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Drawings & Sketches

79,685 works

Watercolor design for a ceiling with blue rinceaux corner panels, a central rosette medallion, and stippled decorative motifs

Design for the decoration of a ceiling with strapwork and rinceaux

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Red chalk drawing of the Deposition of Christ showing a dead figure held by grieving women and a hooded mourner.

Deposition of Christ

after Michelangelo Buonarroti, n.d.

Watercolor of wounded soldiers on crutches and resting on a park bench beside a woman, with a domed building behind.

Verwundete u. rekonvaleszente Soldaten im Stadtpark

Moritz Ledeli, 1914

Pen and wash drawing of a centaur rearing with a club amid armored warriors and fleeing figures in a wooded battle.

Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs

Possibly after Jean Le Pautre, n.d.

Pencil design drawing of an ornate ceiling or wall with strapwork, scrolls and a central medallion in a moulded frame.

Design for the decoration of a wiling with strapwork and rinceaux

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Pen and wash drawing of robed figures on a hillside looking up at a figure ascending to heaven, with angels among clouds.

Blessed Ascending to Heaven

Attributed to Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crowd of figures gathered around rocks and trees, with a man striking a rock in the center.

Moses Striking the Rock

Attributed to Luca Giordano, n.d.

Grey-green drawing of an Italianate landscape with a church and buildings on a cliff, framed by trees.

Italianate Landscape with Church on Cliff

Attributed to Gaspard Dughet, n.d.

Pencil drawing of a neoclassical building with a cupola beside an open street, with a man with a cane at right.

VI. Amerlingstraße

Jakob Alt, 1822

Design drawing of an ornamental ceiling with a central blue and gold medallion, geometric bands and decorative border.

Design for the decoration of a pentagonal ceiling

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Sketch of the Trinity and Virgin in clouds above a crowd of saints, including a bishop and crowned figure, in grey chalk.

Trinity with the Virgin, and Ten Saints

called Maso da San Friano Tommaso Manzuoli, c. 1565

Pencil sketch of a columned classical building across a square, with two women in period dress at left.

VI. Millöckergasse

Jakob Alt, 1822

Watercolor design of a decorated wall with blue and ochre patterned panels separated by grey pilasters and marbled wainscotin

Design for decoration of a wall with painted panels separated by pilasters

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Pen and ink sketch of classical male figures, including a helmeted warrior with a shield and a reclining nude.

Sketches of Six Classical Figures

Possibly Raymond de Lafage, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of a bearded man with a cross staff and lamb beneath a tree, with robed figures to the right.

Saint John the Baptist

the younger Ercole Graziani, c. 1748

Pen and grey wash drawing of the crowned Madonna and Child in a radiant oval, with a kneeling supplicant below.

Madonna and Child Appearing to a Supplicant

Georg Neher, c. 1600

Watercolor ceiling design with interlaced strapwork border and central filigree medallion flanked by star motifs.

Design for the decoration of a ceiling with a border of strapwork and a central filagree medallion

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Brown ink wash drawing of a running Roman warrior in a tunic and billowing cloak, one arm pointing upward.

Running Roman Warrior, Pointing Upwards with Right Hand

Philippe Louis Parizeau, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a wooden Swiss house with a gabled roof and balconies, set among trees with a figure in the courtyard.

Courtyard of a Swiss Country House

Friedrich Salathé

Pastel watercolor design of a decorative ceiling corner with circular medallions, scrolling foliage, and green and pink ornam

Design for the decoration of a ceiling with circular medallions

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Pencil sketch of a fortified castle on a hill above a wooded valley flanked by rocky cliffs and a stone bridge.

Fortified Castle Above a Narrow Valley

Friedrich Salathé

Pen and brown ink drawing of Christ riding a donkey into a city, crowds waving palm fronds, classical buildings behind.

Christ's Entry Into Jerusalem

the Younger Michel Corneille, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a terraced garden with trees, shrubs, a stone wall and a villa with a roof at right.

A Terraced Garden by a Villa

Friedrich Salathé, 1815/21

Watercolor design for an octagonal ceiling with gilded rinceaux scrollwork in pink, blue and yellow, framed by brown moldings

Design for the decoration of a hexagonal ceiling with rinceaux

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Red chalk drawing of Bacchus reclining with grapes as putti play beside him in a shady grove with a distant landscape.

Bacchus and Putti in Shady Grove

Possibly after Nicolas Chaperon, 17th Century

Brown wash drawing of Ceres with a torch confronting an old woman as a boy turns into a lizard by a doorway.

Ceres Changing the Mocking Boy into a Lizard

School of Fontainebleau, n.d.

Red and black chalk drawing of a saddled camel with a bridle and pack load, with faint sketch lines around it.

Camel

Johann Rudolph Schellenberg, 1770s

Red chalk drawing of the sea god Neptune standing on a shell, holding a trident and pointing, with billowing drapery.

Neptune

Follower of Charles Le Brun, n.d.

Fighting Cock

Johann Rudolph Schellenberg, c. 1775

Pencil and colored study sheet of four standing nude women, one draped in blue against a red patterned panel.

Vier Frauenakte (Studie zum Ferdinand Raimund Zyklus in Schloß Kogl, Attergau?)

Josef Engelhart, 1912

Pencil study sheet with sketched heads of women in headscarves and two small standing figures on toned paper.

Vier Frauenstudien

Gustav Klimt, 1883

Pen and brown wash sketch of a winged figure flying above clouds, with faint red grid lines visible across the sheet.

Iris

Circle of Domenico Piola, n.d.