Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
In emphasizing emotion and imagination, romantic art shifted away from the restraint of classicism and neoclassicism that had dominated art in Europe since the Renaissance. Romanticism achieved its greatest popularity in art, literature, music and philosophy between 1780 and 1830, although its expression of individual experiences ranging from awe to passion informed culture in the decades after.
Landscape painting was especially popular during the romantic period, as were nature studies of wild animals and fantasies of exotic lands. Romanticism varied across Europe as it reacted to the rise of industrialization, a more personal relationship with faith that was distanced from the church and the rationalist thinking of the Enlightenment.
British painters such as John Constable and J.M.W. Turner responded dramatically to the light and atmosphere of the natural world, while William Blake conveyed humanity’s connection to the divine in his visionary art. In Germany, the late-18th-century Sturm und Drang, or Storm and Drive, movement, with its probing of the unconscious, inspired a sense of mystery in work by romantic artists such as Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge. In France, where the French Revolution had turned tradition upside down, Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix used lush brushwork to paint monumental canvases with tumultuous scenes of nature and history.
The romantic movement and its subject matter were a significant influence on the Pre-Raphaelites, Symbolists and the American painters of the Hudson River School, as well as on other cultural movements in the 19th and 20th centuries that saw artists build on this perspective in which art was guided by emotion rather than reason.
Find a collection of romantic paintings, sculptures, prints and multiples and more art on 1stDibs.
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Mid-19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Chalk
1820s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pencil, Chalk
1840s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1990s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1890s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
1830s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Carbon Pencil
1860s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor, Pen, Pencil
1850s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Late 19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Early 1900s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Ink, Pen
Late 20th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Chalk, Crayon, Cardboard, Pencil
Early 19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Laid Paper, Watercolor
1850s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Pencil
Late 19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Charcoal
1830s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
Early 19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Pencil, Paper
Late 20th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Paper
1860s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Gouache, Pencil
1830s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Pencil, Chalk
1840s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Graphite
1840s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Charcoal
1860s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Pencil
1860s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Pencil
1880s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Pencil
2010s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Oil Pastel
1820s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper
19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper
19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper
19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper
19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper
19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper
19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper
19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper
19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper
19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper
19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper
19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper
19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper
1860s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Carbon Pencil
1830s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Pencil, Paper
Late 19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Ink
1830s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Pencil, Paper
1820s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Pencil
1870s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1930s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
1860s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Carbon Pencil, Gouache
Early 20th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Gouache, Pencil, Paper, Watercolor
1890s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Graphite
19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Handmade Paper
20th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Conté
1890s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Graphite
1890s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Ink
1880s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Pencil
18th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Crayon, Handmade Paper
18th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Cardboard
Late 19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Carbon Pencil, Cardboard