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Drawings & Sketches

76,313 works

Watercolor and pencil sketches of lion heads and paws on a stained cream sheet, with a red monogram in the corner.

Heads and Paws of Lions

Eugène Delacroix, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a steep-roofed mill house behind dense shrubs, with a thatched outbuilding to the right.

The Obermühle in Braunfels

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1862

Charcoal night street scene with a searchlight beam over elevated tracks and buildings, beside a pencil study of a building,

New York Night (recto) Study for New York Night (verso)

Muirhead Bone, c. 1920-40

Ink and wash sketch of a performer in puffed sleeves and black-ruffled skirt, smiling, on an ochre background.

Study

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1895

Pencil sketch of layered wooded hills and a valley, dated 29 August 1862, by Carl Theodor Reiffenstein.

The Rehbachswiese at Lahnkopf

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1862

Pencil portrait of a man with curly shoulder-length hair, moustache and a crown with pointed fleurons.

Portrait of Gaston d'Orléans with crown

Robert Nanteuil

Pencil portrait of a man with long curled hair, moustache and lace collar, shown head and shoulders in three-quarter view.

Portrait of Louis XIII, King of France

Robert Nanteuil

Pencil drawing of a young child's head and shoulders, with curly hair and a direct gaze.

Portrait of a child

Robert Nanteuil

Watercolor of a smiling woman in a fringed shawl with a fan beside a man in a grey hat near a whitewashed wall.

Seville

Anders Zorn, 1887

Watercolor of a grey, choppy sea under an overcast sky with a wooded shoreline and sandy beach at right.

Dragö, Sweden

Anders Zorn, 1892

Red chalk drawing of a muscular man carrying a struggling woman over his shoulder, with swirling drapery.

Two figures from the Rape of the Sabine women

Nicolas Poussin

Watercolor of a woman in a cream dress reading a letter beside a curtain and carved wooden table.

Esperanza

Anders Zorn, 1882

Brown wash drawing of a forest path with two armored warriors, a woman in a white robe, and a distant valley.

Heroic landscape with the death of Opheltes during the march of the Seven against Thebes

Johann Christian Reinhart, 1798

Watercolor of an arched stone bridge over a river, with boats, townhouses, carriages and figures on the banks.

View of the bridge of La Guillotière in Lyon

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1760

Red chalk sketch of two men in period dress with walking staves and a standing woman in a long gown.

Two Pilgrims and a Standing Woman in Profile

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1709

Four ink and wash studies of soldiers with rifles standing beside trees, with smoke and explosions in the background.

Fantassin à l'abri d'un arbre

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Pencil and wash study of tall plants, broad leaves and low foliage on pale paper, attributed to Watteau.

Plants

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1709

Pen and brown wash drawing of a crowd worshipping at a fiery altar beneath a large tree, with a wide landscape beyond.

The Adoration of the Golden Calf

Claude Lorrain, 1653

Pen and brown ink sketch of two winged figures in a stone architectural setting, one in flowing drapery.

Clio and Pheme

Nicolas Poussin, 1650

Pastel drawing of a young woman's head turned right, with braided hair, a blue ribbon and pearls, on grey paper.

Woman's head turned to the right

François Boucher

Watercolor landscape of trees across a grey-skied open field, mounted in layered tan borders.

Landscape

Paul Sandby, c. 1751-1809

Watercolor and pen drawing of a Neapolitan cathedral interior with clergy at an altar and a kneeling crowd in the foreground.

The Blood Miracle of Saint Januarius in the Cathedral of Naples

Louis Jean Desprez, 1780

Oval watercolor of a park with tall trees, a stone staircase leading up toward a fountain, and small figures on the path.

Park landscape with tall trees and the view of a staircase in the mid-ground

Louis Gabriel Moreau, 1780

Watercolor landscape of thatched cottages beside a large tree, a dirt road with small figures, and a cloudy sky.

Landscape with a ruined farmstead

Louis Gabriel Moreau, 1790

Pen and wash drawing of crumbling ruins and rooftops under a pale sky, with cypress trees and small birds.

Prospect with ruins

Jens Petersen Lund, 1730-1793

Brown wash drawing of three men in an Egyptian tomb firing a pistol near two nude corpses and sarcophagi.

The poet Aaron Hill and three other Egypt travelers find two corpses in a tomb chamber

Augustin Félix Fortin, 1790

Pencil portrait drawing of an elderly man with spectacles, wavy hair, and a serious expression, wearing a buttoned coat.

Half-Length Portrait of an Old Man

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Grey wash drawing of ruined Corinthian columns and an arch, with figures resting among stones in an arched frame.

Figures Near the Ruins of a Corinthian Temple (recto); Fragment of an Arch (tracing from recto) (verso)

Andrea Locatelli, 1700-1741

Ink and wash drawing of a group of figures, two men bending over a draped form with a child at left and a faint sketched figu

Figure group with two men trying to tie the hooves of a dead hind lying on the ground

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Black chalk drawing of a soldier in a plumed shako handing a letter to a seated woman in a bonnet.

A soldier brings a letter to a woman

Pierre-Alexandre Wille, 1779

Brown ink drawing of the Virgin Mary ascending among angels above apostles gathered around an open tomb.

Assumption of Mary

Jacques Callot, 1631

Brown wash drawing of robed philosophers and a woman conversing near an obelisk, globe and scrolls in a classical courtyard.

Aspasia in conversation with philosophers

Michel Corneille the Younger