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Drawings & Sketches

76,326 works

Pencil sketch of a dog with floppy ears and a collar, seen from the front, drawn on tan paper.

Study of a dog

Emmanuel Frémiet

Watercolor study of Jesus carrying a heavy cross, wearing a crown of thorns, with a Roman soldier and onlookers behind him.

Study for the Stations of the Cross of the church Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix: Station II: Jesus is loaded with his cross

Joseph Hussenot, 1876

Watercolor of Jesus being stripped of his clothes by two men while a Roman soldier with a spear looks on.

Study for the Stations of the Cross of the church Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix: Station X: Jesus is stripped of his clothes

Joseph Hussenot, 1876

Watercolor of Jesus kneeling under a cross as Simon of Cyrene helps carry it, with a Roman soldier and onlookers.

Study for the Stations of the Cross of the church Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix: Station V: Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carr…

Joseph Hussenot, 1876

Watercolor study of Jesus falling under the cross, with soldiers and onlookers against a gold patterned arch background.

Study for the Stations of the Cross of the church Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix: Station III: Jesus falls under the weight o…

Joseph Hussenot, 1876

Watercolour study of Christ's body taken down from the cross, mourned by the Virgin Mary and other figures with halos.

Study for the Stations of the Cross of the church Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix: Station XIII: Jesus is taken down from the…

Joseph Hussenot, 1876

Watercolor study of a haloed figure before a robed judge pointing, with a helmeted soldier and attendant on steps.

Study for the Stations of the Cross of the church Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix: Station I: Jesus is condemned to death

Joseph Hussenot, 1876

Watercolor study of Christ carrying the cross as a kneeling woman reaches to wipe his face, watched by a pointing soldier.

Study for the Stations of the Cross of the church Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix: Station VI: A pious woman wipes the face of…

Joseph Hussenot, 1876

Brown ink wash drawing of a woodland scene with nymphs and satyrs gathered by a pond beneath tall trees.

Woodland Landscape with Nymphs and Satyrs

Herman van Swanevelt, 1636

Watercolor study of Christ being nailed to the cross, with soldiers and a scroll marked INRI against a patterned blue backgro

Study for the Stations of the Cross of the church Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix: Station XI: Jesus is nailed to the cross

Joseph Hussenot, 1876

Watercolor study of Jesus falling under a wooden cross, with soldiers and a gold lattice background, by Joseph Hussenot.

Study for the Stations of the Cross of the church Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix: Station IX: Jesus falls for the third time

Joseph Hussenot, 1876

Watercolor of mourners lowering Christ's body into a rocky tomb, with the Virgin Mary and haloed figures, against a gold-latt

Study for the Stations of the Cross of the church Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix: Station XIV; Jesus is placed in the tomb

Joseph Hussenot, 1876

Watercolor study of a kneeling crowned figure with a halo under a wooden cross, with three soldiers around him.

Study for the Stations of the Cross of the church Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix: Station VII: Jesus falls for the second time

Joseph Hussenot, 1876

Watercolor study of Jesus carrying the cross as his mother kneels nearby, with haloed figures and a soldier against a blue ar

Study for the Stations of the Cross of the church Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix: Station IV: Jesus meets his most holy mother

Joseph Hussenot, 1876

Graphite sketch of a prostrate man's arms and hands, with muscular forms drawn in light hatching on a toned sheet.

Study of a prostrate man

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a barefoot shirtless man pushing a wooden wheelbarrow across a gridded tan sheet.

The man with the wheelbarrow

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of two nude women outdoors, one combing the hair of the other beside grass and flowers.

Idyll

Colored design drawing of an arched stained glass window with heraldic shields, scrollwork, angel figure and decorative panel

Project for stained glass for Saint-Eustache

Pencil drawing of a herald on a white horse reading a document to a crowd in a medieval town square with a tower.

Herald reading

Frédéric-Auguste Laguillermie, 1898

Grey drawing of an armored man pointing at seated officials in a stone hall while a crowd of townspeople and clergy watches.

The Bourgeois of Paris refusing to deliberate in the presence of the Nobility and the Clergy

Frédéric-Auguste Laguillermie, 1898

Ink and wash drawing of medieval men gathered by a stone city wall while workers dig with a pickaxe.

Life of Etienne Marcel according to J. Paul Laurens

Frédéric-Auguste Laguillermie, 1881

Pen and ink drawing with grey wash showing studies of draped women, infants, and a nude male figure on blue paper.

Sheet of Studies of Various Figures

Aurelio Luini, 1570s

Soft watercolor-like drawing of a young girl with pink flowers seated in a green landscape under a pale blue sky.

Little girl in a landscape

Watercolor study of a baptism in a Gothic church, bishop pouring water over a kneeling man beneath a dove, with angels above.

Study for a project for the decoration of the church Sainte-Clotilde: The Baptism of Clovis

Désiré François Laugée, 1870

Haloed woman in pink gown gives alms to poor and sick figures beneath gothic arch, with angels above in a painted panel.

Saint Clotilde helping the poor

Désiré François Laugée, 1870

Brown-toned drawing of a woman in headscarf and dark skirt beside a boy, with color notes and small hand studies at right.

Wretched

Jean-Paul Laurens

Brown wash drawing of a standing man in a hat holding a tool, with two studies of hands at the sides.

Sewer worker

Jean-Paul Laurens

Charcoal drawing of an elderly man in a wide-brimmed hat with folded hands resting on a table.

Old sailor at Yport

Jean-Pierre Laurens, 1901

Pen and brown wash drawing of a reclining figure on a couch in a columned interior, with soldiers and putti nearby.

The Death of Cleopatra

Luca Cambiaso, about 1560

Pen and wash caricature of a crowned, corpulent figure on a barrel labeled La Loupillone, with a bearded man, flag and ships.

La Loupillone

Charles Léandre, 1909

Charles Léandre drawing of muscular male athletes seen from behind in black and red chalk, with smaller study sketches.

The athletes

Charles Léandre

Ink and wash drawing of a stooped elderly figure in a dark cloak leaning on two canes, with a Spanish inscription below.

He can no longer at the age of ninety-eight

Francisco Goya, about 1819-1823