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Drawings & Sketches

79,494 works

Grey wash drawing of a Dutch waterside street with a tree, a moored sailing boat, gabled buildings and figures with barrels.

Gezicht op de Amstel gezien op brouwerij De Roskam en het Diaconieweeshuis

Gerrit Lamberts, 1818

Portret van een jonge vrouw

Johannes Körnlein, 1770

Red and black chalk portrait of a seated man with curly hair, white collar and cloak beside a draped curtain.

Portret van een man

Johannes Körnlein, 1766

Red chalk drawing of a woman riding a mule with cattle, sheep and goats fording a river toward a hilltop town.

Vrouw op muilezel

Johannes Körnlein, 1769

Pastel drawing of a pale smoke plume rising beside a dark building and rubble under a night sky.

II. Weltkrieg

Karl Wiener, 1940

Pen drawing of an ornate rococo frame with cypress trees, trellis work, scrollwork and a radiant emblem at the top.

Design for Frame with Trees and Trellises

Johann Oktavian Salver, 1755

Red chalk drawing of a seated woman in a headscarf turning a pancake in a pan in a domestic interior.

Pannenkoekenbakster

Johannes Körnlein, 1768

Red chalk drawing of elegantly dressed figures on ice before a town with a church tower, by Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, 1766.

Elegant gezelschap op het ijs

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, 1766

Ink drawing of a rococo ornamental frame with scrollwork, acanthus leaves, birds and a grotesque mask around a blank center.

Design for the Stucco Decoration of a Rococo Ceiling

Johann Oktavian Salver, 1755

Grey wash drawing of rocks, trees and animals framing a blank central panel, with an owl, squirrel, birds and an otter.

Design for a Title Page(?): Rocks and Animals

Joseph Martin Nideröst, late 18th century

Pen and grey wash drawing of a rococo altar design with twisted columns and a relief of Saint Michael and the dragon.

Design for an Alter with Saint Michael and the Dragon

Johann Baptist Modler, 1715-74

Pen and wash drawing of a harbor with sailing ships, a fortified tower, arched bridge, and a statue on a pedestal.

Harbor Scene

Nikolaus Gottfried Stuber, ca. 1730

Grey wash allegorical drawing with classical figures around a pedestal, a winged putto pointing to dated scrolls 1632, 1732,

Allegorie op het tweede eeuwfeest van het Athenaeum Illustre te Amsterdam, 1832

François Joseph Pfeiffer, 1832

Grey wash allegory with a seated woman, books, globe, instruments, portrait medallions and dates 1632, 1732, 1832.

Allegorie op het tweede eeuwfeest van het Athenaeum Illustre te Amsterdam, 1832

Dirk Sluyter, 1832

Watercolor drawing of a symmetrical palace facade with slate roofs and gilded ornaments, viewed across a forecourt and bridge

Het Huis te Honselaersdijk en omgeving, over het voorplein te zien

Abraham Beerstraten, 1640

Portret van Wilhelmina, koningin der Nederlanden

W. Mulders, 1898

Drawing of a ceiling design with the Presentation in the Temple, angels in clouds, and ornate rococo scrollwork around an arc

Ceiling Design with the Presentation in the Temple

Gregorio de' Ferrari, 1647-1726

Pen drawing of a woman between two bearded men under an ornate arch, with skeletons and inscribed banners, dated 1628.

Design for Stained Glass

Hans Ganting the Younger, 1628

Watercolor of well-dressed figures gathered on mossy rock outcrops in a wooded landscape under a pale sky.

A Royal Party Admiring the Sunset atop the Hesselberg Mountain

Johann Georg von Dillis, 1801

Circular ceiling design in blue watercolor with winged dancing figures around a central chariot scene with horses.

Design for Ceiling: Apollo and the Hours

Angelica Kauffmann, 1760-1807

Pen and wash design drawing of a stove and wall fountain with paneled sections, arched niche, urn and carved figures.

Design for a Stove and Wall Fountain (?)

Friedrich Sustris, 1598

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bearded saint seen from behind, holding a staff with a bell, beside a pig at a pedestal.

Saint Anthony the Abbot

Alonso Cano, 1645

Pen and watercolor caricature of an engraver as a draped urn figure with a face, open books, feathers and medallions.

Caricature of an Engraver (recto); Sketch for a Caricature (verso)

Jean Charles Delafosse

Grey wash architectural elevation of a palace façade with columns, arched windows, and statues along the roofline.

Design for a Palace Façade

Carl Hårleman, early-mid 18th century

Drawing of three young women in white blouses with trees behind them, the middle one wearing a blue floral dress.

A Triple Portrait of Hermine, Emilia, and Helena

Emilie Mediz-Pelikan, 1897

Watercolor interior design sketch with a grey floor, a black ornamental frieze, and a pink and blue patterned rug in the corn

View of Interior for Paris Exhibition 1925, with Rugs

Erik Gunnar Asplund, 1824

Grey wash drawing of a cliffside monastery with cypress trees, two robed monks on a path, and a stormy sky.

Monastery of Mega Spileon, Greece

Peter Toft, 1896

Pen and wash drawing of a papal tiara and crossed keys within an ornamental cartouche with a blank tablet below.

Papal Cartouche

Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, ca. 1740-41

Watercolor of a haloed winged angel embracing three young men in robes amid swirling red flames.

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the Fiery Furnace

Simeon Solomon, Oct. 1863

Pen and grey wash drawing of a goddess of music among clouds with a winged harpist, putti, and crowds below in a rococo frame

The Goddess of Music Distributing Her Gifts to the Nations

Hubert François Gravelot, 18th century

Charcoal drawing of café patrons: a bobbed-hair woman, a mustached man, a bespectacled bald man and a figure in a fedora.

Im Café

Karl Wiener, 1928

Pencil drawing of an ornate baroque funerary monument with a coat of arms on a church pillar, with handwritten notes.

Gezicht op het grafmonument van Willem Eggert in de Nieuwe Kerk te Amsterdam

Hermanus Petrus Schouten, 1757