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Portraits

24,098 works

Pen drawing of a tomb design with an oval portrait bust, scrolling ornament, skull mask and stepped pedestal base.

Design for a Tomb of Epitaph (recto); An Unfinished Variation of a Tomb or Epitaph (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Lithograph portrait of Pierre-Louis-Antoine Cordier in dark coat and white cravat, with printed name and titles below.

Portrait of Pierre-Louis-Antoine Cordier

Julien-Léopold Boilly, c. 1825

Pen and ink drawing of a female head in an ornate scrolled helmet topped by a winged sphinx and plumes.

Design for a Helmet with a Sphinx presented in 3/4 View

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Lithograph portrait of an older bald man in a dark coat and white cravat, with inscription below naming Deschamps.

Portrait of Joseph-François-Louis Deschamps

Julien-Léopold Boilly, 1822

Lithograph portrait bust of a curly-haired man in a dark coat and white cravat, with printed name inscription below.

Portrait of André-Marie-Constant Duméril

Julien-Léopold Boilly, 1822

Lithograph portrait of Pierre-Louis Dulong, a man in a dark coat and white cravat, with printed inscriptions below.

Portrait of Pierre-Louis Dulong

Julien-Léopold Boilly, c. 1825

Lithograph portrait of a older man in a dark coat and white cravat, with printed inscription naming René Desfontaines below.

Portrait of Réné Desfonataines

Julien-Léopold Boilly, 1820

Pen and ink design sheet with a rococo shell frieze above two angled corner ornaments of scrolls and foliage.

Designs for the Decoration of a Frieze and Corner Motifs (recto); Design for Two Frames Decorated with Volutes, Garla…

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Self-Portrait and the Artist's Brother

duc de Montpensier Antoine Marie Philippe Louis d' Orléans, 1805

Engraved half-length portrait of a seated man in a dark suit holding a pocket watch, with draped curtain behind him.

John Sartain Self-Portrait

John Sartain, 1840

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in an oval frame, flanked by allegorical women, with a skull and small scenes below.

Portrait of Don Antonio Emanuel Ne-Vunda, Marchio de Wynth, Ambassador to the King of the Congo

Lucas Kilian, ca. 1608

Engraved portrait of a seated man in a curled wig and lace cuffs, playing a lute, against a dark background.

Portrait of Charles Mouton (c. 1626-before 1699)

Gerard Edelinck, 1690

Portrait of Charles Kinnaird Sheridan

Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel D'Orsay, 1844

Portrait of Alexander Hamilton

William Sartain, published 1895

Engraved portrait of a man in a dark coat within an ornate border with an eagle, signed by John Plumbe, Jr.

The National Plumbeotype Gallery - John Plumbe, Jr. Self-Portrait

Jr John Plumbe, 1840

Small etching of a bearded man leaning on a desk, face lit against dark hatched shadows, on an ivory sheet.

A Painter-Etcher (Self-Portrait)

Anders Zorn, 1889

Loose crayon sketch of a seated woman in a feathered hat and dark dress, looking to the side, on cream paper.

A Portrait: Mildred Howells

James McNeill Whistler, 1894-96

Graphite portrait of a seated man in an overcoat holding a sketchbook and pencil, turning toward the viewer.

Portrait of Pieter Frederik van Os

Anton Mauve, 1855

Engraved portrait of a seated man in a curled wig and silk robe, with a quill and inkwell on a table beside him.

Portrait of Molière

Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet, c. 1773

Black chalk drawing of a curly-haired young boy with a lace collar, gazing forward within an arched border.

Portrait of a Young Boy

Frans van Mieris the Elder, 17th century

Engraved oval portrait of a clergyman in robes and pectoral cross, with a coat of arms below the frame.

Portrait of François-Paul de Neufville de Villeroy

Pierre Imbert Drevet, c. 1731

Pen and ink sketch of a church tower with spire and arched windows, beside trees, with a Spanish handwritten note below.

Church Tower with Inscription in Spanish to Avery. Verso: 3/4 View Portrait of Man

Martín Rico y Ortega, 1833-1908

Lithograph portrait of a woman with curled upswept hair and a large ruffled lace collar, turned to the right.

Portrait of Madame Perregaux

Horace Vernet, 1816

Lithograph of thirty-one portrait heads arranged in an oval, men and women in early 1800s dress, with a signed cartouche date

Thirty-one Portraits in an Oval

Pierre Roch Vigneron, 1817

Oval group portrait of thirty-one people in tiers, men in cravats and women in lace ruffs and bonnets, 1817 print.

Portraits of 31 people in an Oval

Pierre Roch Vigneron, 1817

Pencil sketch of a seated man at a drawing table, with a crowd and arched colonnade in the background.

Self-Portrait

Hubert François Gravelot, 1730/1750

Engraved oval portrait of a man with long curly hair, lace collar and armor, with a coat of arms below.

Portrait of Henri de Lorraine, Duke of Mouy

Robert Nanteuil, 1651

Pen and brown ink drawing of a young man with curly hair looking upward, shaded with fine cross-hatching.

Head of a Young Man

Parmigianino, 1539

Monochrome print of a young woman in a feathered hat and off-shoulder dress, shaded softly against a dark background.

Bust of a Young Woman (Jeune femme en buste)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1892

Etching of a man in a dark coat beside an easel, with a nude model partly visible in the shadowy studio behind him.

Self-Portrait with Model II

Anders Zorn, 1899

Charcoal drawing of a young woman's head in three-quarter view, eyes closed, with braided and curled hair.

Head of a (Young) Woman in Three-Quarter View Facing to the Left (recto)

Andrea del Verrocchio, 1475

Pale drawing of a young boy's head turned upward, with curly hair and pricked outlines of the features.

Head of a Young Boy (recto) - Engelskopf

Andrea del Verrocchio, 1465