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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Painted portrait of a bearded man in a wide pale hat against a green background, turned to the left.

Portrait of Berthold Graf von Heimberg (or Berthold XVI, Graf von Henneberg-Römhild (c. 1493-1549)

Pen and wash drawing of a draped bearded man standing in a niche beside an urn, framed by ornamental scrollwork borders.

Draped Male Figure Standing in a Niche

Gregorio Lazzarini, 1655-1730

Pencil and colour drawing of a woman with red hair, a wide flat hat, and a pleated ruff collar.

Portrait of a Lady (Susanna Herzogin von Pfalz)

Head of a Man in Profile Facing to the Left

Leonardo da Vinci, 1490-94

Red chalk sketch of the Madonna and Child with angels, and a kneeling monk at right on tan paper.

Vor der von Engeln umgebenen Madonna kniet rechts ein heiliger Mönch (Franziskus?)

Nikolaus Gottfried Stuber

Pen and brown wash drawing of hunters dividing game in a forest clearing beside a campfire and tall trees.

Sharing Out the Game

Bernard van Orley, 1525

Brown wash drawing of a winged figure wrestling a demon with a grimacing face on rocky ground.

Michael kämpft mit dem Teufel

Michelangelo Unterberger

Brown ink drawing of a lavish interior with crowned figures, a banquet table of coins and gold vessels, and a woman with a mi

Allegory of Wealth, Lust and Stupidity

Joos van Winghe, late 16th century

Pen and wash drawing of a courtly hunting breakfast in a forest clearing with men, tables, and greyhounds.

Kaiser Maximilian II. und Karl V. beim Jagdfrühstücken - Juni (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)

Bernard van Orley, 1525

Watercolor drawing of a hunter in a tricorn hat carrying two hares across a landscape with a tree and hills.

Jäger, zwei erlegte Hasen tragend

Gottlieb Welté

Brown wash drawing of Christ handing keys to a kneeling bearded man before a group of onlookers, with angels above.

The Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter

Jan Boeckhorst, ca. 1660

Pen drawing of a panoramic mountain landscape with village, estuary, windmills and Christ with figures in the foreground.

Panoramic Mountainous Estuary Landscape, with Christ and the Woman of Canaan

Lucas Gassel, mid-16th century

Pencil sketch of a lakeside villa with cypresses above and a colonnaded temple ruin in a field below.

Studies of the Villa Cicerone at the Lago Lucrino near Naples and of the Temple at Paestum (Italy)

Pierre Louis Dubourcq, mid-19th century

Italian Farmer

Pierre Louis Dubourcq, mid-19th century

Red chalk study of a standing woman in a hooded cloak with an extended arm, on cream paper.

Study for "M. de Pourceaugnac"

Jean-Baptiste Pater, early 18th century

Pencil sketch of a valley with a square tower, rolling hills and distant mountains, inscribed with views from Frascati toward

Landschaftsstudie Frascati und Tivoli

August Lucas, 1834

Pencil and watercolor study sheet showing a boat, figures in Dutch dress, and a stone gateway with trees and a church spire.

Study Sheet with Figures and Landscapes at Arnemuiden (near Middelburg, The Netherlands)

Pierre Louis Dubourcq, mid-19th century

Pencil and watercolor compositional study of a seated figure with a dog, a crowd in a boat, and sketched buildings behind.

Skizzenhafte Kompositionsstudie

Johann Baptist Scholl, 1847

Grey watercolor of fishing boats with masts on a winter beach, a woman and child walking in front, and a horse cart nearby.

Fishing Boats on the Beach in Winter

Anton Mauve, mid to late 19th century

Grey wash drawing of a street with an ancient ionic colonnade temple converted into a church, with a cross on its gable.

Straßenzug mit antikem Tempel ionischer Ordnung, nunmehr eine christliche Kirche mit zugesetzter Säulenstellung

Bartholomeus Breenbergh

Pen and brown wash drawing of the Gros Horloge clock in Rouen, with market women and townspeople in a cobbled street.

Rue du Gros Horloge, Rouen

Wijnand Jan Joseph Nuijen, early 19th century

Pen and brown ink sketch of a woman in a long dress and bonnet walking beside a dog, mounted on a grey album page.

Wandelende vrouw met hond

Alexander Ver Huell, 1854

Pencil drawing of a robed figure walking on stormy waves, pointing toward a boat with several figures at right.

Christus loopt over het water

Alexander Ver Huell, 1854

Pen and wash drawing of tangled galloping horses and riders at the start of a race in Rome, 1860.

Start of the Race of the Barberi Horses, Rome

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 1860

Pen and watercolor drawing of a man reclining on a grassy bank by water, one arm behind his head, with a hat nearby.

Dagdromende man aan een waterkant

Alexander Ver Huell, 1854

Pen and watercolour drawing of a man in historical costume with a cape, a woman in a pink headscarf, and a small soldier.

Man in historisch kostuum, een vrouw met hoofddoek en een soldaat

Alexander Ver Huell, 1854

Pen and watercolour drawing of an armoured knight supporting a wounded young man, with halberdiers and a town wall behind.

Terugkeer van een gewonde soldaat

Alexander Ver Huell, 1854

Pen and watercolor drawing of three barefoot men, one holding up a severed head, with a pink flag and crowd behind them.

Man met een afgehakt hoofd in een menigte

Alexander Ver Huell, 1854

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crowd of robed figures gathered in an arched interior around a woman.

Christus und die Ehebrecherin

Night pond scene with a man in a dark suit wading in, a crescent moon above, and handwritten French text at upper right.

Zelfmoord van Jean-Antoine Gros

Alexander Ver Huell, 1854

Pen and watercolour drawing of men in a sword duel on a grassy landscape, with a wounded man lying on the ground.

Landschap met duellerende mannen

Alexander Ver Huell, 1854

Watercolor of a coastal village with cottages on a cliff, sailing boats on the water, and figures on the shore.

View on the coast at Deal

Charles Bentley, ca. 1846