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Drawings & Sketches

75,702 works

Pen and wash drawing of a dim theatre interior with seated audience members and gas lamps glowing on the walls.

The Old Bedford (recto); The Gallery of the Old Bedford (verso)

Walter Sickert, c. 1894

Brown ink drawing of helmeted Pallas Athena pointing to a landscape with ruins while a boy raises his hand beside her.

Pallas Athena Shows Taddeo the Prospect of Rome

Federico Zuccaro, about 1595

Watercolor landscape with a large spreading tree, wooded banks, distant blue hills and a small cottage at right.

Landscape

Anthony van Dyck, about 1640

Brown ink and wash drawing of costumed figures in a theatrical interior, with a seated man writing at a table.

Scene from the Italian Comedy (recto); Figure Study (verso)

Claude Gillot, about 1700

Watercolor of a barefoot female figure in white drapery holding a thyrsus, with grapes and a green garland against blue.

A Bacchante

John La Farge, 1897

Pen and brown ink drawing of a standing male nude raising his arms and holding a sword, with a reclining figure nearby.

Study for the Figure of Abraham

Domenico Beccafumi, 1547

Watercolor of a young woman in a flower garland beside an outrigger canoe under a tree, with a thatched hut behind.

Portrait of Faase, the Taupo, or Official Virgin, of Fagaloa Bay, and Her Duenna, Samoa

John La Farge, 1891 (?)

Three women carry a long canoe along a grassy shore by the sea, under tropical trees, in a 1891 watercolor.

Girls Carrying a Canoe, Vaiala in Samoa

John La Farge, 1891

Head of an Angel (recto); Head of a Woman (verso)

Francesco Paolo Michetti, about 1890

Watercolor of two blue irises and pink wild roses among green leaves on a loose green background.

Wild Roses and Irises

John La Farge, 1887

Pencil sketch of a lion head with a hatched mane on a sketchbook page, with faint outlines of a seated lion below.

Head on view of seated lion

Théodore Géricault, 1812-1814

Pastel watercolor of pink and lavender mountain peaks across a calm strait, with palms and shoreline vegetation in the foregr

The Island of Moorea Looking across the Strait from Tahiti, January 1891

John La Farge, 1891

Pencil drawing of a hilltop town with a church complex above a river valley, with mountains and two figures on a path.

View of Benevento

Edmund Friedrich Kanoldt, 1874

Black chalk portrait of a young woman with a tall feathered hairstyle and ruffled collar, holding a fan, seated in a chair.

Portrait of a Young Woman Holding a Fan

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, 1781

Pen drawing of a rider on horseback looking up at rays of light and a descending figure, with a tree and castle in the landsc

The Conversion of Saint Paul

Wolf Huber, 1531

Black chalk drawing of a bearded older man in a lace collar and dark doublet, turned three-quarters toward the viewer.

Portrait of Hendrick van Balen

Anthony van Dyck, about 1627-1632

Sketch after "Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder"

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1879

Pen and watercolor drawing of an armored man and a woman riding horses through a landscape, with two coats of arms above.

Johan IV van Nassau and His Wife Maria van Loon-Heinsberg

Bernaert van Orley, about 1528-1530

Brown ink and wash drawing of an artist sketching the Laocoön statue group in a Roman courtyard with classical statues.

Taddeo in the Belvedere Court in the Vatican Drawing the Laocoön

Federico Zuccaro, about 1595

Pencil sketch of windswept trees above a rocky bank and stream, on grey paper, with an inscription in the lower right.

Tree Studies

Josef Wenglein, n.d.

Pencil drawing of canoes with paddlers crossing a lake toward tipis on a wooded shore, with rocks in the foreground.

Indians Returning from the Hunt (from McGuire Scrapbook)

Charles Lanman, 1841

Black and white chalk drawing on tan paper of a large outstretched arm and four smaller studies of hands in different gesture

Studies of Hands

Alphonse Legros, n.d.

Watercolor of a porched dining room building and stage offices at White Sulphur Springs, surrounded by trees and hills.

Dining Room and Stage Offices at White Sulphur Springs

John Hazelhurst Boneval Latrobe, 1832

Pen and blue wash drawing of God reaching toward nude Adam, with animals including a lion and peacock in a landscape.

Creation of Adam

Crispijn van den Broeck, 1575

Sleeping Girl

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, about 1652

Pencil and ink sketch on blue paper of a man lying on the ground beside foliage and trees, with a handwritten caption.

The Last Drop (from McGuire Scrapbook)

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

Pen and ink drawing of a bearded man in an oval frame with ornamental scrollwork and an architectural base.

Self-Portrait

Annibale Carracci, early 1580s

Centaur galloping with a bow while a young archer shoots beside him across a green landscape under a stormy sky.

The Education of Achilles

Eugène Delacroix, 1862

Pastel portrait of a man in a powdered grey wig and grey coat with gold embroidery and white lace at the collar.

Portrait of Théophile Van Robais

Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, 1770

Standing cavalier

Théodore Géricault, 1812-1814

Pen and ink sketch of a moustached man in a bowler hat reclining in a wooden chair, signed Joseph Hayllar, 1874.

Whistler Resting

Joseph Hayllar, 1874

Ink and wash study of arms and legs of a crucified figure on cream paper, by Eugène Delacroix.

Study of Arms and Legs of Christ Crucified

Eugène Delacroix, c. 1850