New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome and Firefox. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome Add to Firefox

Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Pencil sketch of a group of trees with spreading branches and leafy crowns on a sloping hillside, dated 1840.

Baumgruppe an einem Hang

Jakob Becker, 1840

Watercolor of a park promenade with a central kiosk, striped café tents and strollers in 19th-century dress under tall trees.

Das Wasserglacis (mit den Kaffeehauszelten)

Josef Wohlmuth, 1872

Brown ink drawing of a rustic kiln of stacked sticks beside a fence and barrel, with two seated women and thatched cottages.

A Rustic Kiln at Vernon

Johann Georg Wille, 1761

Pencil drawing of a large old tree beside a half-timbered house and stone wall, by Jakob Becker, 1841.

Alter Baum an einer Straße in Remagen

Jakob Becker, 1841

Brown wash drawing of a thatched rustic house with a wooden barrel, firewood, and a seated woman in a bonnet.

A Rustic House in the Grand Rue at Sceaux-Les-Chartreux

Johann Georg Wille, 1766

Brown wash drawing of a rocky landscape with overgrown ruins, a path, and two seated children at lower right.

Two Children Seated near Overgrown Ruins

Johann Georg Wille, 1758

Pencil and red chalk portrait of a woman in a frilled dormeuse cap with red rosettes, against hatched background.

A Lady Wearing a Dormeuse Cap

Nicolaes Muys, 1770

Pencil sketch of a gnarled old tree trunk with sparse branches and leaves, dated 1838 in red ink at right.

Old tree in Düsseldorf

Jakob Becker, 1838

Pencil drawing of a ceiling decoration with an oval center inside an ornate rectangular frame on pale paper.

Deckendekoration

Heinrich von Ferstel, 1870

Drawing of a standing man in a flowing robe holding a scepter, gesturing toward a crown on a cushion.

Portrait of Louis XIII

Philippe de Champaigne, c. 1644

Pencil sketch of a wooded edge with a tall tree on the right, dense foliage behind and shrubs in an open foreground.

Edge of a wood

Jakob Becker, 1843

Pencil and white chalk drawing of a draped woman pointing to a zodiac wheel, beside an urn and laurel sprig.

Draped Female Figure with Urn and Wheel of Zodiac

Jean Baptiste Louis Massard, n.d.

Red chalk drawing of a woman collapsing in a columned hall as a bearded man and onlookers react in alarm.

Death of Sapphira

François-Alexandre Verdier, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a large tree with arching branches and leafy foliage on cream paper, labeled Hagenburg.

Tree in Hagenburg

Pencil drawing of ornate ceiling and wall decoration with scrollwork panels, a central mascaron, and curved cornices, by Hein

Deckendekoration eines Festsaales (Gartenpalais Liechtenstein ?)

Heinrich von Ferstel, 1875

Pen drawing of an ornate stairwell ceiling design with a circular medallion, arched panels and scrolled ornament.

Deckendekoration für ein Stiegenhaus

Heinrich von Ferstel, 1870

Pencil drawing of a ceiling corner with scrolling foliate ornament, garlands and putti on tan paper.

Deckendekoration mit Putten

Heinrich von Ferstel, 1870

Pencil sketch of half-timbered farmhouses with steep roofs, a tree at right, and a hill with trees behind.

Farmstead

Pencil drawing of a horizontal ornamental frieze with scrolls, putti, garlands and framed panels on pale paper.

Deckendekoration mit Ranken und Putten (Gartenpalais Liechtenstein ?)

Heinrich von Ferstel, 1874

Pencil drawing of two gnarled old trees with twisting trunks, bare upper branches and leafy lower boughs on pale paper.

Two old trees

Jakob Becker, 1843

Sepia wash drawing of classical temple ruins with columns, a tower, a statue and travelers on a road.

Antique Ruins

Jacob van der Ulft

Pencil design sheet showing six ornamental ceiling corner brackets with scrollwork and rosettes, arranged in two rows.

Deckendekorationen

Heinrich von Ferstel, 1870

Graphite drawing of a bearded saint raising his hand before kneeling figures, a child on the ground, and a crowd with classic

Saint Zenobius Resuscitating a Child

Ciro Ferri, 1665

Pencil drawing of a bearded faun with a leafy wreath, seated with one arm raised, on grey-tan paper.

Faun Reclining

Ciro Ferri, 1660

Sepia drawing of imagined Roman ruins with a triumphal arch, columns, a domed building, and travelers on a road.

A Capriccio View of Roman Ruins along the Tiber

Jacob van der Ulft

Pencil drawing of a dense group of trees on a curving slope, with rolling hills and open land receding to the left.

Piece of a forest on a slope

Brown ink and wash drawing of a fortified town with a gateway, soldiers, sailing boats and horsemen on a shoreline.

A Coastal Scene with a Fortified Town

Jacob van der Ulft, 1670

Brown ink and wash drawing of a woman raising a bottle beside a man at a table in an interior with a window.

Vrouw houdt twee drankflessen omhoog

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Brown wash drawing of a man bending over a boy on the floor beside a seated woman at a writing table in a room.

Jongen zit vast in een Spaanse bok

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Ink and wash drawing of two men in top hats entering a room past a window with potted plants and a seated man.

Christiaan Andriessen betreedt het nieuwe koffiehuis Frascati in de Nes

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Watercolor design of church decorations with red drapery, black imperial eagles, green garlands, a chandelier and a soldier b

Dekoration der Minoritenkirche anlässlich der Befreiung Italiens nach dem Sieg über Napoleon am 22. September 1799

Lorenzo Sacchetti, 1799

Pen and brown ink drawing with red chalk of figures lowering Christ's body from the cross using ladders.

The Deposition

Thomas Blanchet, 1670