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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Grey wash drawing of villagers dancing in a street before a thatched tavern, with a dog and market scene behind.

An Itinerant Peddler in a Village

Cornelis Dusart, 1693

Pencil sketch of a seated man in a cap and buttoned coat holding a cane, at the bottom of an otherwise blank sheet.

Sitting man

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, kneeling king and crowd of onlookers.

Adoration of the Magi

Frans Francken II, n.d.

Chalk study on grey paper with several figures: a bearded man in a turban, a nude torso, a raised arm, and a foot.

Study for Miraculous Draught of Fishes (?)

Pen and ink drawing of a martyrdom scene with soldiers, a mounted rider, a hilltop group, and a distant town.

The Martyrdom of Saint Alexander of Bergamo

Lorenzo Lotto, c. 1524

Pencil sketch of ivy leaves spreading across a wall beside a dark recessed doorway under a projecting ledge.

Ivy

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated nude man looking upward, with crucifixion scene and angels in background.

The Good Thief

Karel van Mander I

Pencil sketch of a fractured rock face with a deep cleft, shrubs on top, and a sloping rocky ridge on the right.

Rock face

Brown ink and wash landscape with a wooden bridge, ruined walls, tall trees and small figures on a path under clouds.

Landscape with Bridge and Ruins in Background

Pieter Dircksz Santvoort

Pencil sketch of a small landscape with rolling hills, slender trees and a meadow on cream paper.

Kleine Landschaft mit Bergen

Brown ink drawing of God the Father on clouds with angels playing harp and lute and putti below.

God the Father and Angels on Clouds

Raffaello Motta

Pencil sketch of a well beside an old tree with a study of a small bell turret above, on pale paper.

Brunnen an einem alten Baum, darüber Studie eines Glockenhäuschens

Pencil caricature of a man in a peaked cap and long coat with an exaggerated nose, carrying a book and cane.

Caricature of Scholar

A. Lingoste, n.d.

Study for "The Four Doctors of the Church"

Domenico Beccafumi

Pencil sketch of a half-timbered house beside a cemetery cross and stone pedestal, half hidden by trees and shrubs.

Fachwerkhäuschen auf einem Friedhof

Drawing of a Japanese interior with a seated artist, a woman holding flowers, a child, and hanging scrolls on the walls.

Japanese Artist at Work

Adolph Menzel, 1886

Pencil sketch of a town skyline with church towers rising above trees and rooftops across a open riverbank.

Blick über den Rhein auf Worms

Pencil sketch of a city street with bare trees, neoclassical buildings, carriages and pedestrians.

Der alte Nordbahnhof

Rudolf von Alt, 1858

Pencil sketch of a village with a church spire nestled among rolling hills and trees in a valley.

Village in a valley

Pencil sketch of a village with a twin-towered church rising above houses, trees and rolling hills in the distance.

Dietkirchen bei Limburg an der Lahn mit Blick auf die Stiftskirche St. Lubentius

Sepia wash drawing of a winged man and a nude woman on clouds, with a putto above, in a cruciform frame.

Time Revealing Beauty

Style of Nicolas Pierre Loir, n.d.

Pencil drawing of a ruined hilltop castle above a valley with a village church and a carriage on the road.

City view

Jakob Becker, 1841

Brown ink and blue wash drawing of soldiers and women struggling beneath classical columns in a colonnade.

Massacre of the Innocents [recto]

called Bertoia Jacopo Zanguidi

Pencil sketch of a flat landscape with a low horizon, scattered ground patches and open sky on pale paper.

Landscape

Pen and wash drawing of a distant town skyline with church towers and a windmill across an open landscape.

View of Mons, Belgium

Pencil and watercolor studies of wagons, an ox in brown wash, horses pulling a carriage, and a figure in a hat.

Studies of Slovakian Peasant Wagons with Oxen and Horses

Rudolf von Alt, n.d.

Pencil drawing of a Romanesque church exterior with a tall tower, gabled roofs, arched windows and a rose window.

Chor einer romanischen Kirche

Pen and ink sketch of a village church across open fields, with travelers carrying baskets on a path in the foreground.

Study for the Engraving Thalkirchen, from series Views of

Wilhelm von Kobell, c. 1818

Pencil sketch of a path winding past slender trees and a timber-framed building with shrubs in the foreground.

Garden path

Sketch of a man in period dress with outstretched arms beside banana plants, with a rider on horseback in the distance.

Study for Illustration for Aline, Queen of Golconda

Albert Lynch, n.d.

Watercolor of a seated man being shaved by an attendant, with a servant holding basins and a tiled stove beside them.

Der Bader (?) oder Das Hausmittel

Georg Emanuel Opitz, 1805

Watercolor design sketch of a seated man in a tree flanked by two standing figures in colorful robes.

Der Barometermacher auf dem Feigenbaum mit Zoraide und dem Menschenfeind (Entwurf zum Ferdinand Raimund-Zyklus (Der B…

Josef Engelhart, 1912