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Drawings & Sketches

79,486 works

Pen drawing of a turbaned man gesturing to a kneeling woman, with a boy holding sticks and a building behind them.

Elia en de weduwe van Sarepta

Jan Symonsz. Pynas, 1608

Red chalk drawing of a kneeling man seen from behind, with curly hair, bare back and draped cloth around his legs.

Kneeling Man

Domenico Beccafumi, 1544

Pencil drawing of a turbaned man gesturing to a kneeling woman and child beside an arched building with trees.

Elia en de weduwe van Sarepta

Jan Symonsz. Pynas, 1594

Pen drawing of a farmyard with a big tree, cottages, a cart and figures, signed by Jan Symonsz Pynas, 1608.

Gezicht op het erf van een boerderij

Jan Symonsz. Pynas, 1608

Pen drawing of several figure studies: two men struggling over cloth, nude figures running, and a bearded man seen from behin

Studies van verschillende figuren

Jan Symonsz. Pynas, 1608

Brown wash drawing of a kneeling bearded man in a robe on a rocky ledge, with a palm tree and distant town.

Christ on the Mount of Olives

Jan Symonsz. Pynas, 1630

Pen and ink drawing of a bearded man seated at a table beside a sword, inkwell and draped curtain, dated 1645.

De heilige Paulus, zittend aan een tafel

Jacob Pynas, 1645

Pen and watercolour design of ornate interior panelling with seascapes, armoured figures and a red lion coat of arms.

Interieurdecoratie van statenjacht met zeegezichten

Pieter Post, 1663

Pen and grey wash design for an interior wall with reclining nymphs, putti, and a central view of ships on water.

Interieurdecoratie van statenjacht met stroomnimfen

Pieter Post, 1663

Pen and wash design of a decorative panel with putti, empty cartouches and military trophies including a drum and swords.

Interieurdecoratie van statenjacht met trofeeën

Pieter Post, 1663

Painted design for a blanket with a central floral wreath, corner panels of fruit and flowers, and a red scalloped border.

Blanket

Lillian Causey, c. 1936

Pencil and colored pencil layout sketch with a leafy vine border, a decorative initial letter, and a yellow watering can.

Luonnos 4. luvun otsakuvaan Veljekset piestyinä

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Ink sketch of several overlapping male heads with open, shouting mouths and tangled hair.

The Brothers Shouting on the Devil's Rock

Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1906

Grey wash sketch on blue paper of helmeted soldiers playing cards beside a column, with figures behind them.

Kartenspielende Soldaten

Pencil sketch of a large hunched figure carrying a burden, with people walking in a line and a standing woman in a city setti

"Die Last" (Bleistiftskizze)

Karl Wiener, 1935

Ink drawing of a black decorative letter D over a feathery leaf with a ribbon coiling around its stem.

Initial D for Poem Number Fifteen Stolt (original drawing for the Tales of Ensign Stål, Swedish edition)

Albert Edelfelt, 1897

Watercolor of a painted toleware candlestick with red flowers and green leaves on a black ground, set on a drip pan.

Toleware Candlestick

John Hall, 1935/1942

Watercolor of an oval black toleware tea canister painted with pink roses and leaves, with a metal clasp.

Toleware Tea Cannister

Henry Murphy, c. 1938

Watercolor of three ceramic tiles on cream paper: a pale blue square, a brown triangle, and a green square.

Tiles

John Wilkes, c. 1938

Watercolor study of a standing man in rococo dress with powdered wig, violet coat and green breeches, dated 1916.

Man in Rococo Attire (F.E. Sillanpää), study for the mural Meeting of the Aurora Society

Eero Järnefelt, 1916

Painting of a black toleware coffee pot with a red band, a large peach motif, and gold leaf decoration.

Toleware Coffee Pot

John Hall, 1935/1942

Painted illustration of a red toleware coffee pot with gilt bands, lid knob and curved handle on a cream background.

Toleware Coffee Pot

Nicholas Acampora, 1935/1942

Pencil sketch of birch trees beside a wooden cabin and rocks, overlooking a lake with a distant village and church spire.

Hatanpää Härmälästä nähtynä

Magnus von Wright, 1846

Watercolor of a dark tinware teapot with a painted red and blue flower, conical lid, curved handle, and long spout.

Toleware Teapot

Henry Murphy, 1935/1942

Ink drawing sheet with nine decorative initial letters, including a lion, laughing faces, a snake and a figure with sun rays.

9 alkukirjainta 10. lukuun, Seitsemän veljeksen kuvitusta

Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1906

Karikatuuri O. Donnerista ja Magnus Enckellistä

Albert Edelfelt

Black chalk and white highlight drawing of a curly-haired man with a moustache and wide collar, turned three-quarters right,

Männliches Porträt im Dreiviertelprofil nach rechts

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1635

Watercolor of a parade torch with a pale sphere, red and blue tubes, perforated metal plate, and wooden handle.

Parade Torch

William H. Edwards, c. 1939

Grey wash drawing with red chalk of a fountain with sea horses, putti and scrolled ornament, with Dutch handwriting below.

A neptune fountain

Abraham van Diepenbeeck

Pencil sketch of broad leaves on a plant beside a tree trunk, with a handwritten date and signature at lower left.

Plant Study

Ilya Repin, 1886

Pencil sketch of a seated woman at a log cabin door, with soldiers and a fire in the yard beside her.

Torpan tyttö. Kuvitusta Vänrikki Stålin tarinoihin

Robert Wilhelm Ekman, 1869

Pencil sketch of three hooded figures among stones under a dark, streaked sky, with German handwritten notes below.

"Die letzten Menschen" (Bleistiftskizze)

Karl Wiener, 1943