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Drawings & Sketches

76,326 works

Pen and wash drawing of a reclining woman on a couch surrounded by nude revelers, a lute player and a horse in a landscape.

Marriage of Bacchus and the sleeping Ariadne

Raymond de Lafage

Oil study of billowing clouds lit warm orange and gold against a dark grey sky at dusk.

Cloud Study

Knud Baade, 1850

Pen and grey wash drawing of soldiers attacking a fleeing crowd toward an arched city gate.

The Toulousans chase the Huguenots out of their city

Raymond de Lafage, 1682

Oil study of a sunset sky with dark clouds lit orange above silhouetted hills and a lone post.

Cloud Study

Knud Baade, 1838

Brown wash drawing of Saint Peter healing the sick at his feet, with a radiant figure and angels in the clouds above.

Saint Peter heals the sick with his shadow

Jean Jouvenet, 1675

Graphite sketch sheet with a kneeling saint, several kneeling angels, head studies and peasant women figures.

A kneeling saint, with two angels, various kneeling angels, heads and in the left corner two peasant women from Dachau

Ferdinand Ferdinand Fellner Fellner

Brown wash drawing of a family and children gathered in a rustic farmhouse interior with timber beams and a hearth.

Family scene inside a farmhouse

Jacques François Amand

Angel with lowered head in profile to the left

Ink and wash drawing of a large oak tree with two cattle resting beneath it in a hilly landscape.

Old oak tree, under which two cattle are resting

Nicolas Henri Joseph de Fassin

Watercolor of a figure in red hurrying through a rock cave toward a bright opening with a wooden gate and bare trees.

A painter runs with his drawing board into a rock cave that can be closed with a massive gate

Grey wash drawing of ruined stone tombs with overgrown trees, seated figures in the foreground and a brick building at right.

Tomb of the Horatii and Curiatii

Brown ink and wash drawing of a three-masted ship at anchor beside a lighthouse across a calm harbor.

Marine, a three-master on the left, a lighthouse on the right

Grey wash drawing of rocky ruins, stone arches and a pine tree beside a small white gateway under a hazy sky.

Study made on the Route du Pont Salert in Rome

Joseph Vernet, 1758

Pen and wash drawing of a farmhouse, two cows, and chubby putti climbing a leafy vine trellis.

At a farmhouse two cows and five putti climbing a vine

Gerard Gerard Hoet Hoet d. Ä.

Pen and brown ink drawing of robed men and soldiers viewing a plan among classical buildings and workers with stones.

A city founder is shown a plan

Raymond de Lafage

Pen and brown ink drawing of helmeted soldiers and workers before a spiraling tower and classical buildings.

Tower of Babel

Raymond de Lafage

Pen and wash drawing of Moses raising a staff toward a serpent in the sky as crowds of writhing figures surround him.

Moses and the brazen serpent

Raymond de Lafage

Grey wash drawing of a hooded robed figure gazing upward in a rocky cave beside trees.

Saint Francis in the cave

Laurent de La Hyre

Brown ink and wash drawing of a laundry interior with a woman washing cloth, a child, a large vat, and hanging linen.

The interior of a laundry

Jean-Baptiste Lallemand

Watercolor of a ruined castle on a rocky hill with two figures on a path, overlooking a distant valley and hills.

Castle ruin, two men in front on a bridge

Bonaventure Laurens

Watercolor of a stag with antlers on a rocky lakeshore, snow-capped mountains and a conifer behind it.

A wounded deer seeks refreshment at a mountain lake

Johann Erdmann Gottlieb Prestel

Grey wash drawing of a three-masted ship and smaller sailing boats in rough sea under a cloudy sky.

Bark in rough sea

Petrus Johannes Schotel, 1852

Pencil sketch of a church with a tall spire, rounded apse and small turret, with a tree at left.

The Evangelical Town Church in Schlitz

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1880

Pencil drawing of a stone tower, a gabled house, a tree and a covered well in Schlitz, dated 1880.

The Vorderburg in Schlitz with a covered well

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1880

Pen and wash drawing of an angel above sprawled bodies on a battlefield, with a burning city and stormy sky behind.

Angel with drawn sword

Hermann Weyer, 1596-1630

Wash drawing of children gathered at a table reading in a columned interior, with adults and a dog around them.

The Competition/Children's Scene: Contest or Instruction in Reading

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1780

Pen and wash drawing of the Holy Family with children, a sheep, a washerwoman and a donkey beside classical columns.

The Holy Family with Elisabeth and the John the Baptist boy with the washerwoman

Sébastien Bourdon

Grey wash drawing of a woman and two children pleading with a man beside a forge and anvil in a smithy.

In a smithy a woman with two children implores a man

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Grey wash drawing of cascading waterfalls among rocks and dense trees, attributed to François Boucher, 1730.

The Waterfalls of Tivoli

François Boucher, 1730

Sepia wash drawing of a vaulted gallery filled with timber scaffolding, with figures in period dress walking in the foregroun

The Great Gallery in the Louvre

Constant Bourgeois, 1791

Watercolor of a herd of horses and foals on a grassy plain, with a saddled white horse and distant riders on a hill.

A saddled military horse returns to its wild herd

Johann Erdmann Gottlieb Prestel

Pastel drawing of a bearded old man with bowed head and bald crown, on blue-grey paper.

Head of a bearded old man

Carle van Charles André van Loo Loo, 1750