New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome and Firefox. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome Add to Firefox

Drawings & Sketches

79,493 works

Brown and white drawing of Apollo driving a chariot of four rearing horses, with a nude youth below.

Apollo Driving the Chariot of the Sun

Lelio Orsi, 1544/45

Pencil sketch of a sailboat and rowboat by a log boathouse on a rocky shoreline.

Rantalaituri, luonnos maalaukseen Rantalaituri ja venevaja (A IV 3570)

Wilhelm von Wright

Drawing of a winged figure with a halo seated on a globe inscribed ETERNITAS, holding a candle, on blue-grey paper.

Allegory of Eternity

Giorgio Vasari, 1544/45

Pen and wash drawing of an architectural façade elevation with columns, a statue in a niche, and a seated figure on a scroll.

Design in Elevation for the Façade of a Building

Cigoli, 1590-1610

Pencil sketch of Horseshoe Falls on the Niagara River with mist and a faint double rainbow above the cascade.

Horseshoe Falls with a Double Rainbow, Niagara River, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Adolf von Wright, the artist's brother

Wilhelm von Wright, 1844

Colored ink drawing of a seated violinist in a brown jacket playing violin against a dense, dark hatched background.

"Geiger", Graz

Karl Wiener, 1924

Pen and watercolor drawing of Jacob wrestling a winged angel beside a river and large tree.

Jacob and the Angel

Johann Jacob Eybelwieser, late 17th-mid-18th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a fallen rider and horse beneath a figure in clouds, with startled onlookers around.

The Conversion of Saint Paul

Giorgio Vasari, 1554

Pencil sketch of a canoe with three men on a river, framed by trees and shoreline, with reflections in the water.

Canoe with Three Men, Ile Maligne, Quebec

Winslow Homer, 1890

The Head of a Young Man in Profile to the Left (recto); Studies of Allegorical Figures (verso)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1749/50 (recto); 1750/53 (verso)

Three boys stand on a street in watercolor and pencil, one with a backpack, with figures and a soldier in the background.

Three boys from Auvergne

Martinus Rørbye, 1834

Pencil portrait of an elderly woman in a lace cap and shawl, hands folded, dated 18 January 1844.

Maria Elisabeth von Wright, the artist's mother

Wilhelm von Wright, 1844

Pen and grey wash drawing of The Last Judgment with angels in the sky and crowds of nude figures rising and falling below.

The Last Judgment

Michael Herr, 1615-20

Pen and wash drawing of an interior with cooking figures at left, a robed man before a canopied bed at right.

The Discovery of Guaiacum as a Cure for Venereal Disease

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

R.W. Ekman

Carl Eneas Sjöstrand

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds with the Virgin, infant Christ, shepherds, and angels above.

Adoration of the Shepherds

Francesco Fontebasso, c. 1750

Pen drawing of a walled medieval city with a church spire, with surveyors and sight lines in the landscape foreground.

Perspectival Study with a View of a Medieval City

Matthäus Merian the Elder, 1613-50

Istuva Tora, sivukuva japanilaisesta pojasta

Venny Soldan-Brofeldt, 1916

Pen and grey wash drawing of a woman with a child beside a sphere, compass and drafting tools, dated 1619.

Allegory of Sculpture

Johann Andreas Rauch, 1619

Brown wash drawing of white-hatted Punchinello figures around a collapsed man, with a donkey and rocky cliff at left.

Punchinello Collapses on the Road, from the series Divertimento per li regazzi (Entertainment for Children)

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, c. 1791

Pencil sketch of trees, shrubs and a flock of birds in flight, with handwritten notes about colour and foliage greens.

Birds and Trees along the Río Magdalena, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Sepia drawing of six classical-style oil lamps, several with grotesque human heads and reclining or seated figures as handles

Six Lamps in Classical Style

Giulio Romano, 1540

Pencil sketch of a young boy seated on a stool beside a piano keyboard, turned toward the viewer.

Heikki pianon ääressä

Venny Soldan-Brofeldt

Ink and wash drawing of a seated goddess in a chariot pulled by lions, with attendants, satyrs and a basket of fruit.

The Triumph of Cybele, after Paolo Fiammingo's "Triumph of Earth"

Hans Friedrich Schorer, 1634

Pen and wash drawing of nude helmeted soldiers with shields and raised weapons advancing together in a crowded group.

Nude Soldiers Gesticulating with Their Weapons (recto); Two Drapery Studies for the Figure of Tatius (verso)

Jacques-Louis David, 1796/97

Brown ink drawing of a galley with oarsmen approaching sirens with serpentine tails in the sea, under clouds.

Odysseus and the Sirens

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Pen and wash design drawing of a candlestick with a nude youth holding an urn cup beside a coiled serpent.

Design for a Candlestick

Pietro Belli, 1820

Sepia drawing of a haloed figure striking a rock as people and animals gather to drink water in three panels.

Mooses lyö vettä kalliosta, kopio Murillon mukaan

Venny Soldan-Brofeldt, 1880

Brown wash drawing of a farmhouse beside a winding road, with large trees and a distant town under cloudy skies.

Landscape with Buildings and a Town in the Distance (recto); Study of a Building (verso)

Pencil drawing of two women seated in a furnished parlor beside a fireplace, one reclining in a tufted armchair.

Comtesse Charles d’Agoult (born Marie de Flavigny) and Her Daughter Claire d’Agoult

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1849

Brown ink and wash design drawing of a candlestick with two putti, acanthus leaves, and an oval cartouche on a pedestal.

Design for a Candlestick

Jacques III Roëttiers, 1770