New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome and Firefox. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome Add to Firefox

Drawings & Sketches

76,622 works

Studies of Rows of Spectators

Pencil sketch of a chapel with bell tower, wayside shrines, bare trees and a barn over plowed fields.

"Evening Peace" (Pencil sketch)

Karl Wiener, 1935

Charcoal sketch of a woman in a headscarf leaning toward a seated man at a table, with a dark hatched background.

Maternal advice

Pen and grey wash drawing of a village with cattle drinking at a pond, a rider on horseback, and a thatched cottage.

Month picture September, top center the sign of Libra

Matthäus Merian, 1622

Ink and wash drawing of a colonnaded vestibule with vaulted ceilings, a horseman, courtiers and armed guards.

Somerset House, the Strand Vestibule

Louis Jean Desprez

Charcoal drawing of an elderly woman in a white bonnet and large white collar against a dark hatched background.

Regentesses of the Old Men's House in Haarlem. A figure

James Ensor, 1880

Pencil sketch of stone ruins with a basin-topped pedestal and a large block with a rectangular window opening.

Ruins, Krindi, Malta

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pen and wash drawing of a village harvest with a man on a ladder picking fruit from a tree and figures working near thatched

Seasons picture autumn

Matthäus Merian, 1622

Grey wash drawing of a woman with a fan and bonnet facing a servant in a white headscarf with scissors at her waist.

A Roman Lady with a Duenna

John Brown, 1775

Charcoal drawing of a crowd filling Piccadilly Circus at night, with bunting-draped buildings and parked cars.

Piccadilly Circus, Eve of the Coronation of George VI

Muirhead Bone, 1937

Painting of poor villagers waiting in line for alms as a priest with a bread basket walks past a stone building.

Alms (Study for the Picture Poor)

Jozef Hanula, 1894

Pencil sketch of a man in a long coat holding a book beside a tree with a cupid, birds and a shrub.

Man with glasses walking in sunshine, Cupid above him

Brown ink and wash sketch of a reclining nude female figure with an arm raised, set against loose washed trees.

Reclining Nude

Horizontal sketchbook-style painting with portraits, a landscape, a classical pediment, dancers and handwritten text on a pal

Peacock (Sketches by the Artists of the Young Poland from the Café

Józef Mehoffer, 1896

Grey wash drawing of a tired woman seated by children in a plain room, a man in the doorway behind a lamp-lit table.

Domestic scene (Pestalozzi's Lienhard and Gertrud)

Franz Pforr, 1810

Sepia drawing of a farmhouse family at breakfast, a mother nursing a baby, a girl with a plate, a cow and cat.

Breakfast on the farm

Marie Élisabeth Delatour-Simons

Watercolor of a black and white pointer dog walking across a grassy field with rolling hills and trees behind it.

The Spanish Pointer

John Buckler, 1799

Painting of a gnarled leafy tree with a twisted trunk, a tree stump in a grassy meadow, and a cloudy sky.

Study of a Leafy Tree

Jozef Božetech Klemens, 1860

Sepia drawing of the bronze Minute Man statue with musket and plow on a stone pedestal, trees and water at right.

The Minute Man Monument

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a woman beside roses and ivy, with calligraphic verse and a carved horse relief below.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Blowing Rose

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Half-figure of a young woman sitting in profile to the right, reading a book

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1635

Ink drawing of rolling hills, a factory chimney, a striding figure under a sun, and three portrait heads in the foreground.

Evening romance

Karl Wiener, 1938

Grey wash drawing of several men leaning over a table with a map and globe, one pointing at the chart.

The Geographers

Pen and red chalk drawing of a bearded figure with radiating halo, a standing figure on a cloud, and angels.

The Holy Trinity and the Fall of Man

Agostino Masucci, 1701

Brown ink and red chalk drawing of Christ rising above angels while soldiers react below beside a tomb.

The Resurrection of Christ

Giacinto Calandrucci, 1656

Grey wash drawing of a hall with arched windows, a central stove and chandelier, and figures seated at a table.

The hall in the Kloveniersdoelen in Dordrecht where the National Synod was held in the years 1618-1619, 1836

Johannes Rutten, 1836

Pencil and white chalk drawing of a man in a long coat with a walking stick and bundle, standing on grey paper.

Ferdinand Huyck returns from abroad. Illustration for the book of the same name by Jacob van Lennep

David Bles, 1887

Pencil sketch on tan paper of a draped figure seen from behind, with an outstretched arm and an ornate tassel at the hip.

Foolish Virgin. Copy after a 15th-century engraving by Martin Schongauer

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1890

Grey-wash satirical drawing of a gallows with a banner of names, a hanged figure, and onlookers by a river.

Satirical print of the 24 judges who condemned Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, 1619

Jan Stolker, 1734

George Manuel Moro, Greek Pilot

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Charcoal sketch of an old stone street with a tower, an archway, and small figures walking near the entrance.

Untitled - Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Ink and wash drawing of a helmeted soldier supporting a dying, long-haired man who lies sprawled on the ground.

A soldier supports a dying man

Nicolas Poussin