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Drawings & Sketches

77,556 works

Watercolor drawing of a reclining chalkware deer with green-tinted antlers and a green oval base on a cream background.

Pa. German Chalkware Deer

Mina Lowry, c. 1938

Colored pencil costume sketch of a bearded rhapsode in a hooded cloak holding a lyre, with a leaf wreath and laced boots.

Rhapsod. Costume design for the play

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1904

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a wooded lake with a sailboat and distant buildings under a pale sky.

Landscape

Pen sketch of a Slavic-style neck ring with hanging chains and openwork pendant plaques on tan paper.

Slavic necklace

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1883

Watercolor of a praying chalkware angel with a gold gown and speckled painted wings standing on a square base.

Pa. German Chalkware Angel Figure

Mina Lowry, c. 1936

Watercolor of a wide valley with a winding river, tree ferns in the foreground and hazy blue mountains in the distance.

Landscape, Nelson

John Gully, 1872

Watercolor drawing of a painted chalkware shrine with an arched top, striped columns, and a small kneeling figure in a niche.

Pa. German Chalkware Shrine

Mina Lowry, c. 1939

Painting of an ornate gilded saddle with turquoise inlays and stirrups on a dark red cloth against a dim background.

Study of Stirrups and a Saddle

Stanisław Chlebowski

Pencil portrait sketch of a man with tousled hair, a mustache and a furrowed brow, drawn on tan paper.

J. H. Erkko

Eero Järnefelt

Painted drawing of a Pennsylvania German chalkware figure of Mary seated beside a lamb, in green and gold tones.

Pa. German Chalkware Mary and Her Lamb

Mina Lowry, c. 1939

Drawing of a painted chalkware mantel ornament with red blossoms, green leaves, and a speckled central form on a pedestal bas

Pa. German Chalkware Mantel Stop

Mina Lowry, c. 1937

Grey wash drawing of a windmill silhouetted on a hill at dusk, with a pale horizon and receding hills.

Landscape with windmill

Kraków girl - study for the stained glass

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1894

Painted plaque showing a hooded figure in a desert above a large skull, in muted orange and grey tones.

Figure in the Desert and a Skull, fresco study for Tampere Cathedral

Hugo Simberg, 1904

Pencil and wash drawing of a winding path through grassy fields and reeds, with rocks at left and a distant horizon.

A Path through Fields near Leipzig

Carl Gustav Carus, 1812

Pencil drawing of Christ and the Virgin seated in a pediment, flanked by angels playing musical instruments.

Christ and the Virgin with Music-Making Angels

Johann Friedrich Overbeck

Watercolor stage design of a terrace with palms, blue draperies, timber gallery and a domed building in the distance.

Turkish Stage Design

Carl Ferdinand Langhans, 1815

Loose oil sketch of a seated nude woman with lowered head, painted in warm pinks against green and yellow foliage.

Sketch of a Woman (Esquisse de femme)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1916

Watercolor study of a painted Pennsylvania German chair with floral decoration, plus a detail of its crest and splat.

Pa. German Chair

Henry Moran, c. 1940

Drawing of a sleeping lion with head on its paws and a smaller lion sketch in the upper right corner.

Lion's Head and Sketch of a Lion

Edmé Saint-Marcel, c. 1860-70

Black chalk drawing of a full-leafed beech tree over rocks and a stream, with mountains in the distance.

A Wild Beech in Full Leaf

Paul Huet, 1858

Pen and brown wash drawing of men in an arched courtyard, one kneeling beside a seated old man, with a dog and tree.

Joseph's Brothers Showing His Coat to Jacob

Jan Victors, 1640/49

Watercolor of steep rock cliffs above a valley with jagged peaks receding under a pale, streaked sky.

Rock Cliffs along the Romanche

Paul Huet, 1858

Pen drawing of a Byzantine-style Christ Pantocrator icon with halo, blessing hand and Greek inscription on tan paper.

Copy of the icon depicting Christ Pantocrator

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1887

Pen and ink drawing of a flooded forest with leaning trees, still water, and two small figures near the trunks.

Flooding in the Forest of the Ile Séguin

Paul Huet, 1833

Sepia drawing of large trees over a path with small figures, a woman carrying a child, and a hazy distant landscape.

Landscape with trees and figures

Joseph Farington

Pastel landscape of a meadow with dark trees and a sunset glowing orange and yellow across a blue sky.

A Meadow at Sunset

Paul Huet, 1845

Twilight landscape drawing of a wooded lake with a Gothic abbey spire rising at right beneath a streaked sky.

An Abbey by a Wooded Lake at Twilight

Paul Huet, 1831

Three-part pencil panorama of a town with a church spire, trees and distant hills under a large mountain.

Onehunga, Auckland N.Z.

Nicholas Chevalier, 1869

Pencil studies of lobster claws and shell with handwritten French labels, arranged across a sheet of paper.

Studies of the claws and armor of lobsters

Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof, 1876

Charcoal study of a lobster's chest shell on cream paper, with loose shading and sketched outlines.

Study of the cephalothorax of a lobster

Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof, 1876

Pencil sketch on cream paper with curving contours and diagonal hatched shading in an abstract arrangement.

Study of the thorax and abdomen of a lobster

Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof, 1876