New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome and Firefox. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome Add to Firefox

Drawings & Sketches

77,595 works

Pastel drawing of two haystacks beside a rail fence at the edge of woods, with a meadow of wildflowers in the foreground.

Haystacks at Edge of Woods

John Henry Twachtman, 1890

Etching of two peasant diggers bending over shovels in an open field with hills and smoke on the horizon.

Les bêcheurs (The diggers)

Jean-François Millet, 1855

Graphite and chalk drawing of a standing nude child on tan paper, with faint grid lines over the figure.

Standing Nude Child

William Page, 1810

Pencil sheet with numbered copies of Renaissance figures: a Madonna with two children, cherubs, a putto, and nude studies.

Copies of Raphael's compositions

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1887

Watercolor botanical study of a spiny purple-flowered thistle-like plant with toothed green leaves on a pale background.

Saussurea (Saussurea densa)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of white Queencup flowers with yellow stamens among broad green leaves on reddish stems.

Queencup (Clintonia uniflora)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Brown ink wash drawing of two female nudes, one seated and one reclining, with dark outlines and abstract background.

Two Female Nudes

Watercolor of two tall aster stems with purple petals, yellow centers and narrow green leaves on a pale background.

Aster (Aster hirariifolius)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1923

Watercolor of a flowering orchid plant with reddish-brown blossoms on tall stems and broad green leaves, on a pale background

Untitled--Plant Study

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1929

Ink drawing of a large black initial letter entwined with stylized flower buds and leaves on a cream page.

Wilhelm von Schwerin-runon alkukirjain J, originaalipiirustus Vänrikki Stoolin tarinain kuvitukseen (suom.painos)

Albert Edelfelt, 1894

The Quaker

Nicolino Calyo, 1840

Pen and wash drawing of a standing man in a wide-brimmed hat, short jacket and tall boots, with a handwritten caption below.

Costume of a Bandit, Rome

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Pencil sketch of a bearded soldier in a kilt with one arm raised above his head, standing on a cream sheet.

Two studies of a soldier in a kilt: 1. Dancing. 2. Standing with hand on hip

Watercolor of arrowhead plant with arrow-shaped leaves, white flowers with yellow centers, and green buds on red stems.

Arum Arrowhead (Sagittaria cuneata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1923

Watercolor of a roundleaf sundew rosette with red-fringed round leaves and a tall flower stalk on cream paper.

Roundleaf Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Pencil sketch of rocky ruins and broken stone walls labeled Cleopatra's Baths, Alexandria, with soft graphite shading.

Cleopatra's Baths, Alexandria

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Pencil and wash sketch of a mountain ridge, hills, trees and a stone arched bridge in a pale landscape.

Mt. of Temptation

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil portrait of a man in a wide-brimmed hat and lace collar, looking to the side, drawn in soft grey hatching.

The Amsterdam cloth merchant Nicolaas van Bambeek

James Ensor, 1880

Sketch (Leonardo da Vinci)

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1883

Regentesses of the Old Men's AlmsHouse in Haarlem. A figure

James Ensor, 1880

Watercolor of a spiny green cactus with a bright red-orange flower blooming from its top on a pale background.

Lloyd's Strawberry Cactus (Echinocereus lloydii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1925

Watercolor of a slender plant with pink five-petaled flowers and buds on thin green branching stems against cream paper.

Skeleton Flower (Lygodesmia juncea)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor botanical study of a thistle plant with spiny leaves and several flower heads on a cream background.

White Thistle (Cirsium hookeranum)

Mary Vaux Walcott

Colored pencil drawing of an octant instrument with a graduated arc and yellow brass fittings on a sketchbook page.

Octant

Jan Brandes, 1770

Pencil drawing of a flat meadow with grazing cows, a windmill and trees on the horizon under a cloudy sky.

View of Schalkwijk

Pieter Bouman, 1774

Grey wash drawing of dune landscape with two walkers on a path, a large tree and thatched cottages under clouds.

Dune landscape in the surroundings of Haarlem, with in the distance the Blinkert

Hermanus van Brussel, 1773

Pencil drawing of classical ruins, fallen columns and a statue beside a path, with figures and rowboats on a river beyond an

Untitled - Olin Levi Warner

Olin Levi Warner

Pencil sketch of a waterfall over rocky ledges with tall pine trees, on blue-toned paper, by Thomas Moran.

Lower Falls of the South Fork, Gardiner's River

Thomas Moran, 1890

Grey wash drawing of a farmhouse beside a canal with a man in a rowing boat, trees and a haystack under a cloudy sky.

View of a canal with an angler

Hermanus van Brussel, 1773

Red chalk drawing of a seated man in a hat, arm resting over a ladder-back chair, with a hand study at lower left.

Seated man with hat, half-length seen from behind

Hermanus van Brussel, 1773

Grey wash drawing of a servant woman seen from behind, leaning over a wooden basket on a bench.

Resting maid with a basket, seen from the back

Hermanus van Brussel, 1773

Standing boy with stick

Hermanus van Brussel, 1773