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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Drie mannen en een vrouw

Hendrick Goudt, 1580

Engraving of a crowd before a stone arcade, with a suspended basket and a city tower in the background, by Hendrick Goudt.

Virgilius in de mand

Hendrick Goudt, 1596

Pen and wash drawing of a tree-lined canal with gabled houses, a church spire, and boats on the water.

Gezicht op de Oudezijds Voorburgwal en de Oude Kerk

Jan de Beijer, 1751

Loose black ink sketch of a house with a steep roof, a diagonal beam, a lamppost and street figures on cream paper.

Häuser in Dresden / Fränzi

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1909

Pen and brown ink drawing of an elderly man in a hooded cloak, one hand raised, with dense hatched shading.

Grijsaard met half opgeheven hand

Hendrick Goudt, 1580

Charcoal sketch of a nude young girl with a bow in her hair seated in a round bathtub.

Fränzi im Badetub

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1910

Charcoal drawing of a woman with a bundle, a boy in a cap, and a girl with a basket before a ruined building.

C'est ici, chez nous!

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, 1916

Charcoal sketch of a nude woman reclining with one leg raised and head turned, drawn on tan paper.

Turnende Fränzi

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1910

Brown ink sketch of sailors working rigging on a ship deck, with seated figures and a faint sea horizon behind them.

At Sea

James McNeill Whistler, probably 1901

Loose graphite sketch of nude figures and a smiling head in an interior, with raised arms in the foreground.

Fränzi und Hans

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1911

Charcoal sketch of a nude woman reclining on a bed with arms behind her head, with a second figure at lower left.

Mädchen mit Katze im Arm (Kirchner zeichnet Fränzi)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1909

Loose pencil sketch of a nude female figure bending forward, with gestural lines for head, arms and legs on cream paper.

Badende

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1910

Phyllopteryx taeniolatus

Frank Edward Clarke, 1869

Charcoal sketch of a nude woman drawing a bow, with angular arm and bow lines on cream paper.

Bogenschützin

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1910

Loose pencil sketch of a Dresden street with buildings, pedestrians and a tram car on the tracks at right.

Straßenbahn in Dresden

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1909

Ink sketch of a windmill with lattice sails beside scribbled trees and shrubs on a flat landscape.

Windmühle auf Fehmarn

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1908

Pencil sketch of large agave plants in a curved planter with two figures walking nearby in a garden.

Das Boskett am Albertplatz in Dresden

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1911

Charcoal sketch on tan paper of a seated man and two standing nude figures with simplified, angular forms.

Milly, Nelly und Sam

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1910

Sketch of a weary standing woman leaning on a wall beside a seated man in a hat, drawn in charcoal and ink.

At the Peace Conference

Jean-Louis Forain, c. 1919

Pencil sketch of a homestead with fence and outbuildings beside a stream, flax in the foreground, trees and hills behind.

Mr Donald's Wairarapa

Nicholas Chevalier, 1868

Charcoal and orange crayon sketch of a woman's face in a headscarf, drawn in loose hatched strokes on cream paper.

Marokkanerin

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1909

Charcoal drawing of a man seated at a desk with an inkwell and quill, head bowed in thought, by Jean-Louis Forain.

A Versailles juillet 1919

Jean-Louis Forain, probably 1919

Watercolor landscape of trees on a hillside overlooking a distant hazy plain and small town under soft clouds.

Trees with distant landscape

Richard Redgrave, 1871

Loose charcoal sketch of two bearded men at a table, one seated writing, one standing and smiling.

À la conférence (At the Conference)

Jean-Louis Forain, c. 1919

Charcoal sketch of a woman and a man in a top hat dancing, drawn with loose, expressive lines on cream paper.

Paar beim Tanz (im Variété)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1909

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a woman in a red headscarf and long dress standing by a rock, with a sketched building behin

La France attend (France Waits)

Jean-Louis Forain, c. 1914/1919

Pencil sketch of an embracing couple and a reclining figure drawn in quick, angular gestural lines on cream paper.

Akte (sich umarmendes Paar)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1910

France Watching

Jean-Louis Forain, c. 1914/1919

M. Clemenceau. La lettre du Cte Czernin

Jean-Louis Forain, c. 1914/1919

Charcoal caricature of two men beside a table piled with top hats and bowler hats, with a French caption below.

C'est la Paix. Tu vois pas un kepi!

Jean-Louis Forain, c. 1919

Open sketchbook page with pencil handwriting in Dutch-style script reflecting on God as the true artist, numbered 8.

Text in A Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1905

Brown wash drawing of a river scene with a church spire, trees, a sailing boat and a riverside building.

A Putney bridge