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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Pen and ink sketch of the Virgin crowned in clouds above rows of angels playing instruments and holding banners.

Coronation of the Virgin with the Heavenly Hosts

Baldassare Franceschini, 17th century

Architectural site plan in ink showing a central church floor plan, garden courts, and surrounding streets, by Otto Wagner.

Kapuzinerkirche und Kaisergruft, Erstes Projekt, Situationsplan

Otto Wagner, 1898

Brown ink sketch of the Adoration of the Shepherds with the Virgin and infant Christ, kneeling figures, and a column.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Pietro da Cortona, 17th century

Architectural floor plan in pencil and orange wash of a church and garden, with handwritten calculations on tan paper.

Kapuzinerkirche und Kaisergruft, Grundriss und Schnitt

Otto Wagner, 1898

Pen and brown ink drawing of workers digging and building a stone wall, with an axe-wielding man and mountains behind.

Men Digging and Constructing a Wall

Pietro da Cortona, 17th century

Pencil sketch of an ornate domed church facade with an arched portal, figures and carriages below, on a museum archive sheet.

Kapuzinerkirche und Kaisergruft, Skizze zum Präsentationsblatt

Otto Wagner, 1898

Ink and wash drawing of Christ kneeling in Gethsemane, an angel above him, a cross and fence in a stormy landscape.

Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane

Gaspare Diziani, 18th century

Ink drawing of a domed church facade at night with a crowd at the entrance and decorative wreath elevations below.

Kapuzinerkirche und Kaisergruft, Zweites Projekt, Ansicht

Otto Wagner, 1898

Pen and ink caricature of two men in period coats facing each other, one smiling broadly, one with a stern expression.

Marco and Carlo: Caricature of Two Men Standing Face to Face

Pier Leone Ghezzi, 1674-1755

Watercolor landscape with a large tree, waterfall, figures and cows on a hillside path under a cloudy sky.

The Morning

Johann Georg Wagner, 1732-67

Karikatur

Karl Wiener, 1926

Pen and wash design drawing of an ornate chalice topped by a standing Madonna and Child, flanked by seated figures and cherub

Ontwerp voor een miskelk

Pieter de Jode, 1580

Pencil sketch by Eugène Delacroix of a reclining woman in an arched interior, with smaller figure studies at the right edge.

Woman Dying(?), Man in Bedroom, Two Sketches of Same

Eugène Delacroix, n.d.

Circular brown ink drawing of the Judgment of Paris with nude goddesses, a shepherd, Cupid and a dog in a landscape.

Het oordeel van Paris

Pieter de Jode, 1580

Illuminated 1606 drawing of an alchemical furnace with a winged cherub and flasks, above Dutch calligraphic verse.

De Alchemie

Paulus de Kempenaer, 1606

Grey wash drawing of a seated draped man turning right with one arm raised, on blue-grey paper.

Zittende geklede man, naar rechts

Pieter de Kempener, 1513

Zittende naakte man, naar rechts

Pieter de Kempener, 1513

Brown ink drawing of a warrior thrusting his hand into a burning altar before a seated ruler and armored soldiers.

Mucius Scaevola voor Porsenna

Berendtsz. Lansinck, 1605

Pen drawing of a nude risen figure with a banner above sleeping soldiers, with a tree and walled city behind.

De opstanding

Lucas van Leyden, 1529

Pencil sketch of three men in top hats and long coats seen from behind, walking, one carrying a cane.

Karikatur (Drei Gecken)

Hans Gasser, 1840

Pencil studies of lions: a snarling lion head and body at upper left, a reclining lion with mane at lower right, and small sk

Studies of Lions

Eugène Delacroix, c. 1829

Circular pen and blue wash drawing of a siege with a square fortified city at center and armies in concentric rings.

Belegering van een vestingstad

Theodoor Loockemans, 1597

Pen drawing of an allegory of music showing musicians in a garden with a fountain, pergola, and figures in flanking column ni

Allegorie op de muziek

Theodoor Loockemans, 1605

Circular drawing of a smiling woman with curly hair in a white dress, resting her arm beside a white dog against leafy foliag

Diana in een ronde omlijsting

Jacob Matham, 1602

Pen and wash drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds in an oval cartouche, with the Virgin, Christ child, kneeling shepherd

Aanbidding der herders

Jacob Matham, 1601

Vrouw in fantasiekostuum, in profiel naar rechts

Jacob Matham, 1607

Pen drawing of a mountain valley with a high wooden bridge on tall piers, a windmill, a town and flying birds.

Berglandschap met hoge brug

Jacob Matham, 1609

Charcoal caricature of a man with an exaggerated elongated face, shaded hair and sidelong glance, framed by a thin border.

Karikatur (Selbstbildnis ?)

Karl Wiener, 1926

Pen and ink sketch of two nude women and a pencil study of a carved Marquesan earplug on aged paper.

Two Tahitian Women and a Marquesan Earplug

Paul Gauguin, 1891/93

Drawing of a bearded man in a ruff collar within an oval frame, flanked by two cherubs with trumpets on an ornamental pedesta

Portret van B. Spranger

Jan Harmensz. Muller, 1595

Chalk drawing of a man's head turned over his shoulder, three-quarter view to the right, with red chalk accents.

Kop van een man die over zijn rechter schouder kijkt, in driekwart naar rechts

Jan Harmensz. Muller, 1593

Pastel portrait of a seated young girl with blue eyes in a blue dress, holding a small book on a red stool.

Portrait of a Girl with Blue Eyes and Blue Dress

B. Doyle, c. 1820