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Drawings & Sketches

79,486 works

Pencil sketch on paper of seated women in robes and headscarves, two cats, and a woman sewing on a cushioned divan.

Compositie met Egyptische vrouwen

Willem de Famars Testas, 1858

Pencil sketch of domed tombs and a cemetery above two seated men in turbans smoking long pipes, with handwritten notes.

Compositie met gebouwen en rokende Egyptenaren

Willem de Famars Testas, 1858

Abstract watercolour study of loose brown, blue, pink, teal and ochre washes arranged in overlapping organic shapes on paper.

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

Edvard Weie, 1930-1939

Pencil drawing of a seated woman in a dark headscarf and shawl, eyes lowered, with a chair at the right.

Zittende vrouw met neergeslagen ogen zit op een stoel

Jean Bernard, 1818

Grey wash drawing of a canal with moored rowboats, a gabled farmhouse, tall trees and reeds under a cloudy sky.

Gezicht op de Schinkel vanaf het Jaagpad

Anthonie van Teijn, 1927

Pencil sketch of camels and horses with turbaned riders, arranged in several studies across a cream sheet of paper.

Compositie met kamelen

Willem de Famars Testas, 1858

Loose sketch of rolling hills, a distant mountain, and cloudy sky above a wide valley with a dark wooded slope at left.

Mountainous Lanscape

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Brown ink and wash sketch of hunters with pumpkins among ducks, reeds and trees beside a pond.

Hunting Ducks using Pumpkins in the West Indies

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Pencil drawing of a woman in a ruffled bonnet looking down while sewing, with a handwritten inscription below.

Frederika de Lierden is aan het naaien, op 33-jarige leeftijd

Jean Bernard, 1832

Watercolor of a spotted leopard lying on a pale rocky ledge with hills in the muted background.

Leopard Lying Down

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Watercolor design of a four-branch candlestick with a standing figure, atlas figures, gilded eagles and relief-panelled pedes

A Candlestick with Four Branches

Luigi Righetti, 1800

Pencil and wash sketch of a snow-dusted mountain peak emerging from mist, with handwritten notes on the sheet.

From Window of Chalet, Top of Mt. Scheidegg , After a Mist and Storm

Daniel Huntington, 1840

Watercolor of a striped tiger reclining on grass in a dim, shadowy landscape with shrubs and a hill.

Tiger

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Brown ink and wash drawing of flying putti with a garland, a she-wolf nursing two infants, and musician putti below.

Three Putti with Garland; Romulus and Remus Breastfeeding from She-Wolf; Two Putti Playing Cymbals

Felice Giani, 1810

Graphite and white chalk drapery study on blue paper of a standing figure in a belted gown.

Drapery Study for Angel in "Mercy's Dream"

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Charcoal portrait of a seated woman in a dark dress with puffed sleeves, resting against a patterned cushion.

Portrait of the Actress Vera Pushkareva

Ilya Repin, 1899

Brown wash drawing of a neoclassical oil lamp design with side cups, fluted stem, and winged lion figures on a Greek key base

Design for an Oil Lamp

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, 1820

Pen and brown wash drawing of decorative panels, griffins, putti, columns and architectural ornament on one sheet.

Rendering of Various Decorative details of Bologna; Verso: Architectural Details

Felice Giani, 1810

Watercolor of a bear attacking a bull on rocky ground beneath a dusky, pink-tinged sky with hills in the distance.

Bear Killing Bull

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Ink and brown wash drawing of a classical funerary monument with two draped female figures flanking an urn.

Monument

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Grey wash drawing of a reclining river god on a monument with putti, a lyre, and inscribed pedestal among trees.

Monument for a poet

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Watercolor drawing of a crouching leopard on grass with a coiled serpent in the lower right corner.

Leopard and Serpent

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Watercolor of harvest workers among sheaves of grain in a field, with a white church on a rise in the distance.

Harvest Workers in the Field

Martinus Rørbye, 1847

Pencil and wash sketch of a bearded teamster in a hat seated on a horse beside a wagon wheel.

Study of a Teamster

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pencil sketch of two men sitting in a canoe on water, surrounded by reeds, grasses and evergreen trees.

Two Men in a Canoe

Winslow Homer, 1890

Brown watercolor drawing of a lion resting under a rocky overhang with hills in the background.

Lion Resting

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Pencil sketch of rustic peasant houses with pitched roofs and chimneys in a valley, with trees and a path in the foreground.

Peasant Houses in a Valley

Eugène Edouard Soulès, 1830

Ink and wash architectural elevation of a room with four figure niches and a sarcophagus with a reclining animal beside it.

Design for the Egyptian Room, Palazzo Nuovo, Rome, Italy

Ferdinando Fuga, 1740

Watercolor drawing of a bison resting on grassland, head turned right, with a pale sky and distant trees behind it.

Bison Lying Down

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Pen and gray wash design for a vaulted ceiling panel with a central figural scene and two small putti medallions.

Abundance, Vaulted Panel, Sala d'onore, Appartmento Napoleonico, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, 1810

Ink and wash stage design showing oriental buildings, a fluted column, and a fountain set among rocky caves.

Stage Design, Oriental Buildings Amidst Caves and Rocks

Romolo Achille Liverani, 1800

Brown wash drawing of a sleeping elephant with tusks resting on the ground beside dark forest trees.

Sleeping Elephant

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75