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Drawings & Sketches

79,685 works

Pencil outline sketch on tan paper showing a child's hand and a leg in faint diagonal strokes.

Umrisslinien eines Kindes

Gustav Klimt, 1904

Pen and brown ink study of three standing figures in cloaks and hats, two women and one man in a wide hat.

Two Studies of a Roma Woman and a Roma Boy in a Large Hat

Jacob de Gheyn II, c. 1605

Grisaille watercolor of two draped figures beside a pillar and a winged griffin relief on a pedestal.

They had Arrived Before a Pillared Porch

Will Hicock Low, 1885

Pencil sketch of a dredge boat with a tall smokestack and angled machinery beside a small rowboat on water.

A Dredge

Charles Meryon, n.d.

Pencil drawing of a woman with hair pulled back, seen from the shoulders up, with light sketched lines for her arms and body.

Unbekannte Dame

Viktor Tischler, 1925

Pencil sketch of a lashed wicker and wooden float on water, with a woven hull and crossing pole frame.

A New Zealand Float

Charles Meryon, n.d.

Oval watercolor portrait of a woman with curled hair, blue ribbon and pearl necklace against a cloudy sky.

Unbekannte Dame

Johann Christian Schoeller, 1828

Unbekannte Frau

Johann Adam Klein, 1817

Unbekannte junge Frau

Johann Adam Klein, 1817

Red and brown wash floor plan of a villa basement level with a central courtyard, labeled rooms, and a scale bar.

Unbekannte schlossartige Villa, Grundriss Souterrain

Heinrich von Ferstel, 1860

Pencil portrait of a young man with curled hair and high collar, turned to the right, on tan paper.

Unbekannter Herr

Franz Eybl, 1840

Oval watercolor portrait of a man with dark hair in a black coat and white cravat against a cloudy sky.

Unbekannter Herr

Johann Christian Schoeller, 1828

Watercolor portrait of a seated man in a dark blue cloak and red fez, leaning on rocks with a distant hilltop town behind him

Unbekannter Herr in türkischem Gewand

Johann Christian Schoeller, 1830

Pencil portrait of a young man with wavy hair in an open-collared shirt, mounted on a dark blue board.

Unbekannter junger Mann

fraglich: Josef Kriehuber, 1850

Unbekannter junger Mann

Johann Adam Klein, 1817

Pencil drawing of a man in a dark coat writing at a slanted desk beside a teacup, with shelves behind him.

Unbekannter Mann, rauchend und zeichnend

Karl Sandhaas, 1830

Unbekanntes Mädchen

Johann Adam Klein, 1818

Pencil sketch of an old street with tiled roofs, a shop named PAULSCHWARZ, and several small figures on the cobblestones.

Unbestimmte Detailansicht aus Wien

Maximilian Neubauer, 1900

Pastel watercolor design for a ceiling with floral garlands, ivy, scrollwork and a central medallion framed by ornamental bor

Ceiling design for a house on the rue Velezai

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Sheet of many ornamental design fragments including cherubs, scrollwork, a heraldic crest, floral medallions and an architect

Seventeen Ornamental Designs for the Pless House or Chateau

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Pencil sketch of a stone fountain and tree at a street corner, with a multi-story building and shop awning behind.

Unbestimmter Brunnen

Maximilian Neubauer, 1900

Circular ceiling design with three cherubs and a pink ribbon on a pale blue sky, framed by flowers and gold scrollwork.

Ceiling Design for the Pless Chateau, Silesia

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Watercolor of Unger's Casino in Hernals, a two-story café with a yellow pennant, pedestrians and carts on a cobbled street.

Ungers Casino in Hernals

Karl Wenzel Zajicek, 1880

Painted design for an octagonal ceiling with stucco scrolls, flower garlands, red drapery, cherubs and a sky opening.

Design for Octagonal Ceiling in the Pless House, Berlin

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Watercolor design of a gold medal box with floral garland, anchor emblem, and handwritten Dutch inscription, 1784.

Ontwerptekening van de penningdoos geschonken aan de Franse vice-admiraal De Suffren voor bewezen diensten

Johan Werner Gericke, 1784

Giraffa camelopardalis (Giraffe), skeleton

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1779

Brown wash design for a rococo wall panel showing a castle on a hill, trees, and a hunted stag at the base.

Design for a Decorative Wall Panel with Hunting Motif, Pless Chateau, Silesia

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Uniformierungsprojekt für die Nationalgarde 1848: Infanterist

Eduard van der Nüll, 1848

Brown wash drawing of an oval ceiling design with scattered putti and cherubs among clouds, over faint grid lines.

Design for an Oval Ceiling, probably for Pless Residence

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Painted lunette design with cherubs, flower garlands, a parrot, gilded drapery and a potted plant beneath an arch.

Design for the Decoration of a Lunette on the Staircase, Hôtel de Pless, Berlin

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Uniformierungsprojekt für die Nationalgarde 1848: Kavallerist

Eduard van der Nüll, 1848

Pale watercolor sketch of a white horse galloping with a rider, a gallows on the right and a crescent moon at left.

Death on a White Horse

Possibly Henry Fuseli, n.d.