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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Loose sketch of a bowed nude female figure in reddish-brown wash and graphite on a pale grey ground.

Nude female figure holding left foot

Auguste Rodin, 1900-1912

Black chalk drawing of a nude man embracing a draped woman on a pedestal, with a child holding a garland at lower right.

The Golden Age

Auguste Rodin, 1871-78

Pencil portrait of a man in three-quarter view with combed hair, mustache, and high collar, gazing to the left.

Goffredo Mameli ritratto dal vivo

Roberto Bompiani, 1849

Grey watercolor of a small boat on a rocky beach with hazy mountains, trees, and distant sailboats on the water.

Boat on the Beach

Alfred Thompson Bricher, 1890

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a crouching winged figure with wide eyes and streaming hair, in pink and blue washes.

Witch's Sabbath (Sabbat)

Auguste Rodin, ca. 1900-1905

Loose pencil sketch of a reclining female nude with scribbled shading around the figure, signed by Rodin.

Study of a nude female figure (Satyress)

Auguste Rodin, 1905-8

Brown wash and graphite drawing of a standing nude figure with one arm raised and one knee bent, signed in the lower right.

Standing Female Nude

Auguste Rodin, n.d.

Watercolor design for Gothic stained glass windows of the Virgin's chapel in Nantes Cathedral, 1892, with detail of central w

Projet de verrières pour la chapelle de la Vierge de la cathédrale de Nantes (1892)

Louis Sauvageot, 1892

Pen and brown ink drawing of nude revelers around a large urn beside classical columns and a tree.

Bacchanal

François Roëttiers, n.d.

Charcoal drawing of a man's face with wide intense eyes and dark tousled hair on tan paper, a self-portrait.

Self-Portrait

Richard Gerstl, 1907

Watercolor of golden wheatfields beside a dirt path leading toward a distant village under a pale, cloudy sky.

Wheatfields

Théodore Rousseau, 1865

Charcoal sketch of bare trees rising above dense grasses and undergrowth in a wooded thicket.

Trees in a Thicket

Théodore Rousseau, 1845

Pencil drawing of a grove of trees beside a river, with a hazy meadow and distant trees receding into a pale sky.

Landscape (A Grove of Trees Standing Near a River)

Théodore Rousseau, 1828-67

Pencil sketch of a dilapidated barn, a round silo, and a cart wheel in a dirt farmyard with hills behind.

Farmyard in Normandy

Théodore Rousseau, ca. 1831

Grey wash drawing of a goat-legged satyr carrying a nymph through a forest, with other figures and mushrooms in the foregroun

Satyrs Abducting Nymphs

François Jean Sablet, n.d.

Profile of a Lady in a Bonnet

Augustin de Saint-Aubin, n.d.

Half Figure of a Woman Wearing a Cap, in Profile to Right

Augustin de Saint-Aubin, 1770

Allegory of the Marriage of the Dauphin and Marie-Antoinette in 1770

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1770

Pen and wash drawing of a vaulted classical portico with tall columns, small figures at left, and a bright doorway opening.

Figures in the portico of the church of Saint Genevieve, Paris

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1776-79

Germain-Augustin and Rose de Saint-Aubin, Drawn by Their Uncle

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, 1766

Head of a Young Woman in Profile to Left

Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint Quentin, n.d.

Two women hold hands on a cobbled street beside a donkey laden with flower baskets, with townspeople and a church in the back

The Flower Girl (La Petite Marchande de Fleurs)

Antoine Louis François Sergent Marceau, n.d.

Charcoal drawing of a house with a chimney and pointed gable silhouetted against a pale dusk sky.

House at Dusk (La Cité)

Georges Seurat, 1881-82

Three men in 18th-century dress smoke long pipes around a blue-draped table in a paneled room with a window.

Drie rokende mannen rond een tafel

Jacob Hagen, 1791

Pencil and wash drawing of a family in a panelled sitting room with a man reading at a tea table, a woman, and a child.

Familie in zitkamer

Jacob Hagen, 1791

Pencil and coloured chalk drawing of a seated man smoking a pipe by a window, with a table and paper in a panelled room.

Rokende man aan een tafel

Jacob Hagen, 1787

Three men in 18th-century dress smoke long pipes at a table in a paneled room with a window.

Drie rokende mannen

Jacob Hagen, 1789

Charcoal drawing of two peasant figures standing in a dark field at dusk, with trees on the horizon.

Peasants

Georges Seurat, 1881-84

Brown ink and wash drawing of four robed figures and a child grouped together, with white highlights on tinted paper.

Group of Four Standing and Seated Figures and a Child

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Grey wash drawing of two men smoking pipes at a round table while a servant in a long coat carries a tray of bottles.

Twee rokende mannen en een bediende

Jacob Hagen, 1789

Grey wash drawing of an artist at an easel presenting a canvas to a seated man in a tricorn hat, with a standing figure by th

Kunstenaar presenteert werk

Jacob Hagen, 1791

Monkey

Georges Seurat, 1884