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Drawings & Sketches

75,818 works

Drawing of a lion on a throne with wolves, a fox, hyena and bear, above a panel of Dutch verse in ornamental frames.

Reinaert staat voor koning Nobel

Bernard Willem Wierink, 1866

Black ink line drawing of a horse seen from behind with raised head, flowing tail and loose ground shadow strokes.

Paard

Leo Gestel, 1938

Pauw

Theo van Hoytema, 1873

Charcoal sketch of a river with dark rocky banks, trees and reflections in the water.

Gezicht op een rivier

Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's-Gravesande, 1851

Voorstudie voor de Eerste Bossche Wand: een zittende magistraat, naar rechts

Antoon Derkinderen, 1869

Pencil and watercolour sketch of a standing girl and other children on a beach with cabins and the sea behind them.

Staand meisje en andere kinderen op het strand te Scheveningen

Johan Antoni de Jonge, 1874

Pencil sketch of a sunlit city square with buildings, trees and small pedestrian figures, drawn in loose graphite strokes.

Zonnig stadsplein Fairmont te San Francisco

Willem Witsen, 1870

Monochrome sketch of pickerel weed with arrow-shaped leaves and flower spikes rising among marsh reeds.

Pickerel Weed

Arthur Bowen Davies

Hoofd, in profiel naar links

Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, 1878

Pencil sketch of a pine tree, a flowering dogwood branch, and a sailboat on water.

Pine Tree, Dogwood, and Sailboat

Arthur Bowen Davies

Black silhouette scene of a seated man at a table, a woman pointing, a child, a fire, and a standing servant.

Ontwerp voor illustratie voor In Holland staat een huis: silhouet van de meid die valt

Nelly Bodenheim, 1884

Portret van een onbekende vrouw

August Allebé, 1848

Watercolor page of Ceylon hairstyles and standing figures in white wraps, with Dutch labels, bound in an album.

Haardracht, volkstypen op Ceylon

Jan Brandes, 1785

Charcoal drawing of a path through dark pine trees, with a pale fence and house in the background.

Pine Woods

Arthur Bowen Davies

Loose pastel landscape of blue and green trees on a hill with a distant blue mountain and meadow below.

Spring Landscape

Arthur Bowen Davies

Pastel drawing of a woman with hair in a bun reclining on a colorful cushion while reading a book on grey paper.

Reclining Woman

Arthur Bowen Davies

Monochrome drawing of tall trees and dense foliage in a hazy forest, with bright patches of light and scattered undergrowth.

Red Autumn Trees

Arthur Bowen Davies

Pencil sketch of a bare young tree on a shaded mound with small wildflowers in the foreground.

Spring Beauties

Arthur Bowen Davies

Charcoal drawing of a nude man bending to string a bow, one arm raised and the other pulling the bowstring against his leg.

Stringing the Bow

Arthur Bowen Davies

Pencil sketch of a crucifix under a draped canopy with a seated woman in the lower left corner.

Crucifix, St. Valery

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Charcoal and chalk study of a nude man reclining on grey paper, one arm stretched forward, legs bent beneath.

Study of a Man

Arthur Bowen Davies

Colored pencil sketch of a seated woman in a yellow robe and striped headscarf resting her head on her hand.

Turkish Lady of Constantinople

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

White chalk drawing on gray paper of a nude standing man, head turned slightly, with loose strokes behind him.

Study of a Standing Man

Arthur Bowen Davies

Charcoal and chalk drawing of white surf breaking over dark rocks in choppy grey sea.

Surf on Rocks

Arthur Bowen Davies

Charcoal drawing of three cows grazing in a meadow in front of dark trees under a cloudy sky.

Landscape with Three Cows

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a lake with a bare tree on the left shore, distant hills and pale clouds under a grey sky.

The Lake

Arthur Bowen Davies

Pencil sketch of robed figures on yellowed paper, with a standing figure raising an arm and a seated figure below.

Moses, Aaron and Hur on Mount Horeb (drapery study)

William Page, 1850

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of a dense woodland with tall trees and dappled light on the foliage.

Trees

Arthur Bowen Davies

Pencil sketch of tall columnar basalt cliffs above rocky boulders, with trees along the clifftop, on tan paper.

Cliffs, Grand Manan Island, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Charcoal and chalk landscape drawing of tall trees, a hedgerow, open fields and a cloudy sky.

Trees and Fields

Arthur Bowen Davies

Pencil sketch of rain falling over a landscape with clouds at upper left and a shoreline below.

Deluge over Mt. Desert Island, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Oil sketch of rolling fields and trees under billowing clouds with blue sky breaking through, by Frederic Edwin Church.

View from Long Hill, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860