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Drawings & Sketches

76,141 works

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bedroom scene with figures in pointed hats, a reclining adult, a child, and attendants.

The Infant Punchinello in Bed with His Parents

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, late 18th-early 19th century

Sepia drawing of masked Punchinello figures in a paneled room, one fitting a cloak while a woman with a tea tray looks on.

Punchinello as a Dressmaker

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, ca. 1800

Charcoal study of two figures writing and reading at a table beneath a lamp in a dim room.

Study for the lithograph "Around the Lamp"

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1888

Brown wash drawing of Punchinello figures in pointed hats sewing at a workbench in a tailor's shop, with onlookers and a dog.

Punchinello as Tailor's Assistant

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, late 18th-early 19th century

Watercolor drawing of a bearded man holding a child while a woman in a long dress gestures beside him in a room with laundry.

Le Peril Anarchiste

Jean-Louis Forain, c. 1897

Brown wash drawing of masked Punchinello figures in pointed hats felling or planting a tree, with a crowd and an overturned d

Punchinellos Felling (or Planting) a Tree

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, late 18th-early 19th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of punchinello figures in conical hats beside a wooden fence, with a crowd of onlookers at left.

Punchinellos Outside a Circus

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, late 18th-early 19th century

Caricature of a barber shaving a reclining man holding a mirror, with tools on a table and a French caption.

Projet de Voyage

Jean-Louis Forain, c. 1897

Brown ink and wash drawing of masked figures in pointed hats around a well, with a woman and dead birds in a rural setting.

Punchinello Retrieving Dead Fowls from a Well

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, late 18th-early 19th century

Charcoal sketch of a man in bust portrait with direct gaze, loose shading, and handwritten inscription dated November 1923.

Self-Portrait

Lovis Corinth, 1923

Brown ink and wash drawing of masked figures in pointed hats flogging a bent man in a street before a tiled-roof building.

The Flogging of Punchinello

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, ca. 1800

Pen and brown ink sketch of robed figures gathered around a tomb, with a nude man beside a horse and a reclining dog.

Figures in Antique Dress Grouped About a Pagan Tomb

Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo, mid-18th century

Brown ink wash drawing of robed philosophers teaching seated pupils beside an antique sarcophagus, with a dog and open book.

Philosophers Instructing Pupils by an Antique Sarcophagus

Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo, mid-18th century

Pen and wash drawing of a lagoon with sailing boats, gondolas, and church towers under a cloudy sky.

View of Mazzorbo

Francesco Tironi, late 18th century

Graphite sketch of a bearded man's head tilted upward, with curly hair, a pearl necklace, and faint drapery studies below.

Sketch of a Heads after Giambologna's Neptune Fountain

Christophe Veyrier, c. 1654

Ink and wash drawing of a church and villa beside a busy canal with gondolas, sailing boats and figures under cloudy sky.

View of the Island of San Giacomo in Paludo

Francesco Tironi, late 18th century

Grey wash drawing of an angel with a lily descending on clouds toward a kneeling veiled woman, with a dove and cherubs above.

The Annunciation

Giuseppe Zaïs, mid-18th century

Man with a Long Pigtail and a Stick, Standing in Profile to the Left

Anton Maria Zanetti the Elder, early-mid-18th century

Pen and ink sketch of an armored rider on horseback, arm extended to the right, on a warm yellowed sheet.

Armored Figure on Horseback

Vittore Carpaccio

Pen and wash drawing of a classical landscape with a hilltop town, umbrella pine, travelers on a road, and sailboats at sea.

Classical Landscape: A Town and a Mountain by the Coast

Francesco Zuccarelli, early-late 18th century

Pastoral drawing of a rider, two figures and a dog before a ruined stone arch, with trees and distant hills.

Landscape with Ruined Architecture

School of Zuccarelli, mid-18th-mid-19th century

Brown wash drawing of a family group with women, children and a reclining man in an ornate paneled interior.

An English Family Group

Antonio Zucchi, late 18th century

Brown wash drawing of four men in period dress seated around a table, conversing, with white highlights.

Four Connoisseurs Seated at a Table

Antonio Zucchi, late 18th century

Pencil sketch of draped figures in a colonnaded classical interior, with a seated man at left and a group at right.

Study for The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons

Jacques-Louis David, ca. 1788

Head of a Young Man in Profile with a Gun over His Shoulder

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, c. 1730/40s

Brown ink drawing of a man in a cocked hat and coat, turned three-quarters toward the viewer, by Goya.

Self-Portrait in a Cocked Hat

Francisco Goya, ca. 1790

Pencil study of a young woman turning her head, with draped shoulders and a sketched hand at lower right.

Study for "Raphael and the Fornarina"(?)

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, ca. 1814(?)

Watercolor sketch of a beach with women, a child, and nude bathers on rocks beside a pale blue sea.

Beach Scene

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1883

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of a seated woman in a headwrap and draped garment, turned away on grey paper.

Arab Woman

Eugène Fromentin, c. 1852-53

Loose watercolor sketch of women in hats and long skirts near a railing and tree, with figures sketched in the foreground.

Figures under a Tree

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1880-82 (?)

Watercolor landscape of rolling hills, trees, and a path under a blue and pink sky, by Auguste Renoir, 1889.

Landscape

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1889

Watercolor sketch of a seated girl in a blue blouse and red skirt beneath loose, colorful trees, with a hat on the ground.

Landscape with a Girl

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1880s or early 1890s