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Drawings & Sketches

79,606 works

Brown wash drawing of Christ and disciples at a long table with food, a winged angel at right, and sketched architecture behi

Die Speisung Christi in der Wüste

Ludovico Carracci

Pen and ink drawing of a woman seated on steps, head resting on her hand, with draped garments and hatched shading.

Eine auf einer Treppe sitzende Frau

Ludovico Carracci

Painting of a crowded Paris square with a monument, carriages, pedestrians and lamp posts on a wet street.

Place de la République

Eugène Galien-Laloue, 1900

Pen and watercolor drawing of a stone tower with conical roofs, a crenellated turret, scaffolding ladders and a tree.

Abbaye Saint-Victor, 1839

Alfred Bonnardot, 1839

Dame mit Hut als Spiegelbild

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1911

Pencil sketch of a reclining female nude with arm raised behind her head, drawn with loose contour lines.

Liegender weiblicher Akt im Atelier von Erich Heckel

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1911

Pen and ink drawing of a muscular male nude seen from behind, with curly hair and hatched shading on the back.

Männlicher Rückenakt, Torso

Domenico Campagnola, 1520

Brown ink drawing of a kneeling bearded man before a standing woman in a colonnade, with attendants and a city view.

The Return of Ulysses (?)

Luca Penni, 1545

Drawing of four evangelists seated on clouds adoring a radiant host, with cherubs above, in brown ink and grey wash.

Die Verehrung der Hostie durch die vier Evangelisten

Giovanni Lanfranco

Brown wash drawing of the Madonna and Child enthroned among clouds and angels, with two saints in the foreground.

Maria auf dem Throne, dabei der Heilige Paulus und der Heilige Matthäus mit dem Engel

Giovanni Battista Gaulli

Pen and brown wash drawing of a seated king judging two women as a soldier raises a sword over an infant.

Solomon's verdict

Giovanni da San Giovanni

Engraved drawing of an ornate two-handled urn with oak leaf reliefs, Greek key band, and fluted foot, 1785.

A vase

Antonio Isopi, 1785

Selbstporträt des Künstlers

Pen and brown wash drawing of the Madonna holding an infant with two angels at left, on a pale sheet.

Madonna von zwei Engeln angebetet, Kniestück

Ubaldo Gandolfi

Pen and grey wash drawing of a mounted commander receiving keys from kneeling figures before soldiers and an arcade.

Feldherr zu Pferde empfängt die Schlüssel einer Stadt

Red chalk drawing of the Annunciation with an angel holding a lily and a kneeling Virgin among floating cherubs.

The Annunciation

Giovanni Maria Morandi

Pen and brown ink drawing of a bearded apostle carried by angels in a triangular architectural spandrel.

Von Engeln getragener Apostel in einem Bogenzwickel

Giovanni Lanfranco

Graphite drawing of a guardian angel holding a child while a fallen man lies below, with clouds and rays of light.

Ein Schutzengel hält ein Kind in seinen Armen, zu seinen Füßen ein gestürzter Mann

Pen and brown ink drawing of a seated figure crowned with thorns as three men press a rod onto his head.

Coronation of thorns

Giovanni Battista Paggi

Pen and brown ink drawing of a saint crowned with flowers by Mary, receiving the Host from Christ, surrounded by angels.

Eine Heilige wird von Maria mit Blumen gekrönt und bekommt von Christus die Hostie, eine Engelschar umgibt die Gruppe

Agostino Masucci

Brown wash drawing of two old men, one with a staff and one seated at a desk, among carved antique fragments.

Zwei alte Männer zwischen antiken Fundstücken

Gregorio Pagani

Red chalk drawing of a winged youth held by an eagle, gazing upward with one arm raised.

Ganymed on the eagle