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Drawings & Sketches

76,622 works

Pen and ink sketch of mourners gathered around a bed while an angel descends with outstretched wings from the upper right.

The Death of the Holy Virgin

James Ensor, 1885

Seated woman in a white bonnet holds a toddler while another child holds grapes beside a flower vase, in a pen and wash drawi

Mother with Two Children

Henri Chevaux, 1788

Pencil portrait study of an elderly bearded man in a fur hat smoking a pipe, drawn on tan paper.

Portrait study of Niels Gaihede (1816-1890)

Michael Ancher, 1880

Monochrome wash drawing of a leafy landscape with cypress trees and a circular inset showing a stone inscription marker.

Battle Pass, Prospect Park, Site of the Battle of Long Island

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

(Bedouin Studies)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pen drawing of a château in a landscape with riders on horseback in the foreground and birds flying above.

View of Falkenlust Castle from the Northwest

Pen and grey wash drawing of a large tree beside a small hut and riverside landing stage with figures.

The ferry landing stage at the Schaumaintor in Sachsenhausen

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1842

Pen sketch of a sailing ship with a large rudder and wave lines, with Polish handwritten notes and arrows below.

Sketch of a ship for the drama

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1903

Pencil sketch of four men in caps and long coats standing together, one stooping in the center, on a grey sheet.

Soldiers

Brown and white drawing of robed men, a wreathed figure with a staff, and a feast under grape vines beneath an inscribed pane

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Frontispiece

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Charcoal drawing of a screaming man with a hand raised to his head, with a French dedication in the lower right corner.

Head of Man Expressive of Horror

Victor Joseph Ségoffin, 1910

Pen sketch of a harnessed horse and cart in a busy marketplace with crowds of people behind.

Cart foals in a marketplace in Hungarian Szolnok

August von Pettenkofen

Pen drawing of an interior architectural elevation with a curved staircase, Corinthian columns, a niche, and a domed ceiling

The Royal Palace in Stockholm; Interior Elevation of the South Archway (Facing the Hall of State)

Carl Hårleman, 1730

Pen and brown wash drawing of a winged figure in billowing drapery flying through clouds with cherubs above.

Angels in the Sky

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, before 1762

Grey pencil drawing of a riverside town with an arched stone bridge, washerwomen, and a Gothic church on a hill.

Small town with castle, situated on a river

Carl Morgenstern

Pencil sketch of a geyser basin with a steam plume, rocky mounds, and distant hills on a pale sheet.

Lioness and Cubs, Upper Geyser Basin

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil sketch of a two-masted sailing ship on choppy sea under a pale sky, with handwritten 'malta - in sight' lower right.

Malta (Ship)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Pencil and ink sketch of a crouching nude, a standing man, and a seated woman with a top-hatted man.

The small spring and other figures

James Ensor, 1880

Pen and ink architectural elevation of an arched doorway with ornate cartouche, lattice panel and scale bar.

Proposal for a harbour

Pen and ink drawing of a mascaron mask framed by scrolling foliage and hatched shading on pale paper.

Mascaron. Drawing of a Renaissance decorative frieze

Stanisław Wyspiański

Watercolor of a sea bay with tall rocks, sailboats, fishermen in rowboats and figures with a basket in the foreground.

Sea bay with large rocks left and fishermen

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1769

Pen and ink plan of a formal garden with a circular fountain, hedged quarters, and an ornamental scrollwork parterre.

Plan of part of garden with parterre embroidery and fountain

Ink drawing of a street with a trolley car, a large house among trees, a utility pole, and a swirling sky.

Untitled (#14)

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Pencil sketch of a woman in a veiled headdress and belted robe, with smaller studies of a cap and bodice, captioned Costume o

Costume of Nazareth, Israel

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pastel portrait of a bearded man with long red hair and blue eyes, signed and dated 1897.

Head of a Jew

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1897

Brown wash drawing of a poor farmhouse by water with laundry on a line, tall trees at left and two walking figures.

Poor farmhouse on a body of water, with laundry hung out

Jean-Baptiste Pillement

Charcoal sketch of a mounted cavalryman in a kepi cap riding a horse in motion, drawn with loose hatched lines.

Cavalryman of the light artillery

Brown drawing of a man and woman with a donkey beside a cottage and a large tree in a rural landscape.

Before a house under a large tree a man and a woman with a donkey

Jean-Baptiste Pillement

Pencil sketch of tall turreted rock spires and a sloping canyon ridge, Yellowstone Canyon, by Thomas Moran.

Turreted Peaks in Yellowstone Canyon

Thomas Moran, 1890

Ink and wash drawing of two standing female nudes in an interior beside a window and curtain.

Two Standing Female Nudes

Pencil and ink anatomical sketches of neck and torso muscles on a sketchbook page with handwritten Polish labels.

Sketches of muscles, including neck and abdomen. Sketchbook page with a copy from an anatomical atlas

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1884

Pen and wash elevation of a paneled library wall with glazed doors, a central fireplace and green-framed mirror, pink arched

Draft for Lovisa Ulrikaʼs First Library at Drottningholm Palace

Carl Hårleman, 1744