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Drawings & Sketches

76,768 works

Charcoal drawing of a young boy in a sweater, head tilted down, shaded softly on pale paper.

Raf with sweater

Grey wash drawing of a classical colonnaded interior with an altar fire and a standing figure at right.

Allegorical representation

Monogrammist WDW, 1700

Grey wash drawing of an allegorical scene with a seated figure on clouds, rays of light, and standing figures beside classica

Allegory of Science (?)

Monogrammist WDW, 1700

Pen and grey wash drawing of a seated judge facing standing soldiers and robed men in an interior with a draped curtain.

Christ before Pilate

Jan Goeree, 1680

Pencil and red chalk drawing of a standing nude woman with a male nude and foliage sketched behind them.

Adam and Eve

Adriaen van der Werff, 1669

Pen and wash drawing of an ornamental title frame with animals, a horseman with hounds, birds and fish around an empty panel.

Title page with animals and horsemen

Stradanus, 1596

Pencil and ink sketch of a bare tree with spreading branches above haystacks in an open field.

Motive for Etching

George Elbert Burr, 1910

Brown wash drawing of a formal garden with terraced steps, conical trees, and figures by a pool.

Saint Cloud--4 Juin 1906

François Flameng, 1900

Painting of a young woman with dark hair, eyes lowered, bare shoulders and a grey shawl against a blue-grey background.

Study of a Woman

Ladislav Treskoň, 1922

Pencil and charcoal sketch of a shaggy dog lying on dark ground, drawn on a page of a small sketchbook.

Drawing of a lying dog

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1870

Pen and wash drawing of a wall decoration with nude female caryatids, a blank central panel, and putti above an arch.

Design for a wall decoration

Cigoli, 1569

Pen and grey wash drawing of a commander clasping a kneeling man's hand beside a woman, with soldiers under a tent canopy.

The magnanimity of Scipio

Philip Tideman, 1667

Pen drawing of a manor house with tower and barn beside trees, seen across a river, by Constantijn Huygens II.

House of Zuilichem, seen from the other side of the Waal

Constantijn Huygens, 1679

Loose sketch of billowing clouds over a dune, with a strip of sea on the horizon.

Dune top with the sea in the background

Jan Willem van Borselen, 1835

Oil sketch of cumulus clouds over a dune with the sea at left, painted in loose blue and cream brushstrokes.

Dune top with the sea on the left

Jan Willem van Borselen, 1835

Pastel drawing of Medusa with snake-hair, wide eyes, open mouth and clawed hand reaching forward against dark blue tones.

Medusa (Laura Dreyfus Barney)

Alice Pike Barney, 1890

Watercolor and pencil drawing of a red oil tanker with masts, rigging and a cargo boom beside a green shoreline.

Oil Tanker II

Arthur Dove, 1930

Pen and ink sketch of a man with curly hair and mustache, head turned, on a plain cream sheet.

Rembrandt's Self Portrait

James Ensor, 1885

Charcoal sketch of a mustached man in a dark jacket with loose hatched shading on pale paper.

The Journalist Paul de Cassagnac

Charcoal study of a colonial soldier in a tricorn hat holding a musket, drawn on gray paper.

Figure study for "Valley Forge" mural at the state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1909

Pencil sketch on grey paper of two rowboats floating on calm water, one at upper left and one at lower right.

Two Boats for "L'Abside de Notre-Dame de Paris"

Charles Meryon, probably c. 1854

Ink and white chalk drawing on blue paper of a seated woman in a headband and dark dress, resting her hand on a chair.

Portrait of Mrs. Ville Heise (1838-1912)

Wilhelm Marstrand

Loose oil study of an elderly bearded man in a red fur hat and dark coat against a brown background.

Study: Bust of a Man / Bust of a Woman - Two-sided Painting

Max Liebermann, 1875

Pen and ink drawing of an elderly man seated on a park bench near a street lamp while a child runs past.

Man on park bench - unidentified illustration

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pencil drawing of a nude female figure in a twisting pose on gridded tan paper, with arms outstretched.

(Untitled-nude female figure)

Louise Cox, 1900

Pastel drawing of a woman with flowing hair set against a swirling woodland of green and blue trees.

Vision through Woods

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Woman seen in profile

Watercolor drawing of two women clasping hands, one haloed, framed by ornate stained-glass style decoration.

The Visitation

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1891

Pencil sketch of two men, one bearded with wavy hair in the foreground, the other partly hidden behind him at left.

Two Men

Honoré Daumier

Pencil sketch of a tall poplar beside a thatched cottage and dirt path, with a fence post in the foreground.

Landscape

Solon H. Borglum, 1900

Pastel portrait of a man with a mustache, dark hair and white collar, set against a dark gray swirling background.

Henry M. Stanley

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Soft grey sketch of a stooping man carrying a heavy sack over a diagonal plank.

Man Carrying a Sack

Honoré Daumier