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Watercolor

15,713 works

Loose sketch of a street performer balancing on a chair with arms raised, beside a man in red leaning on a barrel.

Street Show (Paillasse) (recto); a clown playing a drum (verso)

Honoré Daumier, 1825-79

Red chalk drawing of winged old Time seated on a pedestal with putti, below an oval portrait medallion of a man.

Allegory of Time in Honor of a Painter (Claude Lorrain?)

Attributed to Francesco Bartolozzi, 1675-1750

Brown ink drawing with white highlights of a nude man raising a mallet over a bull, with laurel-crowned and draped figures be

Sacrifice of a Bull

Attributed to Francesco Primaticcio, n.d.

Pencil sketch of nude female figures in a landscape, one reaching out at left, with trees and clouds faintly drawn.

Diana and Callisto

Possibly School of Nicolas Poussin, n.d.

Pen and brown ink anatomical study of muscular arms and clenched fists with hatched shading on paper.

A Sheet of Anatomical Studies

Peter Paul Rubens, 1600/10

Illuminated initial showing a kneeling man offering a golden cup to a crowned king and queen before a red canopy.

Nehemiah before King Artaxerxes, initial ‘C’ from a Bible

Masters of Zweder van Culemborg, about 1430

Watercolor of an Athens street with a domed mosque, camels, a mounted rider and robed figures in sunlight.

Street in Athens. With Hadji Hazekis' palace and the Tzistarakis Mosque

Carl Wilhelm Heideck, 1835

Illuminated manuscript page with a robed saint holding a crozier inside a large letter O, surrounded by colorful foliate bord

Saint Benedict, initial ‘O’, with border fragments from a Missal

Attributed to Jakob Elsner and workshop, 1491

Painted miniature of a bishop beside white deer, with a hunting party on horseback and hounds in a green landscape.

Miracle of the Deer of Saint Bassiano, from a Choir Book

Master B. F., 1500/10

Ink and wash drawing of a man in a straw hat reading on a bench under large trees, by Honoré Daumier.

A Man Reading in a Garden (recto); Preliminary sketch for a Man Reading in a Garden (verso)

Honoré Daumier, ca. 1865

Watercolor of two white storks on a pale path before rocky hills and reddish shrubs under a stormy sky.

Herons in Landscape

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Watercolor of a brown vulture with a pale neck perched on a grey rock against a mottled blue sky.

Vulture

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Abstract watercolour study of loose brown, blue, pink, teal and ochre washes arranged in overlapping organic shapes on paper.

Colour study after Delacroix's painting Dante and Virgil in Hell, Louvre

Edvard Weie, 1930-1939

Watercolor of a spotted leopard lying on a pale rocky ledge with hills in the muted background.

Leopard Lying Down

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Watercolor of a striped tiger reclining on grass in a dim, shadowy landscape with shrubs and a hill.

Tiger

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Watercolor of a bear attacking a bull on rocky ground beneath a dusky, pink-tinged sky with hills in the distance.

Bear Killing Bull

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Watercolor drawing of a crouching leopard on grass with a coiled serpent in the lower right corner.

Leopard and Serpent

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Watercolor of harvest workers among sheaves of grain in a field, with a white church on a rise in the distance.

Harvest Workers in the Field

Martinus Rørbye, 1847

Brown watercolor drawing of a lion resting under a rocky overhang with hills in the background.

Lion Resting

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Watercolor drawing of a bison resting on grassland, head turned right, with a pale sky and distant trees behind it.

Bison Lying Down

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Brown wash drawing of a sleeping elephant with tusks resting on the ground beside dark forest trees.

Sleeping Elephant

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Watercolor drawing of a lion crouching over prey on grass, with a dark hillside landscape behind it.

Lion Devouring Prey

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Watercolor of four deer resting in a grassy field under a cloudy sky, with shrubs and hills in the distance.

Deer in Landscape

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Watercolor drawing of a lion lying low on sandy ground before misty, layered hills in muted browns and greys.

Lion Sleeping

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Watercolor of a tiger rolling on its back in a grassy landscape with dark hills under a grey sky.

Tiger Rolling on Its Back

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Brown wash drawing of a caracal with a pheasant in a rocky, scrubby landscape under a cloudy sky.

Caracal and Pheasant

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Watercolor drawing of a crouching spotted leopard on a green hillside beneath a dark, stormy sky.

Leopard Watching Serpent

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Watercolor of a tiger lying on earthy ground in a landscape with rocks, hills and a blue cloudy sky.

Tiger in Landscape

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Two dead horses lie on grass before dark rocks, with a flock of birds circling in a grey-green sky.

Dead Horses

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Watercolor of a bear attacking a bull in a misty, shrubby landscape under a dusky pink sky.

Bear Killing a Bull

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Watercolor design with rows of black laurel and thorn wreaths tied with ribbons on a red-orange wavy background.

Vinjettiehdotus

Albert Edelfelt, 1897

Muted watercolor of two deer on a grassy ledge with pale rocks and dark hills behind, signed BARYE in the lower right.

Izards in the Glaciers (Pyrenean Chamois)

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75