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Drawings & Sketches

79,486 works

Pencil landscape of a lagoon with herdsmen and buffalo in the foreground, fishing boats, a ruined tower and hills under cloud

Aqua Cetosa: Italienische Ideallandschaft, im Vordergrund Schifferboote und zwei Männer mit Büffeln

Friedrich Preller the Elder, 1872

Pencil sketch of a coastal village with wooden buildings, rocks, trees and open water beyond, dated 1862.

Kroksnäs, Porvoo

Magnus von Wright, 1862

Painted design of a round plate with stylized red flowers, green foliage, and the inscription 1832 with initials J H.

Plate

Henry Moran, 1935/1942

Watercolor of a man in a tall hat and blue jacket reclining on a striped cloth beside a wall, with hills behind.

Savoyarde, am Boden liegend

Carl Werner, 1840

Gouache drawing of a decorative cross with grey punched-tin borders and blue, pink and white painted floral patterns.

Cross

Majel G. Claflin, 1935/1942

Loose watercolor study of abstract color masses in brown, blue, green, rust and ochre, with a suggested seated figure.

Color study after Delacroix's painting Dante and Virgil in Hell, Louvre

Edvard Weie, 1930-1939

Pencil sketch of a boy lying on his stomach, reading, with one leg raised, beside tree trunks outdoors.

Boy Reading Outdoors

Venny Soldan-Brofeldt

Watercolor of a painted wooden shorebird decoy with a long bill, reddish breast and grey-blue wings, on a wooden stand.

Decoy (Hudsonian Godwit)

Samuel W. Ford, c. 1939

Pencil sketch of a group of caricatured faces with hats and collars in front of a grid of building windows.

"Die Unüberwindlichen" (Skizze)

Karl Wiener, 1935

Pan

Nicholas Acampora, c. 1939

Angular pencil drawing with soft colour washes showing two men and a woman walking in a row, in a cubist style.

"Die Verdammten" Zwei Männer und eine Frau schräg hintereinander

Karl Wiener, 1925

Grey watercolor of a pewter candlestick with a beaded base and flared drip pan on a cream background.

Candlestick

Fritz Boehmer, c. 1939

Painted fireman's hat with green crown, gold star, red banner and oval portrait of a man in blue coat.

Fireman's Hat

Samuel W. Ford, c. 1939

Bust-length chalk portrait of an older balding man in a buttoned coat and knotted cravat, turned to the right.

Brustbild des Malers Veit Hanns Schnorr von Carolsfeld

Joseph Günther, 1838

Brown ink and wash drawing of Adam and Eve in a paradise landscape with a tree, a goat and grazing animals.

Adam and Eve in paradise

Pen and wash drawing of a bearded fisherman emptying eels from a wicker basket, with a sailing boat on the sea behind him.

The phlegmatic

Jacob de Gheyn II, 1596

Pencil sketch of two hunched, elongated standing figures beside bare trees and a fence, with dense hatched shading.

"Die Verzweifelten" (Bleistiftskizze)

Karl Wiener, 1935

Pencil sketch of four loosely drawn standing male figures on an open ground with faint perspective lines, dated 1941.

Die vier verlorenen Männer

Karl Wiener, 1941

Watercolor of a pinkish glass cologne bottle with ribbed body, diamond-shaped floral pattern, and narrow neck on cream paper.

Glass Cologne Bottle

John Dana, c. 1940

Watercolor sketch of a young man wrapped in a striped plaid, reclining in a wooden deck chair on a pale background.

Young man wrapped in a plaid, reclining in a deck chair

Peter Hansen, 1819-1919

Drawing of a bearded older man with a woman and child peering from behind him, rendered in brown wash and red chalk.

Alter Mann mit junger Frau und Kleinkind (Heilige Familie?)

Pen and ink sheet of seven decorative initial letters with wolves, horse rider, figures and faces by Gallen-Kallela.

7 alkukirjainta 6. lukuun

Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1906

Watercolor of a busy market square with awnings, figures in bonnets and long dresses, and tall yellow and pink townhouses.

A French Market Scene, possibly Boulogne

David Cox, 1829 or 1832

Pencil sketch of an Italian church with a tall bell tower, tiled roofs and trees beside it.

Italialainen kirkko

Alexander Lauréus, 1820

Watercolor of a shipwreck's wooden ribs in the surf on a sandy beach, with seagulls flying overhead.

Wreck on the beach Nordstranden, sank on the 9th of May 1832

Martinus Rørbye, 1833

Brown ink drawing of a crowned woman debating robed philosophers beside a barred cage, with a crowd and columns behind.

Saint Catherine Disputing with the Philosophers

Livio Agresti, 1562/63

Pen and wash drawing of a bearded man with an axe in a curved spandrel, with winged putti holding a wreath and palm.

Design for a Spandrel: A Roman Martyr and Two Putti-Saint Jude the Apostle

Livio Agresti, 1573/75

Black chalk and white highlight drawing of a standing gentleman in a tricorn hat playing a flute, on blue-grey paper.

Flötespielender Kavalier

Cornelis Troost

Pen and brown ink drawing of a seated pope receiving a kneeling monk before a crowd of clergy in a colonnaded hall.

Approval of the Rules of the Franciscan Order by Pope Innocent III in 1209

Livio Agresti, n.d.

Two tall canvases: a mounted officer on a rearing horse beside Egyptian figures in turbans and robes, with battle smoke behin

General Jean-Baptiste Kléber and Egyptian Family (Sketches for "The Battle of the Pyramids")

Antoine-Jean Gros, c. 1835

Black chalk sketch of a seated man in a plumed hat and cloak on blue-grey paper.

Sitting cavalier

Cornelis Troost

Pen and blue wash drawing of a table fountain with a shell basin held up by two male figures entwined with serpents.

Design for a Salt Cellar or a Table Fountain

Attributed to Livio Agresti, 1570-1620