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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

John Thurman

Thomas Bluget de Valdenuit, 1790

Architectural drawing with two gatehouse elevations, a central gate, a roof truss study and a floor plan of a courtyard build

Ontwerp voor een poortgebouw annex kantoor

Abraham van der Hart, 1792

Night camp of Cossacks around a campfire under bare trees, with mounted riders and a moon in the sky.

Kamp van de kozakken buiten de Muiderpoort te Amsterdam, 1813

François Joseph Pfeiffer, 1813

Ornate grey-toned design drawing of a decorative wall panel with a seated figure on a globe, medallions and classical motifs.

Design for a Decorative Panel

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, 1787

Pencil sketch of a young child with closed eyes, wearing a ruffled bonnet and high collar, on a tan paper sheet.

Unidentified Child

George Linen, 1830

Brown wash drawing of Rome's rooftops and domes seen from a stone terrace with figures and a mule.

Gezicht op Rome vanaf het Capitool

Jean Grandjean, 1765

Brown wash portrait drawing of a man in a tricorne hat and gold epaulettes, looking to the side.

John Paul Jones

James Barton Longacre, 1820

Grey wash drawing of a castle with round towers beside the Loire, with a boat of figures at the water and a distant town.

Gezicht op een kasteel bij Blois, aan de Loire

J.A. Geselschap, 1784

Grey wash drawing of a river with sailing and rowing boats, a church tower and windmills along the far shore.

Gezicht op Dordrecht uit het zuid-westen

Jacob van Strij, 1766

Red chalk drawing of a standing male nude seen from behind, one arm resting on a stone pedestal.

Staand mannelijk naakt, op de rug gezien

Johannes Ziesenis, 1790

Red chalk drawing of a seated male nude turned right, head bowed, resting on a pedestal.

Zittend mannelijk naakt, naar rechts

Jacobus Wijsman, 1804

Pencil sketch of a standing woman in a long puffed-sleeve gown with curled hair, turned to her left, on aged paper.

Unidentified Woman

George Linen, 1830

Ann Pine Decatur

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1800

Aged paper fragment with handwritten receipt text and a flourished signature reading C. W. Peale.

Charles Wilson Peale's autograph

Charles Willson Peale, 1800

Elizabeth Wirt

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1800

Pencil sketch of men in conversation in a columned interior hall, with a saddled horse in the foreground and labeled figures.

Ulysses S. Grant and John Pemberton

Frederick B. Schell, 1861

Graphite and red chalk drawing of a woman with upturned eyes and a draped cloak, on tan paper.

Portrait of a Woman (Martha Hess)

Henry Fuseli, 1781

Joseph Stella Self-Portrait

Joseph Stella, 1930

Sepia title page with an eagle holding a laurel branch, a central medallion portrait, and clustered portrait medallions above

Subscription book for portrait of Charles Carroll

James Barton Longacre, 1830

John Wickham

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1800

Brown ink sketch of a female dancer with an arm raised diagonally and draped fabric flowing around her body.

Isadora Duncan

Edmond van Saanen Algi, 1910

Sepia drawing of a landscape with a ruined arch, a tall tree, distant mountains, a small figure, and birds in the sky.

Landscape with Ruined Arch near Water, and Mountains in Distance

Style of Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, n.d.

Drawing in black and red chalk of a young girl in a bonnet seated in a chair with her hands folded.

Child Seated in a Chair

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1705

Pencil sketch of a mountain landscape with trees and a reflective lake in the foreground, by Alfred R. Waud.

Mount of Temptation and Nazareth

Black and red chalk drawing of a woman with lowered eyes wearing a dark veil, gathering fabric with one hand.

Vrouw met sluier

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1715

Studieblad met meisjeshoofd, een hand en een arm die een gitaar vasthoudt

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1705

Red chalk drawing of a seated woman in a flowing gown, with a small separate head study above her.

Op de grond zittende vrouw

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1705

Drie manskoppen

Jacob de Wit, 1705

Red chalk drawing of a landscape with an inn, many figures, horse-drawn carriages, and a village in the distance.

Landschap met vele figuren bij een herberg

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1715

Pencil sketch of a gnarled tree with a full leafy crown beside a slender tree, on pale paper.

Boomstudies

Joseph Vernet, 1724

Pen drawing of a procession with a helmeted soldier, a mounted rider, horses and a banner beneath trees.

Marcus Aurelius en de onderworpen Barbaren

Joseph Vernet, 1724

Pastel portrait of a seated woman in a white dress before a window showing a hazy hilly landscape with a town.

Carol Mitchell Phelps Stokes

Julius Rolshoven, 1900