Jacques Gruber

Marching - Drawing by Jacques Gruber - Early 20th Century

Early 20th Century.

The Army is an original drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized by Isidore Pils in the mid-19th Century. Ink Drawing. In good condition, with a missing piece of edge. The artwork...

Soldiers is an original pen drawing realized by Georges Dascher. Good condition on a yellowed cardboard. Signed on the lower left corner. Georges Dascher, born on October 6, 1851 ...

Soldiers is an original drawing in pencil on creamy-colored paper, realized by Jules David (1808-1892) in the 19th Century. Hand-signed on the lower in pencil. Very good conditions...

Soldiers is an original artwork realized by an Anonymous French artist in the first decades of the XX Century. Original pencil drawing. The sheet is drawed also on the back. Mint conditions. This work is a representation of several soldiers: a fresh and rapid sketch representing two male figures with the typical military clothes...

"VALMY! (L'Estampe Moderne)" is a print watermarked PL BAS after a drawing by Adolphe Willette. It depicts a general with his army and a young girl. 15 3/4" x 12" art 23" x 19 1/4" frame Adolphe Léon Willette (30 July 1857 – 4 February 1926) was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer, as well as an architect of the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret. Willette ran as an "anti-semitic" candidate in the 9th arrondisement of Paris for the September 1889 legislative elections. Biography Willette was born in Châlons-sur-Marne. He studied for four years at the École des Beaux-Arts under Cabanel, training which gave him a unique position among the graphic humorists of France. Whether comedy or tragedy, dainty triviality or political satire, his work is instinct with the profound sincerity of the artist. He set Pierrot upon a lofty pedestal among the imaginary heroes of France, and established Mimi Pinson, frail, lovable, and essentially good-hearted, in the affections of the nation. Willette is at once the modern Watteau of the pencil, and the exponent of sentiments that move the more emotional section of the public. Always a poet, and usually gay, fresh, and delicate, in his presentation of idylls exquisitely dainty and characteristically Gallic, illustrating the more "charming" side of love, often pure and sometimes extremely materialistic. Willette frequently reveals himself bitter and fierce, even ferocious, in his hatreds, being a violent though at the same time a generous partisan of political ideas, furiously compassionate with love and pity for the people whether they be ground down under the heel of political oppression, or are merely the victims ot unrequited love, suffering all the pangs of graceful anguish that are born of scornful treatment. There is charm even in his thrilling apotheosis of the guillotine, and in the introduction into his caricatures of the figure of Death itself. The artist was a prolific contributor to the French illustrated press under the pseudonyms "Cemoi", "Pierrot", "Louison", "Bebe", and "Nox", but more often under his own name. He illustrated Melandri's Les Pierrots and Les Giboulles d'avril, Le Courrier français, and published his own Pauvre Pierrot and other works, in which he tells his stories in scenes in the manner of Busch. He decorated several "brasseries artistiques" with wall-paintings, stained glass, &c., notably Le Chat noir and La Palette d'or, and he painted the highly imaginative ceiling for La Cigale...

Washington Assumes Command - Etching in Ink on Paper Historical engraving by Ralph Ludwig Boyer (American, 1879-1952). George Washington is shown holding a sword, with an army stand...

Edward Gordon Craig (British, 1872 – 1966) Army of Fortinbras Woodcut Signed with monogram (lower right) 4.3/4 x 8.1/4 in. (12 x 20.8cm.) A beauti...

Adolphe WILLETTE (1857-1926) French Revolution, the Battle of Valmy, 1899 Original lithograph (Champenois workshop) Printed signature in the plate On ...