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Drawings & Sketches

77,550 works

Drawings of a 15th-Century Sepulchral Italian Sculpture

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1887

Pencil drawing of a factory yard with smokestacks, iron scaffolding and workers, with smoke rising into the sky.

Fabrikplatz mit rauchenden Schloten (Königshütte?)

Adolph Menzel, 1872

Pencil sketchbook page with three head studies, a seated figure, and a still life of a glass bottle and objects on a table.

Heads and still life

Ink drawing of an officer raising his hat before cheering soldiers with a flag in an open field.

"Täst' ilonpäivästä hän teitä kiittää saa"

Albert Edelfelt, 1897

Watercolor of a blue sea with small boats, a white coastal town with trees, and rolling hills under a cloudy sky.

Azores

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1920

Pencil sketch of a Gothic interior with pointed arches, stone columns and a floor slab with ring handles.

Sketch of scenery for

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1903

Pen and ink sketch of a man in a top hat and overcoat, holding a cane, looking toward the viewer.

The Painter Edouard Manet

Night scene of soldiers and musicians gathered by a campfire beside a church, with fallen men and horses in the foreground.

Der Choral von Leuthen

Wilhelm Camphausen, 1860

Prinz Friedrich Karl von Preußen

Anton von Werner, 1871

Pencil drawing of a monumental arched design with an equestrian rider, allegorical figures and an imperial eagle emblem.

Die Wiedererstehung des Deutschen Reiches

Hermann Wislicenus, 1840

Watercolor of nodding pink and lavender clematis flowers with green leaves and tendrils on a pale background.

Jicarilla (Clematis pseudoalpina)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Pen and brown ink sketch of the Lamentation: the dead Christ held by grieving women, with three crosses on a hill behind.

Lamentation

Giulio Romano, 1528

Autumn landscape with a dirt road, wooden gate, stone wall, dried plants, farm buildings and rolling hills in muted watercolo

Autumn landscape

Fritz Syberg, 1901

Charcoal and coloured chalk drawing of a woman holding a young child on her hip, on brown paper.

Schwangere Frau mit Kind

Heinrich Zille, 1873

Pencil sketches of primrose-like flowers and leaves in several clusters on a pale sheet of paper.

Studies of flowers

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pencil sketch of a Gothic cathedral interior with pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and a stone balustrade on sepia paper.

Interior of St. Peter’s Cathedral in Regensburg

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1890

Painting of a woman feeding a child milk from a cup in a rustic kitchen with plates on shelves.

A Boy Being Given Milk, sketch I

Karl Jansson, 1869

Pastel drawing of a crowded café-concert with a seated man at a round table, women in hats, and spectators in blue and orange

Café-Concert (The Spectators)

Edgar Degas, 1876/77

Colored sketch of workers drinking beer outdoors beside a brick wall, with rooftops and chimneys behind them.

Die Städtebauer

Heinrich Zille, 1873

Watercolor of a red-berried viburnum branch with lobed green leaves and red stems on a tan background.

Grouseberry (Viburnum americanum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1880

Charcoal sketch of a mother holding a child in a narrow bedroom with a window, bed and lamp, another child standing nearby.

Mutter mit zwei Kindern in einem schmalen Schlafzimmer. Vorzeichnung zu "Das eiserne Kreuz"

Heinrich Zille, 1873

Oil study of a woman with bowed head, dark hair and white garment on a pale canvas ground.

Study to the Painting

Watercolor of a milkweed stem with clustered white flower buds and serrated green leaves on a cream background.

Milkweed (Ascelpias)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Pencil drawing of two portraits side by side: a curly-haired man in a cravat and a woman with a ruffled collar and pendant.

Michał Skotnicki (François-Xavier Fabre); Magnuszewska Wójcicka (Franciszek Lampi)

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1883

Watercolor drawing of a pair of slippers with red interiors and blue scrolling patterned fabric, with red fringe trim.

Woman's Shoes

Lillian Causey, c. 1936

Watercolor and pencil study of two bearded men in red and green robes, with faint sketched figures at the right.

Figure scene

Karl Isakson, 1878-1922

Pencil drawing of wavy overlapping organic contours on pale paper, with signature and date 1947 at lower left.

Landscape from Nowa Ruda

Władysław Strzemiński, 1947

Watercolor drawing of a woman's pointed slipper with floral embroidery, shown from three angles.

Woman's Slippers

Lillian Causey, c. 1936

Ink and pencil study of two archers drawing bows, flanked by decorative swirling motifs on toned paper.

Archers. Trial proof for the polychromy of the Franciscan church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Watercolor of American vetch with purple flowers, green pinnate leaves, curling tendrils and a red stem on cream paper.

American Vetch (Vicia americana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Ink and wash sketch of spectators on a grandstand, including a man in a top hat and a standing woman at right.

On the racing grandstand

James Ensor, 1880

Charcoal and white chalk drawing on brown paper of a standing figure in a flowing robe, head bowed, hands clasped.

Figure study for the Infant Galahad (?), from The Quest of the Holy Grail (first of a series of fifteen murals for th…

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1893