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Drawings & Sketches

76,603 works

Pencil and watercolour sketch of a seated peasant woman in traditional dress with several head studies around her.

Talonpoikaisnainen Kronoborgista, kaksi figuuriharjoitelmaa ja neljä päätä

Robert Wilhelm Ekman

Painting of crumbling stone ruins with arched openings framing a green valley, with birds flying above under a pale sky.

The Ruins of Brahehus near Jönköping, Sweden. Study

Frederik Sødring

Pen and ink sketch of a lion with a shaggy mane, head lowered, drawn with loose hatched strokes on pale paper.

Lion and turtle

James Ensor, 1885

Pencil sketch of the Excelsior Geyser formation with terraced rock ledges and distant ridges on cream paper.

Excelsior Geyser, Yellowstone Park

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil landscape drawing of ruined arches and a broken masonry structure on a wide plain under cloudy skies, with hills on th

View of the Alban Hills

Oil portrait of a young woman with long auburn hair and a dark dress, gazing downward against a brown background.

Study of a Head

Edvard Munch, 1883

Loose oil study of white cumulus clouds against a blue and grey sky with dark storm clouds at upper left.

Cloud Study

Lionel Bicknell Constable, 1849

Watercolor landscape of a river flowing through a misty mountain valley with a wooden hut on the right bank.

Landscape

Robert Wilhelm Ekman

Portrait of Sir Frederick W. Burton, Director of the National Gallery, London

Alphonse Legros, 1881

Pen drawing of brick Roman ruins and an arch beside a dirt road, with a rider on horseback and trees under a cloudy sky.

Dolabella's arch

Ludwig Metz, 1861

Pale watercolor of Jerusalem's walled city and golden-domed mosque seen across a hazy valley with an olive tree.

Jerusalem

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of a distant mountain ridge over limestone blocks and a lone pine in the foreground.

Big Horn, Tongue River

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a standing boy in a peaked cap and pink waistcoat, holding a long walking stick.

Seisova poika karttu vasemmassa kädessä

Robert Wilhelm Ekman

Pen drawing of a wooded landscape with an overhanging tree, rocky path, distant hills and a small building on the right.

Andechs on the Ammersee

Pen and ink drawing of two grotesque male profiles facing each other, one in a tall cap, the other in a hat.

Two Grotesque Heads

Francesco Melzi, 1510

Decorative lunette study with two kneeling miners flanking a medallion of Diego Velasquez and the word Mining.

Mining (study for lunette, Old Senate Office Building)

Louis Schaettle, 1910

Pencil and watercolor study of a standing woman seen from behind, in a red headscarf and grey dress with red ribbon.

Selin seisova moralaisnainen

Robert Wilhelm Ekman

Pen drawing of a valley landscape with a large tree, shrubs, a grazing animal, and rolling hills under cloudy sky.

In the Würm valley near Munich

Pen and brown wash drawing of Moses holding stone tablets before a crowd of bearded men in a mountain landscape.

Moses Delivering God's Commandments to the Israelites

Jan Swart van Groningen

Pencil sketch of stone temple columns and architectural blocks at Thebes, Egypt, with hatched shading.

Temple at Thebes, Egypt

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of a woman holding an infant on a donkey, led by a walking figure, with pyramids and desert landscape behind.

Flight into Egypt (figure study)

William Page, 1850

Pen drawing of Moses striking a rock as water gushes out while people kneel and gather it in jugs beneath a figure in clouds.

The Children of Israel are fed and watered in the desert

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1827

Pencil sketch of a canyon with layered cliffs, distant mountains and handwritten color notes across the sky.

Toquerville, S. Utah

Thomas Moran, 1870

Pen and brown ink drawing of a busy forge with blacksmiths at an anvil and a furnace on the right, dated 1548.

Scene in a forge

Jan Verbeeck, 1548

Watercolor sketch of a kitchen table with bread, a knife and a wooden bowl, with a bottle and dishes on a windowsill.

Sisäkuva keittiöstä

Robert Wilhelm Ekman

Loose pencil sketch on tan paper of a draped figure with flowing hair and an outstretched arm.

Sketch for Homer’s Iliad

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1896

Charcoal drawing of a bearded man's severed head on a platter, held by a hand, with a faint halo behind it.

Head of John the Baptist

Léon-Daniel Saubès, 1910

Pen drawing of the Beheading of John the Baptist: an executioner beside a body in a prison, a woman holding a platter.

Beheading of John the Baptist

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1857

Loose painted street scene with a bare tree, a pale building with dark windows, and figures walking on reddish ground.

Study for

Wilhelm Thöny, 1926

Seisova taalalaisnainen sivulta

Robert Wilhelm Ekman

St. Louis pendant la Justice

Alexandre Cabanel, c. 1875

Painting of an ornate Turkish horse bit fragment with hanging pendants on a dark brown background.

Study of a Fragment of the Turkish Horse Bit from the 17th C.

Stanisław Chlebowski