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Drawings & Sketches

76,141 works

Botanical watercolor of a flowering branch with white roses, yellow stamens, green leaves and red-tinged thorns on cream pape

Brier Bush Rose or Dog Rose (Rosa Leucantha)

Pierre-Joseph Redouté, 1817-24

Pen and ink sketch of a battle scene with armored warriors and horses, with a verso showing a nude figure and drapery study.

Reconciliation of the Romans and the Sabines (recto) Venus Disarming Mars, Drapery Study (verso)

Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1632/35

Pencil sketch of a peasant woman in a headscarf feeding two chickens at her feet.

Peasant Girl Feeding Chickens

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1800s(?)

Watercolor drawing of two tall trees with green and brown foliage rising from a brown ground on pale paper.

Trees

Jean-Baptiste Pillement

Drawing of an elderly bearded man in three-quarter view, in graphite and white chalk on blue paper.

George Frederic Watts, R.A.

Alphonse Legros, c. 1876

Black-and-white drawing of a man lying on a wooden raft on dark rippling water under a night sky.

On a Raft

George Bellows, c. 1900-1923

Watercolor and ink drawing of a Spanish hilltop town with a bell tower, mountains, and figures on a stony street.

Andalusia, Spain

Muirhead Bone, 1925

Italian peasant

Martinus Rørbye, 1840

Watercolor landscape of a mountain valley with green fields, a winding road, larch trees and rocks in the foreground.

Mountain View

Robert J. Pattison, 1862-67

Ink sketch of two figures fishing from a boat with fish, a crab, and an octopus in the waves below.

Daikoku and Ebisu, Two of the Seven Gods of Happiness

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, c. 1830s

Brown ink and wash drawing of a village with timber cottages, a cow, chickens, and figures on a dirt road.

A View of Spa

Jan Brueghel, c. 1619

Brown ink drawing of kneeling figures praying at an altar fire while a figure rises in clouds above, with animals and trees i

Noah's Sacrifice, plate IX from The Creation and Early History of Man

Johannes Wierix, 1606

Narrow sheet of ink and wash figure studies, with a standing woman, seated figures and a crouching figure in gray tones.

Sheet of Studies with a Group of Four Figures to the Right (recto)

Honoré Daumier, 1850-75

Red and black chalk drawing of two nude women, one seated and one crouching, on a tinted brown-grey ground.

Susannah Crouching

Jacob Jordaens, c. 1640/1645

Brown wash drawing of cows and sheep with two figures carrying a pole beside a rocky mountain and pine trees.

Sheep and Cows

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1790s

Watercolor drawing of draped female figures with star ornaments dancing across a pale blue sky, by Johannes Wiedewelt, 1795.

The Atlantides

Johannes Wiedewelt, 1795

Black chalk and white highlight drawing of two snarling dogs with bared teeth facing each other on tan paper.

Fighting Animals

Carle Vernet, fourth quarter 18th century or first third 19th century

Watercolor sheet of flowers and strawberries with birds and a griffon on grassy mounds.

Floral Designs with Birds and Griffon

Giacomo Cavenezia, 1784

Watercolor of a burial mound with stone entrance among trees, with figures in period dress on a path, dated 1799.

Burial mound at Jægerspris

Søren L. Lange, 1799

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated allegorical woman holding a staff, with a winged child behind her and clouds below.

Allegorical Figure (verso)

Niccolò dell'Abbate, 1500s

Watercolor of a man in a red coat and tall hat holding a gilt door handle, casting a shadow on a pale wall.

Royal doorkeeper

Johannes Senn, 1807

Brown chalk drawing of the Annunciation: a kneeling figure faces a winged angel holding a branch, with a dove in a beam of li

The Annunciation

Johann Jakob von Sandrart

Brown ink drawing of a crowd of soldiers and mothers with infants in a violent scene, with architecture behind.

Copy of Raphael's Massacre of the Innocents

Raphael, after 1510

Pencil drawing on grey paper of an elderly woman's head in a layered veil, eyes gazing upward.

Head of an Old Woman

Hans Holbein, c. 1500

Brown wash drawing of a horseman, sheep and women at a fountain under a tree; reverse has faint pencil sketch.

Frontispiece for an Album of Drawings: Peasants at a Fountain (recto); Sketch of Peasants at a Fountain (verso)

Dirk Langendijk, 1784

Sepia wash drawing of a river flowing past a stone bridge, white houses, and rocky mountains under a cloudy sky.

The Neuve River at the End of the Dardenne Valley

Édouard Hostein, 1800s

Drawing of a young man with curly hair turned to the side, in black and red chalk on brown paper, with a hand near his collar

Head of a Young Man (recto)

Gaetano Gandolfi, 1780s

Charcoal drawing of a seated nude woman with crossed legs gripping a rope, inscribed to Miss Brindley and dated 1919.

Female Nude Seated on a Low Bench

John Singer Sargent, 1919

Watercolor of a rocky coastline at low tide with sailing boats on the sea and a figure on the sand under cloudy skies.

Coastal View

Thomas Churchyard, c. 1818-65

Sepia drawing of a winged figure on clouds beside a woman holding scales, with a crowd and children reaching upward.

Allegory

Charles Abraham Chasselat, 1818

Pen and ink anatomical drawing of a skeleton's pelvis and legs seen from the front, with faint foliage below the feet.

Lower Half of Skeleton from the Front

Battista Franco Veneziano, early 1540s

Brown wash drawing of an armored warrior with spear and shield among clouds, winged figures, and a standing woman in an oval.

Ceiling Study: Allegory of Peace and War

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, c. 1800 ?