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Drawings & Sketches

76,581 works

Pastoral drawing in grey chalk showing shepherd women, a man and sheep resting by a well and tree.

Jacob and Rachel at the Well

Charles-Joseph Natoire, 1732

Pencil sketch of crumbling Roman ruins with arches, overgrown shrubs, and a stand of tall cypress trees.

Roman Ruins with a Stand of Cypresses

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1744

Masquerade ball at the Monnaie

Pen and chalk drawing on blue paper of Bacchus and Ariadne reclining under a tree with cherubs bringing grapes.

Bacchus and Ariadne

Charles-Joseph Natoire, 1742

Chalk study on brown paper of a woman with windblown hair and billowing drapery, by Edward Burne-Jones, 1866.

Winter - Study of Flying Drapery

Edward Burne-Jones, 1866

Charcoal study of a woman's bowed head with a hand at her brow and long flowing hair, on tinted paper.

Parisina's Sleep - Study for Head of Parisina

Ford Madox Brown, 1842

Watercolor drawing of three young women resting among classical ruins with an obelisk and broken stone fragments under a blue

Three Young Girls by Ruins

Hubert Robert, ca. 1790

Sketch of a rocky coastline with a red building and chimney above blue water, in muted greens and browns.

Entering Bergen

Muirhead Bone, c. 1896-1953

Woman's head

Blue-toned drawing of a kneeling woman tending a wounded armored knight, with a helmeted companion and a horse nearby.

Herminia with the wounded Tancred

Charles-Joseph Natoire, 1755

Pencil drawing of steep-roofed wooden houses beside a stone arched bridge over water, signed and dated 1880.

Landscape with wooden houses and a stone bridge

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1880

Drawing of a standing female nude with white chalk highlights on brown paper, flanked by faint studies of other figures.

Female Nude - Three Studies, possibly for Venus

Edward Burne-Jones, 1865

Watercolor of a ruined temple colonnade with a seated Jupiter statue and small figures gesturing toward it, in a circular fra

Architectural Capriccio: Interior of a temple ruin with a statue of Jupiter tonans and figures

Victor-Jean Nicolle

Brown ink drawing of a tomb effigy with a reclining figure, two greyhounds in front, and Gothic arched panels below.

The Tomb of Tristram and Iseult

Edward Burne-Jones, 1862

Circular watercolor of a ruined classical temple with Corinthian columns and small figures resting among stones.

Architectural Capriccio: Temple ruin and figures

Victor-Jean Nicolle

Graphite drawing of a seated, bowed figure with clasped hands and heavy draped cloth, resting on a block.

The Lament - Study for the Figure on the Right

Edward Burne-Jones, 1865

Pencil and crayon drawing of a seaside bench with seated figures beneath a grotesque sun face and clouds.

Plague here, Plague there, Plague everywhere

James Ensor, 1888

Watercolor of a ruined circular temple with Corinthian columns, figures by a pool, and a distant column with statue.

Architectural Capriccio: Ruins of a circular temple, in the background Trajan's Column

Victor-Jean Nicolle

Watercolor of a ruined classical temple with Corinthian columns, seated figures, and a distant town beside a sea bay.

Architectural Capriccio: Ruins of a temple facade, in the background landscape with buildings and sea bay

Victor-Jean Nicolle

Torn tracing paper with a stylized plant motif of a central stem and tapering leaves in dark line drawing.

Stylized plant motif (stem with leaves). Design for painted decoration of the Franciscan church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

My dead mother II

James Ensor, 1915

Brown ink drawing of a man leaning toward a woman with downcast eyes, their hands clasped together in an intimate embrace.

Two Lovers

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1850

Oil painting of an elderly woman in a dark headscarf, turned to the left, against a dark background with red accents.

Study Head (Old Woman)

Pencil and watercolor drawing of Theseus peering around a labyrinth wall at the horned head of the Minotaur.

Tile Design - Theseus and the Minotaur in the Labyrinth

Edward Burne-Jones, 1861

Pencil sketch of a stone staircase and scaffolding with loosely drawn figures gathered in the lower half of the page.

Spiral staircase and figures

Circular brown ink drawing of a large tree, a stone building, and shepherds with a flock in a hilly landscape.

Group of trees with buildings, on the left two shepherds with their flock

Gabriel Pérelle

Brown ink drawing of a battle with armored soldiers and a robed figure kneeling in prayer beneath the sun and moon.

The Battle of Beth-Horon - Joshua Commanding the Sun and Moon to Stand Still

Edward Burne-Jones, 1863

Grey wash drawing of a knight on a bier attacked by cloaked ghosts with swords in a moonlit graveyard.

Graveyard scene (knight on a bier, ghosts attack him)

Ferdinand Fellner, 1817

Pencil drawing of a winged female figure with a staff and draped robe, with a small Madonna and child in the upper corner.

The Tiburtine Sibyl

Edward Burne-Jones, 1875

Watercolor of a male black grouse with blue-black plumage and a female crouching among ferns and grass.

English Black Cocks

John James Audubon, 1828

Two heads and a hand

Robert Nanteuil

Pencil drawing of a woman in a flowing gown touching a stone wall beside a scroll of handwritten verse and wildflowers.

Edward Burne-Jones - Pyramus and Thisbe - Thisbe - Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Edward Robert Hughes, 1864