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Drawings & Sketches

79,659 works

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a standing woman breast-feeding an infant, shown in full length on a pale sheet.

Breast-feeding woman

Johann Ludwig Aberli

Pencil drawing of a hilltop monastery with a domed church and towers on a rocky cliff above mountain slopes.

Blick auf Sabiona

Alexander Kanoldt, 1920

Pencil sketch of a rugged gorge with cliffs, a riverbed, and travelers with pack horses on a path below.

Principal gorge Hurunui looking up

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pencil drawing of hills under a pale moon with a shaded halo, handwritten German notes along the bottom edge.

Mondnacht Steinberg

Karl Wiener, 1941

Pencil sketch of a cemetery with wooden crosses beneath large trees, a sleeping dog in the lower right corner.

Cemetery

Wilhelm Amandus Beer

Pencil sketch of a hilltop village with a tall tower, houses clustered on a slope, and curving paths in the foreground.

Ansicht von Olevano (Olevano I)

Alexander Kanoldt, 1924

Watercolour landscape of a winding river, grazing cattle, a small settlement and distant blue hills under a pale sky.

The Molyneux River

Nicholas Chevalier, 1865

Pencil sketch of three bayonetted rifles bound together above two skulls, with a pale night sky and small stars behind.

Mondnacht, Orion

Karl Wiener, 1943

Pen and wash drawing of two men and a crowned woman in fine dress standing before a classical building.

Elegant couple

Aertgen van Leyden, 1540

Pencil drawing of a hillside village of flat-roofed houses and arched doorways, with bare trees in the foreground.

Häuser in Olevano, Hochformat (Olevano II)

Alexander Kanoldt, 1924

Pencil sketch of a hilly landscape with trees, simple buildings and clouds, with handwritten inscription at lower left.

"Mondnacht: Graz, Vorstadt, Plabutsch" (Skizze)

Karl Wiener, 1930

Pencil drawing of a hillside village with stacked houses, flat roofs and arched doorways under rolling hills.

Häuser in Olevano, Querformat (Olevano IV)

Alexander Kanoldt, 1924

Brown ink drawing of Saint Christopher wading a river carrying the Christ Child, with a town and mountains behind him.

Der Heilige Christophorus

Pencil sketch of a gabled house with a veranda surrounded by trees and shrubs, inscribed Major Richardson's house on the Puer

Major Richardson's house on the Puerua River

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolor of a palace facade across a courtyard, with small figures in period dress and trees behind.

Courtyard of the Chateau de Saint-Cloud

Victor-Jean Nicolle, n.d.

Zwei Köpfe zum "Sängerkrieg"

Moritz von Schwind, 1846

Pencil drawing of a church tower and gabled houses in a hillside Tyrolean town, with stylized geometric shading.

Die Kirche von Klausen in Tirol

Alexander Kanoldt, 1914

Monotype portrait of a man's head and shoulders in blue-grey and orange tones on cream paper.

"Monotypie" Kopf eines Mannes

Karl Wiener, 1920

Pen and wash drawing of the Roman Forum with a tall column, a columned temple, and figures among ruins and houses.

View of the Roman Forum with the Column of Phocas and the Temple of Saturn

Victor-Jean Nicolle, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of the neoclassical Ettlinger Tor gateway in Karlsruhe with a rider, pedestrians and a dog on cobbles.

Das alte Ettlinger Tor in Karlsruhe

Grey wash drawing of an armored knight with plumed helmet standing within a pointed gothic arch.

Entwurf zum Bild Kaiser Maximilians I. im Frankfurter Römer

Pen and brown wash sketch of a seated boy eating a melon beside a dog on rocky ground.

Eater of a melon

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Pencil cloud study on a sketchbook page, dark clouds with light gaps, numbered 30, by Petrus van der Velden, 1905.

Cloud study in A Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1905

Chalk drawing on blue paper of a man with a mustache and goatee wearing a large white ruff collar, dated 1622.

Bust of a gentleman

Ottavio Mario Leoni, 1622

Der Maler Keller, Brustbild

Alexander Kanoldt, 1902

Brown ink and wash drawing of Jupiter hurling lightning at struggling giants among clouds, with an hourglass above.

Jupiter Fighting the Giants

Jacopo Zucchi, 1540-96

Head

Simeon Solomon, 1895

Pen and ink drawing of a still life with fruit in a basket, glasses on a pedestal, and an urn, on a stone ledge.

Still life with fruits

Pencil sketch of a woman bent over a cluttered table with pots, a jug, a basket and a plate.

Frau am Tisch (Frau Editha Kanoldt)

Alexander Kanoldt

Grey wash drawing of a river with boats, a fisherman, a stone villa with figures on its terrace, and a tower in the distance.

The Tiber at the Outskirts of Rome

Victor-Jean Nicolle, n.d.

Circular watercolour of cherubs playing among clouds, one pair carrying a flower garland across a pale blue sky.

Cherubs

Grey wash drawing on blue paper of women attending an infant in a columned interior with a draped curtain.

Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary (?)