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Drawings & Sketches

77,602 works

Pencil sketch of a woman in a jeweled headdress playing a flute, with two winged cherubs drawn below.

Head of a flute-playing woman

Engraved map of Groningen within star-shaped fortifications, with surrounding fortress plans, portraits and coats of arms.

Map of Groningen, 1672

Salomon Savery, 1652

Pen and wash design for a ceiling painting with clouds, putti, and allegorical figures framed by ornate scrollwork medallions

Design for a ceiling painting with side pieces

Mattheus Terwesten, 1680

Watercolor of a stream under overhanging trees leading to a meadow with grazing cows.

Little body of water under trees at the edge of a forest

Jan Willem van Borselen, 1835

Pencil sketch of a man with short hair and a cigar in his mouth, frowning in three-quarter view on cream paper.

Self-Portrait with a Cigar

Albert Edelfelt, 1904

Ink and watercolor drawing of white lilies with orange stamens, green buds and striped leaves on tall stems.

Lilies

Ohara Koson, 1912

Watercolor of a Sedum stenopetalum plant with yellow flowers and green leaves on a cream background.

Sedum stenopetalum

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a blooming azalea with red, pink and white flowers in a blue pot against a yellow background.

Blooming azalea in blue pot

Ohara Koson, 1920

Three swallows in flight beside drooping willow branches on a pale blue-grey background, with a red seal in the corner.

Three birds in full flight

Ohara Koson, 1887

Watercolor portrait of a standing young woman in a blue patterned gown and lace bonnet, with a handwritten inscription below.

Portrait of Maria van IJsseldijk, standing knee-piece

Isaac Lodewijk la Fargue van Nieuwland, 1736

Brown ink drawing of a river landscape with sailing boats, a brick house, a tree, and a cart on a path.

River view

Hendrik Spilman, 1731

Grey wash allegory: a nude figure stands in a boat beside a seated man with a cup, winged figures float overhead.

Allegory of the death of the artist Giambattista Maderna

Matthias Joseph de Noël, 1792

Watercolor of a white-berried baneberry plant with a red stem and golden autumn leaves on a cream background.

Ivory Baneberry (Actaea arguta)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Pen and ink drawing of a young officer greeted by a shako-wearing man and older men on steps, with cavalry behind.

"Hänet Drufva sylihin sulki, ja huikea hurraa soi". Originaalipiirustus Vänrikki Stoolin tarinain kuvitukseen

Albert Edelfelt, 1897

Watercolor of a stem with clusters of small yellow flowers and narrow gray-green leaves on a pale background.

Lithospermum canescens

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of a clasping twisted stalk plant with ribbed green leaves and hanging red berries on a cream background.

Clasping Twisted Stalk (Streptopus amplexifolius)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Figure sketch

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1870

Red chalk drawing of a muscular nude giant lifting a large stone against a rocky mountain background.

Polyphemus throwing a stone

Johan Tobias Sergel

Watercolor of two white globe-shaped northern onion flower heads on tall green stems above narrow leaves.

Northern Onion (Allium sibiricum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a butterwort with green leaves, slender stalks, and one violet flower on pale paper.

Pinguicula vulgaris

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Pencil and ink sketch of a vaulted arcaded loggia with handwritten French annotations naming the ceiling scenes.

"Vue de la salle de Psyche". View of the Psyche loggia in the Roman Villa Farnesina

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1887

Charcoal sketch of a seated young child in a white dress against a dark shaded background, by James Ensor.

Baby

Pencil self-portrait on tan paper of a man with curly hair and a short beard, looking directly at the viewer.

Artist's self-portrait

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1890

Pen and wash drawing of a chained kneeling man in a prison receiving a crowned woman on clouds with cherubs above.

St. Philip in prison

Jacques Stella, 1629

Brown wash drawing of a half-timbered house, a wooden post, and ivy beside a stone wall in a courtyard.

Mooring post in front of a house

Joan Berg, 1865

Pen and watercolor drawing of ruined castle towers and walls on a grassy hill under a cloudy sky.

View of the ruin of Egmond castle or Slot op den Hoef

Brown wash drawing of two men by a water well beside a path, with a tree and wooden footbridge in a rural landscape.

Two men by a water well

Zeno Bachiene Muntendam, 1840

Sepia drawing of a crowd beneath a crucifix in a church interior, with a draped figure on the ground and a Madonna above.

The Mystical Death of a Divine

James Ensor, 1880

Ink sketch of a standing elderly man with a cane, with a faint seated figure and dark ink washes on pale paper.

Taakkaa kantava vanha nainen, luonnos

Helene Schjerfbeck, 1877

Watercolor of a forest council where a speaker addresses commissioners in dark coats, surrounded by mounted and seated figure

Sa-tan-ti Addressing the Peace Commissioners at Council Grove, Medicine Lodge Creek

Hermann Stieffel, 1860

Pencil sketch of ribbed vaulting and arches above a small architectural staircase plan on tan paper.

Outline of a vault and a plan of the staircase of the Royal Castle on Wawel Hill

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Pastel design fragment with stylized yellow-green plantain leaves, a grain stalk, and a rosette above a red and brown arched

Fragment of a design for the polychrome of the Franciscan church in Kraków - stylized plant motif: plantain

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895