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Drawings & Sketches

76,861 works

Ink drawing of a young woman in a striped kimono looking down at a small box held in her hand.

Girl Holding a Cricket Cage

Kôno Bairei, c. 1880-95

Drawing of a bearded man in a beret and ruffled collar, rendered in chalk on tinted paper.

Portrait of a Bearded Man with a Beret

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1540

Pencil sketch of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat holding a long stick beside a basket, with a hat study above.

Untitled (Seated Man with Stick)

Howard Russell Butler

Pastel head study of a man with a mustache and pince-nez glasses on a dark gray background.

Allan Chesterton

Alice Pike Barney, 1890

Pencil sketch of a thatched rural cottage with trees and shrubs, with handwritten inscription and date 1880 below.

"Cottage in Świątniki" "Cottage in Świątniki"

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1880

Pencil bust portrait of a man with long hair, jacket and cravat, with handwritten inscription at bottom.

Miehen rintakuva

Robert Wilhelm Ekman

Pastel portrait of a woman with auburn bob hair in a green cloche hat against a dark background.

The Green Hat

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Pen and gray wash drawing of thieves counting coins while a man lies overpowered on the ground before rocky cliffs.

A Man Overpowered By Thieves

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1554

Pencil sketch of grazing animals in a field with a bare tree and dark clouds, on a sketchbook page.

Pencil sketch of cows or horses in A Wellington sketchbook, 1908-12

Petrus van der Velden, 1908

Pencil sketch of a rearing horse with a rider slumped over its neck on cream paper.

Dream of a Broncho #5

Solon H. Borglum, 1920

Pencil sketch of a rural landscape with a wooden church, bell tower, farm buildings and rolling hills receding to the horizon

Landscape from Savitaipale

Pehr Adolf Kruskopf

Red chalk sketch of a seated woman in a feathered hat and long dress, leaning forward with her hand at her chin.

Study of a woman in fashionable dress, leaning forwards

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Sketch of a hillside village with wooden houses and a standing figure, drawn in pencil and blue crayon on tan paper.

Top Section of Decoration for Oslo City Hall

Edvard Munch, 1929

Oil sketch of a reclining nude woman reaching for pink blossoms beside a seated piper on a grassy hill.

Spring (sketch)

Arnold Böcklin, 1862

Pencil drawing of a standing nude woman with both arms raised behind her head, on pale paper.

Nude of a standing woman with her arms clasped behind her head

Julian Fałat, 1900

Pencil drawing of a woman with upswept hair, a ruffled collar and a flower at her chest, turned toward the viewer.

Mery Laurent with pug

Painting of several sketched children's heads, including sleeping infants, a girl in blue reading, and a boy in grey.

Sketches of Heads (The Berard Children)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881

Pencil sketch of an old multi-arched stone bridge over a river with rowboats, a sailboat, and a factory with a chimney.

Old Bridge over the Dee, Chester

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pencil sketch of jagged Tyrolean mountains above a forested slope, with farm buildings and conifers in a meadow below.

Bad Moos, Sexten Thal, Tyrol

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Colored pencil costume design of an elderly crowned figure in a robe with cross motifs, holding a staff, dated 1904.

Queen's mother. Costume design for the play

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1904

Untitled (Head of Bearded Man)

Howard Russell Butler

Abstract watercolor of blue, purple, teal and black organic shapes clustered like stylized flowers on pale paper.

Abstraction Based on Flower Forms, III

David Kakabadzé, 1921

Charcoal sketch of a woman in a feathered hat and fur stole holding a glass beside a small table.

La Parisienne en 1906

Maurice Éliot, 1910

Brown leather book cover with gold-tooled scrolling border and gold lettering reading Designs by Alma-Tadema.

Designs by Alma-Tadema

Anna Alma Tadema, 1880

Ink and wash drawing of Mary Magdalene praying with a rosary, beside a skull, book, and cross under rays of light.

Saint Mary Magdalen in Prayer

Claude Mellan, 1621

Pastel portrait of a dark-haired woman in black holding a sleeping infant, with a blurred figure and gold vase behind her.

Italian Woman with Child

Alice Pike Barney, 1910

Pencil sketch of a woman in a headscarf with her hands drawn below, on tan paper.

Sketch of a woman

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Charcoal sketch of a shadowed old man in a hat, a small face study at upper right, and hands resting on a table.

The regents of the Old Men's Almshouse in Haarlem. Two figures

James Ensor, 1880

Watercolor drawing of an ornate gilded hose carriage with a coiled dark hose reel and spoked wheels on a green ground.

The Hose Carriage

Nicolino Calyo, 1840

Pencil sketch of a horse rearing with a rider or figure clinging to its neck, drawn in loose gestural lines on cream paper.

Dream of a Broncho #4

Solon H. Borglum, 1920

Pastel and charcoal portrait of a young man with dark hair, head turned, on grey paper, by Alice Pike Barney, 1910.

Hippolyte Thom

Alice Pike Barney, 1910

Grey watercolour of a river winding through a steep gorge, with a waterfall and a snow-capped peak in the misty distance.

The lower gorge of the Twain

George Sturtevant, 1893