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Drawings & Sketches

76,861 works

Pastel study of a stage-like interior with yellow columns, blue walls, and a pink figure surrounded by purple shapes.

Study for Scene in the Daughter of Heaven, Santa Fe, 1915

William Penhallow Henderson

Sepia wash drawing of a river with an apartment block, houses, church spire and two children on the bank.

View of the Warmoestuinen from the Jan van Galenstraat

Anthonie van Teijn, 1927

Pencil drawing of a narrow cobbled street with gabled houses, hanging laundry, a domed tower, and women at work.

View of the Zwarte Bijlsteeg with the dome of the Round Lutheran Church

Tinus de Jongh, 1895

Watercolor of a Dutch canal street with gabled houses, a moored sailing boat, and people and a horse cart on the quay.

View of a brokerage office on the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal

Cornelis Springer, 1827

Charcoal drawing of a large tree beside a winding path, with a hillside and distant tower in the background.

The Lake of Garda, Italy

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Pencil sketch of a river edge with a tall poplar and leafy trees reflected in still water.

From Eton

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Ink drawing of a serpent frame enclosing a tangled mass of snakes on the ground before a wall and stormy sky.

"Mut: Viapori - pois se nimi pois, se rauhan rikkoo, mieleen myrskyn manaa". Originaalipiirustus Vänrikki Stoolin tar…

Albert Edelfelt, 1897

Pencil sketch of the Rhine river with steep hillsides, a hilltop castle ruin, and a village church along the bank.

Rhine, from Caub

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Ink and wash sketch of a standing man in a suit beside books, with handwritten notes on the page.

Sketch portrait of Henry Arthur Hunt

Francis Grant, 1860

Pencil drawing of two dogs sleeping together on a cushion, with a small sketched figure in the upper left corner.

Two Dogs

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a seated nude figure seen from behind, arms raised to the head, on cream paper.

Sittende modell

Edvard Munch, 1920

Hevonen, "Aga"

Alexander Lauréus, 1807

Charcoal and chalk sketch of rocky cliffs and tidal pools along a shoreline under a pale sky.

Untitled (Cliffs)

Howard Russell Butler

Watercolour of a bearded man seated in a cluttered second-hand shop filled with books, ceramics, framed pictures and antiques

A second-hand shop, Paris

Owen Merton, 1910

Graphite pencil cloud study on paper, shaded grey sky with white cloud forms and a dark horizon band below.

Venice

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Watercolor of farm buildings with a thatched barn, cottage with chimney, and large trees under a pale sky.

Farm buildings

Soft pastel portrait of a woman in a dark hat against a green background, face turned slightly toward the viewer.

Self Portrait, 1909

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pen and ink drawing of a steep-roofed stone house with a turret, overgrown shrubs, a railing and a cart wheel.

A Château

William Wentworth Stevens, 1895-1956

Oil study of a woman in white headscarf and red skirt tending a stove with a copper kettle, by Albert Edelfelt.

Elli Jäppinen at the Stove, study

Albert Edelfelt, 1887

Pencil and ink sketch of a classical female statue with turned head, bare torso and draped cloth, on a sketchbook page.

Copy after the sculpture Venus de Milo

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Pastel portrait of a woman with short dark hair in front of a window with green garden foliage and red flowers.

Garden Window

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Brown wash study of a baying hound with sketched dog heads at the left and right edges on a tan ground.

Study of a Hound Baying

Jean-Baptiste Oudry

Pencil sketch of Monte Rosa mountain peaks above a valley with conifers and shrubs in the foreground.

Monte Rosa from Ceppomorelli

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Drawing of a sleeping man beneath angels ascending a ladder into clouds, framed by windswept trees and rocky hills.

Jacob's Ladder

Pencil and colored sketches of stylized vegetal ornaments, scrolls and a rosette on a tan paper sheet.

Loose sketches, including vegetal ornament, rosette, tracery

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1890

Pencil drawing of a barn beside a stream, with tall trees and a fallen branch in the foreground.

Landscape with barn at Doorwerth

Johannes Gijsbert Vogel, 1878

Pencil drawing of a two-masted sailing ship moored at a quay, with rigging, sails and small figures on deck.

Sailing ship at a quay in Dordrecht

Johannes Gijsbert Vogel, 1885

Charcoal drawing of gnarled trees with bare twisting branches and a fallen limb in the foreground.

Trees on the sheep dune near Santpoort

Johannes Gijsbert Vogel, 1903

Watercolor sketch of a wedding scene with Pierrot, Colombine and a harlequin figure around a table with red drapery.

The wedding day of Pierrot and Columbine

Nelly Bodenheim, 1925

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a harlequin chasing Pierrot and a broom-carrying witch across grass under a sky with a bat.

Harlequin follows Pierrot and Carabossa

Nelly Bodenheim, 1925

Sketch of a muscular right arm and torso with dark shading and loose wash on aged paper.

Right Arm and Torso, study for Equestrian Statue

Solon H. Borglum, 1900

Portrait of a woman in a large grey feathered hat and grey fur wrap, painted in loose strokes on a grey background.

Laura Alice in Grey

Alice Pike Barney, 1900