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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Pencil sketch of a curving street with tall townhouses, a utility pole, a lamp post and small figures.

De Wolvenstraat

George Hendrik Breitner, 1867

Pencil sketch of two standing women, one in a slip holding fabric, one partly nude with hair pinned up, on cream paper.

Frauenporträt; weiblicher Akt (Bleistiftskizze)

Karl Wiener, 1935

Red chalk drawing of a curly-haired boy with lowered eyes reading an open book.

Boy Reading

After Guercino, n.d.

Pencil sketch of four women in 1920s-style dresses and stockings, seated, leaning, standing, on cream paper.

Frauenporträts (Bleistiftskizze)

Karl Wiener, 1935

Brown wash drawing of Venus and Adonis embracing in a forest with cupids, hunting dogs, and a swan chariot above.

Venus and Adonis

Follower of Michel Corneille, the Younger, n.d.

Pencil sketch of women chatting on a street corner beside a poster and building lines, by George Hendrik Breitner.

Pratende meiden op een straathoek

George Hendrik Breitner, 1867

Charcoal sketch of an Amsterdam-style harbor at dusk with ship masts, rigging, and dark waterfront buildings.

Damrak bij avond

George Hendrik Breitner, 1867

Charcoal sketch of a Dutch town with a tall tower, gabled houses, trees and a canal with a footbridge in the foreground.

De Teertuinen

George Hendrik Breitner, 1905

Grey wash drawing of gabled houses and chimneys around a puddled construction site in Amsterdam.

Bouwput Sint Agnietenstraat te Amsterdam

George Hendrik Breitner, 1903

Pencil drawing of a bearded man in a tall hat and ornate embroidered uniform holding a sword, captioned Sultan Murad Mirza.

Sultan Murad Mirze, gouverneur van Khorasan

George Hendrik Breitner, 1867

Charcoal drawing of a plaster face mask with closed eyes and set lips against a dark grey background.

Pleister-masker

George Hendrik Breitner, 1867

Pen sketch of a row of Amsterdam buildings with gabled roofs and lampposts along a street, dated 1890.

Het Rokin, gezien vanuit Arti

George Hendrik Breitner, 1890

Pen and brown wash drawing of armored warriors carrying a body through a wooded landscape, with a horse and soldiers behind.

Funeral Procession of the Young Pallas, Aeneid Book XI

Jean-Antoine Julien, 1762

Milton From the Bust - My Ninth Head

After John Michael Rysbrack, c. 1822

Milton from the Bust - My Tenth Head

After John Michael Rysbrack, c. 1822

Pen drawing of a boy watching a bearded man handle chains in a dim workshop with tongs, a hammer and an anvil.

Jongen en geketende man in een werkplaats

Willem Pothast, 1887

Pencil study of a seated woman in a turban and draped robe, chin resting on her hand, with proportion notes around her.

Frauenstudie (Entwurf zum Ferdinand Raimund Zyklus in Schloß Kogl, Attergau?)

Josef Engelhart, 1912

Pen and brown wash drawing of an old shepherd leaning on a staff, with sheep and a leafy branch behind him.

Old Shepherd Leaning on a Staff

called Parmigianino Francesco Mazzola, 1524/31

Charcoal sketch of a draped female figure with head tilted back and arm raised, on grey paper.

Frauenstudie (Entwurf zum Ferdinand Raimund-Zyklus in Schloss Kogl, Attergau)

Josef Engelhart, 1912

Seated Man with Extended Left Arm

Félicien Rops, n.d.

Graphite sketch of a seated bearded male nude holding a staff beside a standing male nude seen from behind, on cream paper.

Seated and Standing Male Nudes, after photographs by Eugène Durieu

Eugène Delacroix, 1855

Pen and brown ink study of the crucified Christ with outstretched arms, drawn over faint handwritten notes on paper.

Christ on the Cross: Study for the Crucifixion with Saints

Guercino, 1624/25

Pencil sketch sheet with three seated women in pensive poses, one nude and two draped, by Josef Engelhart.

Frauenstudie in dreifacher Ausführung (Entwurf zum Ferdinand Raimund Zyklus in Schloß Kogl, Attergau?)

Josef Engelhart, 1912

Watercolor of a waterfall in a rocky gorge with two figures in the foreground and a stone bridge in the distance.

A Bridge on the Aar, at the Foot of the Grimsel, in the Canton of Berne

Caspar Wolf, ca. 1775

Fräulein Riedinger (Graz)

Egon Schiele, 1913

Brown wash drawing of a hilly landscape with large gnarled trees, a road with travelers, and a distant river valley.

Hilly Landscape with Trees and a Road on the Right

Georg Heinrich Busse, 1833

Watercolor and pen drawing of a Gothic church interior with an ornate carved altarpiece, tall columns, and wooden pews.

Interior of Saint Severin Church in Erfurt

Carl Georg Anton Graeb, 1855

Pencil and chalk portrait of a seated man in a dark coat and white collar, hand resting on knee, drawn 1827.

Freiherr Münch-Bellinghausen

Peter Fendi, 1827

Pencil sketch of a Gothic church interior with a woman carrying a child, kneeling women, children, and monks.

Saint Elizabeth Carrying Her First-born Son to the Church

Ludwig Emil Grimm, ca. 1850

Night drawing of a moonlit river with sailing boats, dark trees on the right bank, and moon reflected on the water.

The River Elbe Downstream of Hamburg by Moonlight

Christian Ernst Morgenstern, ca. 1828

Pencil ground plan of the Friedenskirche on pale paper, showing walls, columns, stairs and annotations.

Friedenskirche, Grundriss

Otto Wagner, 1917

Watercolor drawing of a weathered timber watermill with a waterwheel, two small figures on a path, and a cloudy sky.

Watermill

Ernst Erwin Oehme, ca. 1870