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Drawings & Sketches

79,491 works

Charcoal drawing of a stone house with steps descending to a garden terrace, trees, and a cloudy sky.

La propriété Leboeuf-Thys à Dalhem

René Janssens, 1880

Watercolor of a standing man with a book beside a seated woman holding an infant on a balcony, with a cradle and landscape.

Francesca di Rimini en Paolo di Polenta met kind op een balkon

Edouard Hamman, 1829

Charcoal drawing of a furnished interior with an ornate fireplace, rococo mirror, armchair, and a vase of flowers on a table.

Interieur van het kantoor van meneer en mevrouw R. Janssens, Avenue Molière

René Janssens, 1880

Pastel drawing of a thatched farmhouse behind a blossoming tree and wooden fence, with a dirt path in the foreground.

Boerderij met boomgaard

William Degouve de Nuncques, 1918

Pencil sketch of a man in a hat and cloak raising a lantern that casts a glow across an open, cloudy landscape.

Red Light

Winslow Homer, 1880

Brown ink drawing of a tavern interior with timber roof beams, men seated at a table and a standing man beside a pillar.

Roomalainen osteria

Alexander Lauréus, 1822

Pen and ink drawing of a reclining classical male figure in draped cloth, with a small seated figure in the upper left.

General Bonchamp Shown in a Pose Designed for His Tomb (recto); Three Figures after Poussin (verso)

Pierre-Jean David d'Angers, 19th century

Majoor von Gagern, op de rug gezien

Jacob Joseph Eeckhout, 1803

Drawing in gray chalk and wash of a bearded man in a long overcoat standing with a cane on a tan ground.

Gewonde soldaat met kruk onder linkerarm

Jacob Joseph Eeckhout, 1803

Sepia drawing of a hospital ward with soldiers in beds and a woman in a white gown visiting with officers.

Prinses van Oranje bezoekt het soldatenhospitaal te 's-Gravenhage

Jacob Joseph Eeckhout, 1803

Portret van Luitenant Jacobs, te paard

Jacob Joseph Eeckhout, 1803

Charcoal and chalk sketch of five boys in caps and jackets walking across sand, with a crouching figure at left.

Study for "Snap the Whip"

Winslow Homer, 1870

Watercolor of a seated woman beside a spinning wheel and an arched window, with a red chair and a bird on the sill.

Greteken bij het spinrokken, zittend bij een open raam

Nicaise de Keyser, 1842

Brown wash drawing of figures harvesting hay in an open landscape, with a loaded cart, horses, a bridge and dogs.

De hooioogst

Joseph Moerenhout, 1811

Pencil sketch of a waterfall among shrubs and cypress trees, with a mountain ridge and stone wall in the background.

Vattenfall med berg

Alexander Lauréus, 1820

Watercolor of a cluttered 1838 artist's studio with painters, easels, framed canvases, and figures in a timber-roofed room.

Adriaen Brouwer bij zijn leerling J. van Craesbeek

Jean Baptiste Madou, 1838

The Allegorical Figure of France for the Tomb of General Bonchamp

Pierre-Jean David d'Angers, 19th century

Loose black ink sketch of spectators gathered in conversation on a racetrack, with horses and trees suggested in quick stroke

Toeschouwers in gesprek op de renbaan te Boitsfort

Rik Wouters, 1892

Ink and wash design sketch of ornamental wall and ceiling panels with scrollwork, mythological figures, and a portrait medall

Project for a Ceiling

Giuseppe Mannocchi, 1800

Pen and brown ink drawing of a symmetrical trophy of war weapons with crossed banners, helmet, trumpets, and a central shield

One of a set of trophies of weapons of war as a decoration for a horizontal panel

Francesco Bedeschini, 1690

Brown ink drawing of a woman holding a lantern at a window, beside a study of a bearded old man.

Nainen ja lyhty

Alexander Lauréus, 1819

Pen and ink sheet of studies: an older man's head, a crosshatched head, a lion, a mouse, and a bird head.

Sheet of Studies: Three Male Heads, a Lion and a Mouse

Pierre-Jean David d'Angers, 1800-1856

Pencil sketch of a sunset over the sea with cloud forms and handwritten notes on colours and tones.

Sunset at Sea, Ecuador, Part Three

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a covered champan river boat with figures, a standing woman, a bush, and a thatched hut with palm.

Mixed Sketches with a Champan, Río Magdalena, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Brown wash drawing of a seated man with spectacles reading a paper beside a young boy in a workshop interior.

Suutariverstaassa

Alexander Lauréus, 1800

Brown wash drawing of a woman with long hair crouching in a fur garment, with pencil outline of legs at right.

Crouching Woman

Fernand Cormon, n.d.

Pen and wash architectural drawing of a rococo paneled door beside a carved pilaster and an oval floor panel.

Design for a door of an organ loft

F. Cornille, 1800

Pencil sketch of a man in a long coat and top hat walking across a wide, flat landscape under a pale sky.

Landschap met een wandelaar

Anton Mauve, 1848

Pencil landscape drawing of dense shrubs and trees on a sandy slope, with open sky and a distant horizon on the right.

Landschap met struiken

Anton Mauve, 1848

Pencil sketch of a horse pulling a covered wagon with passengers and a walking driver across an open field.

Paard en wagen

Anton Mauve, 1848

Pencil sketch of a market scene with vendors, buyers, a horse and cart, and a uniformed rider.

Torikohtaus, hevoskärryjä, kauppiaita ja ostajia

Werner Holmberg, 1848

Pencil elevations of a carved console table and chair with a plan view and scale notations on cream paper.

Design Projects, Table and Chair Elevations

Carl J. Furst, c. 1860-1870