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Drawings & Sketches

76,861 works

Watercolor of a crowned lion king in a red robe with animal courtiers, a parrot and a bird holding a wig in a jungle.

King Lion receives the wig of Uncle Cassander

Nelly Bodenheim, 1925

Colored pencil sketch of two children playing with a rearing horse, a swinging lasso and a standing cow on tan paper.

Playing children (goats on the reverse)

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1902

Charcoal drawing of a nude man standing and pulling a rope diagonally, signed Jan de Smedt and dated 1933.

The puller I

Watercolor and pencil drawing of a Pierrot figure in a blue hat beside a large egg in a patterned egg cup.

Pierrot and the giant egg of the Roc

Nelly Bodenheim, 1925

Pen and watercolor drawing of a startled pierrot with long hair beside a lion, fox, parrot, harlequin and dog.

Pierrot suddenly gets long hair

Nelly Bodenheim, 1925

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a Pierrot figure with long red hair, white costume, and bowed head.

Pierrot with long red hair

Nelly Bodenheim, 1925

Drawing of a woman in black velvet dress with lace collar, pearl necklace and curled blonde hair, standing against a plain ba

Portrait of Petronella de Waert

Gesina ter Borch, 1670

Watercolor portrait of a woman in a black dress with white sleeves and pearl jewelry, standing beside a table with a fan.

Portrait of a woman

Gesina ter Borch, 1670

Watercolor of two children in 17th-century dress, one with a hoop and stick, the other with a hat and cane.

Gerrit and Cornelis Schellinger as children

Gesina ter Borch, 1675

Pencil sketch of a nude woman in a twisting swimming pose, one arm extended and one leg stretched across the paper.

Swimming Nude

Solon H. Borglum, 1920

Charcoal drawing of a busy river harbor with rowing boats, a steamship with smokestacks, and waterfront buildings and cranes.

London on the Thames

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Pencil sketch of a sword with ornate pommel and curved crossguard on a cream sheet of paper.

Drawing of a sword

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1889

Watercolor of a peasant man with a staff talking to a woman with a basket beside a gate, with a village behind them.

Peasant couple in conversation

Gesina ter Borch, 1654

Watercolor of a woman in patterned dress with tulips beside a parrot-filled tree, ships and tortoise nearby, 1680.

Hillegonda Louise Schellinger in Curaçao

Gesina ter Borch, 1680

Portrait of Gerard ter Borch the Elder, in octagonal frame

Harmen ter Borch, 1655

Skeleton holding an hourglass walks beside a young girl holding a doll in a Dutch town street with a church.

Death next to a little girl

Gesina ter Borch, 1656

Pen and watercolor drawing of ten people seated and standing in a room with a door and a landscape painting on the wall.

Company of ten young people in an interior

Gesina ter Borch, 1655

Watercolor portrait of a man in dark doublet and lace collar reading a paper beside an open book and cross on a green table.

Portrait of the Count of Peñeranda

Gesina ter Borch, 1648

Pastel drawing of a blonde woman, nude to the waist, looking over her shoulder against a swirling green background, holding p

Nude with Fruit

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Watercolor interior sketch of a formal room with blue damask walls, gilded chandelier, marble fireplace and portrait.

Sketch of Interior Design

Sr August Frederick Biehle, before 1918

Watercolor drawing of a woman in black dress and white apron with a spotted dog in a green, hazy landscape.

Peasant woman and dog in a landscape

Anna Cornelia Moda, 1679

Pastel portrait of a woman in a dark wide-brimmed hat and pale coat, set against swirling green and blue strokes.

The Traveler

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pencil landscape drawing of leaning pine trees on a sloping sandy hillside with a distant horizon.

Landscape

André Dauchez, 1940

Writing man

James Ensor, 1880

Abstract geometric study in red, blue, yellow and black with a small red figure, by Fernand Léger, 1919.

Study for La Ville

Fernand Léger, 1919

Pencil sketch of Castle Reichenberg with a tall tower and walls on a hill above dense trees, dated 1900.

Castle Reichenberg, near St. Goarshausen

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Pastel portrait of a young woman with tousled brown hair and a yellow garment against a green background.

Laura Alice

Alice Pike Barney, 1890

Pencil sketch of the Rhine river with a hilltop castle, steep cliffs, a steamboat, and riverside houses.

Rhine at St. Goar

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Pencil sketch of a hillside town with a church tower, buildings along a river, and mountains behind.

Ventimiglia

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Loose oil sketch of a blue patterned curtain beside a seated figure in brown and green clothing on a cream ground.

Quinn's Attire and a Drapery. Studies to the Painting

Pencil sketch of a rocky shoreline with a rowboat, open water, and a low horizon with distant buildings under clouds.

Untitled (Sailboat)

Howard Russell Butler

Pastel portrait of a woman with long loose hair and a jewel headband, holding a mandolin against a deep blue background.

Natalie with Mandolin

Alice Pike Barney, 1900