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Drawings & Sketches

79,656 works

Grey wash drawing of a dining room scene: a woman raising a glass in anger while others restrain her, a dog and overturned ch

The Angry Wife

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, ca. 1785

Red chalk drawing of a reclining muscular male nude beside a pouring urn, with draped cloth and sketched figures above.

Reclining River God

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of an interior with a seated woman, children, a kneeling figure, a dog and a crowd of onlookers.

Presentation of the Illegitimate Child

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of a young woman seated on a chair, spinning with a distaff, wearing a lace shawl and draped skirt.

Bolognese Peasant Girl with a Distaff

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1755

Pencil drawing of a full-length standing man in a top hat and long coat holding a stick, before a wooden wall.

Portret ten voeten uit van Jaap bij het Leprozenhuis

Christiaan Andriessen, 1822

Grey wash drawing of a crowded columned hall with men in period dress gathered around a figure at a central doorway.

Aanspraak van burgemeester Hendrik Hooft aan de Amsterdamse burgers

Jacobus Buys, 1734

Pencil drawing of a standing man in a long coat and top hat holding a paper, with a bell and doorway behind him.

Portret van een man bij het Leprozenhuis

Christiaan Andriessen, 1822

Watercolor design for church wall frescoes with biblical scenes in arched panels beneath a stone triforium gallery.

Draft for the frescoes in Viborg Cathedral. The walls. South aisle and the fields above the triforia

Joakim Skovgaard, 1897

Gray wash drawing of a seated woman in a straw hat holding a hand warmer beside a draped chair.

Florentine Woman Wearing a Butterfly Cap and Holding a Hand Warmer

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1755

Gray wash drawing of a farmer and young man with oxen and a plow on a country road, trees framing the scene, a dog in front.

A Farmer Entrusting the Plow to His Son

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, n.d.

Watercolor portrait of a woman with dark curled hair, dark off-shoulder dress, and blue ribbons against grey wash.

Portrait of a Lady

Constantin Guys, 19th century

Grey wash drawing of a horse-drawn carriage with top-hatted men and bonneted women, a rider at left, and another carriage at

Driving in the Bois de Boulogne

Constantin Guys, 19th century

Wash drawing of a standing woman in a veil and dark ruffled gown with a tiered skirt, in loose brown tones.

A Lady with a Veil

Constantin Guys, 19th century

Grey wash drawing of sailors in tricorn hats among women in long skirts in an interior with an arched doorway.

Sailors and Women

Constantin Guys, 19th century

Pen drawing of a smoky industrial town with chimneys and swirling smoke, a dark figure at left, hatched shading throughout.

Lots Weib

Karl Wiener, 1921

Gray wash drawing of two standing peasant women in full skirts and shawls against a tonal background.

Two Fat Peasant Women

Constantin Guys, 19th century

Crayon drawing of two figures on a hill gazing at a city burning under a swirling dark sky with orange flames.

Lots Weib

Karl Wiener, 1924

Ink and wash drawing of two gentlemen in dark coats flanking a woman in a striped gown holding a fan.

Two Gentlemen and a Lady

Constantin Guys, late 1850s--early 1860s?

Watercolor and ink drawing of two women in fashionable dresses holding fans, one in blue and one in brown.

Two Women with Fans

Constantin Guys, 19th century

Watercolor plate of crows, a jackdaw and other perched birds around a gnarled tree with mistletoe, with Latin inscriptions.

Animalia Volatilia et Amphibia (Aier): Plate LXI

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Pen drawing of a lottery office with a seated clerk, standing customers, children, a cat, and numbered boards on the wall.

Lotto-Collectur

Joseph d. Ä. Lanzedelly, 1810

Pen and watercolor drawing of two women in bonnets walking arm in arm past a lamppost and men in top hats.

Two Grisettes

Constantin Guys, 19th century

Oval miniature of eight numbered birds on rocks and a branch with dark berries, with Latin text above and below.

Animalia Volatilia et Amphibia (Aier): Plate LXII

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Watercolor of two officers in dark tunics and blue shakos, one holding a sabre, with soldiers sketched behind them.

Officers of the Guard

Constantin Guys, 19th century

Watercolor plate of six birds on a bare branch and rock beside water, with a Latin inscription above, by Joris Hoefnagel.

Animalia Volatilia et Amphibia (Aier): Plate LXIII

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Photograph of a handwritten page in a leather-bound notebook, with cursive Danish text in brown ink.

Two mountain hikers at the Gemmi pass, one with a nisse on his shoulders

Johan Thomas Lundbye, 1845

Painting of two partridges on grass, songbirds on branches, and gourds in an oval border, with red Latin text above.

Animalia Volatilia et Amphibia (Aier): Plate LXIV

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Brown ink and wash drawing of a woman in a white bonnet and cape standing in a shadowed doorway.

Woman Standing in a Doorway

Constantin Guys, 19th century

Loose watercolor of two seated women in pale bodices and blue skirts against a dark interior wall.

Two Soubrettes

Constantin Guys, 19th century

Four birds on grassy ground beside a tree stump, with a hazel branch and juniper shrub in an oval painted frame.

Animalia Volatilia et Amphibia (Aier): Plate LXV

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Watercolor plate of pigeons and doves on a branch and rooftop, with Latin inscriptions and a leafy sprig at left.

Animalia Volatilia et Amphibia (Aier): Plate LXVI

Joris Hoefnagel, 1575

Ink and wash drawing of a woman in a dark voluminous dress and elaborate hairstyle, with men in top hats on a city street beh

A Lady in a Bonnet and Coat

Constantin Guys, 19th century