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Drawings & Sketches

76,313 works

Watercolor of a harvest field with haystacks, workers, horses, a cottage and church tower under a cloudy sky.

A Sussex Cornfield

Henry J. Kinnaird, 1876-1929

Head of a river god turned to the left with a reed wreath

Brown ink drawing of a mounted armored warrior on a horse with soldiers and shields, before a walled city with towers.

Horatius Cocles Defending Rome

Unknown artist, 16th century

Red chalk drawing of a lion lying on the ground facing right, head turned toward the viewer, with a full mane.

A lying lion to the right

Grey wash drawing of a martyrdom scene with a figure on a gridiron over flames, soldiers, and a robed judge in a colonnaded h

The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

Unknown artist, 16th century

Red chalk and white heightened drawing of a veiled woman's bust, face turned upward, on a tan paper ground.

A nun's bust

Pen and ink drawing of a bound nude figure being beaten by men in a columned hall, with onlookers at the sides.

Flagellation of Christ

Workshop of Luca Cambiaso, 1570s

Red chalk drawing of Christ beside Ionic columns reaching toward a lame man on a pallet, with a crowd and landscape behind.

Christ heals a lame man

Brown wash drawing of God enthroned on clouds above a crowd of saints, angels and musicians playing harps.

God Enthroned Surrounded by Saints

Giovanni Battista Trotti, possibly 1585/1590

Pencil drawing of a girl in a headscarf sleeping on the grass, head resting on her arm, one bare foot extended.

Sleeping girl

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek

Brown ink drawing of a coronation: a kneeling emperor before a canopy, clergy, guards with halberds, crowds and a city at rig

Coronation of the Emperor

after Maarten de Vos

Brown ink drawing of a man in a cloak embracing a dying bare-chested woman, with a reclining figure and a wooded landscape.

Procris and Cephalus (?)

Studio of Simon Vouet

Red chalk drawing of a seated male nude twisting his torso, with arm raised behind head and grey shading on tinted paper.

Seated male nude

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Grey wash drawing of a seated armored general with a kneeling woman, a standing woman and soldiers before classical columns.

Scipio Restoring His Captive to Her Lover

Unknown artist, 17th century

Youth in three-quarter profile to the left

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Pen and brown wash drawing of an old woman reading a glass with three young women in a rustic interior.

Old woman, telling the future to three young women from a glass

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Chalk drawing with red accents showing robed figures before classical buildings and an arched bridge.

David's atonement

François François-Alexandre Verdier Verdier

Pen and wash sketch of figures in distress, including a woman with raised arms, crawling men and men hauling rope.

Staffage for a shipwreck

Pen and wash drawing of many playful putti swarming around a tall herm pillar among trees and clouds.

Dozens of putti swarm around an elongated Pan herm

Louis-Félix Delarue

Brown wash drawing of a clergyman with a cross and censer over a kneeling woman held by attendants, under an arched hall.

A clergyman exorcises a woman

Laurent de La Hyre

Brown wash drawing of a woman and boy leaving a doorway led by a bearded man, with a watching figure and landscape behind.

Expulsion of the Hagar

Pierre Mignard I

Brown wash drawing of women pouring water into a large vat in a rocky underworld, with a seated bearded man at left.

The vat of the Danaids in the underworld

Charles Le Brun

Pen and brown wash drawing of a ruined castle on a rocky hilltop with small figures on a winding path below.

Castle ruin

Johann Adam Klein

Pen and brown wash drawing of a bacchanal procession with a chariot, satyrs, maenads, putti and a big cat in an oval frame.

Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne

Pencil drawing of the Johanniter Chapel in Nieder-Weisel with steep roof, round arches and a rose window.

The Johanniter Chapel in Butzbach-Nieder-Weisel

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1868

Pencil sketch of a tall medieval tower with a pointed spire and corner turrets above an arched gateway.

The Stöberlein Tower in Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1869

Pencil sketch of a gabled house behind a stone wall, with tall poplars and a leafy tree beside it.

The Plaster Mill in Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1869

Pencil sketch of a carved Gothic fountain bowl detail with inscription and scrolling ornament, plus small arched window trace

Detail of the bowl of the fountain in Maulbronn Monastery

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1871

Pencil sketch of Gothic choir stall carving with a pointed arch, quatrefoil tracery and scrolling foliage on yellow paper.

Detail of the choir stalls in the Basilica of Maulbronn Monastery

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1871

Bald old man to the right

Portrait of Johann Jakob Dorner, friend of the artist

Johann Peter Krafft

Engraving of a colonnaded academy hall with many scholars among globes, instruments, maps and books.

The Academy of Arts and Sciences

Sébastien Leclerc