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Drawings & Sketches

79,656 works

Crowd of 19th-century viewers in period dress gathered before a large ceremonial painting in a gallery interior, drawn in ink

The Public in the Salon of the Louvre, Viewing the Painting of the "Sacre"

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1808

Brown wash drawing of a bearded old man in a turban and robe leaning on a rock beside a tree.

Bärtiger alter Orientale in Landschaft

Tiberius Dominikus Wocher

Grey wash drawing of three fishermen with a rowing boat on a riverbank, a sailing ship, windmill and town skyline beyond.

Vissers met hun roeiboot aan het Spaarne bij Haarlem

Allart van Everdingen, 1648

Pen and watercolour drawing of a wooden house with a gabled roof beside tall trees and a low fence along a road.

Huis in boomrijke omgeving

Pieter Ernst Hendrik Praetorius, 1830

Watercolor of calm water with sailing boats, a tall ship, a distant city, and figures carrying baskets on a sandy shore.

Stil water

Allart van Everdingen, 1631

Ink and wash drawing of a woman in a fur-trimmed coat looking at framed prints in a shop window.

Vrouw voor een etalage met prenten en boeken

Adriaan J. van 't Hoff, 1903

Brown ink drawing of a draped man running with raised arms, above a cartouche held by two winged figures.

Draped Man Running; Cartouche Supported by Two Winged Victories

Étienne de Lavallée-Poussin, 18th century

Brown wash drawing of an elderly bearded man in a dark hood, framed by a pale blue and black border.

Bildnis eines bärtigen Mönchs

Tiberius Dominikus Wocher

Brown ink drawing of a forest hillside with tall pines and a traveler with a pack and dog on a path.

Boslandschap met een reiziger

Allart van Everdingen, 1631

Pencil and wash sketch of a tall tower by water, with a rowboat and figures in the foreground and a hazy distant skyline.

Tower Overlooking Water

William James Müller

Grey wash drawing of a rocky hill with a church on top, grazing cattle, walking figures, and poplar trees.

Landschap met een kasteel op een berg

Allart van Everdingen, 1631

Pen and wash drawing of a village with thatched cottages, trees, a church tower, and a horseback rider in the foreground.

Dorpsgezicht

Allart van Everdingen, 1631

Grey wash drawing of a harbor with sailing ships, buildings on a promontory, a rowing boat, and wooded hills behind.

Gezicht op de haven van Risör in Noorwegen

Allart van Everdingen, 1644

Brown ink landscape drawing of figures on a wooden footbridge over a river, with a church tower and trees behind.

Landschap met een houten bruggetje

Allart van Everdingen, 1631

Brown wash drawing of two figures on a road beneath a large tree, with a rocky bank and a distant ship.

Landschap met twee figuren op een weg

Allart van Everdingen, 1631

Brown wash drawing of a farmstead with a shed, stone wall and arched gate among tall trees in a wooded landscape.

Gehöft im Wald

Johan Jakob Biedermann

Grey wash drawing of a moated manor house with towers and two small figures in the foreground, dated 1843.

Gezicht op Huis ter Does te Leiderdorp

J. Wijtman, 1843

Grey wash drawing of a farmhouse by a canal, figures in a boat, and workers harvesting fruit from trees.

De vruchtenoogst

Allart van Everdingen, 1631

Grey wash drawing of a city gate, figures and a horse rider on a road, and a passenger boat on a canal lined with trees.

De trekschuit

Allart van Everdingen, 1631

Watercolor interior of a Gothic church with frescoed vaults, an altar, kneeling worshippers and a carved pulpit.

Interior of the Church of San Benedetto, Subiaco

William James Müller, 1837

Small oil sketch of dark and light cumulus clouds against a pale blue sky, painted in loose, scumbled brushwork.

Sky Study

Lionel Bicknell Constable, 1822

Pale watercolor of a village with church towers beside a river, with hills and distant mountains under a hazy sky.

Landschaft bei Windisch

Johan Jakob Biedermann, 1786

Brown ink and wash drawing of a half lunette with a putto embracing a roaring monster amid scrolling ornament.

Half Lunette with Putto and Monster

Étienne de Lavallée-Poussin, 18th century

Pale watercolor of a calm lake with a house on the right bank, a line of trees on a spit, and distant hills.

Die Au im Zürichsee

Johan Jakob Biedermann, 1787

Pen and wash drawing of a nude Venus on a shell chariot surrounded by sea nymphs, tritons, and putti in waves.

The Triumph of Venus

André Lebrun, n.d.

Watercolor of the Rhine Falls at Schaffhausen with spray over rushing water, a rock in the cascade and trees on the right ban

Der Rheinfall von Schaffhausen

Johan Jakob Biedermann, 1787

Sketch of a seated woman looking up at a winged angel gesturing toward a child on the ground, with a tree behind.

Hagar and the angel

Grey wash drawing of a valley with wooded hills, farmhouses, and distant alpine peaks under a pale sky.

Landschaft bei Bern

Johan Jakob Biedermann

Pencil sketch of Wormingford Church with a gothic window, a large tree, and a small seated figure by a wall.

Wormingford Church

John Constable, 1813

Pen and ink drawing with colour washes of purple market umbrellas in front of tall, hatched city apartment buildings.

Markt

Karl Wiener, 1921

Red chalk and grey wash drawing of a draped woman and man beside an urn of flowers, with lions beneath a pedestal.

Allegory of Earth

Charles Le Brun, ca. 1660

Pencil panorama of a town skyline with a tall church tower, rooftops and distant hills under an empty sky.

Blick auf Frankfurt am Main

Johan Jakob Biedermann, 1805