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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Pen and ink drawing of a monk in a hood beside a chalice-like vessel, shaded with fine hatching on a tan sheet.

Bust of a Monk Assisting at Communion

Martin Schongauer

Red chalk and ink drawing of a procession of nude and draped male figures carrying long staffs across a horizontal sheet.

Procession of figures

Carlo Urbino, 1510-85

Brown ink and wash drawing of angel musicians playing an organ and lute, with cherubs on clouds above and below.

Group of Angel Musicians

Avanzino Nucci, 1551-1629

Oval drawing in ink and blue wash of the Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine, angels, musicians, and a column.

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Avanzino Nucci, 1551-1629

Grey wash drawing of a man with a revolver and a woman in a ruffled gown pointing on a dim cobbled street.

La Grande Capucine

Lex de Renault, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a kneeling saint interceding before Christ and the Virgin, with souls reaching up from below.

Saint Gregory the Great Interceding for Souls in Purgatory

Giovanni Odazzi, 1663-1731

Pen and brown ink landscape drawing of a large tree, rolling hills, and a castle on a hill under clouds.

Landscape with a Castle on a Hill

Crescenzio Onofri, 1632-1712

Black chalk and white highlight drawing of a seated muscular figure with one knee raised, on blue-grey paper.

Reclining Female Nude Figure

Domenico Tintoretto, 1560-1635

Brown and grey wash drawing with a grid, showing a seated nude figure surrounded by a crowd of mocking figures.

The Mocking of Christ

Domenico Tintoretto, 1580-1635

Watercolor of a crowd before a brick wall covered with posters, with top-hatted men, women, and uniformed guards in a street

Unsere Errungenschaften

Johann Christian Schoeller, 1848

Watercolor of a cobbled street leading to a Gothic cathedral with twin spires, flanked by old houses and pedestrians.

View of Bayeux

Thomas Shotter Boys, 1832

Watercolor botanical study of a thorny branch with three serrated green leaves and a closed bud on cream paper.

Braam

Eelke Jelles Eelkema, 1815

Watercolor of a village street with a Gothic church spire, a woman in a bonnet walking, and old houses under a cloudy sky.

View of Issy (A Street in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Seine)

Thomas Shotter Boys, 1820-74

Charcoal and watercolor sketch of a narrow street with old buildings, a dark boat in the foreground, and a small figure.

Venetian Street Scene

Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, 19th century

Pencil sketch of a stooped man in a suit amid angular, tilted architectural forms with diagonal lines.

Untergang

Karl Wiener, 1930

Loose watercolor of a Venetian-style canal with pale buildings, dark boats on the water, and an obelisk under a blue sky.

Scene on the Grand Canal, Venice

Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, 19th century

Pen and watercolour drawing of a four-funnelled steamship sinking amid black smoke and flames over dark blue water.

"Untergang" (Schiff mit vier Schloten, Feuer und Rauchwolke)

Karl Wiener, 1920

Grey wash drawing of a haloed seated monk with a book beside a standing monk, a crown on the floor, and cherubs above.

King Henry of France and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Possibly Johann Christoph Lischka, n.d.

Loose watercolor of tall Venetian palaces along a canal with dark gondolas and figures at the water's edge under blue sky.

On the Grand Canal, Venice

Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, 19th century

Loose watercolor of San Giorgio Maggiore's bell tower and dome across a grey Venetian lagoon at dusk.

San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, 1840-1906

Watercolor drawing of two women in coats beside colorful German words radiating from a sunburst, labeled Manner Toiletten Bar

"Unterhaltung", Graz

Karl Wiener, 1924

Watercolor and graphite seaport with masted ships, hazy buildings on the right, and figures on the quay in the foreground.

Seaport after Claude Lorraine (recto); Indecipherable sketch (verso)

Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, 1840-1906

Pen and wash drawing of a thatched rustic cottage with a seated figure, barrels and baskets in the yard, and trees at left.

Cottage on the Road from Lausanne to Geneva

Joseph Farington, ca. 1800

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crowded heavenly scene with clouds, angels, and saints arranged in four numbered sections.

Paradise

Jacopo Tintoretto, 1519-94

Brown ink sketch of an angel with a flowering branch approaching a draped woman beside a carved lectern.

The Annunciation

Antonio Gionima, ca. 1731

Pen and ink drawing with color wash of a seated couple on a grassy hill beneath trees, under a hatched sky.

Unterredung im Grase

Karl Wiener, 1925

Black chalk and white highlight study of a muscular reclining male figure with curly hair on blue paper.

Study after Michelangelo's Giorno (recto and verso)

Jacopo Tintoretto, ca. 1550-55

Brown ink drawing of a group of trees with twisting trunks and leafy canopy above a rocky ground.

Group of Trees

Titian, 1485/90-1576

Pencil sketch of two standing men in 1840s coats, one with arms raised theatrically, before a faint arched stage backdrop.

"Unverhofft" von Johann Nestroy das Terzett"

Johann Christian Schoeller, 1845

Red chalk drawing on blue paper of a winged putto with turned head, bent arm, and sketched legs.

Winged Putto Holding the Base of a Cross

Titian, 1477-1510

Pen and brown ink landscape drawing of a village with rooftops and a tower, with shrubs, tree stumps and a goat in the foregr

Landscape with a Goat

Titian, 1500-11

Portrait of a seated cardinal in red robes at a desk, with a landscape window showing a kneeling hermit and a lion.

Portrait of a Cardinal in his Study

Lorenzo Costa the Younger, 1510