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Drawings & Sketches

76,313 works

Pen and watercolor drawing of Venus and Adonis seated in an oval landscape with a cupid and dog at their feet.

Venus and Adonis

Attributed to Gennaro Landi, 17th century

Pen and ink sketch of a young man showing a sword to two women in a draped interior, with handwritten caption below.

Look at This Sword, Was it to Be Resisted?, from Eleanora: from the Sorrows of Werter

possibly Haggitt, n.d.

Pencil drawing of a rocky gorge with cliffs, a stone wall, a cottage, and a ruined tower on a ledge.

Crags and Horses in Highlands

Henry Hill, n.d.

Pencil drawing of a young peasant woman in a headscarf and apron, holding a basket and pointing to the left.

Italian Peasant Girl

Possibly Jacob Philipp Hackert, n.d.

Sepia drawing of a lake with a wooded island, steep mountains, and a cottage beside a large tree on the right.

Loch Lomond

Attributed to Haygarth, n.d.

Mounted sheet of pen, ink and charcoal studies showing a soldier with a rifle and bayonet in a long coat and kepi.

Le G.V.C.

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Black chalk portrait drawing of a woman with curled hair, pearl necklace and drop earring, turned three-quarter view.

Porträt der Maddalena Corvina

Claude Mellan, 1636

Pencil and watercolor landscape of a canal with moored boats, a wheelbarrow pusher, bare trees, and a distant city skyline.

Amsterdam Skyline Viewed from the West

Piet Mondrian, c. 1899

Pencil sketch of a robed preacher addressing a crowd in a columned interior, with kneeling and reclining figures in the foreg

The Sermon of Saint Paul in Ephesus

Eustache Le Sueur, 1649

Sepia drawing of a bewigged man greeted by a bearded figure in a wooded grove, with cherubs in a boat and a seated man in the

The Arrival of Jean-Jacques Rousseau to the Champs-Élysées

Jean-Michel Moreau, 1780

Four studies of a soldier with a rifle, including ink sketches and two woodcut-style prints of him gazing over a landscape.

Regardant la plaine du Rhin

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Pencil sketch of Christ with Mary and Martha in an arched interior, with grid lines and a standing woman at right.

Christ with Mary and Martha

Eustache Le Sueur, 1650

Charcoal drawing of a nude figure with arm raised beside a tall flower, with the word QUICKBORN lettered across the top.

The Flower of Pain

Edvard Munch, 1898

Red chalk drawing of a young woman with bowed head holding a fur muff, by Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, 1770.

Half-Length Figure of a Young Woman with a Muff

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1770

Crayon portrait of a heavyset man with tousled hair and a tied cravat, turned to the right against a hatched background.

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste de Boissieu with a Necktie

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1781

Watercolor of a mountain valley in Wales with haymakers, a loaded cart, and birds circling under cloudy skies.

In Wales between Bangor and Capel Curig

Peter De Wint, 1830s

Grey wash drawing of a river waterfall with cliffs, poplars, and two painters at easels with spectators in the foreground.

River landscape with high mountains, in the foreground two painters with spectators

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1788

Pencil sketch of nude bathers in a forest setting, with figures standing, seated and reclining in loose contour lines.

Bathers in a Forest

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1895/97

Grey wash drawing of a sunlit tree trunk and foliage with shaded forest undergrowth behind it.

Study of Trees

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1779

Graphite drawing of a shipwreck scene with a seated woman cradled by another figure and nude men standing at right.

Viola Surviving the Shipwreck off the Coast of Illyria, from “Twelfth Night”

George Romney, c. 1776

Von Kluck

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Brown wash drawing of a woman and attendant beside a cradle hanging from a tree, with a cottage and cat in a rural setting.

The cradle

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, 1769

Pen and wash drawing of a battle with mounted warriors, fallen men, a round chapel, and angels in flames above.

Defeat of Wittekind near Bürberg

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1835

Pen and watercolor drawing of a black knight, archers, a hunter with game, and masked figures in medieval costume.

A black knight, archers, a hunter and mask wearers

Ferdinand Ferdinand Fellner Fellner

Brown wash drawing of a dim mill interior with a millstone, stone steps, a grain sack and an open window.

Interior of a Mill

Jean Jacques de Boissieu

Watercolor of a castle tower on a hilltop above a misty mountain valley, with a small figure on a path in the foreground.

Castle on Height near Geneva

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1836

Grey wash drawing of a ruined stone building beside a lake, with a mountain and rolling hills behind it.

Vestiges of the temple of Apollo on the edge of the Lake of Auvergne

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1766

Watercolor of a hazy blue mountain valley with travelers resting in the foreground and village houses on the slopes.

Mussooree and the Dhoon from Landour

Joseph Mallord William Turner, c. 1835

Grey wash drawing of a stone house, ruined tower and rocky cliff, with small figures and a dog by water at right.

Ruins in Dargoire

Jean Jacques de Boissieu

Three versions of a standing bearded man with a staff before a minaret, in ink and pencil.

Au Maroc

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Grey wash drawing of an old bearded man with a walking stick, looking down while counting money in a fur muff.

Old beggar with muff, counting money

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1780

Pencil sketch of a bearded elderly hermit in a long robe, reading a book and holding a staff.

Hermit

Jean Jacques de Boissieu