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Drawings & Sketches

79,486 works

Ink drawing of a decorative letter S with white highlights in front of a plumed helmet, with a printed letter F at left.

Sandels-runon alkukirjain S

Albert Edelfelt, 1897

Grey wash drawing of two seated women and a standing man in an interior with a piano and armchair.

Conversation Piece

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1789-93

Dark wash drawing of a bearded man with spear beside a tall monolith, a kneeling nude figure, and distant warriors.

The Meeting of Halfdan and Svipdag at Svarin's Mound

Karl Isakson, 1895-1898

Watercolor design study of stylized irises with green leaves in repeating segments, with monograms above and below.

Vijf segmenten van een met irissen beschilderde knop

Anatole-Alexis Fournier, 1897

Watercolor design of five segments decorated with violet flowers on green stems, with a monogram at lower left.

Vijf segmenten van een met viooltjes beschilderde knop

Anatole-Alexis Fournier, 1897

Watercolor design of three green panels with stylized yellow and maroon flowers and lavender leaves on a pale sheet.

Drie segmenten van een met gestileerde coreopsis beschilderde vaas

Anatole-Alexis Fournier, 1897

Drawing of a rococo ceiling design with a central circular medallion, scrollwork panels, garlands, and putti on blue-grey pap

Design for a ceiling

Robert de Cotte, 1720

Watercolour design sheet with pink cyclamen flowers in a six-section repeat pattern and small circular monograms.

Vier segmenten van een met cyclamen beschilderde knop

Anatole-Alexis Fournier, 1897

Pencil and white highlight sketch of a mountain valley with a snow-capped peak, agave plants, and a small hut in the foregrou

View of Chimborazo near Guaranda, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pen and brown wash design with draped curtains, oval medallions, cherubs and columns in a symmetrical decorative scheme.

Decoration for the marriage of Prince Paluzzo Altieri

Giuseppe Barberi, 1790

Pencil and wash design for an ornate vase with two boys seated on the rim holding garlands of fruit.

Ontwerp voor een vaas met oren in de vorm van jongetjes die linten met vruchtentrossen vasthouden

Frédéric-Jules Rudolphi, 1850

Pencil and watercolour study of sweet pea blossoms and leaves in a decorative band on tan paper.

De beschildering met lathyrus van een knop, met daarboven enkele blaadjes

Anatole-Alexis Fournier, 1897

Watercolor drawing of a boy secretly smoking a cigar while a man in a bowler hat looks at sheet music.

Jongen neemt stiekem een trekje van de sigaar van een man die bladmuziek bekijkt

Mat, 1900

Watercolor of a barefoot boy puffing a cigar held by a top-hatted man reading outside a bookshop called Roland.

Jongen neemt stiekem een trekje van de sigaar van een man die een boek bekijkt

Mat, 1900

Watercolor architectural section of a classical villa interior with columns, pediment, reliefs, statues and vaulted cellars.

Section of a Villa

called Le Romain Francois Soufflot, 1770

Edouard Detaille's 1872 drawing of a cuirassier in plumed helmet and blue-red uniform beside a black horse.

Cuirassier

Édouard Detaille, 1872

Pencil sketches on paper of arches, a palm tree, a horseback rider, ornate capitals and a gabled facade, labeled Ceiling of H

Mixed Sketches around Jaffa, Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Charcoal and pastel drawing of three robed figures in an oval frame, one raising a torch against a pale disk.

Decorative Design

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Pencil sketch of a conical mountain peak with rolling ridgelines, with a handwritten note in the lower right corner.

Haystack Mountain from Littleton, New Hampshire

Daniel Huntington, 1870

Ink drawing of a startled man seated on a stool in a room with a lamp and framed picture, by Karl Wiener, 1935.

Erschrecken

Karl Wiener, 1935

Unfinished watercolor design with floral garlands, wheat stalks and rose vines for a waistcoat embroidery, dated 1780.

Design for the Embroidery of the Left Bottom Corner of a Man's Waistcoat of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf," "Gilet" Design…

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1780

Pen and ink sketch of a soldier in a tricorn hat holding a musket beside a wooden music stand.

Rumpuun nojaava sotilas

Alexander Lauréus, 1800

Pencil sketch of a sailboat with full sails above a line of crashing waves on cream paper.

Sailboat and Crashing Wave

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Four brown ink and wash studies of mythological scenes with nude figures, putti, a centaur, and a winged lyre player.

Glauco and Scylla, study after Agostino Carracci

Felice Giani, 1820

Watercolor embroidery design of purple flowers, red poppies and wheat beside a looping gold ribbon with tassels.

Design for the Embroidery of the Top Part of a Man's Coat, Pattern No. 1410 of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1780

Pencil drapery study of a reclining woman in flowing robes over a squared grid, with an inscription naming the figure Traditi

Study for "The Common Law," "The Reign of the Law," Appellate Division Court House, New York, NY

Kenyon Cox, 1890

Pen and wash drawing of a columned gallery interior with framed paintings, figures at a draped table, and handwritten Dutch l

Diagram of a painting by Gonzales Coques and others, "Interior with Figures in a Picture Gallery," 1672 (Mauritshuis)

Flemish Gonzales Coques, 1700

Pen and grey wash drawing of a kneeling saint gazing up at a cross in clouds, with angels and cherubs in an arched frame.

A Saint's Vision of the Cross

Francesco Saverio Mergolo, 1830

Pen and brown wash drawing of a seated classical woman and a winged child beside an ornate flaming oil lamp.

Oil lamp

Giuseppe Barberi, 1770

Brown ink drawing of an urn vase with satyr masks and grape vines on an octagonal pedestal with sphinx figures.

Design for a Vase on an Octagonal Pedestal

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, 1820

Watercolor design of an angular border filled with pink, purple and blue flowering branches for a waistcoat embroidery.

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1780

Loose pencil sketch of a seated man with crossed legs, plus small studies of a shoe and hand on cream paper.

Figures

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870