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Drawings & Sketches

76,382 works

Charcoal drawing of a hairy ogre offering flowers to a seated man at a table, with a ghostly woman behind.

New Year's Eve

Charles Léandre, 1911

Charcoal caricature of a stout older woman in a fur cloak and flower crown, looking upward, with a heraldic shield at left.

The parvenue

Charles Léandre

Pencil caricature of a seated family on a sofa with a dachshund and a small child at the right edge.

The Gouverné family

Charles Léandre, 1905

Graphite drawing of clasped and gesturing hands and a forearm, with a collector's mark in the lower right corner.

Study of Jealousy

Bronzino, about 1545

Pen and grey wash drawing of moored barges and masts at a river port, with a church spire and hills behind.

The port of Rouen

Albert Lebourg, 1878

Pen and ink drawing of a shadowed street in Algiers with arched doorways, stone buildings and a small tower.

Algiers: The city

Albert Lebourg, 1875

Grey-blue wash sketch of an orator raising his arm before a crowd, with a sign reading LA PATRIE EST EN DANGER.

Sketch for "Méhul teaching patriotic songs to the people of Paris"

Charles Victor Eugène Lefebvre, 1870

Study of a foot

Charcoal study on brown paper of a raised arm with bent elbow and hand, with shoulder and torso sketched beside it.

Study of an arm

Pen and ink drawing of a monk preaching from a pulpit to listeners, with a haloed figure in a medallion above.

A Monk Preaching

Hans Baldung Grien, about 1505

Charcoal sketch of a fisherman seen from behind, wearing a cap and carrying two wicker baskets on brown paper.

Fisherman seen from the back

Fernand Legout-Gérard

Sketch of a curving village street with gabled houses, tiled roofs, a donkey, and two figures in long dresses.

A village street

Alfred-Marie Le Petit, 1906

Seated male nude study in chalk and white highlights on brown paper, with draped cloth and a squared transfer grid.

Study for Christ of the afflicted

Watercolor design of angels, a dove in a Gothic arch, and decorative church panels, with a wood-grain inscription panel on th

Sketch for the transept of Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Belleville

Théodore Pierre Nicolas Maillot

Watercolor of a Belgian canal town with a domed church, autumn trees, brick houses, and a stormy sky above.

A View of the Church of Our Lady of Hanswijk, Mechelen (Malines), Belgium

Thomas Shotter Boys, 1831

Portrait of a standing man, in profile to the left, walking with his nose in the air, wearing a small round hat

Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin

Pencil drawing of a village street lined with bare trees, leading to a Gothic church with a spire and rose windows.

Village entrance

Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin

Pen and ink drawing of Judith holding a sword and a severed head, with a city and tents in the background, 1560.

Judith

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1560

Pen and grey wash drawing of a crowned king seated under an oak tree, with courtiers, a kneeling man and a cherub.

Saint Louis rendering justice at the foot of an oak tree

Louis Matout, 1864

Harbour scene with a red-sailed boat, a lighthouse and stone quays under a pale sky, painted in watercolour and gouache.

The port of Sauzon

Maxime Maufra, 1905

Portrait of a Scholar or Cleric

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1532-1535

Brown-toned drawing of a riverbank with bare trees, village houses, a windmill on a hill and reflections in still water.

River bank

Maxime Maufra, 1896

Watercolor sketch of a tall pine tree and sailboats on a calm bay with hills and red-roofed houses beyond.

Bay of Agay

Maxime Maufra, 1912

Pen and wash drawing of Cupid driving a chariot with two horses across a rainbow above clouds and sea.

Cupid (Eros) driving in a chariot on the rainbow

Jens Petersen Lund, 1765-1865

Red chalk and white highlight study of a seated male nude with one arm raised and the other extended forward.

Nude study

Luc-Olivier Merson

Pencil and white chalk study of draped cloth with a sketched woman's head and shoulders on tan paper.

Study of a half-reclining woman

Luc-Olivier Merson

Charcoal and chalk study of draped fabric on a seated back figure, with a sketched sleeve and forearm at upper left.

Study of drapery on a three-quarter back figure, cross-legged, and study of a sleeve

Luc-Olivier Merson

Red chalk drawing on brown paper of a standing nude child holding a stick across the shoulders, eyes lowered.

Frontal study of a standing nude girl

Luc-Olivier Merson

Colored drawing of a crowned woman with outstretched arms standing on clouds within a circular frame, grey drapery and long h

Queen of the Night

Moritz von Schwind, about 1864-1867

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of a nude woman reclining horizontally on tan paper, head turned right, one arm reaching for

Nude woman

Luc-Olivier Merson

Fan-shaped drawing of costumed figures including a woman with feathered hat, a winged archer, and a figure in a wide hat, sig

Fan

Lucien Marie François Métivet, 1905

Sepia wash drawing of an Italian landscape with a cliffside village, arched aqueduct, rocky stream bank, and sunbeams over di

Italian landscape

Achille Etna Michallon