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Drawings & Sketches

76,313 works

Red chalk drawing of soldiers playing cards around a table in a stone ruin, with a standing onlooker and a helmet on the grou

Soldiers Playing Cards in a Ruin

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1710

Red and black chalk study of a woman in a feathered hat turning over her shoulder, with a cloak and raised hand.

Study of a woman turning around

Nicolas Lancret, 1730

Two barefoot children wade at the sea's edge under dark clouds, one holding a bundle, in a watercolor drawing.

There is corn in the sea!

Jean-Louis Forain

Red and black chalk drawing of two heads and three hand studies on a grey-brown ground.

Head of a flutist, head of a young man with a flat beret, three hands, holding two drawing pens and a compass

Nicolas Lancret, 1730

Red chalk drawing of a seated young man in a tricorn hat playing violin, with a reclining figure in the foreground.

Violinist

François Boucher, 1736

Grey chalk drawing of a river landscape with tall trees, a calm pond, and a small figure with a dog at right.

River landscape

François Boucher, 1735

Pencil sketch of Adam and Eve discovering Abel's body on the ground, with a dog and smoking ruins behind them.

Adam and Eve find the body of Abel

Carl Joseph Begas

A beggar, holding his hat in his hand, in profile to the left

Oil sketch of storm clouds parting with sunbeams over dark silhouetted trees at the horizon, by Johan Christian Dahl, 1836.

Cloud Study with Sunbeams

Johan Christian Dahl, 1836

Pen and watercolor caricature of elderly women crowding an auctioneer holding a bowl, with curiosities on shelves above.

Old Maids at a Sale of Curiosities

Thomas Rowlandson, c. 1776-1827

Pen drawing of couples dancing in a tiled hall while a woman plays piano and musicians play in a gallery above.

Gentlemen and ladies dancing, a lady plays piano and is accompanied by an orchestra

Oil sketch of dark storm clouds with pink streaks above a flat landscape and a cluster of trees on the left.

Study of clouds over flat landscape with cluster of trees

Johan Christian Dahl, 1837

Chalk drawing of an older bearded man with a white collar and dark coat draped over one shoulder, gazing forward.

Bust of an older man with a blond beard, his coat thrown over his shoulder

Daniel Dumonstier

Red chalk drawing of two washerwomen kneeling over laundry, one holding up a cloth beside a wicker basket.

Two washerwomen

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Brown ink drawing of the infant Moses in a basket by a river, with a kneeling woman, reclining river god and hilltop city.

The Exposure of Moses on the Nile

Francisque Francisque Millet Millet

A young clergyman in profile to the left, reading in a book

Étienne Théolon

Five studies of a man gesturing from an ornate lectern: three pencil sketches above and two finished ink drawings below.

Viviani

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Pencil sketch of a helmeted lancer on horseback with a long lance speaking to a hatted man standing on open ground.

A lancer from the Thirty Years' War speaks with an officer on foot

Carl Wilhelm von Heideck

Grey wash drawing of two mounted lancers with pennant lances seen from behind, with a smoky landscape and distant riders.

Grand Ducal Berg Troops, Patrol of Lancers

Carl Wilhelm von Heideck, 1811

Watercolor and pencil drawing of a rider on a dark horse with a mule driver and cart on a road beneath blue mountains.

Peasant on horseback and mule driver from the Roman Campagna

Johann Adam Klein

Red and black chalk drawing of a muscular male torso seen from behind, with hatched shading on toned paper.

Rear view of a male torso (Torso from the Belvedere)

Nicolas Lancret

Red chalk sketch of two nude running figures in dynamic poses, study titled Hippomenes and Atalanta by Nicolas Poussin.

Hippomenes and Atalanta

Nicolas Poussin

Brown wash drawing of children playing leapfrog beneath a tree, with seated children watching on a grassy bank.

Children Playing Leapfrog

Nicolas Poussin

Pencil portrait in an oval vignette of a bearded man with swept-back hair and dark coat, looking downward.

Portrait of William Holman Hunt (1827-1910)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1853

Red chalk drawing of a bearded man seen from behind holding cloth over a grid, with a drapery study below.

Study for Saint Bartholomew and Drapery

Pompeo Batoni, c. 1740

Pen and ink drawing of a hooded woman pruning a flowering shrub, framed by a thin border.

King René's Honeymoon - Gardening - Design for a painted Panel for the Cabinet

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1861

Black and white chalk drawing of a man crouching on all fours on grey paper, head turned, draped garment.

Man crouching on the ground on all fours (boy playing with chicks)

Nicolas Lancret, 1730

Brown ink and wash sketch of a young woman with long flowing hair and a flower, with a small figure at upper right.

Half-length sketch of a young Woman

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1850

Oval watercolor of a park with tall trees, a stone ramp, small figures and statues receding into dense woodland.

Park Landscape with Tall Trees and Stone Ramp in Mid-Field

Louis Gabriel Moreau, 1780

Pastel sketch of a seaside harbor at sunset with silhouetted boats, a jetty, and a yellow glowing sky.

Seaside, Port of Honfleur

Eugène-Louis Boudin, c. 1860

Brown ink drawing of a kneeling woman with long hair beside an organ, with a helmeted guard and a city in the background.

Design for Moxon's Tennyson - Saint Cecilia

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1856

Red chalk drawing of a standing man in a draped cloak, with a sketched head and hand in blue chalk beside him.

Standing Male Figure (Nicolas Vleughels?)

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1718