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Drawings & Sketches

79,659 works

Brown wash drawing of a town beside a river in a steep mountain valley with terraced hillsides and a stone bridge.

Town in an Alpine Valley

Victor-Jean Nicolle, n.d.

Watercolor of a young man in a grey suit writing in a notebook in a sunlit room with a window and books.

Yew tree farm

Walter Crane, 1905

Pen and brown wash drawing of a young robed figure giving alms to children in a street with arched buildings.

Der junge Thomas von Villanova verteilt Almosen

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1667

Sitting farmer

Nicolaes Molenaer

Painting of Simon of Cyrene helping Christ carry the cross, with soldiers and onlookers in a dark setting.

Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry the cross. Study for the Fifth Station of the Cross.

István Schaller, 1770

Watercolor sketch of an armored knight on horseback above fallen figures, with a nude woman reaching toward him.

Massacre de Nesle (1472)

Édouard Alexandre Odier, 19th century

Skizzenbuch: Köpfe, Figurenstudien

Alexander Kanoldt, 1908

Watercolour of a riverside township below eroded cliffs, with a timber truss bridge in the foreground and figures on the trac

Old Greenstone township and Duke's Terrace

William Marshall Cooper, 1870

In die Ferne schauender Soldat

Carl Spitzweg, 1847

Hand painted entomology plate showing green and yellow moths, caterpillars, a pupa and a black moth with white spots.

Original hand painted plate for the Manual of New Zealand Entomology [Plate IX]

George Hudson, 1886

Ink drawing of a dark cloaked figure hurrying past a glowing street lamp while a startled face looks from a window above.

Mord

Karl Wiener, 1921

Pen drawing of Bileam on a donkey halted by a winged angel with a sword, among trees and rocks in a landscape.

Bileam and his donkey

Joseph Anton Koch

Crayon drawing of two nude women bathing by a pool, one kneeling and one standing, framed by trees and green grass.

Zwei badende Mädchen

Chalk drawing of a seated woman in a striped gown and wide hat, holding an open fan, on grey paper.

A Lady Holding a Fan

Michel Barthélémy Ollivier, 18th century

Oil sketch of a fallen figure beneath a cross, surrounded by soldiers and a mounted rider in red and brown tones.

Jesus Falls the Second Time Under the Cross. Study for the Stations of the Cross VII.

István Schaller, 1770

Grey wash drawing of a shaded garden path leading to a trellis gate between tall trees and hedges.

View in the Gardens of Arcueil

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1744

Charcoal and chalk portrait of a balding man in a high embroidered collar, turned three-quarters, on tan paper.

Bildnis Förster Bachmeyer

Feodor Iwanowitsch Kalmück

Pencil drawing of a figure with a staff beside a stone pedestal with a sphere under a dark hatched dawn sky.

Morgenwache

Karl Wiener, 1921

Study of Jesus falling a third time under the cross, with soldiers in helmets and a figure in red robe and halo.

Jesus Falls the Third Time Under the Cross. Study for Stations of the Cross IX

István Schaller, 1770

Red chalk study of a kneeling winged angel raising one arm and pointing upward, with draped cloth and sketched wings.

Study for the Archangel Gabriel

Nicolas Mignard, 17th century

Black chalk and white highlight drawing of an angry swan with spread wings and open beak on blue-gray paper.

Angry Swan

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 18th century

Abstract charcoal drawing of swirling curves and angular shaded planes within a border, by Franz Marc, 1914.

Abstrakte Zeichnung

Franz Marc, 1914

Graphite study on grey paper of a male figure in uniform, arm folded with cuff and clasped hands visible.

Männliche Figur nach rechts in Uniform

Pencil sketch of a grazing cow in the foreground, a second cow and fence behind, and a faint mountain on a sketchbook page.

Sketch of cows with Mt Taranaki in An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Oil study of a haloed figure in red robes carrying a cross as a woman offers him a cloth, with soldiers behind.

Veronica offers Jesus a cloth. Study for the Stations of the Cross VI.

István Schaller, 1770

Watercolor mountain landscape with tall trees in the foreground, a rocky cliff and a small figure under a pale evening sky.

Italienische Gebirgslandschaft

Painting of Christ's body laid on a white shroud with a halo, two helmeted soldiers in the lower corners, dark background.

Jesus Is Buried. Study for the Fourteenth Station of the Cross

István Schaller, 1770

Pencil drawing of a bearded man with long hair and bare shoulders, facing forward on cream paper.

Head of Christ

Andre-Jacques-Victor Orsel, 1810-50

Pencil drawing of a forest track between tall trees and a tree fern, with distant hills and two small figures walking.

First view of the Rimutaka Range

William Swainson FLS FRS, 1848

Brown wash drawing of a monumental fountain with a seated classical statue, cherubs, rocks and trees.

Project for a Monumental Fountain

Augustin Pajou, 1767

Pen and brown wash drawing of a bearded man with a shovel facing a kneeling woman in a landscape with ruins.

Christus als Gärtner erscheint der Magdalena

Hans Friedrich Schorer, 1608

Watercolor of a Pompeian courtyard with fluted columns, painted walls, tiled roofs and trees behind the ruins.

Die Casa di Sallustio und umliegende Ruinen in Pompeji