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Drawings & Sketches

79,685 works

Pen and brown wash drawing of Diana with a crescent moon gesturing over a sleeping youth beside two dogs under a tree.

Diana and the Endymion

Style of Francesco Monti, n.d.

Pen drawing of a rearing horse and armored rider leaping before onlookers and a stone city wall.

Marcus Curtius

Samuel Stettler, 17th century

Red chalk drawing of a long-haired seated woman, nude to the waist, gazing toward a skull beside her.

Mary Magdalen Penitent

David Höscheler, 17th century

Red chalk drawing of a woman seen from behind with braided hair and a knotted sash across her shoulders.

Muse Seen from the Back

After Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael, 18th century

Red chalk study of two angels with draped robes and outstretched limbs on toned paper.

Study of Two Angels

Mattia Preti, 1661/1666

Red chalk drawing of a woman with wavy hair and a laurel wreath, head turned slightly, on aged paper.

Woman Crowned with Laurel

After Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael, 18th century

Poet Crowned with Laurel

After Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael, 18th century

Black chalk and white heightened drawing of a reclining female nude on grey paper, head resting on her arm.

Reclining Nude

Domenico Robusti, called Tintoretto, or his workshop, 1600/20

Grey wash drawing of an Italianate landscape with a castle, tall trees, a pond in the foreground, and hills beyond.

Italianate Landscape with Castle, Trees and Water in Foreground

School of Nicolas Poussin, n.d.

Pencil sketch of sailing boats on water before a city skyline with a church tower, drawn on tan paper.

Schepen voor een stad

Johannes Tavenraat, 1849

Brown wash drawing of a flat polder landscape with farmhouses, haystacks, windmills and ducks in a ditch under a hazy sky.

Sneppenschot

Johannes Tavenraat, 1870

Sepia wash drawing of a misty forest landscape with a stag and two deer on a hill, with handwritten inscription.

Boslandschap en herten

Johannes Tavenraat, 1840

Pen and brown ink drawing of a windmill beside a canal with boats, a horse cart, fishermen and clouds.

Molen langs een vaart

Johannes Tavenraat, 1840

Red chalk drawing of a woman with lowered eyes, curly hair and draped fabric tied in a bow at her shoulder.

Muse

After Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael, 18th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of a river landscape with trees along a winding riverbank and distant hills.

River Landscape

Unknown artist

Pencil sketch sheet of a galloping horse pulling a sleigh with fur-hatted riders, plus studies of pedestrians and heads.

Arrenslede

Johannes Tavenraat, 1840

Red and black book cover design with a stylised beetle, decorative border, and title lettering 'Onze Kevers' on squared paper

Bandontwerp voor: P.G. Buekers, Onze kevers, 1912

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, 1912

Koppen van drijvers

Johannes Tavenraat, 1840

Grey wash drawing of an ornate ewer with scroll handle, fluted neck, shell-patterned body and beaded foot.

Ontwerp voor een kan met deksel

Jean Charles Delafosse, 1765

Pen and brown wash sketch of cows standing in a flat meadow, with a church spire on the horizon at left.

Koeien in de wei

Johannes Tavenraat, 1840

Drijvers te Materborn

Johannes Tavenraat, 1836

Pen and brown wash sketch of a columned villa with a domed structure behind it and a pink-washed building to the right.

Sketches of Tuscan Villas

Attributed to Bernardo Buontalenti, called delle Girandole, or his circle, n.d.

Pencil sketch of three ragged figures on tan paper, with handwritten signatures beneath them.

Three Hobos on the Artist's Signature

Adolph Menzel, 1887

Art nouveau title page design with the word GEDENKBOEK, a gold monogram, and curving black border ornaments.

Ontwerp voor een titelpagina voor een gedenkboek ter gelegenheid van het huwelijk van Koningin Wilhelmina en Hertog H…

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, 1900

Pen drawing of a man in a hat holding up a hanging hare, with a handwritten Dutch caption below.

Drijver met haas

Johannes Tavenraat, 1840

Pen and brown ink sketch with wash of two hunters, one with a rifle, and a dog among rocks and bare trees.

Jagers

Johannes Tavenraat, 1876

Pen and brown wash drawing of an empty cartouche with fruit swags and two putti blowing trumpets on an architectural frame.

Shield of Cardinal with Two Trumpeting Putti

Follower of Lazzaro Tavarone, n.d.

Charcoal sketch on grey paper of a seated, leafy-crowned male figure with one arm raised, draped in an animal skin.

Bacchus

Unknown artist

Brown wash drawing of ruined towers, an arched stone bridge, and trees beside a house, dated 1630.

Roman Landscape

Possibly Bartholomeus Breenbergh, 1630

Pen and wash drawing of a pastoral landscape with seated couples and a nude man hunting under billowing clouds and trees.

Pastoral Scene: Men Hunting Birds, Couples Seated on Ground

Possibly after Bernard van Orley, n.d.

Monochrome drawing of a waterfall cascading over rocks beside a leaning tree in a dense wooded landscape.

Waterfalls and Woods

Style of Amos Green, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of two seated women leaning together, with sketched foliage and a small head in the margins.

Two Seated Women

Pellegrino Tibaldi