There are very few finished drawings by Poussin. When he was drawing his only aim was to get his ideas down on paper. These sketches were then developed into more elaborate compositional drawings, sometimes dry and schematic project drawings to show to a patron, but more often vigorous and creative drawings executed with brush and wash.

Preview	Picture Data	Info
	Bacchanal 1635–36 Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over faint black chalk underdrawing, 133 x 206 mm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	A Sacrifice 1630-32 Pen, brown ink, and wash over black chalk, 10 x 215 mm Musée Bonnat, Bayonne
	A Dance to the Music of Time c. 1635 Pen and brown ink on paper, 148 x 199 mm National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
	Polyphemus Discovers Acis and Galatea 1623 Pencil, pen, brown ink and wash on paper, 182 x 323 mm Royal Library, Windsor
	The Death of Chione 1623 Pencil, pen, brown ink and wash on paper, 184 x 313 mm Royal Library, Windsor
	The Death of Camilla 1623 Pencil, pen, brown ink and grey wash on paper, 184 x 324 mm Royal Library, Windsor
	Study for the Massacre of the Innocents II 1628-29 Pen, brown ink and wash on paper, 147 x 169 mm Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille
	Armida Carrying off Rinaldo 1635-40 Pen, brown ink, and wash 203 x 255 mm Musée du Louvre, Paris
	Study of Two Antique Bas-Reliefs (detail) c. 1635 Pen and bister wash, 144 x 178 mm Musée Bonnat, Bayonne