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Drawings & Sketches

79,659 works

Ink and wash drawing of a robed priest at a confessional with kneeling penitents in a church interior with pillars.

Le Grand Pénitencier

Augustin Pajou, n.d.

Painting of Christ being nailed to the cross, surrounded by soldiers and mourning women against a dark background.

Jesus Is Nailed to the Cross. Study for the Eleventh Station of the Way of the Cross

István Schaller, 1770

Brown chalk drawing of a classical tomb with a winged figure above, a seated bearded man at right, and standing figures at le

Washington's Tomb

Etienne Pallière, ca. 1799

Watercolor of a smiling girl at an ornate window with three pigeons on the sill, framed by autumn ivy.

Mädchen mit drei Tauben am Fenster

Adolf Schrödter, 1865

Watercolor drawing of a spotted green and cream orchid with long narrow sepals and a ruffled lip on white paper.

Orchidee "Brassia Brachiata" (Guatemala)

Adolf Schrödter, 1860

Watercolor of a thatched barn in a farmyard with a horse, two pigs, a wicker basket and a large tree.

Farmyard at Compton

Oil study of the Virgin Mary holding Christ's body beneath a large cross, with a kneeling figure in yellow and a winged figur

Jesus Is Taken Down from the Cross. Study for the Thirteenth Station of the Via Crucis

István Schaller, 1770

Watercolor of a Pompeian interior with fluted columns, a griffin-supported marble table, and painted walls.

Die Casa de Meleagro in Pompeji

Carl Werner, 1839

Brown-toned watercolor of caricatured figures, a woman in a green dress, chicks and sacks, with handwritten verses below.

Weihnachtswunschzettel

Adolf Schrödter

Brown wash drawing of a bearded man gesturing to armored soldiers beside a chain in a stone guardhouse interior.

Messenger at the Door of a Guardhouse

Philippe Louis Parizeau, 1786

Study of a Nude Man Holding Bottles

Jean-Antoine Watteau, ca. 1715-16

Grey wash drawing of two mounted riders and a dog on a forest path beneath large oak trees, with a seated figure under a tree

Der Mann unter dem Baum (Illustration zu Ritter Horst I)

Johann Georg Pforr, 1785

Painting of Christ with a crown of thorns and halo, held by armored soldiers while a red cloth is pulled from him.

Jesus is stripped of his garments. Study for Stations of the Cross X.

István Schaller, 1770

Hand painted entomology plate labelled Plate XV showing fourteen numbered cicada specimens with translucent wings in green, o

Original hand painted plate for Fragments of New Zealand Entomology [Plate XV]

George Hudson, 1946

Pencil drawing of a brick building and large tree behind a wooden fence with advertising signs, under a cloudy sky.

Motiv aus Hietzing

Karl Wiener, 1925

Grey ink drawing of the Nativity with kneeling Virgin, shepherds, angels and a donkey among classical ruins.

Adoration of the Shepherds

Aertgen van Leyden, early 16th-mid 16th century

Grey wash drawing of two knights on horseback in a moonlit forest as an eagle swoops down on a fleeing figure.

Wotans Adler holt den Schuldigen (Illustration zu Ritter Horst II)

Johann Georg Pforr, 1788

Painting of Christ on the cross with the Virgin Mary and Saint John praying below against a dark, fiery sky.

Jesus Dies on the Cross. Study for the Twelfth Station of the Cross

István Schaller, 1770

Pen drawing of a robed bearded figure on a cloud among birds, ostriches, and fish in a landscape with rocks and trees.

The Creation of the Fish and the Birds

Johannes Wierix, mid-16th-early 17th century

Oil sketch of Christ with halo carrying a cross, meeting a woman in blue, with a helmeted soldier beside them.

Jesus Meets His Mother. Study for the Stations of the Cross IV

István Schaller, 1770

Pencil drawing of the expulsion from Paradise: a robed figure gestures beside a tree with a serpent, and two nude figures rec

Vertreibung aus dem Paradies

Gustav Heinrich Naecke

Pen drawing of an idealized landscape with a rainbow, classical temple, river, shepherds and a flock of sheep.

Heroische Landschaft mit Regenbogen

Joseph Anton Koch

Brown wash drawing of a traveller with horses at a stable, riders approaching from the left, a dog in the foreground.

Ein Reisender, dem die Reitstiefel angezogen werden, steht mit seinen Pferden bei einer Tränke vor einem Stall, von l…

Francesco Giuseppe Casanova, 1760

Watercolor drawing of a grey horse in a barn as a man in a red vest hangs a saddle on the wall.

Ein stallender Schimmel mit einem Bauern, der einen Sattel aufhängt

Francesco Giuseppe Casanova

Graphite and white-highlight sketch of a seated woman in a headscarf holding a tool, on tan paper.

Sabine von Steinbach als Bildhauerin

Moritz von Schwind, 1842

Oil painting of a seated nude woman resting her arm on a table draped with white cloth, against a dark background.

Study of a Female Nude

Štefan Polkoráb, 1911

Brown ink drawing of a woman writing with a quill beside a sleeping boy, with trees and a church in the background.

Erzengel Michaels Feder

Moritz von Schwind, 1867

Pen and ink drawing of two seated allegorical women with a column and scales, flanked by putti and winged figures.

Fortitude and Justice

Hans Speckaert, before 1577

Brustbild eines Mannes mit Schnurrbart im Profil nach links

Francesco Giuseppe Casanova, 1764

Painting of three colorful horses drinking at a blue pool, surrounded by angular green, orange, and blue forms.

Drei Pferde am Waldwasser

Franz Marc, 1913

Painting of a fallen tree trunk with dry autumn leaves and a birch branch on mossy ground under a dark grey sky.

Study of a Dry Tree

Lajos Csordák, 1894

Painted landscape with a shepherd resting among cows, sheep and a goat beneath a leaning tree, with rocky cliffs and a hazy v

Felsige Gegend mit einem Hirten, zwei Kühen, zwei Schafen und einer Ziege

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, 1767