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Drawings & Sketches

79,685 works

Pen and watercolor drawing of a canal with a sailing boat, a bridge, tree-lined path, and church tower in the distance.

Gezicht op het Singel vanaf de Nassaukade

Gerrit Lamberts, 1816

Heer van de zijkant gezien

Jean Bernard, 1775

Grey wash drawing of a windmill behind village houses, a cart on a road, and trees under a cloudy sky.

Gezicht op de Marnixstraat met molen De Victor

Albert Martin, 1892

Watercolor of a canal with a moored barge, cobbled quay, pedestrians, a tram, and the brick gasworks buildings behind.

Gezicht op de Oude Engelse Gasfabriek aan de Schans, tegenover de Elandsstraat

Johan Martinus Anthon Rieke, 1887

Pen and wash drawing of a cavalry battle with turbaned riders, smoke, and a fallen horse in a hilly landscape.

Ruitergevecht met Turken

Johann Wilhelm Baur, 1600

Brown wash drawing of Mary holding the infant Christ with Joseph resting behind them beneath a tree.

Rust op de vlucht naar Egypte

Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink, 1593

Brown ink and wash drawing of a rider in a wide hat leading a second horse past a tree, with cattle in the distance.

Hungarian horses

Johann Georg Pforr, 1794

Pencil drawing of a theatre auditorium with curved balconies, a painted ceiling and a chandelier.

Interieur van de zaal van de Stadsschouwburg aan het Leidseplein

Johan George Lodewijk Rieke, 1827

Pen and wash drawing of a rider on a bay horse leading a grey horse past a stone stable, with a dog in the foreground.

Deutsche Pferde aus Friesland und Holstein

Johann Georg Pforr

Pen and wash drawing of a muscular man bound and hanging by his wrists from a crossbar between two wooden posts.

A Man Hanging by His Arms (the Corpse of the King?)

Frans Floris, mid-16th century

Pencil and red chalk drawing of an elderly bearded man praying with clasped hands before a bowl of soup and apples.

The Benediction

Jacques-André Portail, ca. 1760

Sepia wash drawing of a man leading a dark horse past a second ornately saddled horse, with rocks and a rider behind.

Turkish horses

Johann Georg Pforr, 1796

Sepia drawing of two harnessed horses, a man holding a bridle, a dog, and hills in the background.

French horses

Johann Georg Pforr, 1798

Drawing of a man in a turban leading a grey horse beside a second horse, with a sea coast and boats behind.

Horses from Tunis

Johann Georg Pforr, 1792

Watercolor of a man in a fur hat with two horses, one drinking at a stream, beside a thatched house and hills.

Russian horses

Johann Georg Pforr, 1796

Horseman in red coat on grey horse before thatched farmhouse, with a young woman, horses, dogs and a tree in a sunlit yard.

Ein reichgekleideter Kavalier hält mit drei Pferden und einem Diener vor einem Bauernhaus, eine barfüßige junge Frau…

Johann Georg Pforr, 1790

Graphite drawing of a woman in a bonnet with three young boys in tunics arranged in front of her.

Portrait of Woman and Three Children

Gustave Boulanger, 1852

Pen and watercolor sketch of dancing figures in pink, blue and green with scrollwork and the word Tanz.

Dance card

Chalk study of a bent male figure in a cloak holding a diagonal staff, with a grid drawn behind it on grey paper.

Study of a Soldier

Victor-François-Eloi Biennourry, 1851-52

Johanna Kessler, im Profil nach links stehend

Wilhelm Busch, 1870

Pencil drawing of a meadow with a stream, shrubs and trees under a pale sky, signed W.B at lower right.

Wiesenlandschaft mit Bäumen, Sträuchern und Bach

Wilhelm Busch, 1880

Charcoal sketch of a drunk man sprawled on the ground beside a block, limbs askew, on tan paper.

Betrunkener, umgekippt am Boden liegend

Wilhelm Busch, 1870

Pencil sketch on gray paper of a man in loose clothing raising a bottle, drawn in quick loose outlines.

Skizze eines betrunkenen am Boden liegenden Mannes

Wilhelm Busch, 1870

Three pencil and white chalk studies of men in caps, one seated drinking from a mug, on grey paper.

Drei Studien eines Trinkenden

Wilhelm Busch, 1870

Pencil drawing on grid paper of a silver fruit bowl design built on a spiral construction, with handwritten notes and a signa

Ontwerp voor een zilveren fruitschaal

Mathieu Lauweriks, 1911

Pencil geometric construction drawing on graph paper with concentric circles, arcs and numbered points.

Ontwerp voor een zilveren fruitschaal

Mathieu Lauweriks, 1874

Pen and watercolor architectural drawing of a gothic church with tall spires, a green dome, and a rose window.

Ontwerp voor een kerk

Marius Bauer, 1877

Fishermen in orange work clothes and berets unload fish at a harbor quay, with moored boats and turquoise water behind them.

Haven te Douarnenez

Gerrit Willem van Blaaderen, 1920

Pencil drawing of a sailing ship's mast with yards, rigging and numbered annotations against a pale background.

Mast van een zeilschip

Willem Antonie van Deventer, 1834

Spaans fregat

Willem Antonie van Deventer, 1834

Sheet of pen and wash caricatures showing top-hatted men, stout women and comic scenes with faint pencil studies.

Karikaturen

Pieter Dupont, 1890

Drawing of eight turkeys in staggered poses among white snow strokes and holly branches on a taupe ground.

Acht kalkoenen

Theo van Hoytema, 1892