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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Watercolor of an attic room with a woman in white, a seated mother with an infant, a dog, and a boy with a drum.

Young French Marquise in Exile in Lausanne

Jean-Baptiste Mallet, 1789

Pencil portrait sketch of an elderly man with round eyeglasses, white hair, high collar and double-breasted coat.

Louis Adolphe Thiers

Jacques Reich, 1900

William T. Sherman

Jacques Reich, 1861

Chalk study on grey paper of a male torso, a man's head with raised arm, and a female figure in drapery.

Studies for the Figure of a Centaur and a Nymph

Francesco Trevisani, 1708-17

Sepia drawing of an elderly man with white wavy hair in a dark high-collared coat against a hatched brown background.

Andrew Jackson

James Barton Longacre, 1820

Pencil sketch of a heavyset man in a dark striped shawl, with a Kentucky sign and figures behind him.

Laura Clay

Wallace Morgan, 1910

Anders Zorn

Anders Zorn, 1890

Brown ink drawing of a man in a dark coat and white cravat, turned to the right, within a hatched oval background.

William Wirt

James Barton Longacre, 1830

Circular blue-grey drawing with a central female figure in a medallion surrounded by allegorical women and scrolling ornament

The Seven Virtues in a Roundel, with Faith at the Center

Jan Collaert I, mid-16th century

Pale watercolor portrait of a woman in a white bonnet and ruffled collar, drawn in soft pencil outline on cream paper.

Dolley Madison

Mary Estelle Elizabeth Cutts, 1830

Charcoal sketch of a seated man bent over an open book, with handwritten inscription naming William Dean Howells.

William Dean Howells

Orlando Rouland, 1890

Watercolour of a pepper plant with red and orange peppers, a moth, a chrysalis, and a green caterpillar on a pale background.

Indian pepper with examples of a butterfly, chryslais and caterpillar

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1701

Pen and ink portrait of an elderly bearded man in a beret and fur-trimmed cloak, signed Jacques Reich.

Sebastian Cabot

Jacques Reich, 1900

Grey wash drawing of a rocky mountain landscape with pine trees, a natural arch, and two travellers with laden horses on a ro

A Mountainous Landscape with Travellers on a Road

Jan van Aken, ca. 1650-55

Watercolor caricature of a bearded man in glasses and overcoat holding newspapers, labeled New-York Tribune.

Horace Greeley

Thomas Nast, 1870

Grey paper sheet with chalk studies of feet, hands, heads, a woman with a basket, and a bearded nude man in a turban.

Study for Miraculous Draught of Fishes (?)

Colorful caricature mural study with exaggerated figures, a steam train, trumpeting cherubs, and a police officer on railway

Mural Study #1: Perils of Pauline/Keystone Cops

John Decker, 1940

Pastel drawing of a sunset with rays of light through clouds above dark hills and trees.

Sunset

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1850

Pen and ink portrait of an elderly man with white wavy hair, a high collar and cravat, against cross-hatched shading.

James Fenimore Cooper

Jacques Reich, 1900

Ink and wash sketch of a mounted rider under a parasol amid robed figures and a crowd along arched street walls.

Study for "The Sultan of Morocco and His Entourage"

Eugène Delacroix, 1832-33

Robert Cavelier Sieur De La Salle

Jacques Reich, 1900

Pen and ink portrait of an older man with receding hair in a dark coat and cravat, drawn with fine cross-hatching.

William Henry Harrison

Jacques Reich, 1900

Drawing with a black chalk reaching male figure above two red chalk studies of upturned heads on brown paper.

Man Reaching Down and Two Studies of Heads (recto)

Jean Jouvenet, 1698

Pencil sketch of a hooded rider on horseback surrounded by turbaned attendants, with a parasol above and city buildings behin

Study for "The Sultan of Morocco and His Entourage"

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1855-56

Drawn portrait of a bearded man in a dark coat and bow tie, turned to the side against a warm tan background.

James Alexander Williamson

L. Wieser, 1880

Thomas Cole

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Red chalk drawing of a haloed elder and turbaned men beside a kneeling figure with bound hands, near a column.

Religious releasing Turkish slaves

Giovanni Maria Morandi, 1650

Graphite sketch sheet by Delacroix showing studies of heads, an arm, a foot, and facial profiles on tan paper.

Head, Shoulder, and Foot, Studies for "Scenes from the Chios Massacres"

Eugène Delacroix, 1823

Pen and ink portrait of a man with a mustache, wearing a high collar, patterned tie and checked jacket.

Henry Morton Stanley

Jacques Reich, 1880

Red and grey chalk drawing of a flayed male torso showing exposed musculature, arms raised, head tilted back.

Ecorché: Torso of a Male Cadaver

Eugène Delacroix, 1828?

Benjamin Franklin

Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle, 1770

Pen and ink portrait of an elderly man with thinning hair and a high collar, shaded in cross-hatching.

Henry Clay

Jacques Reich, 1900