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Drawings & Sketches

76,778 works

Charcoal drawing of a man with round wire glasses and short dark hair, gazing forward, in a dark-bordered frame.

Self-portrait Jacob Bendien

Jacob Bendien, 1909

Pencil sketch of a dark flower bloom with loose petal shading and faint leaf outlines on pale paper.

Flower

Pencil plan drawing of an altar interior with two nude figures and dimension grid, by Otto Wagner, 1916.

"Altar of Beauty", section / top view

Otto Wagner, 1916

Pastel drawing of a red-haired woman in a flowing white gown leaning on a blue sofa against a soft background.

The Locket

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pencil sketches by Kenyon Cox of six semicircular lunette compositions with allegorical figures for the Iowa State Capitol, 1

(Iowa State Capitol Rotunda) (study for Six Lunettes)

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Pencil drawing of an interior with a fireplace, armchair, wooden table and hanging chandelier, signed Jan de Smedt.

The blue salon with globe on table

Pencil sketch of sailboats, rowboats, and figures on a rocky shore with distant hills, inscribed Criccieth North Wales.

Criccieth, North Wales

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Loose oil study of an elderly man with white hair and beard against a dark brown background.

Study of an Old Man

Joseph Frank Currier

Pastel portrait of a young woman with short auburn hair and a direct gaze, drawn on tan paper.

Gloria

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Watercolour of a sunlit, striated cliff rising above a grey sea, with hills in the distance under a pale sky.

Curious cliff near Cape Farewell

William Marshall Cooper

Charcoal sketch of three thatched rustic houses with a winding path and a standing figure in the foreground.

Three Houses

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Blue and yellow crayon sketch of a seated old man and a standing nude figure with hand on head, against a sunlit landscape.

Old Men in Sunlight

Edvard Munch, 1909

Chalk drawing of a young woman with a flower in her hair, looking over her bare shoulder, draped in cloth.

Baccante

Francesco Bartolozzi, c. 1747-1815

Pencil sketch of a stone pier with arched openings, rocky shore, tidal flats, and masts of boats behind it.

Untitled (Pier and Beach)

Howard Russell Butler

Pencil sketch of a nude male figure with raised arms pierced by arrows, with handwritten notes above on tan paper.

Sketch from the engraving

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Charcoal sketch of a crouching nude figure with yellow chalk highlights on grey paper.

Crouching Boy

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pastel portrait of a young man with dark hair and a blue cravat against a green background.

The Young Diplomat (Senor Algara)

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pencil sketch of a seated nude woman with crossed legs, drawn on lined paper.

Seated nude with crossed legs

Graphite sketch of a muscular arm bent at the elbow with a clenched fist, shaded with cross-hatching on cream paper.

Study of an Arm

Thomas La Farge, 1930

Ink sketch of a woman in a wide hat carrying a tray with a glass and a small object, seen from behind.

Woman with Tray

Watercolor of a grey horse pulling a blue cart stacked with rows of bottles, driven by a man in a green coat.

The Mead, Ginger & Rootbeer Cart

Nicolino Calyo, 1840

Pastel portrait of two seated women in a pale dress and shadowed interior with yellow trim, by Alice Pike Barney, 1910.

Mirror Reflection

Alice Pike Barney, 1910

Head of a Girl

Thomas Dewing, 1910

Loose colored pencil sketch of a standing man in a long coat beside a flowing female figure on a pale ground.

Standing Male

Edvard Munch, 1917

Pastel drawing of a short-haired nude woman leaning against a gold screen decorated with roses and green leaves.

Nude against Screen

Alice Pike Barney, 1910

Pencil sketch of a tree, fence, hayrick and grazing cattle in an open landscape, with handwritten notes in the margins.

Untitled (Tree with Hayrick)

Howard Russell Butler

Pencil sketch of a small hut among tall reeds beside a flat shoreline, on a grey sketchbook page numbered 38.

Landscape sketch. From: An 1876 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1876

Graphite sketch of two clasped hands with a dark sleeve, placed in the lower part of a pale sheet.

The Hands of Elisabeth Bas

James Ensor, 1880

Pencil sketch of a massive tree trunk beside a garden wall with an arched gate and urn finials.

Untitled (Tree Trunk with Gate)

Howard Russell Butler

Charcoal and chalk drawing of an older hooded woman and a bearded man before a stone wall with sailboats on the sea.

French Peasants

Charles Cottet, 1920

Loose pencil sketch of figures in a landscape under swirling storm clouds on pale paper, by Edvard Munch.

The Storm

Edvard Munch, 1926

Pencil drawing of a stone fountain with sculpted figures among trees, with a seated figure beside the basin at right.

Drawn Study for Scene from the Garden of the Villa Borghese in Rome