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Drawings & Sketches

79,543 works

Pencil sketch of a nude youth seated on trailing vines, with a faint inverted head sketched below on cream paper.

Köynnöstä nostava poika, toteuttamaton asentoaihe Tampereen tuomiokirkon lehterimaalauksia varten

Pen and wash drawing of a crowd of figures ascending through clouds toward heaven, with reaching arms and upturned faces.

Detail Study for The Assumption of St. Agnes

called Il Baciccio Giovanni Battista Gaulli, 1670/90

Pencil drawing of a reclining male figure flanked by two draped women and garlands above an empty arched panel.

The summer

Johann Baptist Scholl

Quick blue pencil sketches of several figures and heads on a pale sheet, with a water stain at upper left.

Neljä köynnöksenkantajapoikaa, nopeita ylimalkaisia luonnoksia Tampereen tuomiokirkon maalauksia varten

Loose painted sketch of a shaded path under a leafy tree, sloping down to a stream and sunlit meadow with pink flowers.

Original sketch of "The Wanderlusters' Rest"

William Henry Holmes, 1910

Two Women [recto]

Seth Wells Cheney, 1830

Pencil drawing of an allegorical winter scene: a bearded old man with a staff, a winged figure, and draped women above an arc

The winter

Johann Baptist Scholl

Pencil sketch on brown paper of a seated woman in a high-collared dress and hat, turned three-quarters toward the viewer.

Study for the Portrait of Mrs. Anna Sinebrychoff, Wife of Commercial Counsellor Paul Sinebrychoff Sr.

Albert Edelfelt

Pastel drawing of a black locust branch with green leaves, red thorns and blue trunk on a pale ground.

Black locust. Design for the polychrome of the presbytery of the Franciscan Church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Architectural design drawing of a church altar with columns, a radiant cross, cherubs, and a colored floor plan below.

Design for an Altar in the Church of the Confraternity of Santissima Trinita, Turin

Filippo Juvara, c. 1734

Small graphite drawing of a young man with wavy shoulder-length hair and a loosely tied cravat, on pale paper.

Self-Portrait [recto]

Seth Wells Cheney, 1830

Pencil sketch of a grassy rocky slope with boulders, a cliff, a picnic basket and a distant sea.

Rocky Landscape

Seth Wells Cheney, 1835

Pencil and watercolor studies of decorative feather patterns for ribbed vault panels, in blue, orange and ochre tones.

Siivet, luonnoksia Tampereen tuomiokirkon keskiholviin

Pencil sketch of a half-timbered house with a gabled roof, arched door and leaded windows on a cobbled street.

House

Seth Wells Cheney, 1835

Ink drawing with a decorative initial letter, a man plowing behind a horse, and a lower panel of hands and a vessel in a patt

Kyntäjä, 12. luku ; Kädet ja kaljatuoppi, 13. luku

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Pen and wash drawing of a seated bishop saint with mitre, crozier and book, rays of light behind his head.

Saint Willibrord

Abraham Bloemaert, 1625/30

Watercolor of dense green trees along a river bank, with blue water in the foreground and hills in the distance.

The Wye at Wilton Castle (Wales)

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Graphite portrait drawing of a woman with curled hair and an off-shoulder dress on tan paper, 1848.

Mrs. Sylvanus D. Lewis (Estelle Anna Blanche Robinson)

Seth Wells Cheney, 1848

Pencil sketch of a gabled house with arched arcades and trees in a garden, drawn on pale paper.

House in a garden

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1880

Pencil sketch of a hillside landscape with tall trees, a dense wooded edge, and a winding dirt path in the foreground.

Landscape

Seth Wells Cheney, 1835

Watercolor drawing of a stone courthouse with a clock tower, arched entrances, and a wrought iron fence, 1880.

Hampton County Courthouse

Lawrence W. Ladd, 1880

Red chalk drawing of an elderly bearded man in a wide hat and worn coat, holding a small wooden box.

The Old Savoyard

Jean-Antoine Watteau, c. 1715

Watercolor elevation of a cathedral chapel with a painted dome, pink columns, and a statue of the Virgin in a central niche.

Projet de décoration de la chapelle de la Vierge de la cathédrale d'Arras

Joseph Auguste Traxler, 1844

Oval miniature portrait of a man with curly hair in a dark coat and white cravat, with the gold-framed reverse showing a clas

Member of the Schuyler Family

Alfred T. Agate, 1830

Watercolor of a sunlit stream flowing past autumn trees and a grassy meadow with golden foliage.

Autumn in the Meadow Edge

William Henry Holmes, 1930

Watercolor elevation of a Gothic cathedral wall with iron railings and arched windows, with a plan of the enclosure below.

Projet de clôture entre les chapelles absidales de la Cathédrale de Metz 1854

Pierre-François Gautiez, 1854

Black chalk portrait of a seated man in a frock coat and cravat, with white highlights, on tan paper.

Victor-Auguste de Saint-Rémy

Théodore Chassériau, 1850

Pencil portrait of a young man seated at a piano, turning to look at the viewer, with Don Juan sheet music on the stand.

Charles Gounod

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1841

Pen drawing of eleven caricatured historical rulers in costume, labeled with names such as Louis XI, Henry VIII and Charles V

Eleven historical caricatures: Louis XI, Louis XI, Henry VIII, Francis I, Henry IV, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Sigismund…

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1901

Miniature portrait of a young girl with a gray cat, in an open red leather case with purple satin lining.

Beulah Appleton

Sarah Goodridge, 1840

Watercolor and ink drawing of a drover leading two oxen pulling a cart under a cloudy blue sky with birds.

Drover with Oxen Pulling a Cart

Théodore Chassériau, 1840

Charcoal study of two pairs of hands with white cuffs against a dark, hatched background.

Regents of the Old Men's Home in Haarlem. Two pairs of hands

James Ensor, 1880