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Drawings & Sketches

76,326 works

Brown wash drawing of a robed figure blessing loaves of bread before a crowd on rocky ground under a radiant sky.

The miraculous multiplication of loaves

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre

Brown wash drawing of travelers outdoors under a tree, with a woman playing guitar, a seated mother and child, and hanging cl

Traveling people outdoors

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, 1777

Chalk study sheet by Jean-Baptiste Huet showing several overlapping heads with varied expressions, including a grimacing old

Study sheet with various heads

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1772

Red chalk drawing of soldiers carousing outside a tavern beside a barrel, with a street and church spire behind.

Carousing soldiers in front of a tavern

Charles Parrocel, 1728

Red chalk drawing of a seated huntress with a rifle, a hunter, and four dogs beside a large tree in a landscape.

Hunting party, huntress and hunter with four dogs in a landscape

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1713

Red and black chalk drawing of a reclining female nude seen from behind, head tilted back, on tan paper.

Reclining female nude

François Lemoyne, 1720

Black and red chalk sketch of a smiling boy in a wide-brimmed hat, drawn as a bust on cream paper.

Bust of a beggar boy with a wide-brimmed hat

Gottlieb Welté

Bust of a young girl in profile to the right

Gottlieb Welté

Watercolor of an old woman spinning yarn at a wheel while a child holds up a bird in a rustic interior.

An old woman spins yarn, with a child with a bird

Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers

Watercolor interior of a woman spinning yarn at a large wheel beside a seated woman, with a window and hanging cloth.

Two women, busy with spinning yarn and flax heckling

Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers

Pencil drawing of a dilapidated barn with a sagging thatched roof, exposed rafters, and a weathered wooden fence.

Dilapidated barn

Bartholomeus Pietersz Barbiers

Black chalk drawing of three winged angels or putti floating in the air, one in the foreground with curly hair, on pale paper

Three angels floating in the air

François Boucher

Chalk drawing of six cherub heads with wings arranged among soft clouds, some eyes closed and others gazing aside.

Six angel heads in clouds

François Boucher

Pen and ink sketch of two riders on a horse with a man carrying a sack walking behind, on tan paper.

Two riders, followed by a man carrying a sack

Pen sketch of two peasant figures seen from behind, one with a long tool over his shoulder, on a light brown sheet.

Two peasants in back view during the harvest

Pen and brown ink drawing of a six-horse carriage with riders and attendants in procession, on tinted paper.

Six-horse carriage

Ink and wash drawing of a harbor with ships, a rocky cliff on the right, a mule driver, and a distant city.

Marine, on the right large rocks, in front a mule driver, in the background a city

Pen drawing of a river landscape with a ruined fortress, bridge, sailing ship, small boats and figures on the shore.

Near a ruined fortress a bridge over a river navigated by boats, on the left a large ship

Red and black chalk study of a man's contorted face with curly hair, with a raised arm sketched above.

Head of Petrus from Rubens's The Raising of the Cross of Peter

Nicolas Guibal, 1637

Brown ink drawing of a bearded man offering a jug to a woman beside a well, with a dog, children and a town behind.

Abraham sending away Hagar and Ishmael (Lugt 48)

Lucas van Leyden

Brown wash drawing of a tavern interior with men drinking, a barrel, a fireplace and a reclining figure on the floor.

Three drinking farmers

Ignace Duvivier

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat and fur-trimmed coat, turned three-quarters to the right.

Half-length bearded man, three-quarters to the right, wearing a wide-brimmed hat (Lugt 64)

Rembrandt van Rijn

Brown ink and wash drawing of a boy handing a letter to an old man at a house door, with a dog in a courtyard.

At a house door a boy brings a man a letter

Charles Charles Eschard Echard, 1783

Brown wash drawing of a seated man facing a gesturing woman at a table in a room with an arched window and a dog.

The Pilgrims of Emmaus; The Disappearance of Christ (Lugt 63)

Rembrandt van Rijn

Sepia wash drawing of children feeding a donkey at an altar beside an ancient statue in a columned hall.

In front of an ancient statue children let a donkey eat from an altar

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Ink and wash drawing of a large gnarled oak beside a curving forest path, with woodland receding into the distance.

The Forest Path (Lugt 66)

Jacob van Ruisdael

Red chalk drawing of a nude figure leaning over a pool in a wooded landscape with trees and rocks.

Narcissus contemplates his reflection in the spring

Michel Corneille the Younger

Grey wash drawing of a standing horse with a dog lying nearby and a seated figure holding the reins in an open landscape.

The Horse Tied to a Post (Lugt 72)

Brown wash drawing of St. Peter's Square in Rome with the basilica, obelisk, colonnades and small figures.

St. Peter with St. Peter's Square in Rome

Antoine François Antoine-François Peyre Peyre

Brown wash drawing of a wooded valley with a large tree, rocky ledges, small figures, and receding hills.

Valley in a mountainous region, with small waterfalls in the foreground (Lugt 74)

Herman van Swanevelt

Grey wash drawing of a laurel-crowned ruler offering sacrifice before a Cupid statue, with cherubs in the clouds above.

A ruler crowned with a laurel wreath has sacrifices offered before the statue of Cupid

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre

Pencil sketch of a city square with a statue on a pedestal, classical buildings, and small figures in the foreground.

The Old Palace, in Rouen

Jean-Baptiste Lallemand