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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Watercolor and ink drawing of a hillside with a large tree, blue hedges and small cottages with chimneys.

Hillside with cottages

Raymond McIntyre, 1915

Graphite portrait drawing of a young man with curly hair wearing a breastplate and chain against a pale background.

Portret van een jongeman met halsberg en keten

Wilhelm Adrian Netscher, 1821

Muted watercolor landscape of wooded hills and a large tree receding into a pale, hazy horizon.

Herbstlandschaft am Taunus

Blue and grey wash drawing of a bear leaning over a sleeping man beneath a tree in a forest clearing.

Ein Bär erschlägt einen schlafenden Mann mit einem Stein (Studie für die druckgraphische Illustration von "L'Ours et…

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1732

Watercolor study of pale blue sky with layered clouds above a dark horizon band of distant land.

Studies of clouds

Blue wash drawing of birds of prey attacking pigeons beneath a tree in a landscape, with a house at right.

Eine Gruppe Raubvögel jagt einige Tauben (Studie für die druckgraphische Illustration von "Les vautours et les pigeon…

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1731

Watercolor landscape of a hilltop town above a wooded valley with arched bridges and distant hills under a pale sky.

Landscape near Segovia

Pencil drawing of a tree fern with arching fronds rising above dense bush and foliage on a cream sheet.

Mamaku, Taranaki

James Crowe Richmond, 1851

Soft graphite sketch of misty mountain slopes with a rocky peak at center right, inscribed 'Monte Baldo' in the lower right.

Monte Baldo

Louis Eysen, 1889

Red chalk drawing of courtiers in wigs gathered in an ornate interior with draped curtains and columns, with a dog at right.

Ludwig XIV. zeichnet seinen neugeborenen Enkel Louis, Herzog von Burgund, mit dem Orden des Heiligen Geistes aus

Antoine Dieu, 1709

Charcoal drawing of a seated woman in a dark dress bending over crocheting, with her hands working in her lap.

Mary Eysen crocheting

Louis Eysen, 1894

Pencil sketch of a rustic courtyard under a sloping timber roof, with seated figures, a dog, a goat, and a hillside behind.

In Toledo

John Lewis, 1832

Mary Eysen auf dem Balkon

Louis Eysen, 1897

Pen and wash study of Apollo seated on a cloud holding a golden lyre, with a laurel wreath and putti at right.

Studie für das Bildnis eines Unbekannten als Apoll auf einer Wolke mit einer Lyra

Antoine Pesne, 1749

Pencil sketch of a wooden farmstead with whitewashed wall on a hillside with trees, dated 1882.

Farmstead in South Tirol

Louis Eysen, 1882

Watercolor landscape of leaning birch and tall trees, a grazing cow by a stone wall, and rolling fields with a farm.

In the Cotswolds

Averil Burleigh

Pen and ink sketch of two men struggling over a dagger in a columned interior, with figures behind them.

Entwurf zum Frontispiz von Voltaires "Mariamne", 5. Akt: Herodes wird durch Narbas und Idamas der Dolch entrissen

Hubert François Gravelot, 1758

Pencil sketch of a seated woman with bowed head and hands in her lap over draped fabric, drawn on pale paper.

Sitzende Frau beim Handarbeiten

Louis Eysen, 1883

Grey wash drawing of tigers fighting wild bulls beneath a large tree in a forest landscape.

Tiger im Kampf mit wilden Stieren

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1745

Gamekeeper seated by a tree with two hunting dogs, one holding a dead bird, drawn in chalk on blue paper.

Der Jagdaufseher La Forêt mit seinen beiden Jagdhunden Lise und Fine-Lise

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1722

Pen and brown ink sketch of an old man in a cape with a cane beside a rustic figure gesturing, 1750s.

An Old Man with a Cape and a Rustic with a Backpack

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750s

Pencil drawing of dense tree foliage with a patch of open sky in the upper center, shaded in soft graphite.

Felling of trees

Louis Eysen, 1868

Black chalk drawing of a seated monkey with a long tail, turning its head, on blue-grey paper.

Affe (Meerkatze)

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1730

Pen and brown ink sketch of two figures in flowing robes, one reaching toward the other who leans on a staff.

A Pregnant Young Woman and a Young Man with a Staff

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750s

Study after the head of Michelangelo’s ‘Giuliano de’Medici’

Jacopo Tintoretto, 1545

Black chalk and white highlight drawing on blue-grey paper of a path through trees leading to an arched garden gate and wall.

Park in Arcueil

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1742

Pencil drawing of a rocky forest stream with large boulders, fallen branches and trees rising on the hillside behind.

Waldbach

Pencil drawing of three slender birch trees with sketched foliage and undergrowth on pale paper.

Three birch trees

Black and white chalk study of two snarling dogs, one full body lying down and one head study, on grey paper.

Studien von zwei Hunden mit gefletschten Zähnen

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1715

Watercolor of a valley with a winding lake, golden plain, wooded foreground and blue hills under a cloudy sky.

Wairarapa Lake

Nicholas Chevalier, 1868

Pencil drawing of a winding forest path lined with slender trees, ferns and undergrowth under a pale sky.

Forest path

Watercolor of two fishermen tending nets in a blue coble on a sandy beach, with seagulls over the shallow sea.

Yorkshire coble