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Period: 19th Century
Raja Mahan Singh Mirpuri – Rajasthani School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and gouache with yellow heightening on fibrous, brown laid paper with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in blue ink, 13 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches (343 x 222 mm). Toning, handling creases and...
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Rajput 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Glastonbury Abbey
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink wash with watercolor in sepia and black, and blue, on buff wove watercolor paper, 14 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches (360 x 260 mm). 1/4" of the lower right corner is lost, minor crack (doe...
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English School 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Fruit by Alphonse Mucha
Located in New Orleans, LA
Alphonse Mucha
1860-1939 Czech
Fruit
Signed "Mucha" (lower left)
Pastel on paper
"Art only exists to communicate a spiritual message." —Alphonse Mucha
Alphonse Mucha's distincti...
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Art Nouveau 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
19th Century French School, Studies of horses and small scenes, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
19th Century French School,
Studies of horses and small scenes,
pencil on paper
14.5 x 21 cm
Framed : 25.5 x 32.7 cm
This study sheet, which brings together studies of horses and...
Category
Romantic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Three Rajput noblemen on horseback – Rajasthani School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and gouache with gold heightening on fibrous, brown laid paper, with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in black ink on the recto, as well as the Jaipur City Council blindstamp, 13 5/8...
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Rajput 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
W. Bolt - Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour, Ships Off a Choppy Coastline
Located in Corsham, GB
Fine late 19th-century nautical watercolour. Ships off a choppy coastline. The buoy has been inscribed 'Shambles', and the watercolour has been heightened with white. Well presented ...
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Watercolor Paper mid 19th Victor ADAM Zouaves French Infantry soldiers Military
Located in PARIS, FR
Jean-Victor ADAM known as Victor ADAM
Paris, 1801 – Viroflay, 1866
Watercolor on paper
14 x 18.5 cm (30.5 x 34.5 cm with frame)
Signed lower left “V. Adam”
Framed
Very beautiful wat...
Category
Academic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Early 19th Century, Portrait of a young man wearing glasses, gouache
Located in Paris, FR
Early 19th Century,
Portrait of a young man wearing glasses,
gouache on paper
13 x 10.5 cm oval view
In a vintage frame : 41.5 x 39 cm, accidents and lacks in the gilding but but...
Category
Old Masters 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920) A Flowerbed, signed watercolor
By Paul Lecomte
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920)
A Flowerbed
signed lower left
Watercolor on paper,
15.5 x 23.5 cm
Framed : 25.5 x 33 cm
This is a particularly original work by Paul Lecomte. It shows his ...
Category
Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
French 19th Century Romantic Period 1830s Paris Society Beauty Portrait
Located in Norwich, GB
A astounding portrait of a society beauty by Adele Grasset (active ca 1830-1850). With an open face and and lightly smiling lips, she is wearing a gown typical of the romantic period. Drawn in graphite and heightened with white, the drawing is dated 1836
As often with woman artists of the 18th and 19th century, there is little biographical information available on Adèle Grasset. We do know however, that she had studied with the highly prominent artist François Gérard (1770-1837) , known also as the Baron Gérard...
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Academic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Gouache
Paris modernist scene mixed media drawimg
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joan Cardona Lladós (1877-1957) - Modernist Paris scene - Mixed media (charcoal and white wax).
Drawing measurements 40x29 cm.
Frame measurements 66x54 cm.
He was born in Barcelona on June 30, 1877, he was registered with the name of Juan Bautista José Pedro. His parents Josep Cardona i Farré (Sant Salvador, 1852-Barcelona, ?) and Maria Lladós i Vidal (Isona, 1855-Barcelona, 1935) came from Sant Salvador de Toló and Isona, respectively, two towns very close to Tremp, in the Pallars Jussà region, close to the Lleida Pyrenees. The Cardona Lladós family was of humble origins, linked to the rural and peasant world. José Cardona and María Lladós married around 1876, when they were twenty-five and twenty-one years old respectively. The couple decided to improve their precarious situation by moving to live in Barcelona.
In 1877 Joan Cardona was born in the family home, at 62 Mediana de San Pedro Street, in the Ribera neighborhood of Barcelona and very close to the Rec Comtal. Joan Cardona was the firstborn of three brothers. When he was six years old, his sister Consuelo was born (1883) and later his younger sister, María (1888), was born. Josep Cardona i Farré was a day laborer and lived at least until the birth of his third daughter, María, in 1888. Her death, for reasons unknown to us, would occur shortly after.
After the death of Josep Cardona, León Farré i Duró (Isona, 1867-Barcelona, 1932) became part of the family nucleus with his mother María Lladós, who took care of the child Cardona and his sisters Consuelo and María.
Farré learned to play the guitar and was the most extraordinary disciple of the composer and guitarist Francesc Tàrrega i Eixea (Vila-real, 1852-Barcelona, 1909). Joan Cardona had in her stepfather the man who instilled in her a special musical and artistic sensitivity. The young Cardona took classes at the Academia Baixas, inaugurated in 1892 by the painter Joan Baixas i Carreter and installed on Carrer del Pi, a private center where a good batch of leading Catalan Modernisme artists were trained.
Cardona married Clemencia Parade Cazabat at the beginning of the century. Daughter of Carles Parade and Amara Cazabat, she was born in 1870 in Bagnères de Bigorre...
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Modern 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
$7,114 Sale Price
40% Off
Le Vengeur
Located in BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, FR
Après une formation à l’École des beaux-arts de Paris auprès de Jean-Léon Gérôme et Édouard Detaille, Gustave Bourgain se spécialise dans les marines ...
Category
Academic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
John William North - 19th Century British Watercolour - Courtship
Located in London, GB
JOHN WILLIAM NORTH, ARA, RWS
(1842-1924)
Courtship - Bicknoller, Somerset
Signed with initials l.r.: JWN
Watercolour
Framed
17.5 by 13.5 cm., 7 b...
Category
Realist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Detailed European Landscape in Watercolor and Gouache on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Detailed European Landscape in Watercolor and Gouache on Paper
This finely detailed watercolor painting captures a serene countryside setting with an old stone church, a rustic hous...
Category
French School 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
John Ridge, A Cherokee Indian & Interpreter Lithograph with Applied Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
1838 John Ridge A Cherokee Indian and Interpreter Lithograph with Applied Watercolor
The lithograph depicts John Ridge, a Cherokee interpreter, by Charles Bird King (American, 1785 - 1862), published 1838. Compared to other indian portraits in tribal regalia, King's rendering of John Ridge appears to be different. King portrayed John Ridge in Anglo-American clothing, sitting at a desk with a document and pen in hand—hinting at Ridge’s education and career as tribal leader and politician. King was known for his realistic and sensitive renderings of his sitters, and his ability to capture their physical features and attire with dignity and attention to detail.
Condition: Good; tonal aging due to age; previous mat tonal aging marks
Presented in new conservation mat
Paper size: 19.75"H X 14"W
Image size: 15"H x 10"W
Mat size:24"H x 16"W
John Ridge received his education at Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut and served as clerk of the Cherokee National Council. When King painted...
Category
Hudson River School 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Lithograph
Half-length portrait of a Pharisee - In the shadow of betrayal -
Located in Berlin, DE
Hermann Prell (1854 Leipzig - 1922 Dresden-Loschwitz). Half-length portrait of a Pharisee, 1885. Sketch for the right-hand figure in the painting Judas Iscariot, 1886. Pencil drawing heightened with opaque white and black chalk on beige-grey wove paper (papier vélin), 34 x 27.8 cm (visible size), 52 x 45 cm (mount), signed, dated and inscribed "H. PRELL 1885 zu 'Judas'".
Minor browning, collection stamp on the reverse.
- In the shadow of betrayal -
About the artwork
This painting is the sketch for the head of the Pharisee offering the coins to Judas in one of Herrmann Prell's major works, the painting Betrayal of Judas, completed in 1886. The painting belongs to the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and is illustrated in Adolf Rosenberg: Prell, Bielefeld and Leipzig 1901, p. 21 (Fig. 19). It is especially highlighted in Thieme-Becker (vol. 27, p. 376).
Hermann Prell, Betrayal of Judas, 1886
The monumental head, which fills the picture and is distinguished by its ornamented robe, is almost a lost profile, which in the executed painting is justified by the Pharisee's turning towards Judas. Despite the fact that the sitter withdraws from the viewer by turning away, it was necessary to artistically elaborate the motivation for the purchase of one of Christ's disciples, which is why the drawing focuses on the expression of the face, while the 'accessories' are treated in a more summary manner.
In characterising the face, Hermann Prell performs a balancing act: since the Pharisee, despite his destructive actions, is an actor in the history of salvation, the head must show a dignity appropriate to the event, but at the same time the physiognomy must also bear witness to the scheming attitude that led to the betrayal. To solve this dilemma, Prell draws on the traditional depictions of the heads of the apostles, shading the face to indicate the obdurate darkness of the spirit and moving the base of the nose slightly upwards while the mouth falls away, thus giving a physiognomic expression to the motivation of the action. The fatal drama of the betrayal is expressed in the monumentalisation of the head and in the thunderous white highlights that contrast with the darkness of the chalk.
As a study, considered by the artist to be a work in itself, this drawing reveals the pictorial problems and brainstorming of monumental painting.
About the artist
In 1872 Prell, who was one of the most important exponents of monumental painting of his time, began studying painting with Theodor Grosse at the Dresden Academy of Art and continued with Carl Gussow at the Berlin Academy in 1876. Hans von Marées taught him in Rome in 1878. More influential on his work, however, were Arnold Böcklin and Max Klinger, with whom Prell had been friends since his student days and with whom he worked together on several occasions.
Prell's first major work, which established his reputation as a monumental painter, were the frescoes in the banqueting hall of the Architektenhaus in Berlin in 1881/82, commissioned by the state and depicting the different periods of architecture. Prell then went to Italy for two years to study fresco painting. Other major commissions followed. These included monumental frescoes in the town halls of Worms (1884), Hildesheim (1882-92), Gdansk (1895) and Dresden, the staircase of the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts in Breslau (1893/94), the throne room of the German Embassy in Rome (1896-99) and the staircase of the Albertinum in Dresden (1900-1904).
From 1886 Prell taught at the academy of arts in Berlin and in 1892 he was appointed professor at the academy of arts in Dresden. His students included Osmar Schindler and Hans Unger...
Category
Realist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
$1,422 Sale Price
20% Off
Three hunters; two with a spear and dagger... Rajasthani School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and gouache with gold heightening on brown laid paper with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in black ink, 12 5/8 x 8 9/16 inches (320 x 217 mm). Toning, handling creases and minor sc...
Category
Rajput 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Fall Courtship
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Valencia, Spain in 1845, 19th century impressionist Vicente García de Paredes studied at the School of Fine Arts in Valencia, in Madr...
Category
Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Figures - Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a modern artwork realized by in the Mid-20th century
Charcoal.
Good conditions
Category
Modern 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Sur la plage de Deauville - Impressionist Figurative Watercolor by Eugene Boudin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed watercolour on paper landscape circa 1865 by French impressionist painter Eugene Boudin. This work depicts an artist painting a portrait of an elegant couple on the beach at D...
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Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Study of an Angel by British Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir William Blake Richmond
Located in London, GB
SIR WILLIAM BLAKE RICHMOND, RA
(1842-1921)
Study of an Angel
Pencil on the artist’s writing paper for Beavor Lodge, Hammersmith
Unframed
22.5 by 17 cm., 9 by 6 ¾ in.
(mount size ...
Category
Pre-Raphaelite 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920) L'étang à Mortefontaine, signed watercolor
By Paul Lecomte
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920)
L'étang à Mortefontaine, an autumn landscape
signed lower left
Watercolor on paper,
29,3 x 22.5 cm
In its original vintage frame : 46 x 39,5 cm
titled on t...
Category
Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Wakechai (Crouching Eagle) A Saukie Chief Lithograph with Applied Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
1842 Wakechai (Crouching Eagle) A Saukie Indian Chief Lithograph with Applied Watercolor
The lithograph depicts Wakechai, also known as Crouching Eagle, who was a member of the Sauk and Fox delegation. King renders Wakechai with exceptional detail. The Saukie Chief is adorned with fine accoutrements such as a white fur robe...
Category
Hudson River School 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Lithograph
J. G - Framed Mid 19th Century Watercolour, The Merchant of Shoreham
Located in Corsham, GB
Fine mid 19th century watercolour. Merchant ship in choppy waters. Presented in a heavy oak frame with card mount. Initialled J. G to the lower right and dated 1869. On watercolour p...
Category
19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$336 Sale Price
20% Off
Academic Study (Male Nude)
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper, signed by the artist (upper right), and RA visitor L. Alma Tadema, RA., and dated (lower left), 76cm x 57cm, (64cm x 88cm framed).
Olivier studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1881, where this extraordinary display of drafting took place. Olivier exhibited extensively, including the Royal Academy starting in 1883, and the Paris Salon. He exhibited at the Fine Art Society in the 1880s and at the Grafton Galleries in 1908. An official war artist in the Great War, his work is included in the collection of the Imperial War Museum. It is also contained in many regional art galleries. Drawings of the nude, called academic studies...
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Victorian 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Portrait - Original Pencil Drawing by A. Grevin - Late 19 Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original drawing in Pencil realized by Alfred Grévin in the Late-19 Century.
Applied on a Passeprtout:49x 32 cm.
With the stamp of atelier "Grevin" on the lower righ...
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Modern 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Domenico Morelli 19th Century Orientalist Watercolor
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful and interesting watercolor painting on paper attributed to the great Neapolitan artist Domenico Morelli.
It depicts one of his favorite subjects, namely an oriental woman c...
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Italian School 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
" Studio per Ritratto di Lady Anne Simms Reeve of Brancaster Hall " 1870 ca
Located in Torino, IT
Raro studio dell'artista Preraffaellita Frederick Sandys,Studio per l’opera
Portrait of a Lady,( Anne Simms Reeve of Brancaster Hall, Norfolk) proprie...
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Pre-Raphaelite 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Graphite
The Hypochondriac: French 19th Century Theatre Comedy drawing
Located in Norwich, GB
A magnificent and sensitively treated line drawing in coloured ink, heightened with white. It depicts Argan, the hypochondriac from Molière's play of the same name. Dating from circa...
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French School 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
James Ward The Fisherman's Family
By James Ward
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Precious Watercolor attributed to James WARD (1769-1859) - England, 1830-1840. The Fisherman' S Family. Measurements : View : 20"x14.6" (51x37 cm), With frame : 26.6"x21.5" (67.5x54....
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Romantic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Whisper - Drawing by Jean-Luis Forain - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Whisper is a drawing on paper realized by Jean-Luis Forain in the Late 19th Century.
Pencil drawing.
Monogrammed in pencil on the lower.
Good conditions.
Louis Henri Forain, ...
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Abstract 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Rue de Thorigny, signed F. Feuilloy
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite and crayon in color with white heightening on cream wove paper, 13 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches (343 x 310 mm) (sheet). In good condition with uniform toning, handling creases, and lightly dog-eared corners.
The building on the left is a hotel particulier in Paris' Marais neighborhood, the Hôtel Salé, which now houses the Musée Picasso.
Category
French School 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Graphite, Handmade Paper
Rare 19th Century Watercolor and Platinotype -- Coming Home
By Edward Lamson Henry
Located in Soquel, CA
Rare 19th Century Watercolor and Platinotype -- Coming Home
Wonderful and rare 19th Century watercolor and platinotype (Watercolor over Platinum photograph) attributed to Edward Lamson Henry...
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Hudson River School 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Platinum
Old Master Drawing, View of Naples, 18th Century, Italian School
Located in Greven, DE
Italian Artist; Detailled and impressive old master drawing with the view Naples. Very fine Drawing with white heighting.
Category
Romantic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
The Dark Aspect of the Great Goddess Devi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Dark Aspect of the Great Goddess Devi
Pigment on paper (unfinished), 19th century
Unsigned as is usual
Condition: Good color
Voids at edges of the sheet
Image s...
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Rajput 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pigment
Neapolitan School 19th Century Gouache - The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Located in Corsham, GB
A vibrant 19th-century painting from the Neapolitan School depicting the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Smartly mounted in a gilt-effect frame. Unsigned. On paper.
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
At the Black Cat
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink Over Graphite on Board
Signature: Signed "C. D. Gibson" in lower left
"At the Black Cat." Illustration for About Paris by Richard Harding Davis (New Yorker: Harp...
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Board, Pen
Apelles holding his palette and brushes
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
(Montauban 1780 – Paris 1867)
Apelles holding his palette and brushes
Late reinterpretation after The Apotheosis of Homer – c. 1860
Black chalk, stump...
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Academic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Laid Paper, Pencil
Cloaked Shepherdess Pre-Raphaelite Arts & Crafts Aesthetics Original Watercolor
By Philip Richard Morris
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Philip Richard Morris.
English ( b.1836 - d.1902 ).
The Cloaked Shepherdess.
Watercolor.
Signed Lower Left.
Image size 14 inches x 9.3 inches ( 35.5cm x 23.5cm ).
Frame size 26.3 in...
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Romantic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour - Italian Coastal Scene with Bell Tower
Located in Corsham, GB
Fine late 19th century watercolour. Italian coastal scene with fishing boats and white bell tower to the background. Smartly mounted in a gilt-effect frame. On watercolour paper.
Category
19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Balneator by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
By Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
1836-1912 Dutch
The Balneator
Signed and inscribed "L Alma Tadema. op CLXXVI." (lower right)
Pencil and watercolor with scratching out on paper on board
...
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Academic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Board, Pencil
Study for Assumption of the Virgin
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite on hand made, fibrous wove paper, finished with gray wash. Unevenly trimmed sheet edges, non-archival tape remnants at all four corners, recto, well outside of image area. Horseshoe-shaped area of light discoloration that extends significantly into the figure's face, beneath the lips, and up over the rear of the head, dog-eared right lower corner with associated light discoloration at crease. DeMin and Belluno inscribed in graphite, verso.
A detailed study showing 'primo pensiero' for Giovanni DeMin's large scale fresco, Assumption of the Virgin...
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Old Masters 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Graphite
The Carpet Seller 19th Century Orientalist Antique Watercolor Painting on Paper
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Provenance
John Welles Hollenback, New York
The Painting is Signed FBartolini Lower Right
Federico Bartolini (Italian, 1861 - 1908)
Description:
Federico Bartolini was a renowned ...
Category
Academic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Gentleman - Original Drawing in Pencil by Eugène Giraud - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Gentleman is an Original Drawing in pencil realized by Eugène Giraud in the Late 19th Century.
Applied on a Cardboard, included a blue Passepartout: 41 x 33 cm
Good conditions. Sta...
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Modern 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Ruins of the Imperial Castle Outside Split in Croatia
Located in Stockholm, SE
Gustaf Wilhelm Palm (1810–1890) Sweden
Ruins of the Imperial Castle Outside Split in Croatia
pencil and watercolour
unframed: 23.6 x 29.2 cm (9 1/4 x 11 1/2 in)
framed: 40 x 45 cm...
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Romantic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"West Point from the East Bank of the Hudson" Antique Drawing on Paper Watkinson
Located in Soquel, CA
"West Point from the East Bank of the Hudson" Antique Drawing on Paper
Delicate and detailed drawing by Hartford, Connecticut artist Edward Watkins Wells (1819-1898) The viewer looks out past a gate at the Hudson River, with its characteristic mountain banks. A shepherd is driving a flock of sheep towards the gate and viewer. The scene appears to have been copied from a drawing book published in 1827, based on the inscription at the bottom edge.
Presented in white archival mat
Mat size: 12"H x 12"W
Paper size: 7.5"H x 9.25"W
Notes of interest on Edward Watkinson Wells
Our most significant acquisition this year came from a dealer in Philadelphia. It is a 450-page diary written over 10 years (1841-1851) by Hartford artist and dilettante Edward Watkinson Wells (1819-1898), one of the many nephews of our founder, David Watkinson (1778-1857).
Edward was immersed in Hartford’s cultural life in the 1840s, exhibited his works at local fairs and gave lessons to the locals. He portrays an active involvement with with his large extended family, which often crossed and re-crossed the other prominent families of Hartford (i.e., Barnard, Channing, Dexter, Ely, Gallaudet, Gill, Goodrich, Hudson, Rockwell, Silsbee, Tappan, Terry, Tracy, Trumbull, Van Renselaer, and Wadsworth).
Edward describes dancing and costume parties, soirees, teas, dinners, and receptions in private homes and public venues. He meets Charles Dickens and his wife when they come through Hartford in 1842, and describes brushes with other luminaries, such as Col. Thomas L. McKenney (who lectures on American Indians), and the Unitarian clergyman Rev. Henry Giles, who gave a pro-Irish speech.
Other entertainments included a balloon ascension, exhibitions of mesmerism and hypnotism, parades, and performances by well-known groups. He also chronicles the progression of the construction of the Wadsworth Atheneum, and touches on his father’s far-reaching interests in the business world–canals, railroads, factories, and real estate.
The cost of this valuable document of mid-19thC Hartford was generously underwritten entirely by a member of the Watkinson Trustees.
Trinity College and the Watkinson Virtual Library has content on Edward Watkinson Wells.
Yale College also:
Edward Watkinson Wells also kept a diary, of which three volumes are preserved (folder 32). He describes a trip by steamboat to Florida, ca. 1855-1860, and the social life and customs he observed there. The other two volumes detail his daily life in Hartford during 1856-1860, and record the deaths of his father and David Watkinson in 1857.
Other items contained in the William Wells...
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Romantic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Laid Paper, Pencil
French 19th century Pen and Ink landscape, town and church from a sketch folder
Located in Woodbury, CT
Interesting and well-drawn French late 19th-century landscape sketch, in pen and ink and sepia color.
Emile Cagniart was born in Paris where he would remain for his sixty years. Lik...
Category
Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Firefight
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"Firefighting" is a dramatic monotone watercolor painting by William Thomas Smedley, depicting the intense efforts of firefighters battling a high-rise building fire. The unique L-shaped composition draws the viewer's eye from the scene of action below to the perilous situation above.
At the base of the painting, firefighters are shown bravely combating the flames, with water hoses...
Category
19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Recruits on a March
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Recruits on a March
Ink and watercolor on paper, mounted on support
Unsigned
Condition: watercolor sheet laid down on paper, moderately faded
Original Ackermann frame and matting
Ima...
Category
Romantic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Early 19th century French watercolor of figures in a wooded landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well-drawn early 19th century French watercolor of a family in a wooded landscape.
Framed in an antique water gilded frame, which might be the original to the piece.
The quality o...
Category
Victorian 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Beauty
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MAXIMILIENNE GUYON
"BEAUTY"
PASTEL AND WATERCOLOR, SIGNED
FRANCE, C.1895
18 X 10.5 INCHES
FRAMED 27 X 19 INCHES
Maximilienne Guyon was born in Paris...
Category
19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Male Portrait - Original Pencil and Charcoal Drawing by French Artist Late 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Man is a beautiful drawing realized by a French anonymous artist active in the early 19th century. On the lower right, there are the initials “J.G.” that do not allow the...
Category
Modern 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Frank Richards, Newlyn School, English Watercolor of figures on a Cornish beach
Located in Harkstead, GB
A wonderfully fluid watercolour capturing the end of the day on a Cornish beach, most probably Newlyn where Richards was painting from the 1890s onwards.
Frank Richards (1863-1935)
...
Category
Victorian 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
19th Century Grand Tour Impressionist View of Santo Stephano, Liguria, Italy.
Located in Cotignac, FR
19th century Impressionist view, in pastel, chalk and crayon, in the style of Turner, of Santo Stephano, Imperia, Italy by British artist Hercules Brabazon Brabazon...
Category
19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pastel
19th Century Watercolour - The Summer Party
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolor scene depicting figures in a summer field. Unsigned. Well presented in a gilt frame and wash line mount. On paper.
Category
19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$413 Sale Price
20% Off
Attrib. William Payne (1760-1830) - Framed Watercolour, On Devonshire Coast
Located in Corsham, GB
This delightful watercolour, aattributed to the British artist William Payne (1760-1830) depicts an idyllic stretch of English coastline with figures washing laundry by the water's e...
Category
19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
John White Abbott, Early English watercolor, Abraham and Isaac
By John White Abbott
Located in Harkstead, GB
A most attractive watercolor by one of the forefathers of British watercolour painting.
John White Abbott (1763-1851)
Abraham and Isaac in an extensive landscape
Pen, ink and wash
7...
Category
English School 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
$1,056 Sale Price
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Jean-Achille Benouville (1815-1891) Rome, View of the Forum, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Achille Benouville (1815-1891)
Rome, View of the Forum,
pencil on paper
28.5 x 37.5 cm
framed 38.5 x 47.5 cm
This drawing is characteristic of Romantic artists who, like Coro...
Category
Romantic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
The Profile - Drawing - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Profile is a drawing artwork realized by an Anonymous artist in late 19th century
Ink and watercolor on paper.
Handwritten note below; Session of the Institute of August 5, 71....
Category
Modern 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Early 20th Century Country Cottage Landscape with Ducks
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene depiction of a country house with ducks milling around in the grass by Josh Fisher (British, 1859-1930). Signed "JOSH FISHER" in the lower-left corne...
Category
Realist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$805 Sale Price
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