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Period: 17th Century
The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, a preparatory drawing by Alessandro Casolani
Located in PARIS, FR
This powerful pen and brown ink wash drawing is a study for an altarpiece depicting The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew. Signed and dated 1604, it was painted at the end of his life b...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Ink
Mughal School, 18th century Emperor Jahangir with Empress Nur Jahan & concubine
Located in Middletown, NY
An illuminated page from a book likely in reference to palace life during Emperor Jahangir's reign over the Mughal Empire.
circa 1750. Gouache and ink with heightening in gold on li...
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Rajput 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Mughal School, 17th century Tiger Hunt near the Jahangir Maha, Agra
Located in Middletown, NY
An illuminated page from a book likely in reference to palace life during Emperor Jahangir's reign over the Mughal Empire.
c 1690. Gouache and ink with heightening in gold on light ...
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Rajput 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Mughal School, 18th century – Emperor Jahangir in his harem in flagrante delicto
Located in Middletown, NY
Emperor Jahangir in his harem surrounded by lotus blossoms; symbols of paradise itself.
Circa 1690. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on cream laid paper, 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches (...
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Rajput 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Gold
17th Century Old Master Drawing
Located in San Francisco, CA
17th Century Old Master Drawing
Old master drawing with figure and putti
Housed in a handsome contemporary wooden frame
Drawing dimensions 4...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Fine 17th Century Dutch Old Master Watercolor Drawing Hunting Party Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Hunting Party
Attributed to Dirk Maes (1659-1717) Dutch.
Figures in a Classical Landscape,
Watercolour and wash on paper,
Mounted, unframed image 6.75" x 9.75" (17.1 x 24.7cm)...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
17th C Dutch Old Master Ink & Wash Painting Biblical Figures Rembrandt Pupil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figure being Comforted (Job?)
circle of Willem Drost (Dutch 1633-1659) *See notes below
ink and wash drawing on paper (Arms of Amsterdam watermarked)
Dutc...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
St. John the Baptist in the wilderness , Ecce Agnus Dei (Behold the Lamb of God)
Located in Middletown, NY
Pen and sepia ink and wash on vellum, 8 7/8 x 10 1/2 inches (225 x 267 mm). In very good condition with some modern notations in pencil on the verso, minor cockling, and a 1-inch hor...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Vellum, Pencil
Old Masters Chalk Drawing, 17th Century Italian Sanguine on Paper
Located in London, GB
Sanguine chalk on paper
Image size: 7 x 8 1/2 inches (18 x 22 cm)
Acid free cut-out mount
This 17th century drawing depicts a reclining woman with her back.
The Sanguine chalk that...
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Italian School 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
1600’s Flemish Old Master Ink Wash Drawing Biblical Figures Group on paper
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figure Studies
Attriubted to Cornelis Schut
(1597 - 1655) Flemish
ink drawing on paper, inscribed on mount
size: 4.75 x 7 inches
private collection, France
The painting is in overa...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Portrait - Drawing after Baccio del Bianco - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a Pencil Drawing realized by an Italian artist of 17th and early 18th century, after Baccio del Bianco (1604-1656).
Good condition on a yellowed paper included a blue an...
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Modern 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
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...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
Old Master Drawing, Self Portrait Artist, Figurative, 17th Century, German
Located in Greven, DE
1626 dated
Red chalk drawing on paper, 28 x 20 cm
on the reverse collector's stamp of H(einrich) Lempertz (unfortunately not traceable in the catalogue of his auctioned collection...
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Baroque 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Study of a Fate at mid-body, a red chalk attributed to Giovanni da San Giovanni
Located in PARIS, FR
This spectacular red chalk drawing depicts an elderly woman, her eyes bulging, her hand stretched out towards the sky. This disturbing character, who seems close to dementia, and the elongation of her arm with its Mannerist overtones, plunge us into the Florentine artistic milieu of the first half of the 17th century. The proximity of this drawing to some characters in the fresco in the Pitti Palace representing The Muses, Poets and Philosophers chased from Parnassus, the last masterpiece of Giovanni da San Giovanni, leads us to propose an attribution to this artist and a dating of around 1635-1636.
1. Giovanni da San Giovanni, the painter of contradiction
We take here the title of the monography dedicated to the artist by Anna Banti in 1977, which remains the reference book for this artist. The son of a notary, Giovanni Mannozzi, known as Giovanni da San Giovanni, abandoned his studies to go to Florence at the age of sixteen, where he entered the studio of Matteo Rosselli (1578 - 1650) around 1609 and enrolled in the Academy of Drawing Arts in 1612. Around 1615 he produced his first known works, mainly frescoes for the city's tabernacles. He became famous in Florence for his originality, combining an obsessive application to the study of drawing and the reading of poetry and history with a disheveled appearance. Between 1619 and 1620 he decorated the facade of the Antella Palace in Piazza Santa Croce, a decoration that still partly survives today.
The death of Cosimo II in 1621 put an end to the Florentine building activity and Giovanni da San Giovanni left for Rome to find other sponsors with the painter Francesco Furini...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Angels in Adoration
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Private Collection, USA.
This drawing is by Ercole Procaccini the Younger, who represents the final generation of painters in the storied Procaccini family. The son of C...
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Baroque 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Putti in a Landscape, Putti playing, flowers, Berchet, French Art, Old Master
By Pierre Berchet
Located in Greven, DE
Pierre Berchet, Drawing of Putti playing in a landscape,
Painter of decorative history subjects; trained under La Fosse; worked in France and during the 1690s...
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Baroque 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper
Thomas Lawrence Self Portrait English Drawing 17th century pencil paper
Located in Florence, IT
This small sketch, pencil on paper, can be attributed to Sir Thomas Lawrence, as also reported in the label on the frame (Sir Thomas Lawrence Painter of the Royal Academy).
Due to r...
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Other Art Style 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Diana and her nymphs, Bath of Goddess Diana, Gourdaine, Old Master Drawing
By Jean Pierre Norblin de Gourdaine
Located in Greven, DE
Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine (Polish: Jan Piotr Norblin; 15 July 1745 – 23 February 1830) was a Polish-French painter, draughtsman, engraver and caricaturist. Born in France, from 1774 to 1804 he resided in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, where he obtained citizenship.
He is considered one of the most important painters of the Enlightenment in Poland. He achieved great success in Poland. Given many commissions from some of the most notable families of the country, he stayed there for many years, not returning to Paris until the early 19th century. His style showed the influence of Antoine Watteau, and combined the Rococo tradition of charming fêtes galantes and fêtes champêtres with a panorama of daily life and current political events, captured with journalistic accuracy. He created a gallery of portraits of representatives of all social classes in the last years of the Polish–Lithuanian...
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Baroque 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper
A red chalk study sheet by Baldassare Franceschini, known as Volterrano
Located in PARIS, FR
This fresh sanguine sheet presents various studies placed next to each other in no apparent order. Two of the feet studies are preparatory to the first major commission received by the young Baldassare Franceschini, shortly after his installation in Florence, the frescoes for the Medici Fastes. This cycle was executed between 1636 and 1646 for the Villa La Petraia, a Medici villa on the outskirts of Florence, which allows us to date this sheet to the artist's youth.
1. The Medici Fastes, the first major commission for a young artist
Born in Volterra in 1611, the town from which he took his nickname, Baldassare Franceschini apprenticed with his father, a sculptor of alabaster, one of his home town's specialities, and studied with Cosimo Daddi (1540-1630), a local artist. The Marquis Inghirami, who spotted his talent, sent him to the workshop of Matteo Rosselli (1578 - 1650) in Florence, which was also attended by Francesco Furini (1603 - 1646).
In 1636, Lorenzo de' Medici, the youngest son of Ferdinand Ier and Christine of Lorraine, chose the 25-year-old artist, again on the advice of the Marquis Inghirami, to decorate with frescoes the loggias of the inner courtyard of the Villa La Petraia, which he had just inherited on the death of his mother. The project lasted about ten years and included ten scenes placed symmetrically in two loggias on either side of the courtyard: four main scenes and six placed above the doors, each to the glory of a member of the Medici family.
This decoration was his major secular project, but Volterrano also executed several religious frescoes and a few easel paintings, often with less success. Among the religious commissions, we can cite the dome of the Colloredo chapel dedicated to Saint Lucy...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Paper
Italian School, Nicolo Grassi, 18th, Worship of Venus, The Venus Sacrifice, Amor
Located in Greven, DE
Italian School, 18th Century, Circle of Grassi,
This old master drawing is drawn in the late-Baroque or Rococo style.
It depicts a woman worshipping Venus/ preparing a sacrifice for ...
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Baroque 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper
A Mother and Child, Two Children, and a Dog
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Elsie de Woolfe, Lady Mendl, Paris; by whom given in 1950 to:
Arlene Dahl, New York (until 2021)
Inventive, whimsical, and fantastic; delightful, imaginative, and maca...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
17th Century French sanguine drawing of maiden's harvesting flowers
By (Circle of) Nicolas Poussin
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Circle of Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594-1665)
Maiden’s harvesting flowers
Sanguine on paper
8. ¾ in. (22 cm.) tondo
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
The Martyrdom of the Santi Quattro Coronati
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Private Collection, UK
After initial training under Justus Suttermans and Vincenzo Dandini, in 1673 Anton Domenico Gabbiani embar...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Ink, Pen
"Buddha Flanked by Female Attendants, " Gouache on Wood Panel, c. 1600
Located in Chicago, IL
This rare mural was painted in China over four centuries ago, and is an exquisite example of Buddhist art. The enlightened Buddha is shown standing at the center of the painting, dre...
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Ming 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Gouache
The Adoration -Painting by Giuseppe Assereto - 1630
Located in Roma, IT
The Adoration is an original modern artwork realized by Giuseppe Assereto (died in Genoa in 1650) in the first half of the 17th Century.
Original Oil Painting on Canvas.
A 19th Century style gilded wood frame is included.
The Autograph of the work was confirmed by Camillo Manzitti.
Very good conditions. The frame is in excellent conditions too.
Reference:
C. Marcenaro, Pittori genovesi a Genova nel '600 e nel '700, Genova 1969, pp. 134 ; 135, n. 55.
Z. Wazbinski, Un Quadro Caravaggesco Di Gioacchino Assereto, in Prospettiva, n. 26, 1981, pp. 60 ; 63.
F. R. Pesenti, La Pittura in Liguria. Artisti del primo Seicento, Genova 1986, p. 397, nota 23.
A. Gesino, Tracce di Matthias Stom nel collezionismo tra la Sicilia e Genova, in Caravaggio e i genovesi, catalogo della Mostra a cura di A. Orlando, Genova 2019, pp. 182 ; 195.
The Adoration is an excellent example of the XVII Century Italian Painting. The style of the work denotes the suggestive influence of Assereto father's mature production, when influenced by Mathias Stom (Amersfoort, about 1600 - Sicily, after 1650) expresses dark sensibilities in a southern Italian style. In his works, however, there is an accentuated naturalism and interesting similarities with the production of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Gioacchino Assereto died in 1650, while, according to Soprani, he was intent on painting a Last Supper for the oratory...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
The Rape of the Sabine Woman, ink and pencil. After Nicolas Poussin
By (Circle of) Nicolas Poussin
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Poussin’s subject is the abduction of the Sabine women. Historically, this subject was known as The Rape of the Sabines (rape being derived fro...
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Baroque 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pencil
Planimetry of the Vatican - China Ink After G.L. Bernini - Mid-17th
Located in Roma, IT
Planimetry of the Vatican After G.L. Bernini is an original China Ink realized by an unknown artist in mid-17th century.
Good condition except for some spoiled yellowed paper on mar...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Old Master Drawing, Baroque, Jacob de Wit, Allegory of Victory, Putti, Ships
By Jacob De Wit
Located in Greven, DE
Two putti with symbols of war and victory (cannons, cannonballs, armour, anchor, lion's head, laurel branch/ olive branch, flag, staff with helmet) in pediment triangle.
Probably a d...
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Baroque 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Flemish School, Portrait Young Boy, Old Master Drawing, Baroque, 17th Century
Located in Greven, DE
Old Master Drawing, Flemish School, Portrait or Sketch of a standing young boy. Condition : see photos.
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Baroque 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Head of a Cheerful Man Wearing a Cap
Located in New York, NY
Watermark: the arms of Amsterdam
Provenance:
Christie’s, Amsterdam, 1 December 1986, lot 46; where acquired by:
Private Collection, New York
Literature:
Roger Adolf d’Hulst, “Jordaens Drawings: Supplement II,” Master Drawings, vol. 28, no. 2 (1990), pp. 153-156, no. A237a, fig. 17.
Matías Díaz Padrón, Jacob Jordaens...
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Baroque 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Sanguine drawing "Shepherdess on a Donkey" by Nicolaes Berchem
By Nicolaes Berchem
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Provenance: Mercedes von Dietrichtein, Buenos Aires. Alexander von Dietrichstein. By descendants Morritz von Diestrichstein.
Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1 October 1620 – 18 February 1683) was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre pieces.
He was a member of the second generation of "Dutch Italianate landscape" painters. These were artists who travelled to Italy, or aspired to, in order to soak up the romanticism of the country, bringing home sketchbooks full of drawings of classical ruins and pastoral imagery. His paintings, of which he produced an immense number, (Hofstede de Groot claimed around 850, although many are misattributed), were in great demand, as were his 80 etchings and 500 drawings. His landscapes, painted in the Italian style of idealized rural scenes, with hills, mountains, cliffs and trees in a golden dawn...
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Dutch School 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Francesco Furini Sanguine Drawing before 1642
Located in Florence, IT
Preparatory Drawing (sanguine on paper, 42 x 28 cm) by Francesco Furini for the making of the Saint Sebastian, ordered by the prince Lorenzo de' Medic...
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Baroque 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Paper
Study for Statue - Pencil Drawing by Giovanni Fontana - Early 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Study for Statue is an original drawing in pencil on paper, realized by the architect and engineer Giovanni Fontana (1540-1614).
The state of preservation of the artwork is good exc...
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Renaissance 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew - Drawing - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew is a precious original drawing (black and red chalk, pen and China ink on laid paper, laid down on canvas) realized by...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor
Joachim von Sandrart (1606-1688) Biblical episodes, 3 original drawings
By Joachim von Sandrart
Located in Paris, FR
Joachim von Sandrart (1606-1688)
Three Biblical episodes, 3 original drawings
- The Ascent of Elijah
- The Judgment of Solomon
- Benjamin receiving presents
Each one : 9.2 x 7.7 cm...
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Old Masters 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
The imprisonment - Drawing - 17th century.
Located in Roma, IT
The imprisonment is an original China Ink Drawing realized by an unkown artist in 17th century.
Very good condition included a cream colored cardboard passpartout (60x50 cm).
No si...
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Modern 17th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
