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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Pencil sketch of lake houses with moored rowboats, a wooden pier, trees, and mountains in the background.

Lake Houses

Worthington Whittredge, late 19th century

Adam Czapski

Peter Ernst Rockstuhl, 1804

Watercolor of a shaded Moorish-style arcade with donkeys and resting robed figures beneath a carved lattice balcony.

A Street in Tangiers

Mariano Fortuny Marsal, 1860 or 1862

Watercolor of a uniformed mounted soldier with a rifle on a white horse in an open grassy field.

[Trębacz pułkowy z r. 1831]

Bronisław Gembarzewski, 1896

Watercolor of a peasant family on a city street looking up at a notary's window where a monkey in a red cap smokes a pipe.

[Chłopska rodzina pod oknem notariusza]

Józef Kruszewski, 1880

Grey wash allegorical drawing of a helmeted woman flanked by figures, cherubs and a draped curtain, with the word PATRIAE.

Vaderland omringd door figuren

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1760

Pen drawing of caricatured men in wide-brimmed hats at a desk with a windmill and tulips outside, above handwritten text.

Blad met handgeschreven beschrijvingen van acht scènes uit 'Keur van gedenkwaardige tafereelen uit de vaderlandsche h…

Johan Huizinga, 1893

Drawing of three standing men in long robes, one with a wide-brimmed hat, with white highlights on grey paper.

Three Figures

School of Carpaccio

Red and black chalk drawing of a smiling youth with curly hair holding a shallow dish, with drapery across his arm.

Youth Holding a Dish

After Correggio, 17th century?

Grey wash drawing of a country road with a horse and cart beneath tall trees and a hillside.

Gezicht op een landweg met paard en wagen

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1760

Chalk drawing on blue paper of a nude woman raising her arms between a seated woman and a bearded man in a landscape.

Mythologische voorstelling

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1760

Pen and grey wash sketch of a kneeling woman before a pointing officer in a draped room, with handwritten Dutch caption below

Prinses van Hatzfeldt smeekt Napoleon Bonaparte het leven van haar man te sparen

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1806

Pencil sketch of a village church with a tall spire and smaller tower rising above dense trees and shrubs.

Gezicht op Esch in Noord-Brabant

Cornelis Pronk, 1701

Drawing of two decorative friezes with white-highlighted putti, musicians and draped cloth on a blue ground.

Ontwerp voor een fries met Vriendschap en Vrolijkheid

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1760

Pencil drawing of a Tarnowski family tomb with two reclining armored figures, Latin inscriptions and scrolled ornament.

Pomnik JW Tarnowskich w katedrze Tarnowskiej

Zygmunt Grining, 1853

Brown ink drawing of a young man in a cap and striped tunic with pleated skirt, on aged paper.

Young Man

Unknown artist, c. 1460s?

Pencil sketch of a dead tree with a wayside shrine, crucifix and plaque, beside a young sapling on a mound.

[Szkic uschniętego drzewa z kapliczką z krucyfiksem oraz tabliczką]

Józef Jawornicki, 1869

Watercolor of a marshy plain at sunset with glowing reflections in water and silhouetted trees on the horizon.

Vicinity of Morestal

François-Auguste Ravier, c. 1890

Watercolor of a river with a wooded island, a leaning tree in the foreground, and a sailboat with a flag on the right.

[Wyspa Cyrce w Zofiówce]

Konstanty Hintz, 1801

Watercolor landscape of a flat plain at sunset with leaning bare trees on the left and distant hills under an orange sky.

Environs de Cremieu

François-Auguste Ravier, c. 1890

Ink floor plan of Zamek Kiszków on brown paper, with labeled rooms Sklep and Kuchnia and hatched walls.

Zamek Kiszków

Unknown artist, 1853

Pencil drawing of two women and a child by a tree with pigeons on the ground, signed Legros 1905.

The Pigeons

Alphonse Legros, 1905

Grey-toned drawing of a crowd of richly dressed figures before a gothic palace with a balcony and garden.

David and Bathsheba

Jan van Roome, c. 1515

Watercolor of a uniformed man in blue coat and shako with plume, seen from behind, holding a cane on a grassy hill.

[Policjant Milicji Wolnego Miasta Krakowa z lat 1832-1834 w mundurze letnim]

Jan Kanty Wojnarowski, 1840

Watercolor of a brown and white cow grazing in a green meadow with trees, a fence, and a cloudy sky.

Landscape with a Cow

Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, late 19th century

Pen drawing of a medieval tomb slab with a standing veiled woman in prayer, a coat of arms, and Gothic inscription border.

[Płyta grobowa Felicji Lanckorońskiej]

Jan Kanty Wojnarowski, 1842

Charcoal sketch of several nude male figures with raised arms and turned heads, studies for a larger composition.

Studies for "Heaven" and "Hell"

John Singer Sargent, 1903-1916

Colored drawing of a turreted castle on a hill with evergreen trees and an arched bridge beside it.

Zamek w Będzinie

Edward Walenty Kainko, 1844

Charcoal study of three standing officers in military uniforms, one cropped to legs and boots, on pale paper.

Studies for "General Officers of World War I"

John Singer Sargent, 1920-1922

Pencil study in an oval: a central nude figure on a pedestal, a satyr at left, draped women at right.

Study for "Classic and Romantic Art"

John Singer Sargent, c. 1921

Pen drawing of a bastioned fortification plan with layered walls, a central projecting work, and a scale bar below.

[Narys fragmentu fortyfikacji bastionowej z kleszczami]

CFS, 1675

Charcoal study of a muscular male nude with raised and outstretched arms, drawn on cream paper.

Studies of Achilles for "Chiron and Achilles"

John Singer Sargent, 1922-1925