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Untitled, Nude
By June Felter
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: June Felter (1919-2019)
Title: Untitled
Year: 1964
Medium: Watercolor
Sight size: 20 x 14.25 inches.
Framed size: 29.25 x 23 inches
Signature: Si...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Woman with Blossoms, America Martin_Ink on Paper_Figurative/Portrait/Floral
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Woman with Blossoms"
Ink on Paper
33.75” x 31” Framed
AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist based in Los Angeles. America ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Nude - Watercolor by Leo Guida - 1963
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1963 by the italian artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Original Watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed and dated on the lower margin.
...
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1960s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Elsa
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Elsa, 1915
Charcoal on paper, 14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: Daniel Garber / 1915
Provenance
The artist;
Estate of the artist, 1958;
Tanis Garber Page,...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Attributed to Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) La famille heureuse, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Attribuetd to Eugène Devéria (1805-1865)
La Famille heureuse (The Happy Family)
Watercolor on paper
23 x 18 cm
In quite good condition : a small tear i...
Category
1840s Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Humorous Illustration of a Man Walking his Dog by Maurice Freed
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Maurice Freed
(American, 1911-1981)
Dog Walking
Watercolor on board, 8 x 12 1/2 inches
FRAMED: 14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches (approx.)
Signed at lower left: “MAURICE FREED”
Maurice Freed...
Category
Mid-20th Century Other Art Style Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Farmers - Painting by Gabriele Galantara - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Farmers is an original modern artwork realized in the early 20th Century by the artist Gabriele Galantara.
Watercolor and tempera.
Monogram on the lower right. Hand-written annotat...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera
Charles Emile Jacque (Paris 1813 - 1894) Dog in a doghouse, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Charles Emile Jacque (1813-1894)
Dog in a doghouse
Monogrammed "C. J. "lower right
Pencil on paper
17 x 13 cm
Mark of the Collection of Doctor Albert Finot "AF" (Lugt 3627) lower lef...
Category
1860s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
The Biker - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid 20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The biker is an original artwork realized in the half of 20th century by the artist Mino Maccari.
Mixed colored china and watercolor drawing.
Hand signed by the artist on the lower...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Early 20th Century French Gouache on Paper, The Frog and The Fisherman
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th Century French gouache and watercolour on paper of a fisherman by Louis Henri Magnat, The painting is signed bottom right and presented in a carved and gilt wood frame und...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Mid Century "Contour Nude" Figurative Ink Drawing
Located in Arp, TX
Bearnice Fisher
"Contour Nude"
c.1950s
Ink on paper
14"x16.75" gold gilt frame with black fillet 20.5"x23.75"
Signed lower right in ink
Came from artist e...
Category
1950s Minimalist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Study for Scenography - Watercolor by Erminio Loy - 1920s
By Erminio Loy
Located in Roma, IT
Study for Scenography is a painting in watercolor realized in the 1920s by Erminio Loy.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
Good conditions.
The artwork represented through harmonious...
Category
1920s Pop Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of an Italian Peasant - Victorian art watercolour painting
Located in London, GB
This beautiful 19th century Italian watercolour portrait painting is by noted artist Frederico Bartolini. It was painted circa 1890 in Rome and is signed and in good condition behind...
Category
19th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
“Seated Woman”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautifully executed graphite on archival paper original drawing of a young woman seated by the American artist, William Sanders Fanning. Signe...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Victorian Portrait of little baby Girl or Child playing with her toys
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful Early Victorian English watercolor of a little girl. The piece is full of quality and precise brushwork giving the painting a great feeling. I think the frame is later poss...
Category
1830s Victorian Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
UNTITLED (TWO HEADS)
By George Condo
Located in Aventura, FL
Original conte crayon on paper. Dated "12.84" lower margin. Provenance: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York. Artwork size 12.5 x 9.5 inches. Fram...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Lady Driving A 2-Horse Tandem Hitch c1929 Gouache by H. W. Standing (1894- 1931)
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 12 3/4"H x 21 1/2"W
Frame Sz: 18 3/4"H x 27 3/4"W
Henry William Standing (British,1894 -1931)
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
The Scream - Original Watercolor and Tempera by Helen Vogt - Mid-20th Century
By Helen Vogt
Located in Roma, IT
The Scream is an original drawing realized by Helen Vogt.
Mixed colored watercolor and tempera.
The state of preservation is very good.
The artwork represents a woman with an aut...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Drawing Ink 16th 17th Flemish DE VOS Religious Martyrdom of James The Great
Located in PARIS, FR
Flemish school from the beginning of the 17th century (Circle of Martin DE VOS) Drawing Pen and wash 38 x 32 cm (58 x 52 cm with the frame) Inscription "Martin de Vos" Excellent cond...
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper
"Child with toys" watercolor cm. 24 x 30 1957
Located in Torino, IT
Children, Playing,1957,illustrations, children's room,Toys,
Marina Evgenevna USPENSKAYA (Moscow, 1925 – 2007)
Marina Evgenevna Uspenskaya was born in Moscow. She graduated from the...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
18th Century Watercolour - Jacob and the Pharaoh
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour interpretation of chapter forty-seven verse seven of Genesis where Joseph presents his father Jacob to the Pharaoh. The artist captures the religious figures o...
Category
Early 18th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Cyrus Cuneo, Symbolist Fan Design With Couple, Cherubs & Garden
By Cyrus Cuneo
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This beautiful early 20th-century fan design by American-English artist Cyrus Cuneo ROI (1879-1916) depicts a couple with cherubs in an ornamental garden. Cuneo was an accomplished p...
Category
1910s Symbolist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Denis Auguste Raffet (1804-1860) Studies of a Tiroler Kaiserjäger, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Denis Auguste Raffet (1804-1860)
Studies of a Tiroler Kaiserjäger,
Signed and dated 1849 lower right
Ink on paper
16.5 x 25.5 cm
In a nice period frame : 33 x 42 cm
Raffet had the occasion to draw studies of austrian soldiers as he took part as observer to the first Italian Independance War (1848-1849). It was the the first of many conflicts between the Kingdom of Sardinia , which later became the Kingdom of Italy , and the Austrian Empire.
The Kaiserjäger (imperial hunters) were founded in 1815 by Emperor Franz I. It was a great honor to enter the Kaiserjäger as they were the only ones to be honored with the term "imperial". However, only Tyrolese, Voralbergers and Welschtirolers were allowed.
They wore this characteristic hat as a parade headdress, it was made of matte black, waterproof felt. It consisted of a crown and brim adorned with a circular, green cord, the Jäger emblem and a plume of black rooster feathers. The hat cord was made of sheep's wool, and had a button and an acorn covered with a green wool.
These two studies clearly evoke the interest of the artist for this part of their uniform.
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (2 March 1804 – 16 February 1860) was a French illustrator and lithographer. He was a student of Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, and was a retrospective painter of the Empire.
At an early age he was apprenticed to a wood turner, but took up the study of art at evening classes. At the age of 18 he entered the workshop of Cabanel, where he applied his skill to the decoration of china, and where he met Rudor, from whom he received instruction in lithography, in the practice of which he was to rise to fame. He then entered the École des Beaux-Arts, but returned to lithography in 1830 when he produced on stone his famous designs of Lützen, Waterloo, Le bal, La revue, and Les adieux de la garrison, by which his reputation became immediately established.
Raffet's chief works were his lithographs of the Napoleonic campaigns, from Egypt to Waterloo, vigorous designs inspired by ardent patriotic enthusiasm. In this endeavor he was a contemporary of other French artist-lithographers of Napoleon and the French army including Hippolyte Bellangé, Horace Vernet, and Nicolas Toussaint Charlet. As an illustrator his activity was prodigious, the list of works illustrated by his crayon amounting to about forty-five, among which are Béranger's poems, the History of the Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, the History of Napoleon by de Norvins, the great Walter Scott by Auguste Defauconpret, the French Plutarch and Frédéric Bérat's Songs.
He went to Rome in 1849, and was present at the siege of Rome, which he made the subject of some lithographs, and followed the Italian campaign of 1859, of which he left a record in his Episodes de la campagne d'Italie de 1859. His portraits in pencil...
Category
1840s Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Galloping Horses - Charcoal on Paper by Giuseppe Cominetti - 1916
By Giuseppe Cominetti
Located in Roma, IT
Galloping Horses is a wonderful and original drawing in charcoal on paper, realized by the italian divisions artist Giuseppe Cominetti.
Hand-signed in charcoal and dated on the lower...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Landscape - Original Drawing - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a splendid colorful drawing in watercolor and pencil on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century in 1950 ca.
Titled on the lower right and signed, illeg...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
Auguste Mayer (1805-1890) A seascape with a boat, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Auguste Mayer (1803-1890
A seascape with a boat
signed with the initials on the lower left
Pencil and heightenings of white gouache on paper
17.5 x 26 cm...
Category
1860s Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Carbon Pencil
"You Little Bears, You!"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Dimensions: 21.00" x 14.00"
Price on Request-
The work was published in Cosmopolitan December 1905 from a story by Annie Hamilton Donnell, "The Expedi...
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Christmas - Original Charcoal and Watercolor on Cardboard by M. Maccari - 1970's
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Christmas greeting card is an original artwork realized by Mino Maccari in the 1970's.
Colored watercolor and charcoal drawing on cardboard.
Initials of the artist on the lower mar...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Charcoal
Nude
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Nude" 1947 is a watercolor on paper by noted California (German/American) artist Ernst Stolz, 1901-1989. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist....
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Christopher Stolworthy - Framed Contemporary Pastel, Cromer Beach, Norfolk
Located in Corsham, GB
Christopher Stolworthy - original seascape in pastel. Cromer Beach and Pier, Norfolk. Presented in a double card mount and gilt-effect frame. Signed and dated lower left.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
“British Pub 2”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of interior crowded pub scene by the British artist, George Anderson Short. Signed top left and dated ...
Category
1930s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
“Bringing Home the Game”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of a hunter bring home the fresh game by the British artist, George Anderson Short. Signed top right. ...
Category
1940s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
Jean Dupas art deco drawing, 'The Angel of light'
By Jean Dupas
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Jean Dupas (French, 1882 – 1964)
The angel of light
Pen and ink and charcoal on paper
14.3/4 x 12.1/2 in. (37.5 x 31.8 cm.)
One of the leading artists of the Art Deco period, Jean Théodore Dupas was the son of a merchant marine captain and began his adult life as a merchant seaman. Poor health meant that he had to abandon this career and he enrolled in art school instead, first in his native Bordeaux and later in Paris. He won the Prix de Rome in the category of painting in 1910 and studied at the Académie de France in Rome, from where he sent several paintings to the Paris Salons, although his studies were interrupted by the outbreak of war. Dupas’s work came to public prominence on the occasion of the seminal Exposition des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1925. He was chosen by the furniture designer Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann to provide paintings for the latter’s Maison d’un collectionneur, alongside furniture by Ruhlmann and objects by many of the leading Art Deco craftsmen of the day, while other paintings by Dupas were also displayed to great effect elsewhere in the Exposition.
In the late 1920’s and 1930’s Dupas won a number of important and prestigious commissions. In 1926 he worked alongside Ruhlmann and the sculptor Alfred Jeanniot on the decoration of the tearoom of the ocean liner Ile-de-France; the first of the grand transatlantic ships to be built in France after the First World War. By this time Dupas had firmly established his reputation. Writing in 1927, his fellow artist George Barbier could already note that ‘Few artists have at such an early age attained such a degree of success, or gathered around them such swarms of imitators and disciples.’
Dupas reached the height of his fame in the mid 1930’s, and in 1934 he received his most important commission to date; a series of large glass murals...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Ink, Pen
“The Hunter”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of a solitary hunter in the field by the British artist, George Anderson Short. Signed bottom right. ...
Category
1940s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
French school 19th century, An italian bandit, 1864, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
French school 19th century,
An italian bandit, 1864,
watercolor on paper
On the reverse of the sheet (now under the back of the frame) an annotation, "Rome 1864"
25,5 x 21.5 cm (v...
Category
1860s Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Chinese Yangliuqing New Year Painting of Beauty and Baby, c. 1920
Located in Chicago, IL
Chinese New Year paintings (nian hua) are colorful folk paintings created to celebrate the annual Spring Festival. Drawn or printed by folk artists in regional studios, nian hua paintings featured exaggerated characters with bright and contrasting colors. Put up around the home to beckon luck and happiness in the coming year, most paintings depicted mythical guardians, scenes from folk operas, or auspicious symbols of good luck.
This New Year painting depicts a young woman with a child and is hand-painted in a palette of red, blue, and purple. Belonging to a genre known as 'beauties and babies,' the painting represents a harmonious family life. The early 20th century painting is from the town of Yangliuqing, one of the leading producers of traditional New Year's paintings known for its combination of woodblock printing...
Category
Early 20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pigment
Study for Alyssa II
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A charcoal portrait drawing of a young woman.
"The emotional intensity found in Bauman’s figurative work is astounding. A hallmark of Bauman’s character portraits is that, somehow,...
Category
2010s Academic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
German School 19th Century, Portrait of a boy, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
German School 19th Century,
Portrait of a boy,
pencil on paper
25.7 x 16 cm (view)
Framed : 41.8 x 31.5 cm
The style and execution are v...
Category
1850s Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Mid-Century French Feutre on Paper. In the Stables..
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid Century French feutre drawing on paper of a Provençal stable with horses by Jean Arène. Signed and dated bottom left and presented in a wooden frame under glass.
This evocative...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Felt Pen
Mid-Century French Feutre on Paper. Tea time In the Kitchen.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late Mid Century French feutre drawing on paper of a Provençal lady sitting in her kitchen by Jean Arène. Signed and dated bottom left.
This artwork is a striking pen-and-ink drawing that vividly captures a cluttered interior scene filled with an assortment of teapots and household objects. The central figure, an elderly lady with an expressive face, sits at a table surrounded by an overwhelming array of details. The artist uses bold, dynamic lines to convey a sense of chaos and charm, creating an atmosphere of cozy clutter. The composition’s intricacy draws the viewer's eye around the room, showcasing...
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1960s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Felt Pen
Edmond Albert Joseph Tyrel de Poix, Landscape With Watermill, Mother & Child
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming 19th-century drawing by British artist Edmond Albert Joseph Tyrel de Poix (1840-1916) depicts a mother and child standing by a mill pond before a rustic watermill.
De Poix was a gentleman artist descended from French nobility...
Category
1870s English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Richard Lindner Marilyn Monroe Was Here, hand signed Pop Art lithograph Framed
Located in New York, NY
This is a rare, pencil signed print based upon the original drawing which is illustrated in the catalogue raisonne of Richard Lindner's Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, Edited by...
Category
1960s Pop Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rice Paper, Pencil
Nude signed Arno Breker
Located in Pasadena, CA
Arno Breker is an artist supported by the Nazi regime and a German sculptor whose neoclassical works meet the military aesthetic of the regime. Breker was born on July 29, 1900, in E...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Two Men on a Street Early 20th Century w/c Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
By Stuart Davis
Located in New York, NY
Two Men on a Street Early 20th Century w/c Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
Note: We have three similar in style works from 1911 available now on 1stDibs. All are framed identi...
Category
Early 1900s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
English School, 1900, In the ten acre pasture, ink and body colour on paper
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
English School, circa 1900
In the ten acre pasture
Ink and bodycolour on paper
4.5/8 x 13.5/8 in. (11.8 x 34.7 cm.)
Category
Early 20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Lovely Country House Pastel, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Untitled, c. 20th Century
Pastel on paper
Sight: 21 1/2 x 31 in.
Framed: 24 1/4 x 34 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.
Signed lower left
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Roquebrune, Early 20th Century French Village Landscape/Seascape
Located in Beachwood, OH
Auguste-Louis Lepère (French, 1849-1918)
Roquebrune, 1910
Watercolor
Signed, dated and titled lower right
14.5 x 20.5 inches
21 x 28 inches, framed
Auguste-Louis Lepère was a French...
Category
1910s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Ann Miller in Follies Broadway Musical Contemporary Drawing Illustration Eloise
Located in New York, NY
Ann Miller in Follies Broadway Musical Contemporary Drawing Illustration Eloise
Ann Miller in Stephen Sondheim's "Follies." The 1998 production, played at the Papermill Playhouse. Affixed to the back of the drawing is a brochure promoting the show. Mixed media on paper. Signed lower left. Inscribed lower right: "Ann Miller at 75 'I'm Still Here' in Stephen Sondheim's 'Follies' 1998." Framed. 17 x 12 in. (sight). 22 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (frame)
'Tops in Taps' Ann Miller was still going strong at 75 years old when she made her last appearance in the musical, "Follies." She was one of M.G.M's most prolific dancers and considered by many to be the greatest female tap dancer of all time.
Hilary, a friend of many years, is still going strong at 96. We saw this production at the Papermill Playhouse. Years ago, I was a press agent working in Henry Luhrman's office where we represented "Sugar Babies" with Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney.
Bio
Hilary Knight (born November 1, 1926) is an American writer-artist who is the illustrator of more than 50 books and the author of nine books. He is best known as the illustrator of Kay Thompson's Eloise (1955) and others in the Eloise series.
Knight has illustrated for a wide variety of clients, creating artwork for magazines, children's fashion advertisements, greeting cards, record albums and posters for Broadway musicals, including Gypsy, Irene, Half A Sixpence, Hallelujah Baby! and No, No Nanette.
The son of artist-writers Clayton Knight...
Category
1990s Performance Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
“The Hunters”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of two hunters in the field by the British artist, George Anderson Short. Signed bottom right. Circa ...
Category
1940s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
"Showgirl"
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed watercolor on paper by Ruth Adele Mysel of a beautiful showgirl. Signed lower right. Circa 1940 to 1950. Ruth Adele Mysel was raised in Boston and attended the Ne...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Framed English School 19th Century Watercolour - Fishing in the Bay
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful coastal scene in watercolours showing numerous ships and fishing boats dotted off the British coast. Unsigned. Well-presented in a glazed gilt frame with ornate foliate ...
Category
19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
SHOULD I STAY IN or GO OUT? Signed Oil Pastel, Seated Man Surreal Interior Scene
Located in Union City, NJ
SHOULD I STAY IN or GO OUT? is an original oil pastel drawing on brown paper grocery bag by the self taught African American artist Reginald K. Gee, born April 28, 1964, in Milwaukee...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Study of a Man's Shoulder
By Glyn Philpot
Located in London, GB
Black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue paper, 19cm x 15cm, (32cm x 27cm framed).
First exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1904, Philpot was elected as an Academician in 1923. Like many artists of his generation, he enjoyed a comfortable income from portraiture, which enabled him to paint less commercially successful and perhaps more personal subjects. His interest in the male nude and portraits of...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
Jules Noel (1810-1881) Landscape with a manor and a traveler, signed drawing
By Jules Noel
Located in Paris, FR
Jules Noel (1810-1881)
Landscape with a manor and a traveler
Signed lower left
Pencil on paper
27.5 x 44.5 cm
Framed under glass : 43 x 59.5 cm
This drawing shows more particularly...
Category
1860s Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
"Radio City Rockette"
Located in Southampton, NY
Watercolor on paper of a Radio City Music Hall Rockette done in the late 1940's or early 1950's. Ruth Adele Mysel grew up in Boston and attended the New Eng...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Going to Mass, Spain - 20th Century British drawing by Robert Sargent Austin
Located in London, GB
ROBERT SARGENT AUSTIN, RA, PRWS, RE
(1895-1973)
Going to Mass, Spain
Black, brown and white chalks on grey paper
Framed
49 by 38 cm., 19 ¼ by 15 in.
(frame size 73 by 60.5 cm., 2...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Three drawings by François Boucher in a mounting by Jean-Baptiste Glomy
By François Boucher
Located in PARIS, FR
We would like to thank Juliette Parmentier-Courreau of the Custodia Foundation for her welcome and support during the consultation of Glomy’s Journal des Ouvrages.
This spectacularly large "feuille de desseins ajustés" commissioned by François Boucher from Jean-Baptiste Glomy is emblematic of the painter's art and mastery of rocaille. It is also fully representative of the taste of this period in the field of decorative arts. The largest of these three drawings, placed at the bottom of the composition, is particularly interesting: dating from around 1756, it constitutes a modello (apparently unpublished) for the frontispiece of the "Catalogue des tableaux de Monsieur de Julienne"), preserved in the Morgan Library in New York.
1. François Boucher, the master of French rocaille
The extraordinary career of Francois Boucher was unmatched by his contemporaries in versatility, consistency and output. For many, particularly the writers and collectors who led the revival of interest in the French rococo during the last century, his sensuous beauties and plump cupids represent the French eighteenth century at its most typical. His facility with the brush, even when betraying the occasional superficiality of his art, enabled him to master every aspect of painting – history and mythology, portraiture, landscape, ordinary life and, as part of larger compositions, even still life. He had been trained as an engraver, and the skills of a draftsman, which he imbued in the studio of Jean-Francois Cars (1661 – 1738), stood him in good stead throughout his career; his delightful drawings are one of the most sought-after aspects of his oeuvre.
As a student of Francois Lemoyne (1688 - 1737), he mastered the art of composition. The four years he spent in Italy, from 1727-1731, educated him in the works of the masters, classics and history, that his modest upbringing had denied him.
On his return to Paris in 1734, he gained full membership of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture with his splendid Rinaldo and Armida (Paris, Musée du Louvre). Although, throughout his career, he occasionally painted subjects taken from the Bible, and would always have considered himself first as a history painter, his own repertoire of heroines, seductresses, flirtatious peasant girls and erotic beauties was better suited to a lighter, more decorative subject matter. His mastery of technique and composition enabled him to move from large scale tapestry...
Category
1750s Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Ink
19th century watercolour of a Girl at her Dressing Table
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Muir Hetherington;
Sir John and Lady Witt, acquired 1974;
By descent to 2015.
Literature:
Tom Jones (ed.), William Henry Hunt 1790-1864, exh. cat., 1981, no. 145 (Girl in a bedroom);
John Witt, William Henry Hunt (1790-1864) Life and Work, London, 1982, no. 553, p. 194, colour pl. 16.
Exhibited:
Wolverhampton, Central Art Gallery, Preston, Harris Museum and Art Gallery and Hastings, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, William Henry Hunt 1790-1864, 1981, no. 145 as Girl in a bedroom (Lent by Sir John & Lady Witt)
Framed dimensions: 20 x 20.75 inches
This unusually charming and well-preserved watercolour was painted by William Henry Hunt in around 1833. Almost certainly depicting his young wife, Sarah, possibly in the interior of her family home at Bramley in Hampshire. This work shows Hunt’s remarkable virtuosity as a watercolourist, Hunt, for example, articulates the profile of his young wife, by leaving a reserve of white paper to suggest the light modelling her features. Throughout the 1830s Hunt made a sequence of richly painted interior views of both domestic and agricultural spaces which pay scrupulous attention to detail.
Hunt was born in London, the son of a tin-plate worker and japanner. J. L. Roget recorded the observation of Hunt’s uncle: ‘nervy, little Billy Hunt… was always a poor cripple, and as he was fit for nothing, they made an artist of him.’ At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to the landscape painter John Varley for seven years, moving to live with Varley at 18 Broad Street, Golden Square, London. There he made close friends with both John Linnell and William Mulready. Hunt worked at the ‘Monro Academy’, at 8 Adelphi Terrace, London, the house of Dr Thomas Monro, an enthusiastic patron of landscape watercolourists. Through Monro, Hunt was introduced to the 5th Earl of Essex...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
