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Drawings & Sketches

76,817 works

Head of a woman with half-open mouth

Jan Anton Garemyn, 1722

Major General John Pope

James Edward Kelly, 1870

Brown wash drawing of satyrs, nymphs and dancers celebrating beneath grapevines, with a goat and wine vessels in the foregrou

Triumph of Pan

Nicolas Poussin, 1635

Pastel portrait of a young woman with a green and blue flowered headdress and pink striped shawl, against a yellow background

Bacchante Triste

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Queen Caroline Mathilde (Study for the painting Scene from the Court of Christian VII, exhibited in 1873 )

Kristian Zahrtmann, 1872

Red chalk sheet of studies of putti, with winged infants flying and a standing child gesturing.

Sketches of putti

Jan Anton Garemyn, 1722

Head of a devil, to the left

Jan Anton Garemyn, 1722

Red chalk study of a right arm reaching upward with the hand open, on a tan sheet with a dated inscription.

Study of a right arm

Jan Anton Garemyn, 1769

Head of a woman, in profile to the left, with open mouth

Jan Anton Garemyn, 1722

Watercolor and pastel landscape of layered clouds over a flat plain with blue mountains on the horizon.

Vega(*)

Arthur Bowen Davies, 1920

Pastel portrait of an elderly woman in a white lace headdress and black dress, smiling, against a tan and blue background.

Madame Girard

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crowd beneath a canopy, with a mitred bishop at center and turbaned figures at left.

The Deliverance of the Demoniac of Constantinople by Saint John Chrysostom

Elisabetta Sirani, 1659

Pencil sketch of a circular open-air theatre with tiered seating, a stage area, arched doorway and stairs, dated 1905.

Design for an open-air theatre (project for Wawel-Akropolis)

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1905

Pastel portrait of a smiling man with short hair in a dark blue jacket and white collar, on grey paper.

Hail Fellow, Well Met

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Pastel portrait of a woman in a dark hat and blue scarf against swirling green and teal background.

The Blue Scarf

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pen and wash drawing of a Gothic church nave with vaulted ceiling, tall columns, and two figures walking on the stone floor.

Interior of Saint Bavo's Church, Haarlem

Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, 1635

Pencil drawing of a bearded man in a robe resting his head on his hand beside a table with a skull.

The master

Petrus van der Velden

Watercolor of a calm lake with wooded shoreline and pale cloudy sky, handwritten caption reading Noonday, Lake Noxen, Sweden.

Noonday, Lake Noxen, Sweden

Muirhead Bone, c. 1896-1953

Brown ink drawing of a rocky archipelago island with wooden buildings and a fence, with sailing ships on calm water.

Saaristomaisema

Magnus von Wright

Open sketchbook with a pencil drawing of buildings, windows and a street on the right page; left page blank.

(Sketchbook) Old Street, Ouchy

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Watercolour of a curly-haired cherub with pink wings holding a white dove, in a circular vignette against a blue sky.

Cherub with dove

Thomas Stewart Monkhouse, 1860

Pencil study of an elderly bearded figure in drapery pointing outward, with cherubs and a reclining figure around him.

God the Father, copy after Vatican frescoes

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Pencil study of a standing male nude with one arm raised overhead, drawn on aged paper.

(Untitled) (Study of Standing Male Nude)

Kenyon Cox, 1870

Pastel drawing of a dancer with raised arms in a sheer costume and red drapery, beside a vase and fruit bowl.

Anna Pavlova in Oriental Fantasy, Chicago, 1915-16

William Penhallow Henderson

Pencil sketch of grey clouds over a row of buildings with chimneys and a small cow in the lower left corner.

Sketch with sky, buildings and cow in A wellington sketchbook c 1908-12

Petrus van der Velden, 1908

Pen and watercolor drawing of a Gothic church interior with tall columns, vaulted ceilings, stained glass and a brass chandel

HUA-28594-Interior of the Dom Church in Utrecht the nave and the choir from the west

Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, 1636

Colored drawing grid of stained glass panels showing a saint, lilies and tangled branches in pink, grey and olive.

Saint Francis. Design for a stained glass window for the window of presbytery of the Franciscan Church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1897

Loose painted sketch of a river with a stone arched bridge, boats, and a distant city skyline under a pink sky.

Sketch for

John Constable, 1819

Pen and ink sketch of a woman with long wavy hair, one arm raised to her head, gazing toward the viewer.

Odalisque

Pencil sketch of two horseback riders inside pointed arched frames, studies for stained glass on a peach-toned sheet.

Ratsastajat, kaksi lasimaalausluonnosta Tampereen tuomiokirkoa varten

Pencil sketch of two slender trees with leafy branches on a grassy bank, with faint background landscape.

Study of two trees

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1874

Pale wash drawing of a rocky riverbank with evergreen trees on the left and a misty wooded shore across calm water.

Montmorency River, Quebec

Johann Hermann Carmiencke, 1850