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Drawings & Sketches

76,418 works

Drawing of a young man in a wide-brimmed hat, turned three-quarters, rendered in brown chalk with white highlights.

Head of a Youth

Lorenzo di Credi, 1450

Brown ink and wash drawing of a standing man in a feathered hat and draped cloak, holding a scroll and gesturing outward.

David - Study for a Costume of a Civil Official, c. 1792, 65.43.1

Jacques-Louis David, 1792

Drawing of a young man in a dark coat and white cravat leaning on a stone window ledge against a cloudy sky.

Self-portrait

Charles Bruguière de Barante, 1804

Red and black chalk drawing of an elderly bearded man's head on blue-grey paper, with white highlights.

Head of an Old Bearded Man

Federico Barocci, 1584

Brown wash drawing of a chariot with helmeted and winged female figures, horses and eagles in clouds.

IrisAthenaHera

Louis Jean François Lagrenée, 1780

Brown ink and wash landscape drawing of trees, a rocky bank, and a distant town with a tower beside a river.

Tiber Landscape with Castel Sant'Angelo in the Background

Claude Lorrain, 1550

Pencil sketch on tan paper of a grassy field with tufts, a low wall, shrubs and a distant path rising to the right.

Gogh - View of the Field behind Saint Paul’s Asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, 1889, 2001.144

Vincent van Gogh, 1889

Drawing of two draped women holding a garland over a blank shield cartouche, with two cherubs supporting it below.

Vouet - Design for a Wall Decoration at Fontainebleau, 1643-1644, 2002.121

Simon Vouet, 1643

Pencil sketch in a small sketchbook of a rural courtyard with broken fence boards and a tower in the background.

Sketch of a rural courtyard, with a tower in the background

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1870

Head Study of a Young Man

Eduard Putra, 1895

Charcoal drawing of a woman with a thorn crown pulling back a curtain while hooded figures sit in shadow below.

Le rideau

Adrien De Witte, 1890

Coloured study of a scrolling decorative ornament in pink, yellow and brown with pencil guidelines on aged paper.

Study of an ornament for painted decoration of the Franciscan Church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Red and grey chalk drawing of a young woman reading at a table while a smiling page with a red-plumed headdress looks on.

Young Lady Reading and a Page

Jacques-André Portail, 1650

Watercolor portrait of a woman in a red-dotted cream headscarf and grey jacket against a pale green background.

Skerikulla

Anders Zorn, c. 1875-1920

Watercolor of a red, blue and yellow macaw perched on a branch, looking back over its shoulder, with tropical leaves behind.

Old Grumpy

Henry Keller, 1926

Brown ink sketch of decorative scrollwork bands, a carved column and a pedestal with figure, with handwritten German notes.

Copies of decorative motifs from wooden architecture

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1887

Oil head study of a girl with dark hair pulled back, eyes lowered, wearing a white blouse against a brown background.

Head Study of a Girl

Eduard Putra, 1895

Pencil sketch of tangled looping lines with a small boxed cross, signed Grunwald and S.W. at lower right.

Caricature of the Battle of Grunwald by Jan Matejko

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1900

Pen and watercolor drawing of a Gothic church interior with a tall altarpiece, brass chandeliers and heraldic shields on the

Interior of the Church of St. Lawrence (Groote Kerk or Great Church) in Alkmaar, 1661

Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, 1661

Pencil drawing of a helmeted soldier with a bayonet rifle striding over a smoke-filled, damaged city skyline.

The German Boot"; from: "The 150 Sheets

Karl Wiener, 1940

Red and black chalk drawing of a standing nude woman with flowers in her hair and drapery, by François Boucher.

Standing Nude Girl

François Boucher, 1750

Ink drawing of a uniformed skeleton with a skeletal nude figure beside it, above civilians among ruined city buildings.

Conclusion" (War Grotesque)

Karl Wiener, 1941

Pen drawing of a woman with closed eyes weeping blood, before a city with smoke rising from chimneys and ruined buildings.

War

Karl Wiener, 1941

Man's head in a laurel wreath

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1882

Pen and brown wash portrait of a young woman with braided hair, white pleated ruff collar and drop earring, dated 1817.

Henriette Schnorr von Carolsfeld

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1817

Drawing of a screaming woman and man in fear as bombs fall past angular buildings, in ink in a Cubist-influenced style.

Terror

Karl Wiener, 1939

Pen and brown wash drawing of a hilltop city with a wall, palace, church tower, trees and rocky foreground.

Cityscape with palace and church surrounded by wall

Jens Petersen Lund, 1730-1793

Tall panelled drawing of stylized flames in red, orange and yellow, with a grey lattice pattern above, a stained glass design

Element of fire (I). Design for a stained glass window for the presbytery window of the Franciscan church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1897

Charcoal drawing of a woman with dark hair glancing over her bare shoulder, with a faint winged ornament on the wall beside h

Study for

Fernand Khnopff, 1891

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a bowed man before a burning city with orange flames and smoke.

Mourning

Karl Wiener, 1940

Pencil drawing of pollarded bare trees on a snowy field, with a helmeted figure in a cloak in the lower right.

Winter"; from: "The 150 Sheets

Karl Wiener, 1941

Oil study of a bearded man with short dark hair and a white ruff collar against a dark brown background.

Study of a man's head

Annibale Carracci, 1580