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Drawings & Sketches

79,685 works

Brown wash drawing of a woman with curled hair playing a guitar beside sheet music on a table.

Dame met een gitaar

Jacques Kuyper, 1771

Pencil sheet with nine anatomical studies of horse heads in varied angles, some with bridles, on pale paper.

Negen anatomische studies van een paardenhoofd

Hendrik Voogd, 1788

Pencil sketch of a standing female nude seen from below, arm extended, drawn on brown paper.

Weiblicher Akt in Untersicht

Gustav Klimt, 1901

Sepia sketch of a nude woman bending forward to hold a shoe resting on a box, drawn with soft tonal shading.

Weiblicher Akt mit Schuh

Karl Wiener, 1930

Sepia drawing of a nude woman bending over beside a bentwood chair, rendered in soft smudged tones on cream paper.

Weiblicher Akt mit Sessel

Karl Wiener, 1930

Red-toned drawing of a bearded armed man with a spear before an arch, with grotesque masks and hunting scenes above.

A Swiss Guard before an Ornamental Arch (recto)

Abraham Bickhart, 1568

Brown chalk sketch of a standing female nude with bobbed hair, holding a draped cloth against a cream background.

Weiblicher Akt mit Tuch

Karl Wiener, 1930

Weiblicher Akt mit zwei Stäben

Karl Wiener, 1930

Pencil sketch of a standing female nude turned left, with upswept hair, drawn in loose lines on brown paper.

Weiblicher Akt nach links

Gustav Klimt, 1899

Pencil sketch of a standing nude woman beside a tank with raised gun barrel, signed and dated 1943.

Weiblicher Akt und Panzer

Karl Wiener, 1943

Pencil sketch on tan paper of a standing female nude with one arm raised overhead, in loose blue-grey lines.

Weiblicher Akt, Bewegungsstudie

Gustav Klimt, 1904

Pencil sketch of a man embracing a woman, with a reclining nude figure in the foreground on cream paper.

Weiblicher Akt; Paar in Umarmung (Bleistiftskizze)

Karl Wiener, 1935

Pencil sketch on cream paper of a reclining nude woman above a seated nude couple embracing, with a colour checker at left.

Weiblicher Akte (Bleistiftskizze)

Karl Wiener, 1935

Pencil sketch of a standing half-nude woman with hands on hips, draped in cloth, signed Wiener and dated 1926.

weiblicher Halbakt

Karl Wiener, 1926

Charcoal sketch of a standing woman in loose drapery, one arm raised to her head, on tan paper.

Weiblicher Halbakt

Karl Wiener, 1930

Architectural drawing of a curved balustrade with turned balusters beside a blue ceiling field, with perspective construction

Perspectival study for one quadrant of a ceiling design including a trompe l'oeil balustrade

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

Hand-coloured drawing of ten numbered grasshoppers and locusts on a cream page with a labelled caption strip below.

Blad met tien sprinkhanen

Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596

Drawing of thirteen numbered flying insects including flies, moths and wasps, with Dutch labels below.

Blad met dertien vliegende insecten

Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596

Page of thirteen numbered brown watercolor studies of mosquitoes and crane flies arranged on a cream sheet.

Blad met dertien muggen (Historia Naturalis van Rudolf II)

Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596

Drawing of twenty-two numbered winged insects in watercolour, arranged in rows with a Dutch, Latin and French caption below.

Blad met tweeëntwintig gevleugelde insecten

Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596

Page of numbered watercolor studies of flies, bees and wasps arranged in a grid, with Dutch, Latin and French captions.

38 Winged Insects

Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596

Page of numbered watercolor insects in rows, with a caption strip reading bloedloose dieren, insecta, insectes.

Blad met drieëndertig insecten

Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596

Pencil drawing of a standing half-nude woman with short hair and a long skirt, signed KW, 1942.

Weiblicher Halbakt

Karl Wiener, 1942

Page of numbered watercolor insects, mostly beetles, arranged in rows with a Dutch and French caption at the bottom.

Blad met negenendertig insecten

Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596

Julikever (Polyphylla fullo)

Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596

Hand-colored page of numbered dragonflies and damselflies with spread wings, labeled Naelden and Demoiselles, in a bound albu

Libellen (Odonata)

Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596

Pencil and watercolor design for a ceiling border with a painted balustrade, scrolls, and clusters of roses.

Partial design for a ceiling to be painted with a trompe l'oeil iron railing and roses

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

Watercolor design of an oval ceiling with clouds, a flying brown eagle, and a heraldic shield with laurel and flowers below.

Design for a ceiling painted with clouds and a soaring eagle

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

Pencil sketch of a half-nude woman with long wavy hair, hands crossed over her face, on tan paper.

Weiblicher Halbakt mit vor dem Gesicht gekreuzten Händen

Gustav Klimt, 1917

Watercolor design for a circular ceiling with blue clouds, pink roses and green foliage around a stone-like border.

A Circular ceiling design with clouds and roses

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

Weiblicher Kopf im Profil nach links, Pferdekopf im Profil, Figurenstudie

Gustav Klimt, 1883

Pencil and watercolor ceiling design with putti, garlands, and pink swags framing an empty central field.

Design for a ceiling painted with putti, garlands, and swags

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