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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Pen and ink sketch of a goat-legged satyr holding a vessel between two classical columns, on a sketchbook page.

Karikatur

Arnold Böcklin, 1874

Open sketchbook with a pencil head study on the left and an ink drawing of a figure between columns under trees on the right.

Karikatur: Kopf / Kompositionsentwurf

Arnold Böcklin, 1874

Pen and ink drawing with blue wash of a bearded man holding a stag's head beside an armored knight standing over a dragon.

Saint Eustace and Saint George

Hans von Kulmbach, ca. 1511

Brown ink drawing of women gathered around a nude statue beneath trees, with winged figures in the sky and a lute in the fore

The Challenge of the Pierides, from Ovid's Metamorphosis (Book V: 294-678)

Karel van Mander I, 16th-17th century

Watercolor botanical study of a Maianthemum bifolium plant with two green leaves, white flowers, and roots on cream paper.

Maianthemum bifolium - zweiblättrige Schattenblume

Alfred Franck, 1845

Open sketchbook with a brown ink landscape study of tangled branches and foliage on the right page; left page blank.

Landschaftsstudie

Arnold Böcklin, 1874

Chalk drawing of Bacchus seated with a cup, a reclining nude Ariadne, a putto and satyrs among grapevines in a wooded setting

Bacchus and Ariadne

Jean Hughes Taraval, 18th century

Brown wash drawing of a passenger canal boat with top-hatted passengers, a standing boatman, and a church tower behind trees.

De trekschuit

Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, 1832

Drawing of a draped grey cloth with soft folds, shaded in black chalk and highlighted in white on blue-grey paper.

Study of Drapery

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, ca. 1813

Sepia watercolor of a couple in 18th-century dress embracing beneath a large tree in a forest.

Verliefd stel in het bos

Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, 1832

Groep van twee figuren en een oude mannenkop

Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, 1832

Grey wash drawing of nobles gesturing in a vaulted hall while a clerk writes at a draped table.

Hertog Willem verbindt zich met de Hollandse edelen en steden

Johann Wilhelm Kaiser, 1843

Watercolor sketch of a beach with a white horse pulling a boat, figures on sand, and a stone building at left.

Strandgezicht met boten en vissers

Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, 1832

Grey wash drawing of a dim interior with a standing man, a seated woman embracing a child, and a staircase.

Interieur met een vissersgezin

Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, 1847

Watercolor drawing of a crowded street fair with wooden booths, flags and well-dressed spectators beneath a distant church to

Kermis te Leeuwarden, de Oldenhove in het verschiet

Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, 1853

Open sketchbook with a pencil drawing of a draped standing woman on the right and a faint tree study on the left.

Skizze / Weibliche Gestalt

Arnold Böcklin, 1874

Brown wash drawing of a waterfall in a wooded landscape, with a mother and child seated on a rock at lower left.

Landscape with Waterfall and a Mother and Child

Johann Peter Beer, 1800

Pencil portrait of a man with mustache and cravat, signed and dated 1841, on cream paper.

Zelfportret van Joseph Kayser

Joseph Kayser, 1841

Pencil drawing of a lakeside town framed by a stone column and cypress trees, with mountains and clouds behind.

Malcesine

Josef Engelhart, 1910

Portrait of Julius Olivier, the Artist's Son

Friedrich von Olivier, 1846

Pencil sketch of tall forest trees, a fallen log in the foreground and a small standing figure beside it.

Hutt Road, round the first gorge, looking down

William Swainson FLS FRS, 1847

Pen drawing of the risen Christ with a banner rising above tumbling soldiers, with a tomb in the upper left.

The Resurrection

Bernard van Orley, early 16th century

Watercolour of a calm lake with snow-capped mountains in mist, wooded shore and rocks in the foreground.

Diamond Lake, Wakatipu

Laurence William Wilson

Mann an Tisch sitzend (Studie zum Ferdinand Raimund-Zyklus in Schloss Kogl, Attergau)

Josef Engelhart, 1912

Pencil sketch of a standing man with a mustache wearing a draped robe, drawn on tan paper.

Mann in drapiertem Kostüm

Gustav Klimt, 1901

Watercolour of a rocky shoreline with boulders, two small figures, distant hills and sea under a pale blue sky.

Wellington Harbour from Seatoun

William Francis Barraud, 1900

Pencil study of a standing man in a long draped robe, head tilted upward, on tan paper.

Mann in langem Gewand

Gustav Klimt, 1901

Pencil sketch of the Otira Hotel, a wooden building with a chimney, set below a steep forested mountain slope.

Otira Hotel

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Charcoal study of a seated Madonna in a veil holding a nude infant on her lap, with draped cloth, on tan paper.

Madonna mit dem Kind (nach Michelangelo)

Anselm Feuerbach

Watercolor botanical study of a red catchfly with blue and red flowers, green leaves and a branching stem on pale paper.

Study of a red catchfly (Lychnis hirsuta)

Herman Saftleven, 1680

Watercolor botanical study of a branch with green pinnate leaves and two ruffled red flowers on a cream background.

Nelken

Johann Bartholomäus Braun

Pencil sketch on tan paper of a clothed standing man and a nude standing figure, drawn in loose contour lines.

Mann in langem Gewand und weiblicher Akt, einander zugewandt

Gustav Klimt, 1907