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Drawings & Sketches

79,493 works

Brown wash drawing of a haloed, nude Christ rising from a tomb while sleeping soldiers lie beneath him with spears.

The Resurrection

Marco Zoppo, ca. 1465-70

Ink and pencil sketch of a standing man in a long 18th-century style coat with a dark cravat, seen from behind.

Mies 1700-luvun puvussa

Gunnar Berndtson

Pen and ink drawing of a papal escutcheon in a tabernacle, supported by angels and putti beside an empty oval cartouche.

A Tabernacle Containing a Papal Escutcheon Supported by Angels

Giulio Romano, ca. 1538-40

Ink and wash design drawing of an octagonal coffee urn with cherub medallions, classical heads, and a serpent-shaped spout.

Design for a Coffee Urn

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, 1810

Pencil sketch of a rounded hill over a meadow with a wooden fence, forest edge and distant buildings beside water.

Tunturimaisema

Ferdinand von Wright, 1856

Pastel study of a right hand resting on a surface, with red chalk shading and white highlights on brown paper.

Study of a Right Hand for the Portrait of countess Anna Joachima Danneskiold-Laurvigen

Jens Juel, 1790-1791

Brown wash drawing with white highlights showing two studies of muscular male figures and draped cloth.

Studies for Four Figures (recto); Composition Sketches for Groupings of Figures on Clouds (verso)

Palma il Giovane, 1600-14

Pencil sketch of a jagged iceberg with fractured edges and hatched shading against a blank sky.

Sketch of an Iceberg

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Grey wash stage design of an oriental temple with a seated statue, twisted columns, and a domed ceiling with carved animals.

Stage Design, Oriental Temple

Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, 1810

Pencil sketch of a lakeside manor house with outbuildings, pine trees and small boats along the shore.

Haminalahden kartano

Ferdinand von Wright

Grey wash drawing of Lot embraced by a daughter, with another daughter holding an urn and figures among rocks.

Lot and His Daughters

Nicolas Vleughels, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a windswept tree beside a classical colonnaded building with statues and a bridge.

Tree in Landscape with Building

Carlo Marchionni, 1770

Loose pencil sketch of fallen and diagonal tree trunks over a forest floor with sparse undergrowth on cream paper.

Fallen Trees, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Drawing of a bearded man in brown crayon, outlined in black like stained glass, with a red garment and patterned headband.

Ontwerp voor raam in het Zuidertransept van de Dom te Utrecht

Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst, 1878

Pen and ink design for a doorway with nude figures, putti, and medallions on a purple-washed ground.

Design for a Doorway

Monogrammist HT, 16th century

Brown ink and wash design of vertical wall panels with wheat sheaves, ribbon bows, flower garlands and leafy borders.

Design for Wall Decoration

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Grey wash drawing of the crowned Virgin and Child enthroned on clouds, with God the Father and a dove above and cherubs aroun

Madonna and Child Enthroned

Hans Werl, late 16th-early 17th century

Study for "The Presentation of Christ in the Temple" (for Saint Ulrich, Vienna)

Study for "The Presentation of Christ in the Temple" (for Saint Ulrich, Vienna)

Franz Anton Maulbertsch, c. 1750

Five Grotesque Figures

Pier Francesco Mola, 1610

Two line drawings of a decorated triumphal arch covered with candles and flags, one with a crest and lions on top.

Erepoorten bij het bezoek van Willem V aan Leeuwarden, 1773

Cornelis Rijp, 1773

Pencil drawing of a young man with short hair resting his hand on his chin, wearing a dark sweater, on tan paper.

Zelfportret (met hand)

Drawing of a bearded man with tousled hair resting his hand on his chin, gazing sideways, in charcoal on toned paper.

Portrait of a Young Man Leaning on his Hand

Hans Troschel, ca. 1620

Pencil sketch of a creek with shrubs, reeds and distant hills, dated Aug 1844 in the upper right corner.

Catskill Creek, Catskill, New York, Part Two

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Charcoal study of a woman with curly hair, arms raised to her head, looking upward, with a small hand study below.

"Gefesselte Phantasie - Raimund-Zyklus" (Studie zum Ferdinand Raimund Zyklus (Die gefesselte Phantasie) in Schloss Ko…

Josef Engelhart, 1912

Pen and ink drawing of a curly-haired Cupid leaning on a scroll, with two doves at the lower left.

Cupid with Two Doves

Toussaint Dubreuil

Horse

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Ferdinand von Wright, the artist's brother

Wilhelm von Wright, 1844

Pencil study of a bespectacled elderly man in a bow tie leaning on a draped table, legs visible beneath.

"Gefesselte Phantasie" (Studie zum Ferdinand Raimund Zyklus (Die gefesselte Phantasie) in Schloss Kogl, Attergau)

Josef Engelhart, 1912

Sketch of a dusky landscape with a glowing sunset behind orange-edged clouds and a dark rock outcrop at lower left.

Winter Afternoon at Olana, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

White chalk drawing on brown paper of two draped figures seated and embracing beside a stone bench.

A seated couple, embracing

Edward Burne-Jones, ca. 1865

Pencil portrait of a mustached man in a dark military uniform with epaulettes and a medal, dated 1844.

Fredrik von Wright, the artist's brother

Wilhelm von Wright, 1844

Ink drawing of a dusky mountain valley with a farmhouse, meadow in the foreground, and streaky clouds in a tan sky.

Gegen Abend

Karl Wiener, 1925