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Drawings & Sketches

76,474 works

Pencil sketch of a young woman's head with curly hair and downcast eyes on an aged paper page.

Sketch of a seated figure (on the back page a portrait of a young woman)

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Pen and brown ink design for a wall decoration with caryatids, niches, a pediment and sketched figures in pencil.

Design for a Wall Decoration with Pasted-in Sketches after Raphael (verso)

Frederico Zuccaro, c. 1580s-90s

Study of Old Man and Woman

Friedrich Carl von Scheidlin

Charcoal portrait of a bearded, balding man in a dark collar, with handwritten name Emile Augier at upper right.

The Playwright Emile Augier

Pen drawing of the Last Judgment: enthroned Christ, trumpeting angels, a monster devouring people, and crowds below.

Pieter Bruegel (I), The Last Judgment, drawing in the Albertina

Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1558

Ink and pencil sketch of a winged putto flying with a raised torch, with faint pencil studies around the figure.

Sketch of putto with torch in hand

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1886

Study Head (Bearded Man)

Samuel G. Richards

Pen and wash drawing of warships in battle on calm water, with gun smoke rising between the ships and a fleet in the distance

The Sea Battle at la Hogue

Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1701

Charcoal drawing of a stooped old woman in a dark cloak beside a wooden chest, with smoke rising above.

Chinoiserie, an old woman

Oil portrait of a man in a dark cloak gripping a walking stick, gazing sideways against an olive green background.

Figure Study of the Farmer Florian Killian

Eilif Peterssen, 1872

Sketch of a crowded room where a man reads a document at a table while onlookers and a woman in black gather around.

Sketch for 'The Reading of a Will'

David Wilkie, 1820

Watercolor study of a seated man in a feathered hat beside a ceramic jug and barrel on a stone floor.

Study of a Smoking Man

Friedrich Carl von Scheidlin, 1854

Pencil sketch of a sailboat with a billowing sail beside rocks and a pier at sunrise, with radiating light in the sky.

Sunrise

James Ensor, 1880

Pencil and white heightened study of a leafy flowering plant with slender stalks beside a box on tan paper.

Study of Flowering Plant

Friedrich Carl von Scheidlin

Pencil sketches of architectural ornaments including foliage friezes, scrolls, a grotesque mask and a column capital with an

Sketches of modern ornaments

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1889

Charcoal drawing of a mother and child embracing, faces close together, with a handwritten dedication and date below.

Mother and child

Watercolor study of a broadleaved plant with blue-green lobed leaves against a dark grey wash, above grass.

Study of Broadleaved Plant

Friedrich Carl von Scheidlin, 1883

Pencil drawing of a kneeling nude man, a winged figure, a helmeted youth and a bearded elder among plants by water.

The Question, the Sphinx

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1875

Study of a Woman

Stanisław Fabijański, 1888

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a crowned man holding a cup beside a woman with clasped hands, with a sculpture behind them.

King René's Honeymoon - Sculpture

Edward Burne-Jones, 1861

Male Nude - Academic Study, three-quarter length Nude, with Moustache and clenched Fists

Ford Madox Brown, 1847

Woman's head and small figures

Pastel self-portrait of a bearded man with wavy hair in a double-breasted coat against a tan background.

Self-portrait of Stanisław Wyspiański

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1903

Pencil drawing of a standing nude man seen from behind, holding tools, head turned toward the viewer, by Ford Madox Brown.

Male - Academic nude Study posed as a Sculptor

Ford Madox Brown, 1847

Charcoal sketch of a seated peasant leaning on a hoe, head bowed, drawn on grey paper.

Seated Peasant Resting on a Hoe

Jean-François Millet, 1829-75

Brown ink tracing of a horizontal frieze with acanthus scrolls, foliage and an animal figure at right.

Tracing from a frieze with plant and animal motifs

Stanisław Wyspiański

Graphite drawing of a shirtless man with a moustache, arms folded across his chest, looking upward to the side.

Male Nude - Academic nude Study, half-length with Moustache and Arms folded

Ford Madox Brown, 1846

Crowded horse fair on open links with a castle on a hill and a city skyline behind, drawn in watercolour.

Horse Fair on Bruntsfield Links, Edinburgh

Paul Sandby, 1750

Pen and brown ink sketch of a soldier with a plumed hat and staff driving two goats forward on tan paper.

Two soldiers drive two goats before them

Watercolor sketch of four men in white military coats with red collars standing in snow.

Study of Four Men in Military Uniforms

Friedrich Carl von Scheidlin

Abstract painting by Kandinsky with bold red, pink, green and blue shapes outlined in black, suggesting a landscape.

Study for Improvisation V

Wassily Kandinsky, 1910

Pen and wash drawing of a ruined stone arch with scattered walls on a flat landscape, with the sea on the horizon.

Solomon's Chapel. Bornholm

Vilhelm Kyhn, 1843