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Drawings & Sketches

79,685 works

Pen and blue pencil city plan showing street blocks, a central plaza with paths, and inscribed dates 1899 and 1900.

Studien zur Regulierung des Karlsplatzes: Projekt Ohmann 1899/1900

Friedrich Ohmann, 1899

Pencil and blue-shaded plan of a city square with radiating streets and building blocks, labelled Projekt Ohmann 1904.

Studien zur Regulierung des Karlsplatzes: Projekt Ohmann 1904

Alfred Castelliz, 1904

Pencil study sheet with a dancing couple, standing gentlemen, and a sketched figure in a top hat on yellowed paper.

Studienblatt (Herr mit Zylinder und Gehstock, Tanzszene)

Josef Engelhart, 1882

Hand-colored drawing of a green and black phaeton carriage in side view with yellow-trimmed spoked wheels, labeled No. 1003.

Phaeton #1003

Brewster & Co., 1865-1875

Studienblatt (Kopf, Augen, Ohren)

Egon Schiele, 1906

Charcoal study of a seated female nude from behind, with a sketch of figures in a studio scene below.

Studienblatt (weiblicher Rückenakt und Atelierszene)

Josef Engelhart, 1882

Studienblatt mit Affen (für die Ausstattung des eigenen Speisezimmers)

Josef Engelhart, 1899

Watercolor capriccio of Roman ruins with a monumental arch, columns, a rearing horse, and a distant triumphal arch.

Architectural Capriccio with a Monumental Arch

Jean Nicolas Servandoni, 18th century

Watercolor elevation of a domed temple with a columned portico and pediment, based on the Pantheon, with a scale bar below.

Architectural Project based on the Pantheon

Ahlsned, ca. 1847

Black chalk drawing of a kneeling cuirassier in plumed helmet and uniform, with white highlights on tan paper.

Kneeling Cuirassier

Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, ca. 1810

Drawn cover design for the Illustrirte Zeitung with a winged allegorical figure, the year 1860, and a pilgrim in a forest sce

Cover design for the "Illustrirte Zeitung"

Johann Caspar Nepomuk Scheuren, 1860

Pencil sketch study of a baboon and a second monkey outline on yellowed paper, with a color checker and ruler beside it.

Studienblatt mit Affen (für die Ausstattung des eigenen Speisezimmers) (beidseitig)

Josef Engelhart, 1899

Two Studies of Bearded Men; verso: Studies after Antique Sculpture

Bartholomäus Ignaz Weiss, mid-18th-early 19th century

Pencil sketch of a standing female nude in an ornate arched frame, with a handwritten text page beside it.

Studienblatt mit Allegorien: Schönheit, Justitia, Wahrheit (auf Vorder- und Rückseite)

Josef Engelhart, 1882

Pen and wash drawing of several draped female figures and a reclining male figure, with smaller figure studies in the margins

Studies of draped female and male figures; verso: Studies of draped female figures

Bartholomäus Ignaz Weiss, 18th-early 19th century

Pencil sketch of a reclining cow and a standing cow on grass, drawn from nature in 1822.

Studienblatt mit einer liegenden und einer stehenden Kuh

Friedrich August Matthias Gauermann, 1822

Pen and wash drawing of a bearded man, a seated woman and child looking up, with angels in clouds above.

The Holy Family (recto); Moses striking water from a rock (verso)

Bartholomäus Ignaz Weiss, mid-18th-early 19th century

Pencil study sheet with a recumbent chamois, a grazing chamois, and a horned head detail on pale paper.

Studienblatt mit Gemsen

Jakob Alt, 1850

Grey wash drawing of overgrown Roman ruins with arched openings, broken stone blocks, and dense vegetation.

Partial View of the Colosseum (recto); Sketch of the Temple of Minerva Medicea (verso)

Johann Christian Klengel, late 18th-early 19th century

Graphite study on gray paper: a young man's head looking upward, with two separate studies of hands.

Studienblatt mit Kopf- und Handstudien

Leander Ruß, 1841

Grey wash drawing of a haloed priest preaching to kneeling men, women, children and a dog beside classical ruins.

Saint Ignatius of Loyola Preaching

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, before 1761

Pencil sketch of a woman in a wide-brimmed hat with flowers, head turned to the left, on a cream mount.

Hoofd van een elegante herderin met hoed

Hieronymus van der Mij, 1730

Watercolor design elevation of a classical writing desk with caryatid supports and medallion-decorated cabinet doors.

Ontwerp voor een bureau, met een variant in de decoratie van de deuren

Charles Percier, 1800

Studienblatt mit Kostüm-Szenen (Rückseite: Aufsatz "Prometheus")

Josef Engelhart, 1882

Common Blackbird (Turdus merula)

Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596

Watercolor study of gnarled tree trunks with hanging aerial roots and sparse leaves against a pale, sandy landscape.

Study of a Stump with Aerial Roots

Woldemar Friedrich, mid-19th-early 20th century

Pencil study sheet with figure sketches, star shapes, an ink head portrait, and a nude with a swan, by Josef Engelhart.

Studienblatt mit verschiedenen Studien (Konradin; Leda)

Josef Engelhart, 1881

Ink drawing of figures gathered at a tomb entrance under trees, with a wide hillside landscape and inscribed gravestones.

The Raising of Lazarus

Matthias Deigle, 18th century

Pencil drawing of a reclining elderly hermit with a cross beside a gnarled tree and rocky ground.

Kluizenaar

Gerard van Honthorst, 1600

Pen and wash drawing of a rocky stream with boulders, steep cliffs and leaning trees under a pale sky.

Landscape with Large Boulders in Water

Adriaen Honich, 1667

Pencil sketch study with a row of city buildings and a chimney above, and two tree-lined avenue studies below.

Studienblatt mit Wiener Stadtansichten: Partie von der Löwelbastei bis zur Bellaria mit zwei Alleestudien

Rudolf von Alt, 1865

Ink and wash drawing of an allegorical scene with a reclining river figure, crowned women, and soldiers under clouds.

Allegory of the River IJ

Romeyn de Hooghe, 1671