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Drawings & Sketches

76,418 works

Two versions of a standing military officer in uniform and peaked cap gesturing before a mountain landscape.

Le Grand Duc Victor

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Ink and wash drawing of ruined arcades, houses and a chapel beside a watercourse, with hills in the distance.

Cityscape with ruins and houses by a watercourse

Jens Petersen Lund, 1730-1793

Brown ink drawing of soldiers with rifles in fur caps, a fallen man at lower left, and a smoking town on the horizon.

Bataille de Tannenberg

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Charcoal drawing of a shirtless man reclining on a sand dune while a woman crouches below beside grass, with the sea behind.

Figures on the Beach

George Bellows, c. 1900-1925

Eight studies of a violent street scene with soldiers, civilians, and burning buildings, in pen, ink and graphite on mounted

Vaillants Allemands!!

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Pencil studies and two black-and-white prints of a helmeted soldier with rifle striding before flames and smoke.

L'Incendiare

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Watercolour nameplate reading Lorentz Frølich 1832, each letter formed from tiny figures, animals and objects.

Nameplate with Lorenz Frølich's name. The letters consist of small figures

Lorenz Frølich, 1832

Three panels showing a woodcut and sketch of soldiers tending dead and wounded men on a battlefield.

Les Morts après le combat

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Chalk drawing of a shepherd and shepherdess leading sheep and a dog past tall trees toward a distant village.

Bringing in the Sheep

Charles Émile Jacque

Ink and pencil drawings of an explosion throwing up smoke over a ridge, with small soldiers in a trench below.

The Mine

Louis Auguste Lepère, c. 1914-1924

Three studies of a seated man smoking a hookah with a city skyline of domes and boats behind him.

Constantinople

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Three versions of a marching Indian soldier with rifle and turban, two in dark ink and one in pencil sketch.

Armée indienne

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Maréchal Joffre

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Ink drawing of a stone house and church spire under smoke, with soldiers and fleeing figures in a town square.

Siège des Maubeuge

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Three-panel study of soldiers advancing under smoke across a field, from pencil sketch to finished ink drawing.

Dêbut de la manoeuvre de la Marne

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Four studies of a helmeted soldier embracing a cloaked officer, in pencil and black ink, on a green mount.

Joffre, père du soldat

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Profile Portrait of a Girl

Paul A. Mulready, n.d.

Ink drawing of banana leaves above white chrysanthemums with pale green foliage and calligraphy at left.

Banana Plant and Chrysanthemum

Tsubaki Chinzan, c. 1845-54

Pencil drawing of an industrial city with tall towers, smokestacks, a steam locomotive on a trestle, and a Fort Pitt Hotel si

Harmonious Volumes

Alpo S. Tuura, 1920s

Charcoal sketch of a seated woman in a striped dress beside a small standing nude study on pale paper.

Study of Madame Marie Cantacuzène; Study of Standing Female Nude

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, c. 1883

Watercolor of an ornate Gothic tower beside a canal with fishermen in boats and costumed figures on the steps.

Scene on a Canal

Hippolyte Jean Baptiste Garnerey, first half 1800s

Sketch of a dog sled team pulling a blue sledge across snowy ice toward distant mountains under an overcast sky.

Unknown title

Jakob Danielsen, 1888-1938

Charcoal sketch of sailors on a ship deck beside a wooden ladder and rigging posts, with a faint horizon behind.

On Deck

Muirhead Bone, c. 1901-40

Charcoal and red chalk drawing of a woman with upswept hair and bare shoulders, turning her head, dated 1906.

Courtesan (recto)

Jean-Louis Forain, 1906

Sketchbook page with grey and white cumulus clouds over a pale blue sky and dark horizon line.

Cloud study

Martinus Rørbye, 1832

Six sketch studies of a helmeted soldier, cavalry and a seated mother with child, one finished ink drawing captioned in Frenc

L'Allemagne envahit le monde

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Four studies of a mustached officer in uniform before a Union Jack: two pencil sketches above and two black-and-white prints

Lord Kitchener

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Pale watercolor sketch of several sailing warships in a naval battle, with smoke and red flags on a grey sea.

Naval battle

Christian August Lorentzen, 1746-1828

Sketches and two prints of a crowd with flags marching down a street, a woman in a plumed helmet raising a banner.

L'Union sacrées

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Ink and white drawing of British soldiers with rifles and packs marching across open ground, with tents behind them.

Bataille des frontières: groupe des soldats britanniques

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Two ink drawings of a feudal castle with spires on a rocky outcrop, with trees and a winding path below.

L'Allemagne feedale

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Ink drawing of soldiers lying among fallen figures beside a large tree trunk, with a rifle in the foreground.

Bataille du Col de la Chiprotte

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914