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Drawings & Sketches

79,685 works

Red chalk drawing of a sleeping baby reclining on drapery, with soft hatched shading and a handwritten attribution at lower l

Sleeping Baby

Attributed to Jacopo Amigoni, n.d.

Watercolor portrait of a smiling young woman in a red headscarf and white blouse, set against loose green foliage.

Young Girl with a Red Bandana

Arcadio Mas y Fondevila

Watercolor and ink drawing of a woman in a long pale dress and large hat, with a crowd and windmill behind her.

A Parisienne Outside the Moulin de la Galette

Henry Somm, 1844-1907

Grey wash drawing of a flood with many figures and animals fleeing up rocky slopes under a stormy sky.

The Flood

Abraham Bloemaert, 1600

Pen and watercolor drawing of a woman in a large hat standing on a crowded city street among pedestrians.

A Parisienne on a Crowded Street

Henry Somm, 1844-1907

Red chalk drawing of a seated male nude seen from behind, arm raised over head, legs stretched across the ground.

Satyr (Back View)

Possibly Giulio Carpioni, n.d.

Pencil and chalk drawing of a bearded blind man at a table as a boy leans in to steal drink from his jug.

Lazarille de Tormes Stealing Drink from a Blind Man

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, probably c. 1846

Watercolor of fire-damaged brick ruins with arched windows, broken timbers and workmen clearing rubble under a cloudy sky.

Petersen House destroyed by Fire

Wilhelm von Hanno, 1858

Pen and grey wash drawing of a narrow gabled brick house with a central double door and a handwritten caption below.

Gezicht op het Grill's Hofje te Amsterdam

Gerrit Postma, 1829

Sepia drawing of the Waag gatehouse on the Nieuwmarkt in Amsterdam, with a canal, boat and figures on wooden walkways.

Gezicht op de Waag op de Nieuwmarkt te Amsterdam

William John Cooke, 1807

Watercolor of a stag with large antlers standing in a woodland pond beside a big tree.

Stag

Brown wash drawing of a Roman ruin with broken arches, overgrown vines, and small figures on a path.

Roman ruin

Jan Asselijn, 1650

Academic Male Nude

Circle of Agnolo Bronzino, c. 1570

Grey chalk drawing with white highlights of a standing robed figure with raised arms and studies of draped cloth.

Studies for the Raising of the Daughter of Jairus

Unknown artist

Grey wash street scene of a large historic building with figures, a handcart, and a shop sign on the left.

Gezicht op het Oost-Indisch Huis te Amsterdam

Reinier Vinkeles, 1810

Grey wash drawing of a Amsterdam street corner with a shop, bare tree, and a partly demolished building with pedestrians.

Gezicht op de afbraak van het West-Indisch Huis te Amsterdam

Gerrit Lamberts, 1817

Pencil drawing of an ornate arched doorway with a pediment, flanked by pilasters and bollards on a stone street.

Gezicht op de poort van het West-Indisch Huis te Amsterdam

Hermanus Petrus Schouten, 1757

Watercolor drawing of a steam sugar refinery with tall smoking chimneys above a canal and small bridge, 1842.

Gezicht op de eerste stoom- en suikerraffinaderij De Vijf Gebroeders

Gerrit Lamberts, 1842

Watercolor drawing of a wooden floating dock on water with a sailing ship and a church tower skyline under a cloudy sky.

Gezicht op het Westerdok in het IJ

Willem Steelink, 1880

Brown wash drawing of an angel announcing to shepherds by a campfire, with cattle, sheep, and a woman holding an infant.

Annunciation to the shepherds

Abraham Bloemaert, 1600

Pen and blue wash drawing of Christ before a seated high priest, with soldiers, robed onlookers, columns and a dog.

Christ before Caiaphas

Crispen van den Broecke

Black chalk drawing of a kneeling monastic saint in a hooded robe with arms raised, on tan paper.

Kneeling Monastic Saint with Raised Arms

Circle of Giovanni Antonio Sogliani, 1500/25

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bearded armored man in a plumed helmet beside a kneeling nude and cloaked figures.

Saint Homobono

Attributed to Avanzino Nucci

Charcoal sketch of a horse and wagon crossing hills, with the label Porters Pass written at upper right.

Horse and wagon from an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Young Man with a Staff

Govert Flinck, 1640

Male Nude Walking to Left, Carrying Burden on His Shoulders

Possibly after Rosso Fiorentino, n.d.

Two Studies of an Elderly Man's Head

Paulus Pontius after Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Pencil and watercolour sketch of a timber house corner under vines, with trees and a hillside garden behind.

House Corner with Vine Foliage and Vineyard

August Grisebach, 1822

Pen and ink drawing of a bearded man seated in a stone prison with three young sons clustered around him.

Ugolino and His Sons in Prison

Carlo Arienti, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of Cupid drawing a bow, with a winged putto and drapery below.

Cupid

Giulio Cesare Procaccini, c. 1615

Two men study medieval stone tomb effigies in a Gothic church beside a stained-glass window, in a watercolor drawing.

Norwegian Bokmål: Oldsaksgranskeren

Vincent Stoltenberg Lerche, 1860

Watercolor of a purple monkshood flowering sprig with green lobed leaves and buds on a pale background.

Monkshood in bloom

Alida Withoos, 1700