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Drawings & Sketches

79,659 works

Pen and ink landscape drawing with green wash showing sandy dunes, a cluster of trees, and shrubs under open sky.

Landscape, Vichy

Jean-François Millet, ca. 1866-67

Charcoal sketch of a seated shepherd with a crook, a standing dog, and resting sheep in an open field.

A Seated Shepherd with His Dog and Sheep

Jean-François Millet, 1830-75

Bildnis eines jungen Herrn, im Profil

Johann Franz von der Schlichten

Charcoal drawing of men in hats around a round café table, one resting his head in his hand, another walking past.

Mißvergnügte

Karl Wiener, 1928

Sepia drawing of a classical building with arched entrance and cupola, with wind-blown trees at left.

A Building

Red chalk drawing of a seated male nude with one arm raised overhead and one leg stretched out along a ledge.

Sitzender männlicher Akt nach rechts mit hochgelegtem linkem Bein und erhobenem rechtem Arm

Edmé Bouchardon

Grey wash drawing of a seated man refusing gifts from robed visitors beside a hearth, with onlookers above.

Manius Curius Dentatus Refusing the Presents of the Samnite Ambassadors

Jean Guillaume Moitte, 1795-96

Pen and watercolor drawing of two women in bonnets and striped skirts chatting face to face.

The Two Gossips (Les Deux Commères)

Henry Bonaventure Monnier, 1832

Pen and wash drawing of an 18th-century tea party with musicians, seated guests in powdered wigs, and a dog in the foreground

Tea Party at the Prince de Conti's

Henry Bonaventure Monnier, mid-19th century

Pen and brown wash drawing of a woman with flowers at a wooden gate, a boy with a barrel, and a village church tower.

Das Pfarrhaus von Cleversulzbach

Moritz von Schwind, 1866

Grid of thirteen small painted sketches of 18th-century rural and genre scenes on a grey background.

Thirteen sketches for Tapestry Cartoons

Francisco Bayeu, 1786

The Society Man (Monsieur Joseph Prudhomme)

Henry Bonaventure Monnier, 1874

Pen drawing of a seated man gazing up at a crowned Virgin and Child in clouds above a rocky landscape.

Johannes auf Patmos

Hans Leonhard Schäufelein

Brown ink and wash drawing of a carriage with elegant passengers and riders passing through a wooded landscape with dogs.

Outing in a Wood

Jean-Michel Moreau, n.d.

Colored crayon drawing of tall fir trees and a winding dirt path through a mountain forest, with bold green and blue strokes.

Bergtannen und Weg

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1918

Pencil drawing of timber sheds, tiled roofs and a brick gabled building with a wooden gate in a courtyard.

Gezicht op de poort van kasteel Radboud in Medemblik

B.P.G. van Diggelen, 1843

Pen and wash drawing of a flat Dutch road with a carriage, cows, walking figures and a distant town skyline.

Gezicht op de Vergierdeweg bij Haarlem, naar het noorden gezien

J. Peppel, 1777

Colored book cover design: a bearded man draws a green curtain revealing books, two men look on, and a child reads on a ladde

Bandontwerp voor de serie: De Ideaal-Bibliotheek van uitgeversmaatschappij L.J. Veen

Johan Braakensiek, 1914

Book cover and spine design in black ink with Art Nouveau spirals, medallions and lettering for a Louis Couperus novel.

Bandontwerp voor: Louis Couperus, Van oude menschen, de dingen die voorbijgaan, 1906

Chris Lebeau, 1906

Book cover design of a woman in a red dress reading on a wall, with a church and windmill seen through an arch.

Bandontwerp voor de serie: Johanna van Woude's Werken, 1905-1908

Johan Braakensiek, 1905

Charcoal sketch of two women, one standing by a doorway and one seated holding a cup, in loose expressive lines.

Zwei Mädchen vor dem Haus

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1923

Watercolor book cover showing a man raising his hat and a kneeling woman at a cemetery grave, with red title lettering.

Bandontwerp voor: Martha Haverkamp, Een lief gezin en andere novellen en schetsen, 1889

Johan Braakensiek, 1889

Brown ink and wash drawing of a sleeping nude Venus on a couch with Cupid and putti.

Venus and Cupid (recto); Studies of a Woman (verso)

Nikolaus Knüpfer, 1620-60

Ink drawing of an arched bridge over a river with city buildings, a spire and wooden pilings on the bank.

Mittag

Karl Wiener, 1925

Watercolour landscape of a plain with trees on the right, stone wall, and blue mountains under a hazy sky.

Waipoua

Nicholas Chevalier, 1868

Watercolor of a bloodied butcher with a knife in his mouth working over intestines on a table before a blue house.

Der Metzger

Georg Scholz, 1923

Watercolour and pencil landscape of Ohau Lake with snowy mountains, a small hut and trees in soft pastel tones.

Ohau Lake (Mt Cook)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pen drawing of two people seated on a bench under chestnut leaves, with a bottle between them, seen from behind.

Mittagspause

Karl Wiener, 1925

Study of a Seated Woman

Ľudovít Pitthordt, 1880

Pen drawing of a cook in a cap looking down at a curly dog in a tiled kitchen, with a counter and cart behind.

Kok kijkend naar een hond

Heinrich M. Krabbé, 1898

Colored pencil drawing of a red midnight sun over dark hills and a building reflected in water, titled Mitternachtssonne.

Mitternachtssonne

Karl Wiener, 1921

Ceiling design in oval with classical gods ascending through clouds, surrounded by brown grisaille figures in a rococo frame.

Ontwerp voor een plafondstuk met de apotheose van Aeneas, in de hoeken de vier jaargetijden in brunaille

Jacob de Wit, 1720