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Drawings & Sketches

76,426 works

Pencil sketch of a mounted armored knight on a horse with heraldic shields and a banner, handwritten notes below.

Copy from the seal of Albert the Bold, Duke of Saxony

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1890

Portrait of a woman

Pencil sketch on tan paper of a bearded man in a cap above a smaller hooded head, with handwritten inscriptions.

Copies after paintings by Albrecht Dürer and Michael Wolgemut

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Loose charcoal sketch of a stallion standing in tall grass, head turned to the right, on a pale paper sheet.

Stallion

Colored crayon drawing by James Ensor of a ballet scene with dancers and crowds beneath swirling cloud-like forms.

Ballet scene

James Ensor, 1905

Black and white print of a weary soldier with a heavy pack and rifle, with an explosion and smoke behind him.

La Retraite après Charleroi...

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1914

Sketchbook page with a seated man, a bearded head, and a purple-crayon horse drawn in quick pencil studies.

Sketch of a seated man with his head resting on his right hand, portrait of a man en face in a turban, and a man lead…

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1870

Brown ink grotesque drawing of winged figures, a satyr, a dragon, scrolls and架 architectural columns on paper.

Grotesque with a Satyr Feeding a Dragon (recto)

Marco Marchetti, c. 1565/1588

Sketch of a woman's head in profile

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Pencil study sheet with a dog head, a seated man writing, a hand with pen, a bearded face and a standing figure.

Theo Hannon

James Ensor, 1880

Pencil sketch of an elderly bearded man in a cap, head tilted, with loose hatching on a pale sheet.

Man with hat

James Ensor, 1881

Sleeping Child

Herman Verbrugge, 1905

Small oil sketch of orange twilight sky with streaked clouds over dark hills and a green meadow.

Northern Studies (The White Night)

Jan Ciągliński, 1908

Mitche

James Ensor, 1880

Three figures

Pencil sketches of Gothic vaulting, pointed arches and a column capital on lined paper, by Stanisław Wyspiański, 1884.

Architectural copies from the presbytery of St. Mary’s Church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1884

Pen and watercolor drawing of tall cypress trees beside an arcaded building and grassy garden, on a tan paper ground.

Cypresses

Thorald Brendstrup, 1812-1883

Pencil sketchbook page with loose architectural studies of a tower, a doorway facade, and a grid of panels.

Loose drawings, including a town hall façade, a tower, a treasury

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1890

Pencil and coloured line design of horse chestnut leaves and flowers, drawn by Stanisław Wyspiański in 1904.

Leaves and flowers of horse chestnut. Design for polychromy of the Medical Society building in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1904

Charcoal drawing on tan paper of a man with tousled hair, mustache and dark bow tie, facing the viewer in a dim room.

Self portrait

Wojciech Weiss, 1904

Watercolor of a militiaman in red coat and black hat with green plume, leaning on a musket with bayonet.

Militiaman

Johannes Senn, 1807

Graphite sketch sheet with studies of several insects, including a beetle, dragonfly and flies, on aged grey paper.

insects

Charcoal sketch of two seated men, one reading an open book, in a loose studio-style composition.

Double portrait of Józef Mehoffer in a Paris studio. Study for Józef Mehoffer’s stained glass for the Latin Cathedral…

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1891

Pencil sketch of a lecture room with a standing speaker, a plaster head on a table, and a seated audience.

The Phrenologist

William Sidney Mount, c. 1827-68

Oval sketch of Aurora, goddess of dawn, rising in clouds above draped figures, one playing a lyre, in loose warm tones.

"Aurora" ("Goddess of the Dawn") - Sketch to a Plafon at the House of Jura Nieczajew-Malcew in Sanktt Petersburg

Henryk Siemiradzki, 1886

A Young Woman Fixing Her Hair

Domenico Maggiotto, 1745

Watercolor of mounted soldiers charging with raised sabers beside a river, with smoke clouds and a rearing white horse in the

Cavalry Battle by a River

Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe

Ink and wash drawing of a classical temple front with Corinthian columns, a dome, roof statues and a wide flight of steps.

A Classical Temple

Louis Gustave Taraval, 1780

Pencil drawing of carved ornamental scrollwork with acanthus leaves and a central cartouche on tan paper.

Copy of ornaments decorating the so-called

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1890

Ink and wash drawing of a church facade with columns, pediment, and a sculpture of a robed figure holding a cross.

Facade for a Church with a Sculpture Representing Faith

Louis Gustave Taraval, 1768

Pencil sketch of two men bending over a grinding wheel, one sharpening a tool while the other leans in to help.

Grinding the Axe

William Sidney Mount, c. 1827-68

Pen and wash drawing of a domed hexagonal temple with columns and steps, set in an Italianate landscape with small figures.

Hexagonal Temple in an Italianate Landscape

Louis Gustave Taraval, 1780