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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Watercolor drawing of a seated man reading a songbook with a woman and small child in a courtyard.

Parents Teaching Their Daughter a Song

Abraham van Strij, early 19th century

Watercolor of a small roadside shrine with a Madonna niche beside a sunlit road, framed by trees and a rocky bank.

A Roadside Chapel near Tivoli

August Lucas, 1835

Portrait of a Young Man

Wilhelm von Kügelgen, mid-19th century

Watercolor of a snowy winter garden beside a yellow classical building, with bare trees and a distant dome.

Blick von Süden auf das Städelsche Kunstinstitut im Winter

Pencil sketch of a seated woman with bobbed hair and necklace in an interior, with two standing figures behind her.

Bildnis einer Frau im Sessel

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1912

Pencil sketch of angular stick-like figures in two groups on pale paper, by Paul Klee.

Zwei Gruppen

Paul Klee, 1929

Pen and blue wash drawing of a bearded saint wading through water carrying the infant Christ on his shoulders.

De heilige Christoffel met het Christuskind

Jacques de Gheyn, 1597

Watercolor landscape of a white farmhouse, leafy trees, a walking figure and a path above a riverbank.

Section from Schandau

Friedrich Eugen Peipers, 1873

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a river village with a church spire, a boat with figures, and hills under a pale sky.

View of Schandau

Friedrich Eugen Peipers, 1873

Watercolor of a riverside village below wooded rocky hills, with a steamboat with smoke stacks on the water in the foreground

Das Ufer gegenüber Schandau

Friedrich Eugen Peipers, 1873

Pencil and wash drawing of a stream through a conifer valley with small wooden buildings on the bank.

Das Kirnitzschtal bei Schandau

Friedrich Eugen Peipers, 1873

Watercolor and pencil landscape of a church tower with spire among trees, with a flat-topped rock and hills behind under a pa

Schandau mit Lilienstein

Friedrich Eugen Peipers, 1873

Pencil and wash drawing of a river town with a steamboat, a bridge, a church spire on a rock, and hills.

Tetschen an der Elbe

Friedrich Eugen Peipers, 1873

Pencil and watercolor landscape of wooded hills above a river, with white buildings on the bank and a moored barge.

Near Schandau

Friedrich Eugen Peipers, 1873

Oval watercolor of a seated barefoot boy and a standing girl beside a stone pedestal, with a harp and landscape behind.

Zwei sitzende Kinder mit Harfe

Georg Cornicelius

Grey wash sketch of ruined Roman arches and masonry overgrown with shrubs and a tree, from a sketchbook page.

Roman ruins (recto). Three figures in classical robes (verso) (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 1)

Joseph Wright of Derby, 1774-75

Pen drawing of Venus standing nude beside a winged Cupid who draws a bow, on a pale sheet.

Venus and Cupid

Pen drawing of a sleeping young man under a tree, watched by a bearded figure as three nude women embrace near a fountain.

Paris' dream

Martin Kaldenbach

Brown ink drawing of a distorted soldier on horseback in catoptric anamorphosis, arranged in an arc above a circle.

Soldier on Horseback in Catoptric Anamorphosis (after Hendrick Goltzius)

Jean François Niceron, ca. 1620-40

Ink and pencil architectural plan with columns, piers, and a circular central space, study for San Giovanni in Laterano.

Studies for the Nave and Narthex of San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome (recto and verso)

Francesco Borromini, ca. 1646-55

Pen and brown ink drawing of an altar design with a crucifix, columns, putti, and side elevations with handwritten notes.

Design for an Altar Surmounted by a Crucifix in Four Different Views

Vincenzo de' Rossi, 1546-47

Brown and white wash drawing of a bishop saint trampling fallen figures, with Christ in clouds above and bishops beside him.

Saint Lambert Trampling his Murderers, Surrounded by the Four Church Fathers

Antoine Sallaert, early 17th-mid 17th century

Drawing of a formal garden with a central pond, classical columns, statues, and a boat carrying figures.

View of a Palace Garden with a Central Pond Surrounded by Classical Architecture (Tapestry or Stage Design?)

Daniel Marot the Elder, ca. 1700-1720

Chalk drawing of a man with long hair, mustache and goatee, turned slightly to the side, on toned paper.

Portrait of Louis XIII

Simon Vouet, ca. 1632-35

Pen and ink drawing of a crowd of Puritan townspeople in a market place, with a woman holding an infant before a wooden door.

The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, ca. 1879

Pen drawing of a crowd on a wooden scaffold in a village, with kneeling figures and a standing woman by a pillory.

Revelation of the Scarlet Letter, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, ca. 1879

Grey wash drawing of a stone farmhouse with an arched gateway, a hilltop fortified town, and two walking figures.

A landscape with a farm house and two figures, a fortified village seen beyond

Adriaen Fransz. Boudewijns, mid-17th-early 18th century

Botanical drawing of a Pancratium plant with two white spidery flowers on a tall green stem and long leaves.

Pancratium (American narcissus)

Georg Dionysius Ehret, ca. 1752

Watercolor of the Ponte Santa Trinità in Florence with workers, stone blocks, a boat on the Arno and a bell tower.

Ponte Santa Trinità, Florence

James Duffield Harding, before 1832

Grey ink drawing of a domed Dutch exchange building beside a canal, with boats, a rower, and people on the quay.

The Old Stock Exchange (Koopmansbeurs), Rotterdam, seen from the East, with the Kolk and the Beursplein in the Foregr…

Jan de Beijer, 1750

Pencil sketch of a leaning tree with spreading branches beside a winding dirt lane and shrubs in the foreground.

Study for Tree Trunks and Lane

John Crome, ca. 1812

Pen and brown ink drawing showing two studies of feet, one in a cross-hatched stocking and one with diagonal shading.

Twee studies van een voet

Guido Reni, 1585