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Drawings & Sketches

76,622 works

Oval painted portrait of two bearded men in feathered hats and white ruff collars, on a warm ochre ground.

Portrait of Princes Maurits (1567-1625) and Frederik Hendrik (1584-1647)

Adriaen van de Venne, 1615

Pen and brown wash drawing of the Adoration of the Kings, with a seated Madonna and Child surrounded by kneeling and standing

Adoration of the kings

Gaspare Diziani

Watercolor drawing of a slender pipefish with a long snout curving across a pale background, framed by a thin border.

Zeenaald (Syngnatus Acus)

Pieter Withoos, 1664

Watercolour interior of an 18th-century room with men smoking and a woman in a long gown by a fireplace.

Niemand sprak er (Nemo Loquebatur)

Abraham Delfos, 1741

Pencil sketch of a coffee house interior with arched columns, low platforms, and a standing man in a turban.

Caffee at Kineh

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil drawing of beached sailing boats on a muddy Thames shore with distant buildings under a cloudy sky.

Shipping on the Thames

John Constable, 1818

Grey wash and pencil sketch of a reclining male nude and a male figure seen from behind on cream paper.

Reclining male nude and male back nude

Gaspare Diziani

Drawing of three women in a Dutch interior, one pouring wine, with a wall map and landscape painting behind them.

Vertrouwelijk onderhoud

Abraham Delfos, 1776

Drawing of a man cleaning fish at a table while two children and a cat stand in a wooden interior.

Interior with man cleaning fish and two children

Abraham Delfos, 1741

Two women in a domestic interior, one bloodletting the other's arm into a basin beside a candle and birdcage.

The bloodletting

Abraham Delfos, 1776

Pencil sketch of an arid landscape with a rocky outcrop, a dark well opening, shrubs, and distant mountains.

Bier il Muhra "Well of Bitter Water"

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sheet of loose figure studies for The Odyssey, with a nude figure beside a tree and groups of sketched figures.

Sheet of Figure Studies for The Odyssey

John Flaxman Jr.

Black chalk drawing on blue paper of a nude male figure seen from behind, arm raised, seated in a twisting pose.

Nude Figure (academic study)

Unknown artist, 17th century

Pencil sketch of three seated men in hats bent over an instrument, with faint handwriting in the background.

Tuning

William Sidney Mount, 1822-68

Pen and wash drawing of two allegorical women with spears and putti floating among clouds.

Two allegorical female figures with putti on clouds (Virtù and Nobilità)

Gaspare Diziani

Colored pencil sketch of figures in costume, some carrying a pole and banner, on cream paper.

The penitential procession of Veurne

James Ensor, 1932

Pencil and colored sketch of an elephant-topped fountain with an obelisk in a city square lined with buildings.

Catania

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pen and brown ink sketches of a curly-haired man, a classical bust, and a seated nude figure with a French caption.

Drawings of modern works

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1887

Pen and brown wash drawing of a dying bishop attended by clergy and mourners, with an angel descending from the clouds above.

Death of a bishop

Gaspare Diziani

Pencil drawing of three tall lampstands with finials, two with twisted shafts and tripod or round bases, signed lower right.

Study of Three Lampstands

John Flaxman Jr.

Pencil sketch of a mountain ridge and rolling hills with a standing robed figure in the foreground.

Sea of Tiberiasfrom Hot Baths

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketches on translucent paper of camels, robed Bedouin figures, seated men and a vessel.

Bedoins

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Brown ink drawing of nude men and kneeling figures in a flood scene, with a boat, cherubs and a tree in the background.

The Deluge, from the Loggia of the Vatican

Pencil landscape drawing of rolling fields, a flat-topped hill, sheep grazing and shepherds under a cloudy sky.

Old Sarum at Noon

John Constable, 1829

Watercolor and pencil drawing of a ruined columned temple with fallen stones and a wooden cart in the foreground.

Temple of Jupiter, Azani, Phrygia

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Brown-toned chalk drawing of a wooded landscape with a classical temple ruin and small figures in the foreground.

The Gods of Greece

Arnold Böcklin, 1859

Charcoal drawing of a winding road past large trees and rolling hills, with two small figures in the distance.

Wooded Slope with a Receding Road

Brown ink and wash drawing of robed figures gathered before a classical arched interior with columns and a kneeling figure.

Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery

Unknown artist, 16th century

Pencil and watercolor sketch of two striding men, one in a top hat and suit, the other in a dark coat with a cane.

Two striding male figures

Pencil sketch of a pyramid-shaped mound on a flat horizon with trees, a small boat, and water below.

Pyramid

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Coloured crayon design of a grapevine with green leaves, red stems, tendrils and grape clusters on a pale sheet.

Vine. Design for the polychrome of the Franciscan church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Red chalk drawing of two nude male figures in dynamic poses, with modeled muscles and soft hatched shading.

Two Nudes

Unknown artist, 17th century