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Drawings & Sketches

76,306 works

Grey wash drawing of a forge scene with figures at an anvil, a standing nude man, a small cupid, and a cave setting.

Forge of Vulcan

Domenico Mondo, n.d.

Brown wash drawing on blue-grey paper of a woman with crossed arms, curled hair and shawl, with a tree at right.

Woman Three-Quarter Length with Crossed Arms

Possibly after Anthony van Dyck, 18th century

Red chalk drawing of a helmeted soldier with raised arm and a small face behind his shoulder, mounted in a blue-grey border.

Roman Soldier and Woman

Attributed to Ercole Procaccini, the younger, n.d.

Pen drawing of Mercury with winged helmet and staff beside draped Minerva, with a cherub and clouds, on tan paper.

Scene with Mercury and Minerva

School of Fontainebleau, n.d.

Grey ink and wash landscape with a villa, arched ruin, canal, trees and a kneeling hunter in the foreground.

Hunter with Dog, Other Figures in Landscape with Villa, Canal, Pyramid

Gaspar van Wittel, n.d.

Pen and wash sketch of Mercury handing an infant to a group of nymphs, with a standing nude figure at right.

Mercury Entrusting Infant Bacchus to Nymphs

Style of François Boitard, 1690/1715

Head of a Horse

Style of Charles Parrocel, n.d.

Horse study

Pen and ink drawing of a standing bearded prophet holding a scroll and a book, drawn over a faint grid.

Standing Prophet with a Book and Scroll

Taddeo Zuccari, 1562/66

Gray wash drawing of a ruined triumphal arch with columns, a leaning tree, and figures including a horseman in the foreground

Triumphal Arch and Figures

Andrea Locatelli, 1700-1741

Pen and ink drawing of Constantine offering a tiara to Pope Sylvester in a columned hall, with attendants and onlookers.

Study for the Emperor Constantine Offering the Tiara to Pope Sylvester

After Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael, n.d.

Pen and brown ink sketch of the Holy Family with Saint Francis and the infant John the Baptist on a tan paper.

Holy Family with Saint Francis of Assisi and the Infant John the Baptist

After Jacopo Cavedone, after 1612

Brown wash drawing of a shady grove with a seated nymph beside a large tree and a rocky bank.

Shady Grove with Nymph Seated Under Tree

Adam Friedrich Oeser, n.d.

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of the Adoration of the Shepherds, showing the Virgin, infant Christ, and gathered o

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Gerrit Battem, late 1650s

Loose watercolor sketch of elegantly dressed people with parasols strolling across a pale open beach.

People on the Beach at Trouville

Eugène-Louis Boudin, 1864

Grayscale drawing of a stone gateway with an iron gate, flanked by walls, picket fences and trees.

The Gateway of Mount Auburn, near Boston

Mary Altha Nims, 1800s

Pen and ink drawing of a riverside village with stilt houses, palm trees, a canoe and towering rock cliffs.

Exotic Landscape

Rodolphe Bresdin, n.d.

Circular drawing of Saint Benedict holding a crozier and book before a stone wall, with monastery buildings behind him.

Saint Benedict

Hans von Kulmbach, 1510/1515

Pen and ink drawing of craggy cliffs with horsemen in turbans in the foreground and a distant domed city on the right.

Mountainous Landscape with Horsemen

Rodolphe Bresdin, n.d.

Chalk drawing of a bearded figure with arms outstretched among clouds, identified as God the Father by Bernardino Campi.

God the Father

Bernardino Campi, 1567/70

Charcoal drawing of a reclining nude male figure resting one arm on a stool, head turned toward the viewer.

Male Nude

Paul Cézanne, 1863/66

Watercolor botanical drawing of a pink wild rose with two buds, serrated green leaves and a thorny brown stem.

Wild Rose

Mary Altha Nims, 1800s

Graphite drawing of a standing bearded male nude seen from behind, with faint notes and small sketches on tan paper.

Academic Nude, Seen from the Back

Paul Cézanne, 1862

Charcoal drawing of woodcutters in a forest, with a man atop a large log on a trestle and workers around cut logs.

The Woodcutters

Gustave Courbet, 1860

Grey wash drawing of a top-hatted man reading a newspaper beside two shadowy passengers in a railway carriage.

Third Class Carriage

Honoré Daumier, 1864

Black chalk drawing of a bearded man in a long flowing robe, one arm extended, on grey-blue toned paper.

Noah

After Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael, late 16th/early 17th century

Pen and wash sketch of a child leading three harnessed horses pulling a covered wagon across an open ground.

Child Leading Three Horses and Wagon

Attributed to Thomas Stothard, n.d.

Red chalk drawing of a river landscape with a large leaning tree at right, a church on the far bank, and distant mountains.

River Landscape with Mountains in Distance, Large Tree in Foreground

Style of Israel Silvestre, the younger, n.d.

Charcoal drawing of a warrior with sword and shield beside a wild-haired figure, with a winged trumpeter above the sea.

Achilles' wrath

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1896

Brown wash drawing on blue paper of women tending a newborn beside a canopied bed, with a procession of figures and columns b

Study for the Allegory of Birth

After Giorgio Vasari, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of an observatory hall with telescopes, globes, portraits on the walls and arched bays receding to a doorwa

The Hall of the Vilnius Astronomical Observatory

Marceli Januszewicz, 1836

Brown ink drawing of a theatrical stage set with arched vaults, columns, a grand staircase, and statues in niches.

Stage Setting

School of Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, n.d.