointed tracery patterns in dark ink.

Standing Youth with a Branch

Unknown artist, c. 1325

Pen drawing with red accents of a seated woman with flowers in her hair, framed by stylized leafy foliage.

Seated Girl with a Dog

Unknown artist, c. 1325

Watercolor of a neoclassical villa with statues in niches, framed by tall poplars and a flowered lawn under a cloudy sky.

Das Liechtensteinschlössel am Schüttel im Prater

Thomas Ender, 1820

Pen and ink drawing of a painter with palette talking to a top-hatted visitor in a studio stacked with crates.

In the Studio

Charles Samuel Keene, 1870/91

Pen and ink drawing of a seated nude warrior with a sword, skull, lion, and classical ruins, by Maerten van Heemskerck.

Simeon the Patriarch

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1549

Pencil drawing of old gnarled trees along a calm lake shore, with their reflections in the water in the foreground.

Alte Bäume an einem Gewässer

Pencil sketch of a cloaked man on a ship deck raising his hand toward a large star-crowned face above him.

Napoleon Views His Rising Star

Pen and wash drawing of four men in hats playing cards around a table in a dim room, with a framed picture on the wall.

A Game of Cards

Charles Samuel Keene, 1870/91

Grey wash drawing of a market scene with a seated woman, a barrel, wooden wheels, figures in hats, and a bird on the ground.

Market Scene

Unknown artist, 17th century

Pencil drawing of a two-storey pavilion with a cupola among trees beside a still lake.

Das Lusthaus im Prater

Jakob Alt, 1822

Pencil and grey wash drawing of an octagonal pavilion called Lusthaus im Prater, framed by poplars and large trees with bench

Das Lusthaus im Prater

Fide, 1820

Red and black chalk drawing of winged angels, putti and a harp among clouds, by Federico Zuccaro.

Angels and Putti in the Clouds

Federico Zuccaro, 1566

Pencil sketch of a largely bare tree crown seen from below, with gnarled branches spreading across a pale sheet.

Weitgehend kahle Baumkrone in Untersicht

Pen and wash sketch of a horse cab on a city street, with a driver on the box and a man in a top hat beside it.

Thrift

Charles Samuel Keene, 1870/91

Brown ink and wash drawing of Christ in a triumphal chariot pulled by a lion, with kneeling figures, clergy and a crowd.

The Triumph of Christ

attributed to Bartolomeo Roverio

Drawing of a turbaned man in white robes beside a nude woman with long dark hair, with a crowd of figures behind them.

Das Märchen (Vorlage für: Gerlach & Schenk, Allegorien und Embleme Nr. 74)

Gustav Klimt, 1884

Pencil sketch of a gnarled, twisted tree with bare branches reaching diagonally across pale, stained paper.

Kahler verwachsener Baum

Pen and ink sketch of a standing man addressing a seated woman in a bonnet at a courtroom witness box, with spectators behind

Force of Habit

Charles Samuel Keene, 1870/91