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Drawings & Sketches

79,657 works

Charcoal drawing of crows perched on rocks and a dead tree trunk under a striped cloudy sky, by Karl Wiener, 1942.

"Individualisten" (Krähen)

Karl Wiener, 1942

Pen and brown wash drawing of two classical scenes with cherubs, clouds, columns and nude figures, designs for a box.

Designs for the Top and Bottom of a Small Rectangular Box

Louis-Félix Delarue

Pen and wash design for a classical wall elevation with central fireplace, columns, and two painted landscape panels.

Design for a Wall Elevation

Étienne de Lavallée-Poussin, ca. 1770-80

Architectural drawing with a north elevation of a classical palace above and its ground plan below, in pen and wash.

North Elevation and Ground Plan of the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo

Giacomo Quarenghi, 1792-96

Architectural elevation of a palace salon wall with columns, arched painted panels, winged figures and a central doorway.

Central Salon of the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo

Giacomo Quarenghi, 1792-96

Brown wash drawing of an ornate urn with a lid, garlands and scrolled band on a pedestal, with foliage behind.

Study for a Vase in a Suite of Vase Designs

Louis Joseph le Lorrain

Ink and wash elevation drawing of a classical wall tomb with columns, a central sarcophagus, bust, and flanking armored figur

Elevation for a Wall Tomb

Jean-Michel Moreau

Pen and brown ink drawing of muscular nude male figures walking in a procession, one with a raised arm.

Triumphal Procession

Baccio Bandinelli

Pen and ink drawing of two standing male nudes, one holding a sword and wearing a plumed helmet, on beige paper.

Two Male Nudes

Baccio Bandinelli, 1520

Pen drawing of a classical scene with an ornate ship, soldiers, robed figures, columns and a domed building.

Aeneas's Farewell to Dido

Pen and grey wash design for a burgonet helmet with a central relief scene, scrollwork, sea gods and a reclining figure.

Design for a Burgonet Helmet

Jean Cousin, 1545

Pen and grey wash design of a rococo cartouche with putti and monkeys perched on scrolling ornament and a central mask.

Design for a Rococo Cartouche with Putti and Monkeys

Clément Pierre Marillier

Hand-coloured drawing of the Hofburg courtyard in Vienna with a carriage, soldiers, a sentry box and pedestrians.

"Innere Ansicht der K.K. Hofburg" / "Place de la Cour Imple et Royle à Vienne" (mit Staffage des 2. Etat von J. A. Kl…

Carl Schütz, 1812

Pen and watercolor design of an ornate etui and a chatelaine with pendants, decorated with rococo scrollwork and ribbons.

Designs for an Etui and a Chatelaine

Watercolor design sheet with a snuff box lid, a floral frieze, and a circular rosette ornament in pastel colors.

Design for a Snuff Box

Grey wash drawing of a blacksmith shoeing a rearing white horse, with a helper and a figure behind, by Pieter van Bloemen.

Smid tracht een paard te beslaan

Pieter van Bloemen, 1667

Colored design drawing of a decorative etui above a chatelaine with pink and blue panels, floral garlands and rococo ornament

Designs for a Chatelaine and an Etui

Watercolor of a sailing ship anchored in a rocky cove, with rowing boats and figures on the beach.

Gezicht op Tarente en haven van Luogo Vivo

Louis Ducros, 1778

Watercolor of a barefoot man in a hat smoking a pipe, leaning on a wooden railing with a fishing net and landscape behind him

Pijprokende, staande man met, van voren

Johannes Engel Masurel, 1850

Pen drawing of mounted Imperial Guard artillerymen in plumed helmets on a smoky battlefield, with a dead horse in the foregro

Bereden artilleristen van de Keizerlijke Garde op het slagveld

Justus Pieter de Veer, 1809

Pencil sketch of tangled tree trunks and branches with shaded foliage on aged, stained paper.

Boomstudie

Matthijs Maris, 1849

Studie van een man met een stok over zijn schouder

Matthijs Maris, 1849

Pencil study of a standing girl with long hair and loose drapery, drawn on pale paper.

Studie van een staand meisje

Matthijs Maris, 1849

Hand-colored 1858 map of Vienna's inner city showing street blocks, red building lots, green parks, and the Danube canal.

Innere kais. kön. Haupt- u. Residenz-Stadt Wien, 1858. Verfasst im k. k. Ministerium des Innern. Lithogr. u. gedr. in…

Eduard Strache, 1858

Ink and wash design for a fountain with two nude male figures supporting a basin, putti and garlands below.

Design for a Fountain

Charles Pierre Joseph Normand

Pencil sketch of a standing young woman with one arm raised over her head, face tilted upward, in a long dress.

Studie van een staand meisje met geheven arm

Matthijs Maris, 1849

Pencil sheet with studies of heads and figures, including a large female head in a headcloth and several small seated and sta

Studies van koppen en figuren

Matthijs Maris, 1849

Charcoal sketch on tan paper of tree trunks and branches with undergrowth, a torn white gap across the center.

Zittende man met strohoed onder een groepje bomen

Matthijs Maris, 1849

Schets van een meisje bij een vogelkooi

Matthijs Maris, 1849

Ink and wash drawing of an ornate Rococo cartouche with an empty oval center and scrolling foliage borders.

Study for a Cartouche

Gilles-Marie Oppenord

Pencil and wash botanical study of tall umbel plants with green seed pods on a grey-brown sheet.

Studies of Plants

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, 1874

Pen and ink drawing of a veiled woman reading in an ornate Baroque cartouche with rays of light and tablets below.

Study for a Decorated Initial A with the Annunciation

Gilles-Marie Oppenord