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Drawings & Sketches

79,656 works

Pen and ink drawing of a horse-drawn chariot approaching an arched temple portal beneath trees and a winged figure.

Char guidé par des chevaux avançant devant un portail de temple

Arthur-Joseph Gueniot

Line sketch of a camel with a seated rider, a spear-holding man behind him, and a standing man with a staff at left.

Un dromadaire et trois hommes

Arthur-Joseph Gueniot

Pencil study of a man in a cap and apron, gripping a ledge with both hands, drawn with loose hatched shading.

Etude d'homme pour un des panneaux de l'école de pharmacie

Albert Besnard, 1883

Pencil sketch of a man seen from behind with one hand on his head, plus a faint second study of a head and arm at left.

Etude d'homme pour l'école de pharmacie

Albert Besnard, 1883

Pencil sketch of a reclining female nude with crossed legs and an outstretched arm, handwritten inscription lower right.

Etude de femme et fragment

Albert Besnard, 1905

Charcoal sketch of an allegorical scene with a seated throned figure and draped women kneeling in an arched interior.

Composition allégorique : exposition universelle de 1900

Albert Besnard, 1900

Graphite sketch of a leaning male nude with an outstretched arm and studies of a leg and foot.

Etude d'homme pour le plafond des Sciences de l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris, n°48

Albert Besnard, 1906

Pencil sketch of a hilltop building with arched windows and a terrace above dense trees, with a small figure on a path.

Paysage d'Italie

Pen sketch of two framed scenes of women beside a masthead reading Revue Paris-Rome, with loose figure studies.

Double croquis pour la revue "Paris-Rome"

Albert Besnard, 1918

Pencil sheet with several loose sketches of male heads and a partial figure study, drawn on aged paper.

Etude pour la coupole Dutuit, Petit Palais : Les grands hommes du XVIIe siècle : François Mansart et Claude Perrault…

Maurice Denis, 1925

Watercolor sketch of a crowded park slope with seated figures, a baby carriage, trees and a blue fence under a warm sky.

Jeudi porte de Clichy

Pencil sketch on tan paper of mythological figures including a winged helmeted figure, nude women, and a horse.

La beauté antique et le mysticisme chrétien

Albert Besnard, 1906

Sepia drawing of a rural family with a man carrying a child, a seated mother with an infant, an ox, and elderly figures.

La Famille, d'après Moreau de Tours

Louis Boutelié

Brown chalk drawing of a woman gesturing amid marching warriors, children clinging to her, and a soldier embracing a child.

La Patrie, d'après Moreau de Tours

Louis Boutelié

Unfinished oil sketch of a church interior with a green altar framed by a large arch and warm ochre vaulting.

Intérieur d'église (Assise ?)

Arthur-Joseph Gueniot

Grey wash drawing of soldiers in a smoky ruined street, one wounded man held up by a comrade beside a tattered flag.

La mort du capitaine Franchetti en 1870

Emile Antoine Bayard, 1871

Watercolor of a striding tiger beside a pencil sketch of a bison over a squared grid.

Etude d'un tigre et d'un bison (recto) / Etude de cerfs (verso)

Antoine-Louis Barye

Charcoal drawing of a standing female nude with one arm raised to her head, seen frontally on a pale paper ground.

Le modèle Renée Danjou (Nu en pied)

Arthur-Joseph Gueniot, 1896

Charcoal drawing of a standing nude male model leaning on a tall board, with dark smudged shading behind him.

Tabardet, modèle d'atelier (recto) ; étude de Vierge, de trois-quart vers la gauche (verso). Modèle de l'atelier G. M…

Arthur-Joseph Gueniot, 1895

Pencil sketch of a seated woman with long hair resting her head on her hand beside a tree, with two small study figures below

Etude pour "Feuilles d'Automne" : Portrait de Marguerite (soeur de l'artiste)

Arthur-Joseph Gueniot, 1899

Pencil drawing of a hunter in a wide hat and long coat, rifle on shoulder, walking a path with trees behind him.

Chasseur sur un chemin. Henri Trenit, oncle de Guéniot

Arthur-Joseph Gueniot

Loose charcoal and red chalk drawing of a reclining nude woman with diagonal legs and soft grey shading behind her.

Liggende naakte vrouw

Leo Gestel, 1891

Red chalk drawing of an elderly woman in a headscarf with heavy-lidded eyes, her shoulders and shawl loosely sketched.

Old Woman Sleeping

Nicolaes Maes, 1653

Pencil sketch of two seated nude figures in angular outline on tan paper.

Zwei sitzende Akte (erotische Szene)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1910

Ink sketch of two nude women, one standing with arms raised and one seated, drawn in loose black brush strokes on cream paper

Stehender weiblicher Akt mit gespreizten Beinen

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1910

Charcoal sketch of a nude woman seen from behind, one leg raised and supported, signed Kollwitz.

Weiblicher Akt mit aufgestütztem rechtem Bein

Käthe Kollwitz, 1910

Loose ink and crayon sketch of a river landscape with colorful houses, a footbridge and a blue sky.

Flusslandschaft mit Häusern und Fußgängerbrücke

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1910

Loose pencil sketch of two dancing figures in quick angular strokes on pale paper, a movement study.

Zwei tanzende Frauen (Bewegungsstudie)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1910

Pencil studies of a woman with a scythe, three figures with bowed heads on tan paper, crossed by a red line.

Beim Dengeln (Drei Studien zu einer Frau mit Sense)

Käthe Kollwitz, 1905

Charcoal sketch of seated men and women in hats and dresses conversing in a loose group, with heavy hatched shading.

Männer und Frauen in einer Gesprächsrunde sitzend

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1910

Pencil sketch of a mother holding a child, crossed out with grey hatching and red diagonal strokes.

Mutter mit Kind auf dem Arm (Verworfene, durchkreuzte Skizze)

Käthe Kollwitz, 1931

Pencil sketch of a synagogue dome with a lantern top and a Star of David in an arched niche below.

Kuppel der Frankfurter Synagoge (Studie zum Gemälde „Die Synagoge in Frankfurt am Main“, 1919)

Max Beckmann, 1919