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Drawings & Sketches

76,768 works

Pencil sketch of a woman in a draped shawl and long skirt, holding a small flower, on torn cream paper.

Untitled (Flower Girl)

Howard Russell Butler

Pastel drawing of an elderly woman in a pale headscarf, her face worked in soft ochre and grey tones on brown paper.

Near the End

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pencil sketch of figures struggling with a large animal, one arm raised upward, on grey paper.

Tiger hunt

Colored pencil costume sketch of a crowned queen in embroidered robes holding the hand of a young boy in tunic.

Queen's wife and son. Costume design for the play

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1904

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a woman kneeling beside two small children on the floor, with stacked chairs behind.

Woman with two sick or starving children

Hans Peter Lindeburg, 1902

Pencil drawing of robed figures, riders and a camel on a rocky path, with a man pointing toward a distant hilly landscape.

Queen of Sheba before Solomon (?)

Zacharias Blyhooft, 1667

Red chalk drawing of a seated nude figure beside a draped ornate pedestal, with a cloth falling across the stand.

Seated nude woman at her toilet

Jan van Neck, 1644

Red chalk portrait of a young man in a flying helmet, goggles on his forehead and fur-collared jacket.

Edmond Charles Clinton Genet

John Elliott, 1920

Loose blue and yellow crayon sketch of several bent male figures beneath a dark brown band of light across the top.

Men in Lightstream

Edvard Munch, 1909

Chalk drawing of two winged putti embracing and flying diagonally upward on grey-green paper.

Two flying putti

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1798

Black chalk and white highlight studies of a seated and a standing man on blue-grey paper.

Two studies of Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck and a sketch of his wife

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1798

Watercolor design of Neptune with trident bending toward a nude woman by rocky cliffs, with blue border and Dutch inscription

Design for a wallpaper painting with Neptune and Coronis

Rienk Keyert, 1751

Watercolor drawing of a crowned king kneeling in prayer before an altar with smoke, with bearded men behind him in a columned

King Solomon in prayer to God (1 Kings, vs. 8)

Rienk Keyert, 1719

Watercolor of a richly dressed man standing beside a barefoot woman and seated figures beneath a tree in a woodland setting.

Design for a wall hanging or painting with the Spanish heathen girl Preciosa and Don Juan

Rienk Keyert, 1719

Watercolor of Neptune driving sea horses over waves while Venus, with Cupid and swans, appears in the clouds above.

Venus requests Neptune to prevent Telemachus from landing on Ithaca

Rienk Keyert, 1719

Charcoal sketch of a hooded, robed figure bowing its head with one hand raised to the face in grief.

Study of a robed figure, crying, for The Quest of the Holy Grail mural series at Boston Public Library

Edwin Austin Abbey

Ink sketch of a man in robes carrying a large bundle of branches on his back, sandals visible, on pale paper.

The Faggot Bearer

Kôno Bairei, c. 1880-95

Watercolor drawing of an older man in a red cloak flying above a younger man falling from a cliff into the sea.

Mentor throws Telemachus from a rock and jumps after him

Rienk Keyert, 1719

Watercolor of Athena descending on a cloud toward a kneeling man in a blue cloak on a shore, with Dutch text below.

Mentor says goodbye to Telemachus

Rienk Keyert, 1719

Pencil and colored design for a photography studio price list, showing a woman with a mirror and a sunrise landscape.

Design for a price list of a photographic studio

Ernst Maximilian Büttinghausen, 1893

Pastel portrait of a man in a green flat cap and dark coat, smoking a cigarette, on a brown paper ground.

Jimmy Davis

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Ink and wash drawing of a church spire rising above village cottages, with a large tree on the right and a cart on a path.

Village Scene

Désiré-Lucas, 1910

Two pencil and watercolor studies of women in folk dress, one holding a woven basket and the other a jug.

Study of two women with a jug and a basket

Karol Ľudovít Libay, 1839

Pencil sketch of a standing woman in a long dress with a sash, with a faint second figure beside her.

Two Women under a Tree

Edvard Munch, 1925

Five Figures

Charles Demuth, 1909

Pencil sketch of a steep forested mountain above a valley with farm buildings and trees, titled The Dürrenstein near Alt-Prag

The Dürrenstein, near Alt-Prags, Tyrol

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Pencil sketch of a round columned temple framed by tall cypress and pine trees and dense foliage.

Temple of the Sibyl, Tivoli

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Red chalk sketch of a balding man in a dark jacket and high collar, looking directly at the viewer.

Fantasia

Colored pencil arabesque ornament on tan paper, green scrolls above and red-brown roots below, linked by bead chains.

Arabesque. Copy of an ornament from the polychrome of the presbytery vault of the Church of the Holy Cross in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1896

Pen and ink study of two women in long dresses, one holding a tambourine and one dancing with her skirt lifted.

Drawn Study for Roman Woman Dancing

Wilhelm Marstrand, 1838

Pencil sketch of gnarled bare trees, a tall cypress, shrubs and rocks on a pale paper background.

Landscape

Solon H. Borglum, 1920

Pastel study of a young woman with long flowing red hair and a pale white garment against a dark background.

Study for the Head of Ophelia, in The Play Scene, in Hamlet

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1897