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Drawings & Sketches

76,326 works

Painting of a dusk terrace with a laid table, two red lanterns, dark cypresses, stone towers and blue sky.

Sketch for Summer Night 1899

Harald Sohlberg, 1899

Red chalk drawing of a bacchante on a goat beside a Pan herm, and a satyr fighting a buck in a rocky landscape.

Bacchante, sitting backwards on a goat on a Pan herm, and a satyr fighting a buck, placed in a landscape

Michel Corneille the Younger

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash of nymphs bathing, a horned hunter with a dog, and winged figures in clouds.

Diana and Actaeon

Bartholomeus Spranger, ca. 1580-85

Pen and brown wash drawing of an ornate fireplace with a seated allegorical figure, standing figures, cherubs and a coat of a

Richly ornamented fireplace

Brown ink drawing of horsemen, hunters and dogs in a classical landscape with trees and rocks.

Hunt of Meleager and Atalanta

François Chauveau, 1634

Red chalk drawing of dancing nymphs and a piping satyr in a landscape, with seated figures in the foreground.

Dancing nymphs and satyrs

Raymond de Lafage

Grey wash drawing of a seated draped woman holding balance scales beneath winged putti in clouds, within a circular frame.

Justice

Laurent de La Hyre, 1641

Brown ink and wash drawing of figures in Chinese-style dress gathered around a table beside a pavilion and palm plant.

Chinese family scene

François Boucher

Chalk drawing of cherub heads peering from clouds, with red and black chalk and white highlights on a tan ground.

Angel heads in clouds (Birth of Christ)

François Boucher, 1750

Night view of a pale church with a tall spire above a dark cemetery of crosses, under a deep blue sky with hills.

Night, the Church at Røros. Sketch for Night 1904

Harald Sohlberg, 1903

Pen and brown ink wash drawing of mythological figures, including nude women and a seated man, in a wooded landscape.

The Judgment of Paris

François Boucher, 1755

Portrait of a Farmer from Setesdal. Study for Fight in an old Farm House

Olaf Isaachsen, 1866

Red chalk drawing of nude Hercules with club and lion skin inside a circular medallion with inscriptions, 1744.

Hercules with fur and club (Commemorative coin "Extraordinaire des Guerres 1744")

Edmé Bouchardon, 1744

Red chalk drawing of a seated nude smith hammering at an anvil in a forge, with a figure behind him, inside a circular frame.

Cyclops in the forge of Vulcan (Special coin "Extraordinaire des Guerres 1751")

Edmé Bouchardon, 1751

Pencil sketch of a figure bearing a cross, pulled by a soldier, with a crowd of mourners in draped robes behind.

Bearing of the Cross

Edmé Bouchardon

Watercolor drawing of a Roman interior with a seated statue, Corinthian columns, coffered ceiling and small figures.

Roman room

Georges-François Georges-François Blondel Blondel, 1756

Painting of a green pine beside a bare dead tree, with rolling hills and blue sky behind them.

Study of Trees

August Cappelen, 1850

Sepia drawing of Roman ruins with a stone arch, columns, a seated statue, lions, and grazing cattle and sheep.

Agrippina's grotto

Georges-François Georges-François Blondel Blondel, 1756

Oil study of a split, weathered tree trunk lying across a dark forest floor with green shrubs in the foreground.

Study of a decaying Trunk

August Cappelen, 1851

Pen and brown ink drawing of nymphs and bearded river gods reclining by water jars beside reeds and a classical ruin.

Nymphs and River Gods

François Boucher, 1735

Pencil drawing of a thatched farmhouse in the woods with figures climbing a fence and a boar foraging nearby.

A farmhouse in the woods, a man climbs over the fence

Pieter Pietersz. Pieter Pietersz Barbiers II Barbiers

Pen and wash drawing of a young man in a lace collar and buttoned doublet, turned three-quarters to the left.

Youth with embroidered shirt collar in three-quarter profile to the left

David Bailly, 1626

Grey wash drawing of three caryatids holding a vase topped by a lion, among Roman ruins with columns and an arched niche.

Between remnants of a Roman magnificent building, three colossal caryatids carry a vase with a lion

Jacques-François Blondel

Grey wash drawing of a Roman building with a fountain where a river god and two lions pour water into a basin.

A Roman magnificent building with a fountain, at which a river god and two lions pour water

Georges-François Georges-François Blondel Blondel

Red chalk drawing of Roman ruins with a cupid fountain and washerwomen working beside a wooden shed.

Under Roman ruins a fountain with two cupids, at which washerwomen are busy

Georges-François Georges-François Blondel Blondel

Oil study of tall pine trees rising above fallen logs and a sunlit rocky outcrop in a shaded forest.

Forest Study

August Cappelen, 1851

Pen drawing of Christ on the cross with ornamented body, INRI plaque, and a serpent coiled at the base.

Christ on the cross

Berny, Pierre Jean Paul de Pierre-Jean-Paul Berny de Nogent, 1772

Portrait of Jean Calvin

Berny, Pierre Jean Paul de Pierre-Jean-Paul Berny de Nogent, 1772

Pen drawing of King Henry IV and Gabrielle d'Estrées in period dress on a hunt, captioned in French, dated 1772.

King Henry IV of France and Gabrielle d'Estrées on the hunt

Berny, Pierre Jean Paul de Pierre-Jean-Paul Berny de Nogent, 1772

Oil study of a dark forest with a broken dead tree trunk, spruces, and a sunlit rocky bank in the foreground.

Landscape Study with Decaying Trees

August Cappelen, 1851

Pen drawing of Martin Luther in an oval frame with ornate scrolls, Latin verse and dates beneath, in a robe holding a book.

Portrait of Martin Luther

Berny, Pierre Jean Paul de Pierre-Jean-Paul Berny de Nogent, 1772

Bearded man's head with a hat

Jean Jacques de Boissieu