Figure Drawings and Sketches

A collection of detailed pencil drawings and studies depicting draped garments, human figures, and hands, illustrating artistic techniques and anatomy.

Sketchbook, Paris, Kenyon Cox, American, 1856-1919, Recto: Graphite on laid paper Verso: Black pastel on laid paper, Recto: Inside front cover of sketchbook, with faint sketch of architectural form, possibly Gothic., Verso: Sketch of nude female figure, standing, facing frontally, with arms at sides., USA, 1877-78, albums (bound) & books, Sketchbook, Sketchbook

Study for a Lunette. Dated: 1890/1897. Dimensions: sheet: 11.7 × 18.8 cm (4 5/8 × 7 3/8 in.). Medium: graphite on tan wove paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Charles Sprague Pearce.

A pencil sketch by Hermann Heller showing a scene of a dangerous fight, illustrating figures in motion and conflict.

Angel 1573-1577 Italy. Black chalk heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper . Jacopo Bassano

Old man. Waliszewski, Zygmunt (1897-1936), draughtsman, cartoonist

Study after the Belvedere Torso. Artist: Cavaliere d'Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari) (Italian, Arpino 1568-1640 Rome). Dimensions: 9 15/16 x 7 1/2in. (25.2 x 19.1cm). Date: ca. 1585. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Study into a burial monument for a woman, Louis Joseph Greuse, after Germain Pilon (I), 1883 print paper etching the corpse. grave, tomb

Head and neck of an écorché figure, seen from behind, and small sketch of male nude in action. Red chalk and pencil drawing, by C. Landseer, 1815.

Two men try to drag a dead horse. Draughtsman: Simon Andreas Krausz. Dating: 1770 - 1825. Measurements: h 53 mm × w 90 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Sleeper and two horses. Draughtsman: George Hendrik Breitner. Dating: 1882. Place: Amsterdam. Measurements: h 196 mm × w 116 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Kippen.Leaf 47 Recto from a sketchbook with 73 sheets.

Motif for Bank Note Design, Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838-1909, Graphite on paper, A group of three women standing upon a globe and shown frontally. The two lateral ones stand further back than the central one, the left figure seems to act as a caryatid. The right figure holds a spun thread., USA, ca. 1895, numismatics, Drawing, Drawing

Alfred Sisley (1839-1899). "The Moutte". Plume on paper, 1869. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. Pussy, sleep, feather on paper, sleep, animal

Untitled. Hans Bellmer; German, born Poland, 1902-1975. Date: 1951. Dimensions: 381 × 281 mm. Graphite with smudging on cream wove paper. Origin: Germany. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Heads of Horses and Unicorns. Follower of Leonardo da Vinci; Italian, 1452-1519. Date: 1530-1540. Dimensions: 195 x 150 mm. Pen and brown ink on tan laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Kenyon Cox, Drapery Study for Reclining Female Study for Painting Drapery Study for Reclining Female Study for Painting

GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Starving Woman. 1790s. Wash drawing from the topic 'Prisiones, Suplicios y Libertad'. Drawing. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Prado Museum.

Two hands, 1710 - 1772 Leaf 88 Verso from a sketchbook with 105 sheets. paper. chalk hand

Muscles of the arm. Black and red chalk drawing, by C. Landseer, ca. 1815.

Head of a man, seen from behind, draughtsman: anonymous, Noord-Italië, 1590 - 1610,

Legs of a man, 1834 - 1903 Page 2 Recto from a sketchbook with 32 sheets. paper. pencil legs (+ male human being (not to be used where -A- is prescribed))

Flora, Edward Burne-Jones, 1833-1898, British, undated, White chalk on thick, rough, brown wove paper, mounted on board, Sheet: 13 1/2 x 11 3/8 inches (34.3 x 28.9 cm), drapery, dresses, fabric, flowers (plants), garlands, girl, mythology, religious and mythological subject, woman

Study sheet by Eugène Delacroix including an angel after Veronese, studies of a hand, a leg, and a male figure lying on the ground, drawn in brown pipe around 1825 on slightly yellowed paper.

Studies of two forearms, François Boucher, 1713 - 1770 drawing paper. chalk lower arm

Two boys pull a sheep on, from behind, 1651 drawing Zwolle paper. chalk

Slide in the form of a winged dragon. A slide in the form of a winged dragon. Dragon members are little in front of ice paintings, but have existed.

Naked man lying on a cornice with rollerwork.Leaf 33 Verso from a sketchbook with 35 sheets.

Studies of two forearms, draughtsman: François Boucher, 1713 - 1770, paper, h 162 mm × w 225 mm

Head of a man, seen from behind, anonymous, 1590 - 1610 drawing North-Italy cartridge paper. chalk male sex; man. head (human)

Ink and feather study by Donato Creti depicting front drapery, a skull, a child lying to the left, and a right head study.

Foot. Date: February-June 1886. Dimensions: 10.2 cm x 10.6 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

Edelfelt, Albert, work, Sketch book, drawing, 9 cm x 15 cm, Edelfelt, Albert, Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt 1854 - 1905, Finnish painter. Painting in a naturalistic style and with a Realist approach to art. He lived in Finland

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Figure on a Cloud, 1750 1760 Figure on a Cloud

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes / 'Shackled Prisoner'. Ca. 1815. Grey-brown wash, Black chalk, Red chalk on laid paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Two Studies of a Right Hand 1800 England. Red and black chalk on gray wove paper . Sir Thomas Lawrence

Study of Saint Francis; Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci) (Italian (Florentine), 1494 - 1557); about 1517 - 1518; Black chalk (recto); black chalk with some white chalk heightening (verso); 40.5 × 28.4 cm (15 15,16 × 11 3,16 in.)

The Spirit of Justice - Study for the Head of the Widow, 1844-45. Ford Madox Brown

HAND STUDY Jan Georg Wille and Hyacinthe Rigaud (after). Study of hands, around 1739.

Two ox skulls and a portion of a third, study for "Democritus in Meditation". Artist: Salvator Rosa (Italian, Arenella (Naples) 1615-1673 Rome). Dimensions: Sheet: 5 9/16 × 3 5/8 in. (14.2 × 9.2 cm). Date: 1662. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Two feet, Roubillac, After Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, 1784 - 1796 print Paris paper etching drawing, sketch. foot

Anonymous / 'Nude woman seen from behind, reclining in a landscape the Magdalen (?)'. Late XVI century. Wash, Pencil, Grey-brown ink on paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Tiburzio Passarotti created a study sheet depicting two male semi-figures in rotary movement and two horse heads using pipe feather, ink, and redel traces, with the lower edge damaged.

Photo production of the fresco The separation of water and land by Michelangelo in the Sixtine Chapel, Anonymous, After Michelangelo, 1851 - 1900 photograph Vatican CITY paper. cardboard albumen print picture, painting Sixtine Chapel (Vatican)

Four naked men wearing objects, 1658 - 1728 The men wear a jug and tablets or shelves, among other things. Page 18 Verso from a sketchbook with 33 sheets. paper. ink. pencil pen the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa). carrying something on the head or on the shoulders. container of ceramics: jar, jug, pot, vase

Plate XIV (Plate 14). The Seven Lamps of Architecture - Ornaments from Rouen, St. Lo, and Venice, 1880-1910. Engraver: R Cuff. After: John Ruskin. Series of engravings featuring various examples of stone decoration.

Studies of hands. Draughtsman: Charles Howard Hodges. Dating: 1774 - 1837. Measurements: h 158 mm × w 130 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Drawing (Italy)

Draperie study of unknown wife, Charles Howard Hodges, 1774 - 1837 drawing paper. chalk Drapery, Draped Garment, 'Graubarfings'. Drapery, Draped Garment, 'Course'

A drawing by Stefano della Bella from around 1633-1634 depicting a running putto, executed in feather technique.

Study for a burial, anonymous, 1508 - 1600 drawing paper. chalk Christ's entombment (possibly by angels)

. Allegorical figure: justice or science, with pilot and books, lower half of a woman. Work drawing for a painting.

Standing Figure Leaning on a Staff. Piero di Cosimo; Italian, 1462-1521. Date: 1508-1512. Dimensions: 83 x 49 mm. Pen and brown ink on tan laid paper, edge-mounted to cream wove paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink on all four sides. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Old man with long jacket, Frederick Bloemaert, after Abraham Bloemaert, after 1635 - 1669 print An old man, depicted sideways, with spacious clothing on. paper engraving old man

Two Zwanen, Willem van Konijnenburg, 1878 - 1943 print paper drypoint water-birds: swan

Well, Moses ter Borch (attributed to), 1660, draughtsman: Moses ter Borch, (attributed to), Zwolle, 1660, paper, h 161 mm × w 208 mm

'Studies of a Child', c1490 (1945). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci.

Studies of a Hand. Date: March-April 1890, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Dimensions: 23.6 cm x 32.1 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

Eight Figure Studies on One Sheet or Hands and a Head, 1870-80. Chalk on paper. Artist: Sir Edward John Poynter (d. 1919) .

A red chalk and pencil hand study by Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret from 1897 on irregularly browned transparent paper with a pencil grid; left lower corner missing.

Three Hands, Two with Knives. Date: December 1884-May 1885, Nuenen. Dimensions: 21.1 cm x 34.6 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

Anonymous (Copy Barocci, Federico) / 'Figure of Christ, from a Composition of Noli me tangere'. First half of the XVII century. Pencil, Grey-brown ink on paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Drawing, Painted ceiling of a vaulted room; Italy

A red chalk drawing by Baldassare Franceschini on gray paper with white highlights and blotchy areas, showing three studies of a right hand around 1650-1652.

Drawing, Study for portrait; Harriet Blackstone (American, 1864 - 1939); USA; graphite on paper; 7 × 7 cm (2 3/4 × 2 3/4 in.)

Salichtad sleigh; Masków, Stanis Aw (1853-1926); 1889 (1889-00-00-1889-00-00);Méyet, Leopold (1850-1912), Méyet, Leopopol

Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel (recto); Figure Studies for the Sistine Ceiling (verso), 1510-11. Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475-1564). Red chalk over black chalk or charcoal; sheet: 34.3 x 24.3 cm (13 1/2 x 9 9/16 in.); secondary support: 34.4 x 24.4 cm (13 9/16 x 9 5/8 in.). Universally considered one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance, Michelangelo devoted four years to painting the vast ceiling fresco in the Sistine Chapel. This preparatory study portrays one of the 20 athletic male nudes, known as ignudi, who serve as supporting figures at each corner of the Old Testament scenes painted down the center of the ceiling. Michelangelo worked out the positioning of the ignudi in red chalk drawings before beginning to paint each section of wet plaster. The energy and monumentality of the figure in red chalk, whose body extends beyond the sheet, suggests the heroic athleticism of Michelangelos sculpture.

Four studies of a skull.

Ekman, Robert Wilhelm, work, Portrait of the Swedish sculptor Qvarnström; The drawing has previously been marked with the model and the artist, drawing, 20 cm x 21 cm

The Drinker Seen from the Front, from Varie Figure Gobbi Made 1616 France. Etching on paper . Jacques Callot

Pisanello, Antonio Di Puccio Pisano.

Figura abstracta de mujer desnuda y perro/1966. Museum: COLECCION PARTICULAR MADRID ESPAÑA. Author: EDUARDO NARANJO.

Drawing, Drapery Study for "Communion of the Sick"; Daniel Huntington (American, 1816-1906); USA; graphite on cream wove paper; 30.2 x 44.2 cm (11 7/8 x 17 3/8 in.); Bequest of Erskine Hewitt; 1942-50-129

A slave holds a camel by the bridle, from 'Several heads in the Persian style' (Plusieurs têtes coiffées à la persienne). Artist: Etched by Stefano della Bella (Italian, Florence 1610-1664 Florence). Dimensions: Plate: 4 × 2 15/16 in. (10.1 × 7.5 cm)Sheet: 4 in. × 3 1/16 in. (10.2 × 7.7 cm). Publisher: Published by Israël Henriet (French, Nancy ca. 1590-1661 Paris). Series/Portfolio: 'Several heads in the Persian style' (Plusieurs têtes coiffées à la persienne). Date: 1649. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Antoine Carrée's pencil drawing from 1780-1790 depicts Christ lying, showing drapery, body posture, and facial expression in a religious context.

Design for Vessels early 16th century Anonymous, Italian, 16th century Italian. Design for Vessels 346325

Study sheet with sketches of three lying men, Leonaert Bramer, 1606 - 1674 drawing paper. ink pen / brush lying figure

Drawing, Semi-Draped Female Figure; Italy; red chalk on paper; 15.2 x 14 cm (6 in. x 5 1/2 in.), irregular

Four Studies of an Amputated Human Right Arm, Jacques de Gheyn (II) (attributed to), c. 1615 drawing Leiden (possibly) paper. chalk drawing arms

Drawing (France); Pierre-Victor Galland (Swiss, active France, 1822 - 1892)

Della Bella, Stefano (dit Étienne de la Belle) (n.1610-05-18-D.1664-08-22), book to learn to draw. Five feet. Seventh number of a suite of 16 rooms. (A. de Vesme 298; Dutuit 146) (main title). Etching. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Rock. Pierre (Pierre Henry Ferdinand Massignon, dit) (n.1855-08-02-D.1922-01-18), La Salamandre (iron) (main title), 1915. Gypsography, brown draw, brown and black . Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Lying dog. Draughtsman: Harmen ter Borch. Dating: Feb-1651. Place: Zwolle. Measurements: h 85 mm × w 94 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

DRAWING OF PRANCED HORSE. Author: DIEGO VELAZQUEZ (1599-1660). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Drawing (Italy)

Legs of a bird. Draughtsman: Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof. Dating: 1876 - 1924. Measurements: h 163 mm × w 105 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Eight noses. Drawing, c. 1794.

Arthropathie de l'épaule, chez une ataxique (lésions osseuse). Arthur de Montmeja (French, born 1841)

Alexandre Jean-Baptiste Le Blond 1699 detailed study of a frog designed as fountain ornament, executed with brush in brown, brown wash, and white highlights.

A pencil sketch sheet by Rudolf Weyr emphasizing line work and basic compositional elements in a study format.

Quatre pieds ombrés et un au trait. 1601 - 1700. Della Bella, Stefano, 1610-1664. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Two feet, Jean François Janinet, After Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, 1773 print paper foot

Standing child. Draughtsman: Abraham Delfos. Dating: 1741 - 1820. Measurements: h 62 mm × w 52 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Sri Lanka, Boursse, Esaias, Man sleeping on a deep window-sill, Man sleeping on a window-sill, On a wide window-sill (or niche in a wall) a man is sleeping. He lies on his left side with his knees drawn up and wears a waist-cloth (veshti, lungi) drawn up above his knees, one end of which hangs forward over the edge; his upper body is uncovered. Beneath him lies a cloth - probably his shawl (chadar) which is rolled up at the end to support his head. Judging by his clothing, the man may have come from South India, and been employed in Colombo. Sheet 73 from a sketchbook with 117 sheets., sketchbook sheet, drawings, height 148 mm, width 196 mm, 1631 - 1672, draughtsman, draftsman, 1662 - 1662, third quarter 17th century, paper, papier, ink, inkt, brush, Borstel

Drawing, Study for portrait; Harriet Blackstone (American, 1864 - 1939); USA; red pastel crayon, pen and ink on paper; 30 × 23 cm (11 13/16 × 9 1/16 in.)

Study of a forearm. Draughtsman: Jan Toorop. Dating: 1868 - 1928. Measurements: h 195 mm × w 148 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Drawing, Study for the Right Forearm and Hand of a Woman; Italy; red crayon on brown paper; 8 × 12.9 cm (3 1/8 × 5 1/16 in.)

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