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Drawings & Sketches

79,403 works

Pencil sketch of promenade figures including a man in a top hat at a café table and two men in coats in the foreground.

Entré sur la Grande Promenade à Baden

James McNeill Whistler, 1850

Pencil sketch of three figures in bonnets and hats gathered in conversation, drawn in loose, quick strokes.

Group Conversing

James McNeill Whistler, 1850

Pencil sketch of two standing figures, a man in a cap and cloak and a woman in a long dress, with figures behind them.

Deux Artistes Célèbres de Paris

James McNeill Whistler, 1850

Ink and wash drawing of a fortified palace stage set with towers, an ornate doorway, a statue, and framing trees.

A Stage Set with a Statue and a Palace

Daniël Marot, 1730

Pen and graphite sketch of a standing nude male figure beside studies of hands and a curly-haired head.

Apollo and Studies of the Artist's Own Hand [recto]

Francesco Fontebasso, 1730

Pencil sketch of a reclining figure on a wooden bed in a beamed interior with a hanging garment and a chest.

A la Ferme de Maladrie

James McNeill Whistler, 1850

Pencil sketch of stacked Rhine river views with sailboats, tree-lined banks and distant towns, labeled Worms and Oppenheim.

The Rhine , near Worms and Oppeheim

James McNeill Whistler, 1850

Pencil sketch of a barefoot man in a shirt standing in a room with a desk, chair, bed and wall clock.

Der Dichter im Hemd an seinem Schreibpult

Drawing of a small ribbed glass pitcher with a cobalt blue rim and curved handle, against a pale background.

Small Pitcher

John Dana, c. 1938

Ink drawing of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat by an easel, beside a dark seated figure seen from behind at a lit table.

Whistler drawing Poynter; back view of a man seated at a table near a lighted lamp

Edward Poynter, 1860

Pencil and pastel drawing of a canal at dusk with a bridge, tall buildings and a small boat under a warm orange sky.

Winter Evening

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Brown-toned charcoal drawing of a tall building with small windows beside a dark canal, soft tonal shading throughout.

Quiet Canal

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Pencil sketch of a girl in a long dress reclining on a couch, leaning over a book, with loose overlapping lines.

A girl reclining on a couch, reading

James McNeill Whistler, 1850

Pencil sketch of a seated woman by a canopied bed with a plant, plus small studies of women and handwritten notes.

Mädchen am Fenster, einen Blumenstock umarmend, darüber Skizzen zweier Mädchen

Pen and brown ink drawing of a young woman with curly hair and a pearl necklace, turning her head to the side.

Elegant Young Woman with a Pearl Necklace

Francesco Fontebasso

Pencil sketch of a river with a sailing boat, a small rowboat with smoke, and distant shorelines under a pale sky.

Près de Mayence

James McNeill Whistler, 1850

Pencil sketch of a stylized butterfly with hatched wing shading and curled antennae on tan paper.

Whistler's Butterfly

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Pen and wash drawing of the muse Clio seated before an open book, with putti playing instruments in a garden landscape.

Entwurf für ein Titelblatt: Klio mit schreibendem Jüngling

Arnold Houbraken

Loose pencil sketch of a reclining man on a bed with draped fabric and angular furniture forms.

A man reclining on a bed

James McNeill Whistler, 1850

Pencil panorama of a town with a church spire and windmill beyond fields and trees, by Magnus von Wright, 1850.

Mikkeli

Magnus von Wright, 1850

Pencil sketch of a stone arched bridge over a river, with a figure on the bank and a carriage on the deck.

A Bridge

James McNeill Whistler, 1850

Portrait Sketch of Thomas Carlyle

James McNeill Whistler, 1870

Ink and wash drawing of armored soldiers around a reclining body in a camp, with a mounted rider and a tent in the background

Alexander the Great before the Corpse of Darius

Francesco Fontebasso, 1750

Watercolor of a green glass cylindrical jar with a flared rim against a tan background.

Jar

John Dana, c. 1937

Pen and grey wash drawing of two men resting by a lake beside rocky ground, trees at right and mountains in the distance.

Two Men Resting near a Lake

Johann Christoph Dietzsch

Print of a kneeling dancer with long flowing hair, arm extended, pale figure on reddish-brown ground, on yellowed paper.

Kyyristynyt tanssija

Venny Soldan-Brofeldt

Watercolor of three aqua glass flasks, two upright with embossed eagle and columns, one lying flat on a pale background.

Flask

Henry Moran, c. 1940

Pencil sketch of a shop doorway with shelves of jars, a shopkeeper inside and a standing woman at the right.

Marchand de Potirons a cologne

James McNeill Whistler, 1850

Pen and wash drawing of travelers on a path beside rocky outcrops and tall pine trees in a wood.

Travelers in a Rocky Wood

Johann Christoph Dietzsch

Pencil sketch of a man in a wide-brimmed hat seated on a ledge, with a boat and figure sketched above and an easel at right.

A man seated on the edge of a wall

James McNeill Whistler, 1850

Pencil sketch of three standing figures in period dress, one in a tall top hat, one in a bonnet, one in a wide hat.

Whistler with Friends

James McNeill Whistler, 1850

Watercolor landscape of travelers on a horse and with a dog on a path, with a valley, farmhouses and blue mountains beyond.

Travelers in a Broad Valley

Johann Christoph Dietzsch, 1750