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Drawings & Sketches

76,768 works

Pastel portrait of a blonde woman with a blue feather boa, bare shoulder, and loose textured strokes on a dark background.

Blonde Girl with Boa

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Pencil sketch on paper of Gothic architectural details including a pinnacle, column niche, medallion and ornamental panels.

Details of decoration of St. Peter’s Cathedral in Regensburg

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1890

Watercolor and pencil sketch of a red-roofed farmhouse with green shutters, flowering shrubs and rolling hills behind it.

Farm near Albi

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Watercolor landscape of cattle grazing in a meadow with a blue sea and hills beyond, a flowering tree at right.

Landscape, Brittany

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Charcoal drawing of a seated female nude with arms raised behind her head, with faint figure sketches at the sides.

Academy model

Pencil and ink sketch of a bearded older man with long wavy hair, with handwritten notes on the page margins.

"Pomniejsze czerepy. Żydy". Przerys z kompozycji Jana Matejki "Smaller heads. Jews". Copy of Jan Matejko's composition

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1882

The Dead Mother

Edvard Munch, 1893

Ink and color drawing of loquat branches with pale yellow fruit and green leaves, with calligraphy and a red seal at upper le

Loquat Tree of Japan

Tsubaki Chinzan, c. 1845-54

Pencil sketch of two figures beside a boat with a raised sail on a shoreline, with wooden posts and open water behind.

Untitled (Two Figures near a Boat)

Howard Russell Butler

Charcoal and chalk drawing of dark rough sea waves with white foam under a cloudy grey sky, lower half blank.

Untitled (Seascape)

Howard Russell Butler

Pencil and blue crayon sketch of a hunched seated man with bowed head and bare feet on yellowed paper.

Seated Male

Edvard Munch, 1909

Portrait of an old bearded man, in profile

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pastel portrait of a dark-haired woman in a yellow shawl against a golden background, with lettering and the date 1900.

Marianne in Yellow

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pencil landscape sketches on tan paper showing trees, hills, water and a bench in several stacked scenes.

Landscape sketches

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1890

Grey wash drawing of a wide-eyed man running with arms outstretched across a sketched ground.

The Young Courier

Honoré Daumier

Loose painted landscape of yellow-leafed trees, an open meadow, and hazy hills under a pale sky.

Sketch for Sun Room of Indianapolis City Hospital

Pencil anatomical sketch of a numbered human rib cage and spine, viewed at an angle, on cream paper.

Anatomy

Solon H. Borglum, 1920

Charcoal sketch of a young girl's head with tousled hair tied with a ribbon, looking directly at the viewer.

Portrait of a girl (unidentified sitter)

Edwin Austin Abbey

Copy of a morion (probably from the Louvre collection)

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1890

Pastel portrait of a woman with short dark hair and a blue draped dress, set against angular gray and green strokes.

Portrait of Maria Choroszewska in a blue dress

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, 1933

Pencil sketch sheet showing a standing woman in a long robe, a bearded man, a lion figure, a laughing face and swirling cloud

Chinoiserie

James Ensor, 1885

Pencil sketch of gnarled olive trees with twisted branches and feathery foliage, drawn near Fiesole in 1900.

Olives--Fiesole

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Pen and ink sketch of a man covering his eyes and three putti, labeled Raphael, after the Villa Farnesina frescoes.

Drawings of Raphael's paintings in the Villa Farnesina in Rome: a man covering his eyes with his hand and three putti

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1887

Anne

George Ault, 1930

Drawing of an ornate double iron gate with columns, circular medallions, and crowning figural groups, in chalk on tan paper.

Geographic Society Grill

Solon H. Borglum, 1910

Pen drawing of two women in a stone interior, one seated holding a veil, the other standing with a book.

Rebecca and Rowena, illustration for Ivanhoe

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1896

Pencil drawing of a harvest field with haystacks, round bales, a farmhouse, trees, and distant hills under a cloudy sky.

Untitled (Harvest Scene)

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pastel and pencil sketch of a breaking wave with white foam, dark green water and a pale pink sky above the horizon.

Untitled (Breaking Wave)

Howard Russell Butler

Pencil sketch on a sketchbook page of a dark sweeping mass with a twisted branch-like form over hatched shading.

Fragment of vase

Watercolor and pencil sketch of architectural interior details with decorative panels, medallions, and an arch.

Sketch of an interior - architectural details

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pastel portrait of a young man with dark hair, one hand raised to his head, against a grey background.

Jose De Charmoy

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Joseph Joffre, Marechal

Henri Jacquier, 1910