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Drawings & Sketches

76,326 works

Brown wash drawing of large oak trees beside a dirt path with distant hills and a pale sky.

Landschaft mit großen Bäumen

Jean Jacques de Boissieu

Black chalk sketch of a seated boy with bare legs on a rock, head turned left, with sketched foliage behind him.

Seated boy with bare legs

François Boucher

Red chalk drawing of a woman in a headscarf holding a sleeping infant against her shoulder, with draped cloth below.

Mary puts the child to sleep

Sébastien Bourdon

Brown ink and wash drawing of a kneeling woman washing feet at a banquet table with seated and standing figures.

The washing of Christ's feet by Mary Magdalene

Red chalk drawing of a seated lame man reaching for a bearded apostle in a columned temple, with a crowd watching.

Peter and John heal a lame man

Grey wash drawing of a religious procession with a priest carrying a monstrance under a canopy, clergy, and onlookers in a ch

Procession, the monstrance carried under a canopy

Laurent de La Hyre

Pencil drawing of a veiled nun writing at a desk, gazing up toward a dove in clouds, with bookshelves behind.

The Holy Lucilia inspired by the Holy Spirit writing at the desk

Charles Le Brun

Pen and wash drawing on blue paper of a haloed figure reclining in a forest while several winged angels attend him with food.

Christ served by four angels

Charles Le Brun

Head of a queen with Egyptian headdress from the "Queens at the Feet of Alexander the Great"

Charles Le Brun, 1661

Queen with headscarf from the "Queens at the Feet of Alexander the Great"

Charles Le Brun, 1661

Head in profile to the left from the "Queens at the Feet of Alexander the Great"

Charles Le Brun, 1661

Watercolor of white oxen and water buffalo driven by riders through a stream past a long Roman aqueduct.

Roman peasants driving a herd of oxen and buffalo through the water

Johann Erdmann Gottlieb Prestel, 1838

Pencil drawing of a ruined stone tomb with stepped blocks and a circular tower, set in a hilly landscape with a tree.

Tomb of the Horatii and Curiatii

Joseph Joseph Thürmer Thürmer, 1818

Pencil sketch of a cow standing in water beside two cow heads with horns peeking through grass.

Cow in the water and two cow heads

Max Josef Wagenbauer, 1810

Lithographic fragment showing a hand and draped sleeve in soft grey tones, with a double border and artist's inscription belo

Christ and the Veil of Veronica (Fragment), from the series "Royal Bavarian Painting Gallery in Munich and Schleisshe…

Ferdinand Ferdinand Piloty Piloty, 1810

Pencil sketch on blue-grey paper of four cattle in various poses, including a reclining cow, a seated calf and standing cows.

Four cattle

Max Josef Wagenbauer

Two cattle, standing and lying

Max Josef Wagenbauer

Red chalk landscape drawing of a castle on the left, tall trees on the right, and two boys seated on a path.

Landscape, a castle on the left, trees on the right, two boys sitting by the path in front

Frans Boudewijns, 1737

Pencil sketch of an ornate fountain topped by a statue of Justitia, with a half-timbered house and tree behind it.

The fountain crowned by Justitia on the market square in Michelstadt

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1875

Red chalk drawing of a seated allegorical woman with two putti beside a tablet reading Moderatio, in classical architecture.

Allegory of Moderation ("Moderatio")

Edmé Bouchardon

Red chalk medallion drawing of Mercury playing a flute beside a cow as a reclining man sleeps in the foreground.

Mercury lulls Argus to sleep with his flute playing to abduct Juno, who has been transformed into a cow (Special coin…

Edmé Bouchardon, 1742

Red chalk drawing of Atlas kneeling under a celestial sphere with zodiac signs, inside a circular frame reading Tresor Royal

Atlas carries the celestial sphere (Special coin "Trésor Royal 1743")

Edmé Bouchardon, 1743

Red chalk drawing of a peasant pruning a bare tree within a circular border with lettering and the date 1747.

A peasant pruning a tree (Special coin "Parties Casuelles 1747")

Edmé Bouchardon, 1747

Grey wash drawing of three robed figures standing before a kneeling man, with servants and classical architecture in the back

Abraham and the three angels

Sébastien Bourdon, 1650

Woman in profile, walking to the right

François Boucher, 1752

Chalk drawing of a woman seen from behind in a voluminous gown, holding a fan, with a chair at right.

Woman with fan in back view

François Boucher, 1752

Pen and wash drawing of a rustic courtyard with barrels, a donkey, a cart wheel, and villagers watching from a balcony.

Allegory of the fall of the Barry family

Hubert Robert, 1774

Old woman in profile, looking to the right

Louis-Marc-Antoine Bilcoq

Chalk drawing of a seated old man with a long white beard, hands clasped over his knee, gazing upward.

Portrait of a seated old man

Nicolas Bernard Lépicié, 1774

Chalk drawing on blue-grey paper of three sheep heads, one awake with open eyes and two asleep, by Jean-Baptiste Huet.

Three sheep heads, awake and asleep

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1768

Watercolor drawing of a couple with sheep, goats and a dog in a pastoral woodland landscape with roses.

Shepherd Scene

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1780

Pen and wash drawing of a mythological bacchanal with nude figures, satyrs, a seated woman and a flying putto in a landscape.

Bacchus and Ariadne

Raymond de Lafage