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Drawings & Sketches

76,382 works

Pen drawing of a crowded tavern with men playing backgammon, a hanging birdcage, and people in a loft above.

Tavern-Goers Playing Backgammon and Merrymaking

Cornelis Dusart, 1694

Pen and grey wash drawing of a symmetrical ornamental motif with upright fronds and curling scrolls on an octagonal sheet.

Grotesque

Pierre-Georges Deraisme, 1900

Drawing of a symmetrical ornament with two cherubs and a central mask among gold-washed acanthus scrolls.

Cherub motif

Pierre-Georges Deraisme, 1892

Pencil sketch on a sketchbook page showing hatched foliage and branch shapes spreading diagonally across the sheet.

Studies of clouds

Théodore Géricault, 1812-1814

Pastel portrait of a young woman with a folding fan, pearl earrings, lace collar and blue flowered dress.

Young Woman with a Fan

Pietro Rotari, early 1750s

Rust-brown scrolling foliate ornament design for a brooch on an orange sheet, with a small monogram at lower right.

Brooch

Pierre-Georges Deraisme, 1898

Cherub

Pierre-Georges Deraisme, 1900

Pencil drawing of a tall Gothic-style panel with pointed arch, slender columns, and ornate scrollwork on squared paper.

Gothic decoration

Pierre-Georges Deraisme, 1895

Pen drawing of a symmetrical ornamental knot motif with a central rosette and scalloped leafy scrolls on tan paper.

Knot motif

Pierre-Georges Deraisme, 1895

Watercolor study of a hanging bell with the name Yolande written in white script on its ochre body.

Yolande bell

Pierre-Georges Deraisme, 1905

Brown ink sketch of a grasshopper on a gourd with wheat ears and a leaf, on a tan paper ground.

Object: grasshopper

Pierre-Georges Deraisme, 1900

Painted illustration of an orange crested bird with black tail feathers perched on a lichen-covered branch.

Rupicola Rupicola

Sarah Stone, 1788

Pencil drawing of a symmetrical ornamental motif with pointed leaves radiating from a central rosette on a grid.

Appliqué motif

Pierre-Georges Deraisme, 1900

Pencil drawing of a symmetrical ornamental motif with scrolls and leaves radiating from a central rosette on an octagonal car

Engraved motif

Pierre-Georges Deraisme, 1900

Ink and wash drawing of a riverside city with ruins, a church with tower, a hilltop palace, and rocks in the foreground.

Cityscape with ruins and elevated church and palace

Jens Petersen Lund, 1730-1793

Reddish-brown rocaille ornament with scrolls and acanthus leaves framing an empty central cartouche on a hexagonal sheet.

Rocaille decoration

Pierre-Georges Deraisme, 1900

Drawing of a nude seated woman beside a lion, with a radiant sun face, obelisk and niche statue in the background.

Design for the central section of The Mirror of Virtue

Cornelis Ketel, about 1594

Purple ink sketch of a dragon with a sweeping wing and curling tail on a horizontal ledge, on cut paper.

Dragon

Pierre-Georges Deraisme, 1895

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a young boy's head with curly hair and a sketched laurel wreath, on toned paper.

The Head of a Young Boy Crowned with Laurel

Lorenzo di Credi, about 1500-1505

Pencil sketch of a gallant couple in period dress framed by an ornamental scrolled cartouche on tan paper.

Gallant scene

Pierre-Georges Deraisme, 1900

Pencil sketch of walking figures in a pastoral scene, one with a staff and a bundle, on a tan cut-corner sheet.

Pastoral scene

Pierre-Georges Deraisme, 1895

Pen and ink sketch of two figures in period dress embracing, framed by scrolling rococo ornament in an octagonal border.

Pastoral scene

Pierre-Georges Deraisme, 1900

Pencil sketch of a winged Cupid playing an instrument inside an ornamental rococo cartouche on ochre paper.

Musician Cupid

Pierre-Georges Deraisme, 1900

Drawing of a woman and seated man holding a torch inside an oval rococo-style cartouche on tan paper.

Untitled [pastoral scene]

Pierre-Georges Deraisme, 1905

Pastel drawing of a rocky green hillside under a dark stormy sky with a bright lightning bolt and falling rain.

Landscape with a Thunderstorm

Emilie Mediz-Pelikan, 1896

Ink sketch in an oval frame of a fisherman with a pole beside a distant sailboat on the water.

Fisherman

Pierre-Georges Deraisme, 1900

Ink sketch of a shepherdess with a staff and sheep inside an oval rococo scroll frame on tan paper.

Shepherdess 18th century

Pierre-Georges Deraisme, 1900

Ink and graphite drawing of a dense rocaille ornamental pattern with scrolls, shells and cartouche forms on tan paper.

Rocaille motif

Pierre-Georges Deraisme, 1895

Ink drawing of a stylized fleur de lys with scrolling acanthus leaves inside a shield-shaped outline.

Fleur de lys

Pierre-Georges Deraisme, 1900

Ink sketch on squared paper of two roundels showing putti riding comets among stars and clouds.

Untitled [Putti riding a comet]

Pierre-Georges Deraisme

A Muse

Rosalba Carriera, mid-1720s

Quick sketch of a lion lying down, head raised, with a curling mane and looped tail, on tan paper.

Lion

Pierre-Georges Deraisme, 1900