Figurative Drawings from the 17th-19th Century

Drawings depicting seated figures and expressive poses from various artists. The artworks capture moments of contemplation and interaction among characters.

The first steps, James Ensor, 1880, drawing, between circa 1880 and circa 1885, Belgian Art

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), begging that warms his hands by a tire, About 1630

The first steps, James Ensor, 1880, drawing, between circa 1880 and circa 1885, Belgian Art

. A man with a hat, sits with his right hand under his chin, going to the right, on a stone.

Two boys sitting opposite each other, one of them in a chair, Two sitting boys, draughtsman: Abraham Bloemaert, 1625 - 1629, paper, pen, h 218 mm × w 165 mm

Putti and Winged Figure, Graphite, pen and ink, brush and wash on paper, Three putti around a winged figure with clasped hands. One putto holds a mirror., Italy, 1750-1780, figures, Drawing, Drawing

Man Pulling on His Shoe. Dated: 1761/1763. Dimensions: overall: 11 x 11 cm (4 5/16 x 4 5/16 in.). Medium: black chalk on laid paper, laid down on mount. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Attributed to Jean-Baptiste Le Prince.

Studies for the Sick Woman in the 'Hundred Guilder Print', draughtsman: Rembrandt van Rijn, Amsterdam, c. 1648, paper, pen, brush, h 101 mm × w 122 mm

Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786-1846, British, Figure Study of a Nude Male, undated. Pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, beige, wove paper.

Brush and graphite drawing by Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne depicting a standing beggar supporting himself on a stick and urinating under his coat, gray lavated shading applied.

The Supper at Emmaus 1626-1669 Netherlands. Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper . Follower of Rembrandt van Rijn

Etching and echoppe by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn from around 1634 depicting a wandering pair of beggars with frame lines in pen and ink, showing figures, posture, and clothing.

Young man sitting and standing; Recueil De Quatre-Vingt-Cinq Estampes Originales. The print is part of an album.

Figure Studies, c. 1640-1649. Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673). Pen and brown ink and wash; sheet: 10.3 x 6.4 cm (4 1/16 x 2 1/2 in.).

Daughter of pharaoh finds Moses, draughtsman: Ferdinand Bol, 1640 - 1645, paper, pen, h 175 mm × w 240 mm

Pencil sketch by Josef von Führich, executed in 1814, showing a study related to a painted scene.

Male Saint Standing on Cloud, Supported by Putti, Holding Infant Christ. Artist: Anonymous, Spanish, School of Seville, 17th century. Dimensions: 4-7/16 x 2-3/4 in. (11.2 x 7 cm). Date: 17th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ink and feather drawing by an anonymous artist depicting an elderly figure counting money with another figure observing, showing gestures and interactions.

Alphonse Legros, Bohemien Encampment (Campement de bohemiens) Bohemien Encampment (Campement de bohemiens)

Christ in Glory with Kneeling Virgin 1590-1630 Perúgia. Pen and brown ink on buff wove paper . Giulio Cesare Angeli

Drawing by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich showing a young man placing a vessel near a sleeping girl, created with lead pencil (Bleigriffel) around 1734-1735.

The Hundred Guilder Print: the man seen on the back in the lower left corner, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1753 - 1810 Fragment of cut -off plate of the one hundred guilders print. The print is part of an album. paper etching / drypoint Fragment of cut -off plate of the one hundred guilders print. The print is part of an album. paper etching / drypoint

Figure Study of a Nude Male, Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786-1846, British, undated, Pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, beige, wove paper, Sheet: 4 7/8 × 3 11/16 inches (12.4 × 9.4 cm)

Street in Smyrna. A street with four figures and a camel.

Jacob Blessing Ephraim and Manasseh, the Sons of Joseph, Jan Victors (copy after), c. 1635 - c. 1640, draughtsman: Jan Victors, (copy after), draughtsman: Rembrandt van Rijn, (rejected attribution), Amsterdam, c. 1635 - c. 1640, paper, pen, h 129 mm × w 129 mm (upper corners trimmed)

A dark brown ink drawing by Raffaello Santi depicting the Marriage of St. Katharina. The work focuses on figure composition and religious narrative.

Drawing, Peasant with Bag; Carlo Marchionni (Italian, 1702-1786); Italy; graphite on brown laid paper; 23.7 x 19.3 cm (9 5/16 x 7 5/8 in.)

Bliżej Kultury H. Kleinmann & Co Haarlem, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 1669)

A gray brush drawing by Johannes Lingelbach depicting a flute-playing shepherd, a peasant woman, and a seated boy, with laved shading and composition focused on figure arrangement.

Etching and copper engraving by Rembrandt from around 1631 depicting the mythological scene of Jupiter and Antiope, showing figures and composition.

Traveling print saleswoman and a boy with a magic lantern, Anonymous, 1700 - 1799 print A print saleswoman with a supply of prints on a cord around her neck. Next to her a boy with a magic lantern on his back. paper etching magic lantern. book. print, e.g.: engraving, etching, lithograph

Alphonse Legros, Burning Grass (Le bruleur d'herbes) Burning Grass (Le bruleur d'herbes)

A pencil and white chalk drawing on blue paper by Ludwig Heinrich Wittich, depicting two seated Italian women, one with cups and one with a headscarf, created between 1837 and 1841, focusing on figure, attire, and posture.

Squatting girl, grating a large pan. Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: 1800 - 1900. Measurements: h 223 mm × w 187 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Men with a gender pig, David Pièrre Giottino Humbert de Superville, 1781 - 1849 print Two men lift a slender pig on the legs of the ground. They lean over an elongated container standing on his side. The pig seems to have been thrown out of this container. unknown paper etching slaughtered ox or pig

Elijah Visited by an Angel in the Dessert. Draughtsman: Rembrandt van Rijn (school of). Dating: c. 1650 - c. 1660. Place: Amsterdam. Measurements: h 152 mm × w 201 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Vechting couple, c. 1652 drawing Zwolle paper. ink brush

Rest on the Flight into Egypt. Draughtsman: Luca Cambiaso. Dating: 1537 - 1585. Measurements: h 239 mm × w 347 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Music company by candlelight. Musician company around a table consisting of a bagpipe player, a flautist, a singer with a tambourine and a little boy with a candle. Drawn on sketch blade of blue gray paper, numbered 73.

Three Men 16th century Anonymous, Italian, Florentine, 16th century Italian. Three Men 341806

The Monk in The Cornfield, Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1646 print paper etching / drypoint

Fleeing Group of Figures, George Romney, 1734-1802, British, undated, Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 4 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches (11.4 x 18.4 cm), figure study, figures, groups, user

Drawing by Lucas Stipperger depicting a corporate or formal scene, executed in pen with bister washes

Cardplayers: three men, two seated one standing before a spread of cards on a table 1867 Mariano Fortuny, 1838-1874 Spanish. Cardplayers: three men, two seated one standing before a spread of cards on a table. Mariano Fortuny, 1838-1874 (Spanish, 1838-1874). 1867. Etching. Prints

Portrait of Gerard van Swieten, Augustin Cipps, c. 1700 - c. 1800 drawing Design for a print. paper. ink. chalk pen / brush historical persons. physician, doctor

Woman with Children, print maker: Charles Emile Jacque, (attributed to), France, 1823 - 1894, paper, etching, drypoint, h 50 mm - w 36 mm

Extraña devoción!, Los desastres de la guerra, 1810 -1814, Francisco de Goya, primera impresión de 1863, realizada por la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando de Madrid, convento de San Francisco, Santo Domingo de la Calzada, La Rioja, Spain.

Sujet libre.. Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Sex

Giovanni Antonio Armano's red chalk drawing depicts the Holy Family with the young John, showing figures and gestures.

The actor Willem Bartholensz Ruyter as a Peasant, Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1638 drawing A fat man who leans with his hands on a table top. His weak hat drops a little and casts a shadow over his convex face. Willem Ruyter, a stage actor, is displayed as a farmer, with a keel and a formless hat. Amsterdam prepared paper. deck paint. ink pen portrait of actor, actress Amsterdam

Figure Studies (recto), c. 1640-1649. Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673). Pen and brown ink and wash; sheet: 10.3 x 6.4 cm (4 1/16 x 2 1/2 in.).

Jacques Callot, The Sick Man, c 1622 The Sick Man

Jacques Callot, Mother and Three Children, c 1622 Mother and Three Children

Netherlands, Steen, Jan Havicksz., Inn with laughing company, verso - stamped, In an inn four men and a woman are sitting laughing. A fifth man is lying on the ground and is grabbing the woman's foot., print, prints, height 105 mm, width 133 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1626 - 1679-02, painter, schilder, 1635 - 1729, paper, papier, etching, etsen, print maker, prentmaker

Rijn, Rembrandt van, Beggar and beggar woman, coming from behind a hillock, verso bottom left - stamped, print, prints, height 97 mm, width 67 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1606-07-15 - 1669-10-08, print maker, printmaker, 1628 - 1632, second quarter 17th century, paper, etching, etchings, drypoint, dry needle, Work conception, after own design by

Jean Louis Forain, Lost Illusions, probably 1918 Lost Illusions

Study for a Crucifixion of St. Peter 1628-30 Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) Spanish. Study for a Crucifixion of St. Peter 336234

Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, A Death-Bed Scene, undated. Gray wash and graphite with pen and black ink on medium,slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Woman and Child, Benjamin West, 1738-1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763), undated, Graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper, mounted on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 4 x 3 1/16 inches (10.2 x 7.8 cm) and Mount: 8 1/2 x 6 15/16 inches (21.6 x 17.6 cm), child, portrait, woman

Three Women and a Child by a Door, Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1645, draughtsman: Rembrandt van Rijn, Amsterdam, c. 1645, paper, pen, h 233 mm × w 178 mm

Bliżej Kultury Ferdinand Schenk Verlag für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe, Wien, an unknown cartoonist of the north hair from the 16th century.

Boer and farmer with child (version 2), Christina Chalon, 1758 - 1808 print Portrait in round list of an unknown farmer's family. A woman gives her child the chest while her husband watches. paper etching family group, especially parents with their child(ren) (with NUMBER of children). nursing, suckling. farmers

Return from the Field (Le Retour des Champs-2nd Plate). Alphonse Legros (French, 1837-1911). Etching;

Man holding a shield for a fighting dragon and unicorn; Cabinet du Roy. Leger at the top right: 146.

Northern Netherlands, Heenck, Jabes, Three men around a table, verso middle - stamped, print, prints, verso lower left - stamped, height 176 mm, width 133 mm, 1752-10-27 - 1782-11-01, print maker, printmaker, 1782 - 1782, paper, papier, drypoint, dry needle, aquatint

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes / 'Poor little things!'. 1797. Red chalk on laid paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Anonymous brown ink drawing depicting the return of the lost son, showing figures, gestures, and narrative composition.

The Sick Man. Dated: c. 1622. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JACQUES CALLOT.

A pencil drawing by Lucas Stipperger depicting three prophets, emphasizing figure, posture, and drapery.

Deux pélerins assis et un paysan couché à plat ventre. 1601 - 1700. Della Bella, Stefano, 1610-1664. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

James Bruce, 1730-1794, British, Studies of Two Seated Men, undated. Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

CONFIDENCE Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875). Confidence (page 115).

Prison Scene, George Romney, 1734-1802, British, undated, Brown ink with gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 14 x 21 inches (35.6 x 53.3 cm), baby, child, children, cloth, correctional institution, genre subject, men, nudes, prison, prisoners, women

Sheet of Sketches 1735 François Boucher French. Sheet of Sketches 398666

The Virgin sits upon clouds, with the Child standing beside her. She has her right arm around the child and carries in her right hand a bowl, pointing at it with her left hand. Behind the Child is the globe with a cross on top. Below are the upper parts of a Doric column and a piece of the frieze, and a tablet leaning against it. In front of the tablet stands a pitcher. In the background is a structure with a tower. The sun is visible. This part of the background is framed by the larger part of a circle, the space between it and the outer framing line being hatched. Parts of outline are deeply impressed. Graphite on paper. Date: 1820-1850. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

The Model's Rest (first plate). Dated: 1909. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JEAN LOUIS FORAIN.

Drunken Farmer in an Inn 1775 Cornelis Ploos van Amstel Dutch. Drunken Farmer in an Inn 414155

I often, a civilian and a class of a woman; Scholtz, Julius (1825-1893); 1865 (1865-00-00-1865-00-00);Fryderyk Wilhelm III (King of Prussia - 1770-1840) - iconography, Schlesisches Museum der Bildenden Künste (Wrocław - 1880-1945) - collection, Scholtz, Hanna (Fl. Ca 1912) - Dar, Wrocław (Lower Silesian Voivodeship), German drawings , studies to paintings, characters studies, figural sketches, soldiers

Design for a Box-Lid 18th century Hubert François Gravelot French. Design for a Box-Lid 335523

Photo reproduction of drawing by Paul Delaroche: La Mere de Moise.

Study of a Man, Seen from Behind. Draughtsman: Rembrandt van Rijn. Dating: c. 1629 - c. 1630. Place: Leiden. Measurements: h 294 mm × w 170 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Maria met Kind, Jacob Duck, 1621 - 1667 print paper etching Mary sitting or enthroned, the Christ-child in front of her in her lap (or in front of her bosom)

Sleeping Peasant. Dimensions: overall: 29.8 x 44 cm (11 3/4 x 17 5/16 in.). Medium: charcoal heightened with white on brown laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: FRANCESCO LONDONIO.

Wiik, Maria, work, Sketch book, undateable, drawing, Wiik, Maria, unscheduled, Maria Catharina Wiik 1853 - 1928 a Finnish painter of still life, genre images, landscape paintings and portraits. Lived in Finland

Rhine, Rembrandt van, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt: lightly etched, lower left, print, prints, Rembrandt f.1645, height 132 mm, width 115 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1606-07-15 - 1669-10-08, print maker, printmaker, 1645 - 1645, second quarter 17th century, paper, ink, inkt, etching, etchings, drypoint, dry needle, pen, Work conception, after own design by

Arthur-Joseph Guéniot (1866-1951). Leaf with six studies including a landscape, two seated women, a hunter, a naked child playing the flute. Graphite pencil. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. Drawing, 19th XIXth 19th 19th 19th 19th century, 20th XXth XX 20th 20th 20th century

Drunk farmer in Herberg, Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, After Adriaen Brouwer, 1775 print A farmer is sitting on a low sofa in an inn, with a jug in his hand. Amsterdam paper etching inn, coffee-house, public house, etc.. jar, jug (used as drinking-vessel)

Three gray-black pen designs by Johann Christian Thomas Wink in tondo form depicting the Holy Family and John the Baptist as a child, over pencil on bluish-yellowish paper.

The Smoker. Dimensions: overall (trapezoid): 18.1 x 17.8 cm (7 1/8 x 7 in.). Medium: pen and black ink and charcoal on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.

The Flight into Egypt. Dated: c. 1800. Dimensions: image: 22.23 × 16.83 cm (8 3/4 × 6 5/8 in.) sheet: 22.86 × 16.83 cm (9 × 6 5/8 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white gouache, on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Benjamin West.

A man removes an arrow from a woman's chest (Cephalus and Procris)., draughtsman: anonymous, Naples, 1600 - 1699, paper, brush, h 97 mm × w 110 mm

Woman kneeling to the right with a book in her hands, Raphael, 1500 - 1620, Rafaël, draughtsman: anonymous, 1500 - 1620, paper, pen, h 148 mm × w 109 mm

Aristotle and Phyllis. Aristotle is as a horse riding by Phyllis (story from 13th century of Jacques de Vitry), king and clerk watch.

Two figures representing Sloth and Poverty 1700-1800 Anonymous, 18th century. Two figures representing Sloth and Poverty. Anonymous, 18th century. 1700-1800. Etching. Prints

unknown, Schut, Cornelis (I), Christ Child and John the Baptist in intimate embrace, verso lower left - stamped, print, prints, height 58 mm, width 50 mm, South Netherlands, 1597-05-13 - 1655-04-29, print maker, printmaker, 1618 - 1655, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Work conception, after a design by, granter of privilege

Attributed to John Carter, 1748-1817, British, Basso-relievos in the Center of the Groins of the Cloisters, St Stephen's Chapel, ca. 1781. Graphite and pen and black ink on slightly textured, moderately thick, white laid paper.

Company of six persons, Gesina ter Borch, c. 1654, Company of four men and two women, kissing, drinking and smoking., draughtsman: Gesina ter Borch, Zwolle, c. 1654, paper, h 108 mm × w 195 mm

Boy standing by a cottage, Gainsborough Dupont, 1754-1797, British, undated, Graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige, laid paper, mounted on, very thick, slightly textured, beige, card paper, Sheet: 4 1/2 x 2 7/8in. (11.4 x 7.3cm)

Wiik, Maria, work, Sketch book, undateable, drawing, Wiik, Maria, unscheduled, Maria Catharina Wiik 1853 - 1928 a Finnish painter of still life, genre images, landscape paintings and portraits. Lived in Finland

Study of the Pieta, Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1786-1846, British, undated, Pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream, laid paper, Sheet: 3 3/4 × 6 1/16 inches (9.5 × 15.4 cm), Christianity, crosses, death, figure study, figures, hill, man, religious and mythological subject, women

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