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Drawings & Sketches

79,656 works

Pen and wash drawing of a street market with merchants and crowds above, and imprisoned figures in arches below.

Study for a Title-Page: Allegory of Commerce and a Debtor's Prison (?)

Romeyn de Hooghe, n.d.

Pen and brown wash drawing of a figure driving crowds from a colonnaded temple, with a fallen table and arching gestures.

Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple

Frans Floris, 1530-70

Ink drawing of tangled, contorted figures with cross-hatched strokes inside a rectangle, titled Irrsinn.

Irrsinn

Karl Wiener, 1922

Pen and brown ink drawing of an eagle in a tree preaching to deer, a lion, sheep, and birds gathered below.

An Eagle Preaching to the Animals

Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, 16th century

Blue wash drawing of a couple in period dress in a bedchamber with a canopy bed, a dog, and a third woman at right.

Study for an engraving in the Hortus Voluptatum

Crispijn de Passe the Elder, 1599

Portretten van Johan Huizinga en Marinus van Notten

Willem Vogelsang, 1923

Pencil drawing of a funeral procession with carriages, a draped hearse, and rows of mourners in cloaks.

Zes verschillende manieren van begraven, ca. 1750

Simon Fokke, 1776

Pen drawing of a caricature: a standing man with a Telegraaf banner over a sprawled figure labeled Hugo Nolthenius.

Hugo Nolthenius liggend op de grond voor een staande man die met Telegraaf zwaait

Petrus van Geldorp, 1894

Pen and brown ink ornamental design with cherubs, garlands, a floral urn, and scrollwork, framed by a double border.

Ornamental Design

Jacob Roer, ca. 1694

Handwritten Dutch postcard in dark ink on cream paper, with a salutation at top and a signature at lower right.

Briefkaart aan Jan Ponstijn

Leo Gestel, 1919

Pen sketch on a postcard of a figure in a cap playing a horn above rippling water, with handwritten note at right.

Briefkaart aan Jan Ponstijn

Leo Gestel, 1911

Watercolor of old tiled-roof buildings beside a dirt road, with a canal and moored sailing boats at left.

Gezicht op enkele gebouwen aan de Omval

Tinus de Jongh, 1919

Pen and wash drawing of soldiers and onlookers gathered beneath a draped tent canopy in a military camp.

Design for a Title Page: A General and His Army Looking at a Map

Jan Antoine Coxie, late 17th century

Four-panel isometric drawing of Vienna showing palaces, a church, gardens and dense city blocks in brown and green tones.

Isometrische Projection verschiedener Stadttheile

August Sicard von Sicardsburg, 1858

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Last Supper with Christ and apostles at a table, servants, and draped curtains in an interi

The Last Supper

Nicolaas van der Horst, early to mid-17th century

Pen drawing of a man in a hat pruning a bare tree with a curved knife, inside an oval frame labeled FEBRVARIVS.

The Month of February: Man Pruning a Tree

Erasmus Hornick, 16th century

Pen and wash drawing of a winged putto blowing a horn while holding a cloud, with a face in the sky above.

Putto Holding a Cloud and Horn

Crispijn de Passe the Elder, late 16th-mid 17th century

Red chalk drawing of nude Andromeda chained to rock as a sea monster with open jaws rears at left.

Andromeda, after Agostino Carracci

Pieter Tanjé, 18th century

Ink and wash drawing of an interior with two robed figures, an open book and tablets, and a town square beyond.

Vanitas

called Stradanus Jan van der Straet, mid-16th-early 17th century

Grey wash drawing of allegorical figures, a globe, a nude statue on a pedestal and a winged trumpeter under classical arches.

Design for a Frontispiece of a Title Page

Gérard de Lairesse, n.d.

Pencil sketches of horses in various poses, including rearing and galloping figures, on pale paper.

Studies of Horses

Eugène Delacroix

Brown wash drawing of a woman reading an open book at a table beside a candlestick, with a chair and tall windows behind her.

Lezende vrouw aan tafel

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Brown wash drawing of an interior with a seated woman, a standing man at a table, and three women by open windows.

Interieur met Christiaan Andriessen en drie dames

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Graphite study of a hooded rider on horseback leading robed attendants and a crowd before a city wall, with a parasol overhea

Study for "The Sultan of Morocco and His Entourage"

Eugène Delacroix, 1845

Grey wash drawing of an interior with curtained windows, a table with seated children, a standing man, and a woman holding a

Interieur met een moeder en een kind

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Pen and grey wash drawing of adults playing a game while seated on the floor of a paneled room, with standing onlookers.

Groep volwassen mensen spelen een gezelschapspel terwijl zij op de grond zitten

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Sepia wash drawing of a seated woman at a table and a standing man in a dark coat pointing toward a window.

Mevrouw Focke krijgt les van Christiaan Andriessen

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Sepia drawing of a seated man at a table with two women and an older bald man leaning in, in a paneled room.

Andriessen met een man en twee vrouwen bestuderen de theorieën van Franz Joseph Gall

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Brown wash drawing of a sunlit room with two women at a table and a man in a long coat standing by the window.

Mevrouw Gallas bespreekt de huur van een huis met Christiaan Andriessen

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Watercolor of a bearded man in a blue doublet and red breeches writing with a quill at a desk in an interior.

Mathurin Régnier

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1846

Brown wash drawing of a man in a coat holding a woman's hand beside a candlelit table in an interior.

Christiaan Andriessen komt laat thuis en een vrouw wenst hem een goede nacht

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Grey wash drawing of two men seated at a table by a window, with a chest of drawers and mirror in the room.

Christiaan Andriessen aan tafel met een andere man

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805