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Drawings & Sketches

79,488 works

Graphite study on toned paper of a seated figure seen from behind, bent over a sloped board with one hand raised.

Study for "Communion of the Sick"

Daniel Huntington, 1840

Oil sketch of twilight clouds with orange sunset glow over dark tree silhouettes at the bottom edge.

Clouds at Twilight

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Watercolor still life of pink and purple peonies, a thistle and a blue globe thistle in a clear glass vase.

Flowers in a Vase

Zacharie Astruc, ca. 1884-1904

Study for "The Hireling Shepherd"

William Holman Hunt, 1851

Pencil and white-heightened sketch of a mountain's south face with snow streaks and forest at its base.

South Face, Mt. Katahdin, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crowd of robed men standing together in an interior beside a bench.

Apostles after Raphael's "Death of Ananias"

Felice Giani, 1810

Watercolor sketch of two pink roses on thorny green stems with leaves and buds on cream paper.

Two Roses

Zacharie Astruc, ca. 1884-1904

Pencil sketch of a reclining child in loose shaded strokes, with a small scroll study with tiny figures below.

Child

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Sketch of a marshy landscape with white water reflections, reeds, and a distant tree line on tan paper.

Marshy Landscape near Millinocket Lake, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Study of a young woman in white robes with flower wreath holding a lyre in a loosely painted woodland setting.

Muse, Study

Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1870

Brown wash drawing of a bound man in a pale robe hanging from a gallows, with a figure on a ladder above.

Hanged Man

Brown ink and wash drawing of four classical fender designs with urn finials, paw feet, garlands and lion heads.

Four fenders

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Graphite and white highlight sketch on brown paper showing a narrow mountain valley with rocky ridges and lit slopes.

Narrow Mountain Valley near Ysapan, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pen and wash sketch of three standing women with faint architectural and figure studies around them on aged paper.

Copy After a Historical Painting from the Circle of Paolo Veronese [recto]

Unknown artist, 16th century

Watercolor of a reclining tiger on pale sand, head turned toward viewer, with dark hills and cloudy sky behind.

Royal Tiger

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Brown wash drawing of robed monks and nuns with halos meeting before a vaulted arcade, with a glowing light in the background

Meeting of Saints Francis and Clara

Belisario Corenzio, 1640

Watercolour study of a seated pigeon with grey and brown wing feathers and green iridescence on the neck.

Pigeon, study

Ferdinand von Wright

Blue-line ninth floor plan of the Temple building showing room partitions, vaults, staircases and corridors with red dimensio

Women's Temple Building, Chicago, Illinois, Ninth Floor Plan

Burnham and Root, July 23, 1891

Graphite portrait sketch of a bearded, balding man with loose hatched shading against a pale background.

Portrait of the Artist (recto); Fragment of a Landscape Study (verso)

Paul Cézanne, ca. 1880

Pencil elevation drawing of a symmetrical villa facade with a domed central pavilion, pilasters and statues on the roofline.

Design for the Facade of a Villa

Johann Fischer von Erlach, 1680

Brown ink and wash drawing of a helmeted soldier raising a sword over a seated man beside classical arches and columns.

The Death of Archimedes

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil sketch of a seated young girl in a period dress with a lace collar, surrounded by garden plants and foliage.

Fräulein von Franck./ In Dornbach, auf d.Landgut des Herrn Baron von Franck. J.A.Klein, Sept:1817.fec

Johann Adam Klein, 1817

Pencil drawing of a seated woman flanked by two standing young women in period dresses, in a sketched interior.

The Baroness Duperré and Her Daughters

Théodore Chassériau, 1841

Pen and brown ink drawing of two scenes: a crowd around a pedestal above, and a shrouded body carried on a bier below.

Apollonius Curing a Young Athenian Possessed of a Demon [above]; Apollonius Raising a Girl from the Dead in Rome [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Pencil sketch on cream paper of spiky, fanning leaves and curving plant stems in loose botanical study.

Botanical Sketch, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a hill town with a church bell tower, a tall crucifix, rooftops and a sloping path.

View of a Hill Town with a Crucifix

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, possibly 1830s

Red and black chalk study of a nude elderly man with a leafy wreath, holding a tall staff and seated on draped cloth.

Study of a nude elderly man, Bacchus or one of his companions

Giovanni Battista Merano, 1670

Pencil sketch of a rock on a hilltop with faint distant hills and ridgelines on cream paper.

Rock on a Hilltop, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Ink and wash drawing of a crowded theater audience with men in coats and top hats gazing toward the stage.

A Theater Audience

Honoré Daumier, 19th century

Loose pencil sketch on aged paper showing small figures, possibly children, and animals within a rough composition.

Children

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

The Cardinal Pacca

Jacques-Louis David, n.d.

Chalk drawing of a standing woman in a headscarf holding two children, rendered in black and red chalk on pale paper.

Woman with Two Children

Jérôme-François Chantereau, 1740