Works on paper

With more than 90,000 artworks, our collection of works on paper is one of the largest in the world.

Highlights

La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France (The Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France), 1913

Sonia Delaunay-Terk
Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave), from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, ca. 1830-1832

Hokusai
Evening Rain at Atake on the Great Bridge (Ohashi Atake no yudachi), no. 52 from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei), Ninth month of 1857 (series published 1856-1858)

Utagawa Hiroshige
Portrait of Hieronymus de Bran, ca. 1634-1643

Jan Lievens
Study for 'Young Girl Drawing', 1937

Tamara de Lempicka
A Youth Reclining on a River Bank, 1583-1585

Annibale Carracci
A young man reclining on a bank beneath a tree, possibly a self-portrait, ca. 1747

Thomas Gainsborough
Diffraction, 2005

Julie Mehretu
Sheet of studies of hands playing bagpipes and torso view of man wearing robe (study for the Portrait of Gaspard de Gueidan), 1735

Hyacinthe Rigaud

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