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Drawings & Sketches

79,656 works

Pencil sketch of men and women seated on a hill talking, with pine trees, horses and distant mountains behind them.

Men and Women Enjoying a View

Martinus Rørbye, 1823-48

Pencil sketch of a heavenly Trinity scene with radiant light, clouds, and angels above kneeling figures on earth.

The Triumph of the Trinity (The Gloria)

Francesco Solimena

Young man in grey clothes stands in a study with an open book, globe, and plaster bust beside a staircase.

Young Man in a Study

Adriaen van Gaesbeeck, 1640

Watercolor plate of six numbered flatfish swimming over stylized blue water within a gold-ruled oval border.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XXXIV

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Watercolor plate of five flatfish in blue water and sand, one pink fish tied with cord, numbered XXXV.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XXXV

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Watercolor of five numbered fish, including an eel and a carp, swimming over a blue sea and sand within a gold oval border.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XXXVI

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XXXVII

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Six numbered freshwater fish swim across blue water in a gold-ruled oval, painted in watercolor on vellum.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XXXVIII

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Watercolor plate of a walrus, pink fish, sunfish and blue octopus swimming in an oval sea with Latin labels.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate III

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Drawing of a squid, carp, pike, perch, and small fish over water, with a flowering water plant and shells on a bank.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XXXIX

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Seven numbered fish of varied species swim in blue water inside a gilded oval border, drawn in watercolour and ink.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XL

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Watercolor plate of ten numbered fish of varied colors swimming across a stylized blue water surface within an oval border.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XLI

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Elderly bearded man in red robe dozes by candlelight, holding a skull, with a cardinal's hat and books in a dim study.

Saint Jerome in his Study by Candlelight

Aertgen van Leyden, 1520

Nine numbered fish swim in rippled blue water inside a gold oval border, drawn in watercolor on a cream page.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XLII

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Watercolor plate of numbered fish swimming in pale blue water within a gold oval border, by Joris Hoefnagel.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XLIII

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Watercolor of lobsters, crabs, shells, a flatfish and shrimp on a sandy seabed, numbered and labeled with a Latin inscription

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XLIV

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Hoefnagel watercolor plate of seven numbered crustaceans, lobsters, crabs and shrimp, over blue water within an oval border.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XLV

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Watercolor plate of two crabs and numbered seashells arranged within a gold oval border, labeled XXXVI.

Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva): Plate XLVI

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Portrait of Giovanni Antonio Santarelli

Giovanni Battista Dell'Era, 1765-99

Grey wash drawing of a rocky fountain design with classical figures, cupids, deer and cascading water.

Design for the Fontana di Venere e Adone, Reggia di Caserta, Naples

Fedele Fischetti, ca. 1780

La Brodeuse (Die Stickerin)

François Bonvin, 1845

Monochrome wash drawing of a bearded man and seated woman below clouds, with putti and a tree in the sky.

Sakripant und Angelika

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Brown ink and wash drawing of an ornate folding fan surrounded by small genre scenes of figures in costume.

Fächerstudie

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, 1835

Painting of a standing nude man with a pink drape and a seated nude young woman looking up at him, on a plinth.

Academic Study of a Man and a Woman

Woutherus Mol, 1808

Charcoal drawing of two working men in coats and caps, one gesturing with open hands while the other looks down.

'Mauvais salaire': Twee werklieden

Jan Toorop, 1868

Watercolor of a young red-haired girl in a red dress beside a tree, with two winged angels, one holding a sword.

Jeanne d'Arc, la Prédestinée

Gaston Bussière, 1909

Pencil sketch of a group of men in heavy coats gathered together, some standing and one seated at left, gesturing as they tal

Strikers

Jan Toorop, 1850

Portrait of a Woman with Closed Eyes

Jan Toorop, 1850

A Coachman in Delft

Jan Toorop, 1880

Brown ink and wash drawing of a cloaked man kneeling beside a reclining figure in a dim interior near a doorway.

The Blindness of Tobias

Red chalk portrait drawing of a man with a mustache, head turned, in a dark jacket and white collar.

Charles Claessens

Charcoal drawing of a seated woman at a spinning wheel with a child beside her in a dim interior.

De spinster

Jakob Smits, 1888