The Essence of Line

Welcome to this database of nineteenth-century French drawings. From revealing preparatory sketches to exquisite finished watercolors, more than 900 works by artists such as Eugéne Delacroix, Honoré Daumier, Paul Cézanne, and Edgar Degas illuminate the range of French art over the course of a century of innovation.

Study for 'Vénus à Paphos'

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1780-1867