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Drawings & Sketches

79,656 works

Watercolor of a grey-blue caterpillar with orange and blue segment markings on a pale sheet with a thin border.

En natsommerfuglelarve

Pieter Holsteyn, 1600-1700

Grey wash drawing of a armoured man before a seated council, with gold rings spilling from a vessel under classical columns.

Hannibal Before the Senate in Carthage

Étienne-Pierre-Adrien Gois, 1798-99

Pen and watercolor drawing of a ruined stone gateway with a seated monk in the foreground.

Monk Seated Before a Ruined Gateway

François Marius Granet, n.d.

Ink drawing of a woman with dark bobbed hair and hat, eyes lowered, shoulders hatched, labeled LIST KW below.

List

Karl Wiener, 1921

Pen and ink drawing of a grotesque ornament with a fringed swag, scrolls, foliage, and a repeated looped band below.

Grotesque ornament comprising a swag and a repeated band

Andrés de Melgar, ca. 1545-60

Pen and ink ornament sheet with garlands, urns, a fret band, a grotesque mask and strapwork panels.

Three sections; uppermost with a Term and garlands; middle section geometric band; bottom section grotesques and stra…

Andrés de Melgar, ca. 1545-60

Watercolor copy of a Greek red-figure vase medallion showing a nude youth running with wine skins on a dark ground.

Copy after a Greek red-figure kylix with painting of a running youth with wine skins

Joakim Skovgaard, 1900

Pen and ink drawing of a female term on a pedestal with dogs, a winged creature, and ornamental scrollwork.

Female Term, seated figure, and fantastical creature (recto); Satyr and study of a woman and child (verso)

Andrés de Melgar, ca. 1545-60

Brown ink drawing of a tinker mending a leaking copper pot labeled with political bills, while a bowing man looks on.

Design for an English Political Satire

Hubert François Gravelot, 18th century

Pen and brown ink sketch of a seated woman in a headdress, with loose hatching and wash, on paper with a cut top corner.

A Woman at her Toilette

Willem Drost, 1650

Staande man met tas van opzij

Willem Drost, 1640

Brown ink sketch of an elderly bearded man reading at a desk in a study, with a lion lying nearby.

St Jerome Reading in his Study

Willem Drost, 1650

Pen and ink drawing of the ruined Tour Magne tower at Nîmes with figures in the foreground and birds in the sky.

Tour Magne at Nîmes

Gérard ter Borch

Pen sketch of men gathered at a table under trees in a tavern garden, drawn in brown ink with hatched shading.

Group of Figures at a Table in the Garden of a Tavern

Willem Drost, 1650

Red chalk drawing of an elderly woman in a headscarf, face tilted upward with deep wrinkles and open mouth.

Head of an Old Woman Looking Up

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, ca. 1763

Pencil drawing of Amsterdam-style buildings, a church spire, rooftops and a street with a pedestrian, by Rieke, 1861.

Gezicht op de Korenbeurs aan het Damrak

Johan Martinus Anthon Rieke, 1861

Red chalk sheet of studies showing hunters in plumed hats, a mounted rider, a greyhound and hounds, with steps behind.

Sheet of Studies with Hunters, Horses and Dogs

Pen and brown ink drawing of two standing men with a spear beside sleeping figures inside a tent.

David Preventing Abishai from Killing Saul

Willem Drost, 1650

Pencil drawing of a hilly landscape with a hilltop town, cattle standing in a pond, and distant hills under a pale sky.

Mountainous Landscape with Cattle in a Pond

Karel Dujardin, 1650

Pen and grey wash drawing of a standing horse wearing an ornate bridle, saddle and draped fringed cloth.

Staande ezel

Karel Dujardin, 1653

Red chalk drawing of a young girl with curled hair and a ribbon, gazing upward with a soft, expressive face.

Head of a Girl Looking Up

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, n.d.

Red chalk drawing of a girl's head tilted downward, with loose curls and a sketched shoulder on cream paper.

Girl's Head

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, n.d.

Watercolor page of a flea shown externally in brown tones and below in a transparent anatomical view with internal organs.

Hollandse vrouwenvlooi

Jan Brandes, 1770

Watercolor of a green grasshopper with long antennae on a page, with pencil underdrawing above and a Dutch caption below.

Javaanse sprinkhaan

Jan Brandes, 1783

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a winged insect with spread wings and feathery antennae on a manuscript page.

Vliegje

Jan Brandes, 1770

Watercolor page of a mushroom, grey mites, and a pale larva, with a pencil mite sketch and Dutch handwritten notes.

Champignonswormen

Jan Brandes, 1770

Watercolor drawing of three small insects, a green grasshopper, and a pink carnation with handwritten Dutch labels on a page.

Hollandse kever en Javaanse rijstsprinkhaan

Jan Brandes, 1770

Watercolor page of a praying mantis, several bees, and a hive sketch with handwritten Dutch notes, by Jan Brandes, 1783.

Javaanse bijen en sprinkhaan

Jan Brandes, 1783

Watercolor drawing of a river landscape with cottages, a walking figure with a staff, a bare tree and a distant farm.

Rivierlandschap met enige woningen

G. van Bosvelt, 1779

Watercolor of a drawbridge over a canal with a church tower, windmill and figures in the foreground, 1792.

Gezicht op Naarden

Jacob Bolten, 1792

Watercolor drawing of a seated man in a black hat holding a wine glass at a table, framed by a stone window with ivy.

Zittende man met een glas in de hand

C.J. Boers, 1758

Grey wash portrait of a woman in a white bonnet and plain dress, turned slightly to the side against a dark background.

Portret van Jacoba Petronella Nevis van Schooten

Anthonie van den Bos, 1773