Giovanni Fontana

Study for Statue - Pencil Drawing by Giovanni Fontana - Early 17th Century

Early 17th Century

Image dimensions: 15 x 8.5 cm. Figure is an original drawing in pencil realized by Gabriele Galantara, the state of preservation of the artwork is good and aged, applied on white ca...

Study of Figures is original drawings on ivory paper, realized by Marcel Mangin (French, 1852 - 1915), with the stamp of artist "Marcel Mangin" on the lo...

L'Annunziata in S. M. sopra Minerva is an original old master artwork realized by Giovanni Fontana. Ivory colored sheet attached on an ivory colored cardboard ( cm 35.8 x 26.7) Bea...

Woman Figure is an original pencil drawing artwork on paper realized by Paul Baudry. Good condition and aged. The artwork represents a beautiful figure ...

The drawing, pencil on laid paper 29 x 27 cm, represents a moment of rest during the Flight to Egypt. It's a study on an etching ispired by a Guido Reni's painting, made by him durin...

This masterly frontispiece study, executed with a very sure hand, testifies to the survival of the great Baroque taste in 18th century Venice. It could be one of the very last works by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini: the few lines that cross the papal arms evoke those of Benedict XIV, who became pope in 1740, one year before the artist's death. 1. Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini and the European influence of Venetian history painting in the 18th century Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini was born in Venice in 1675 and trained in the studio of the Milanese painter Paolo Pagani (1655 - 1716). Pagani, who had been living in Venice since 1667, took him to Moravia and Vienna from 1690 to 1696. After a stay in Rome from 1699 to 1701, Pellegrini married Angiola Carriera in 1704, the sister of the great pastelist Rosalba Carriera. From 1708 onwards, Pellegrini left Venice and began an extensive tour of Europe: he worked in England between 1708 and 1713, where he met great success, particularly at Kimbolton Castle and Castle Howard. He then worked in Germany and the Netherlands, then in Bohemia and Austria, before returning briefly to England in 1719. In 1720 he was in Paris where he decorated the ceilings of the Royal Bank for John Law...

Old Master Drawing by the Circle of Lambert Lombard. Drawing/ Study of a Man in Renaissance Style, later signed "F. Floris". Study of a Man Lombard li...

Italian artist (18th-19th century) - Study for a St. Sebastian. 28 x 22 cm. 50 x 35 cm with passepartout. Ink and pencil drawing on paper, without frame (not signed). Condition re...