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Drawings & Sketches

79,494 works

Pencil sketch of mountains and a foreground hill with handwritten color notes such as blue, brown, and cloud on cream paper.

Mountains, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, 1890

Ink and wash architectural design of an altar with columns, a coffered arch, a niche statue, and a floor plan below.

Design for an altar for St. Anthony of Padua

Andrea Pozzo, 1700

Pen drawing of a classical gateway elevation with pediment, pilasters, and cherub relief, with a ground plan below.

Design for an Elevation of a Gateway, Abbey at Rebais (Seine et Marne)

Claude Louis D'Aviler, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of five vertical pilaster strips with medallions, garlands, and small standing figures.

Design for the Decorations of Five Pilaster Strips

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pen and wash architectural drawing of an altar and ironwork choir grill with cherub heads, with a floor plan below.

Design for an Altar and Choir Grill, Abbey at Rebais

Claude Louis D'Aviler

Graphite and white chalk sketch of boulders in the foreground with mountain ridges receding into the distance.

Sketch from Mount Chocorua

Daniel Huntington, 1860

Red chalk sketch of angels with a diagonal cross and draped shroud, showing overlapping figure studies on a pale sheet.

Angels Carrying the Holy Cross and Shroud

Mattia Preti, 1660

Brown ink and wash drawing of two horses pulling a chariot beside a shielded warrior, with white highlights.

Triumphal Scene

Lelio Orsi, 1531-87

Pen and wash drawing in a circle of the Circumcision of Christ, with a priest holding the infant and the Virgin watching.

The Circumcision of Christ

Sebald Beham, 1510-50

Pencil and white gouache sketch of snow-capped alpine peaks and steep slopes on brown paper, by Frederic Edwin Church.

Basin of the Obersee, near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil drawing of a leafy tree behind a wooden fence, with a path curving along the right side.

Study of a Tree

Tina Blau, 1863

Circular pen and ink drawing with wash of a garden of love, with bathing women, courting couples, musicians and a town skylin

The Garden of Love

Jörg Breu the Younger, 16th century

Brown ink and wash architectural drawing of a domed mausoleum with elevations, a plan, and measurement notes.

Design for a Mausoleum

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pencil landscape of leaning umbrella pines and a small stone building beside shrubs, with a pale open sky.

Landscape

Alexandre Calame, 1825-64

Reclining nude woman with red hair resting on a round mirror, draped in white cloth, against an ochre background.

Reclining Nude

Pierre Victor Galland, 1900

Drawing of seated Saint Catherine with curled hair and a spiked wheel, in brown ink on a dark blue ground.

Saint Catherine

Lucas Cranach the Elder, late 15th-mid-16th century

Two watercolor studies of resting brown and white calves, one lying under a tree and one asleep in grass.

Studies of Calves, Stockbridge

Samuel Colman, 1870

Watercolor drawing of an octagonal gazebo with twisted columns, garlands, broad stairs and statues on terraces.

Gazebo

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, 1810

A Swiss Foot Soldier

Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, early 16th century

Pencil and white chalk sketch of a rocky mountain peak with boulders, a bare tree and distant ridges on grey paper.

Looking South, Mount Mansfield, Vermont

Daniel Huntington, 1860

Pen and brown wash drawing of a robed figure kneeling at an altar as a priest gestures toward rising smoke, with onlookers.

Ceiling Design for the Consecration of Numa, Sala di Numa Pompilius, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

Red chalk drawing of a bearded man reading a book beside a crucifix, a skull and a donkey in a rocky landscape.

Saint Francis Reading

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, 1747

Pencil and white chalk sketch of a bare tree with exposed roots on a rocky slope, by Frederic Edwin Church.

Königssee Tree, Bavaria (Germany)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pen and brown ink sketch of a row of classical columns, sphinxes, an obelisk and a domed pavilion on a terrace.

Design for a Table Centerpiece

Giuseppe Barberi, 1790

Pencil sketch of a kneeling female nude above two studies of winged angels on pale paper.

Kneeling Female Nude and Two Studies of Angels

Georg Rafael Donner, early 18th century

Pencil sketch sheet of five sheep in varied poses, several with heads lowered to graze, on a light tan paper.

Studies of Sheep

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Pen and wash drawing of a man in military uniform and bicorne hat on an ornately decorated horse in a landscape.

Equestrian Portrait of Napoleon

Brown ink and wash drawing of a nude figure bound to a column while two men raise whips in a colonnaded hall.

Sketchbook Page: Flagellation of Christ

Felice Giani, 1810

Watercolor of an elderly sculptor working on a small statue beside a seated nude model in a studio of classical sculptures.

Preparation for the Academy - Old Joseph Nollekens and his Venus

Thomas Rowlandson, 1805

Pen and wash drawing of a covered bowl with knotted handles on a footed stand with paw feet.

Design for a Covered Bowl with Stand

Henri Auguste, ca. 1770-1816

Pencil sketch of a leafless tree with spreading bare branches, with handwritten colour notes along the bottom edge.

Study of a Dead Oak Tree

Daniel Huntington, 1830

Pale white stylized flowers and leaves on brown paper, with a repeating floral border along the bottom edge.

Design for an Embroidered or Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1810