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Drawings & Sketches

79,488 works

Portrait of Hortense Valpinçon (Mme. Jacques Fourchy)

Edgar Degas, 1883

Pen and brown ink drawing of a frieze with scrolling foliage, a skull, an oval cartouche, and a small creature with annotatio

Design for a Frieze: "Time"

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen drawing of a small bird flying over a cross-hatched domed structure on a ground line, on cream paper with a color card ab

Frei

Karl Wiener, 1921

Faint pencil sketch of landscape forms on aged paper mounted in a grey album page.

Bivouac with Unhitched Army Wagons

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pencil sketch of a riverbank with tropical foliage, a tall palm, and mountains receding into the distance.

Riverbank and Mountains from the Río Magdalena, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Watercolor of four figures in a tiled interior with an arched doorway, a man in a dark cloak and a man in a blue coat.

Freiheit in Krähwinkel 1 Act. Hr. Nestroy. Me. Schmid. Dlle Herzog und Scholz

Johann Christian Schoeller, 1848

Pencil sketch of a lion resting its head on the ground with eyes closed, mane shaded in loose strokes.

The Head of a Recumbent Lion

Pen and brown wash drawing of a stone town gateway with an arched doorway, pediment, finial and small figures on top.

Gateway of a town with alternatives

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pen and wash architectural drawing of an arched portal with a balcony, a seated figure above, and a standing figure at left.

Design for left half of a portal with balcony

Carlo Marchionni, 1720

Colored drawing of three men in an interior with patterned wallpaper, one bowing deeply while two stand upright beside a cabi

Freiheit in Krähwinkel. Die Reaction 3 Act. Hr. Nestroy als Metternich, Grois und Scholz

Johann Christian Schoeller, 1848

Architectural front elevation drawing of the Lakeside Press Building with arched windows, storefronts, and dimension notes.

Lakeside Press Building, Chicago, Illinois, Front Elevation

Treat & Shaw Associated Architects, 11/9/1896

Self-Portrait; wearing a top hat facing left within a drawn frame (recto); two studies of his face (verso)

Francisco Goya, ca. 1797-98

Watercolor and pencil view of a town with twin church towers across a calm lake, under a warm peach sky.

Viborg Seen from Asmild Klosterhave near Søndersø

Martinus Rørbye, 1830

Brown wash drawing of a domed classical fountain pavilion with columns, a tall column on top, and small figures around a basi

Desing for a Fountain

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pencil sketch of tall cypress trees with shaded foliage on pale paper, inscribed with a Villa d'Este note.

Cypress, Villa d'Este, After Cropsey

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Pencil drawing of a raised torch held above a crowd of faces, with tents and a flag in the background.

Freiheit, Demokratie, Sozialismus!

Karl Wiener, 1930

Pencil drawing of a smiling balding man with curly hair in an oval frame, beside a book and a long gun on a table.

Portrait of the Composer André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813)

François Dumont, 1808

Pencil drawing of a maple branch with serrated leaves and two buds on a cream sheet, with a handwritten label at left.

Maple Leaves, Mt. Desert

Samuel Colman, 1870

Loose oil sketch of a twilight sky with pink and orange clouds over a dark horizon and olive ground.

Twilight, Color Effects

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Watercolor sketch of a bowed woman in a dark headscarf and grey dress, head lowered, one hand resting on her skirt.

Mother Mourning, a sketch for Childhood Memory

Juho Rissanen, 1903

Painting of a ruined castle on a hill above a valley, with a lit thatched cottage and storm clouds overhead.

Landscape with Castle

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Painted study of a sunlit hillside with a winding dirt path, shrubs and rounded trees under a pale blue sky.

Hillside, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Painting of two standing women in red and green dresses with a seated man playing violin against a blue sky.

Dancing Girls and a Violin Player, detail sketch for the National Theatre ceiling

Yrjö Ollila, 1932

Loose watercolor and pencil landscape with slanting tree trunks, a pastel sky, and low hills beneath.

Landscape (recto); Sketch of rocks(?) (verso)

Paul Cézanne, 1890-95

Pencil sketch sheet of Egyptian-style figures in robes and turbans, a veiled woman, a child, and a tower with a domed top.

Sketches of Figures and a Signal Tower, Egypt

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Oil painting of a child in a white dress and a girl in a red dress seated outdoors against a dusky landscape with trees.

A Child and a Young Girl, Portrait Sketch

Berndt Abraham Godenhjelm

Open sketchbook with a pencil drawing of a seated female nude on the right page and faint blue outline on the left.

Album of Forty-five Figure Studies

Edgar Degas, ca. 1882-85

Ink painting of a smiling seated monk beside a bundle of tea whisks, with calligraphy above and a brocade mount.

Monk Selling Ceremonial Tea Whisks

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1802

Head of a Saint (profile to the right), after Fra Angelico

Edgar Degas, n.d.

Ink and wash drawing of a robed figure leading two children through a Gothic arched doorway beside a suit of armour.

"Gotisk" scene. En skjald fører to børn ind i et gotisk hus

Martinus Rørbye, 1827-1829

Ink and wash drawing of a trophy with a shield, plumed helmet, spears, axes, arrows and drapery on a base.

Design for Trophy with Military Attributes

Jean Charles Delafosse, 1770

Pencil sketch of figures on a shore with a sailboat and bay, and women in long dresses standing near a railing.

Figures Looking Towards a Bay

Winslow Homer, 1900