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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Watercolor and ink drawing of men in hats playing cards at a table, with onlookers crowding around and a smoker at upper righ

Card Players

Théodule Augustin Ribot

Pen and ink drawing of an elderly woman leaning over a table, working with pins and fabric in a plain interior.

Old Woman Working

Théodule Augustin Ribot, 1860

Pencil sketch of Mount Vesuvius rising over shrubland, with an umbrella pine and handwritten notes on the slopes.

View of Vesuvius

John Robert Cozens, August 18 [1782]

Head of an Old Woman

Théodule Augustin Ribot, 1870

Watercolor of a calm bay with wooded cliffs, a hilltop building at right, a rowing boat, and a distant mountain.

On the Gulf of Salerno near Vietri

John Robert Cozens, September 1782 or later

Grey wash drawing of a hilltop villa with arched loggia behind a wall and pine trees, under a blue-grey sky.

View of the Villa Lante on the Janiculum in Rome

John Robert Cozens, 1782-83

Ink drawing of a nude young figure standing with arms folded in an interior, with a seated figure at right.

Study after "The Models"

Georges Seurat, 1888

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of a wooded edge with a large tree at left and smaller trees receding to the right.

Edge of a Wood

Jean Achille Benouville, 1840

Pencil drawing of figures beside a fountain in a palm-shaded courtyard with arched colonnade, by Gerard Muller, 1871.

Fontein bij het paviljoen van Karel V in het Koninklijk Paleis te Sevilla

Gerard Muller, 1871

Charcoal drawing of trees before a tiled garden pavilion with columns and arched openings, in soft shaded tones.

Paviljoen van Karel V in het Koninklijk Paleis te Sevilla

Gerard Muller, 1871

Ink drawing of a crowd beneath a skull and crossed paintbrushes, with the motto Vita brevis, ars longa and a city skyline.

Vita brevis, ars longa

Karl Wiener, 1938

Watercolor of a seated woman in a green dress and yellow shawl reading on a blue sofa beside a mantelpiece with porcelain.

Woman Seated on a Sofa

Walter Crane, 1865-1915

Zittende vrouw in het paviljoen van Karel V in het Koninklijk Paleis te Sevilla

Gerard Muller, 1871

Charcoal sketch of three women and a child around a circular fountain with a toy sailboat, by Gerard Muller, 1871.

Drie vrouwen en een kind bij een fontein in het paviljoen van Karel V in het Koninklijk Paleis te Sevilla

Gerard Muller, 1871

Watercolor of an Italian farmhouse with fig trees, an outdoor staircase, chickens and a pig in the yard.

Italian Farmhouse

Walter Crane, 1871-73

Ink and wash drawing by Karl Wiener, 1935, with a skeleton in helmet, a military officer, a nude woman and oil derricks.

Vita somnium breve

Karl Wiener, 1935

Charcoal drawing of tall fortress walls and a crenellated tower under a heavy cloudy sky, with a small figure below.

Buitenmuren van het Alhambra te Granada

Gerard Muller, 1871

Charcoal drawing of a sculpted stone fountain beside a high wall and arched gateway with a tower, framed by trees.

Fontein van Karel V in het Alhambra te Granada

Gerard Muller, 1871

Charcoal drawing of a Moorish horseshoe-arched gateway beside a stone wall and cypress tree, with sunlit paving in front.

Puerta de la Justicia in het Alhambra te Granada

Gerard Muller, 1871

Charcoal sketch of a shaded courtyard with bare trees, stone walls and bands of light and shadow on the ground.

Binnenhof van het Alhambra te Granada

Gerard Muller, 1871

Watercolor of a narrow Italian courtyard with an arch, stairs, hanging laundry, terracotta pots, and a climbing vine.

A House at Sorrento

Thomas Hartley Cromek, mid-19th century

Ink drawing of an ornate baroque funerary monument with an armored statue, columns, obelisks and a coat of arms.

Praalgraf van Willem I, prins van Oranje-Nassau

Jacobus Buys, 1734

Brown wash drawing of 18th-century figures in a brick street scene, a candle-bearing woman at a doorway and a seated man in a

Scene uit Lubbert Lubbertse, of de geadelde boer

Jacobus Buys, 1767

Watercolor of villas on a cliff above rocky sea shore, with a rowboat and sailboat on blue water.

Houses at Sorrento

Thomas Hartley Cromek, mid-19th century

Grey wash drawing of a man in a wide hat within an oval frame, with a castle and armed figures below.

Portret van Albert, hertog van Saksen

Jacobus Buys, 1734

Grey-wash portrait drawing of a wigged man in an oval frame, with a cartouche showing a book, scroll, and quill.

Portret van C.C.H. van der Aa

Jacobus Buys, 1734

Grey-wash drawing of a man in an oval frame with a cravat, above a garland panel, signed J. Buys.

Portret van Cornelis van der Burg

Jacobus Buys, 1734

Pencil and watercolor drawing of the ruined Acropolis at Athens rising above rocky ground under a pale sky.

The Acropolis from the Areopagus, Athens

Thomas Hartley Cromek, April 24, 1846

Pen and graphite sketch of clustered figures, clouds and a chariot, a preparatory study for a ceiling painting.

Schets voor plafondschildering

Jacob de Wit, 1705

Grey wash portrait of a man in a powdered wig and lace cravat in an oval frame, with a coat of arms below.

Portret van jonkheer Willem van Haren

Jacobus Buys, 1734

Portret van Christoffel d'Assonville

Jacobus Buys, 1734

Grey wash drawing of a woman with curled hair, lace collar and pearls in an oval frame above a pedestal.

Portret van Amalia van Solms

Jacobus Buys, 1734