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Period: 19th Century
Colored Vases - Original Watercolor and Ink Drawing - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Colored Vases is a beautiful original drawing on paper realized by Anonymous French artist of XIX century.
Mixed media watercolor and china ink drawing.
Mint conditions with some...
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Modern 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Landscape - Etching by Jean-Léon Gérome - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a drawing realized by Jean-Léon Gérome (1824-1904).
Good condition on a yellowed pper, included a white cardboard passpartout (37.5x55 cm).
Stamp signed on the back of the little paper.
Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living...
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Modern 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Neapolitan Fisherman - Original Gouache by Michela De Vito - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Neapolitan Fisherman (Original Italian title "Pescatore Napoletano") is an original modern artwork realized by the famous Italian artist Michela De Vito in the 19thCentury.
Origina...
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Modern 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Feeding the Kittens - Little cat mother -
Located in Berlin, DE
Ernst Albert Fischer-Cörlin (1853 Körlin - 1932 Persante). Feeding the Kittens, 1893. Pencil on painting cardboard, 38 x 29 cm. Signed and dated by the artist at lower left "E[rnst] A[lbert] Fischer=Cörlin 1893".
- Lightly stained, somewhat dusty and minimally foxed.
- Little cat mother -
About the artwork
Daughter, mother and grandmother gather in the sunlight to feed a litter of kittens. The mother and grandmother hold the lively, playful animals in their arms, while the young girl feeds two of the four kittens with cookies. There is also a small bucket of milk and a bowl of milk. The women and the girl watch as the cute, still blind animals eat.
It is a scene taken from everyday life, but it also has an allegorical dimension, bringing maternal care into the representation. Three generations are represented, with the grandmother and the mother already mothers. They not only offer the kittens to the youngest, but also proudly observe the maternal care that the youngest gives to the kittens. Like the kittens, she will grow up and become a mother herself, so the image is also an allegory of life's ever-new beginnings. In keeping with this, the morning sun shines into the picture from the right. Fischer-Cörlin has masterfully worked out the quality of the light, with its light and dark areas, with the pencil used...
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Academic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cardboard, Carbon Pencil
Edouard Detaille (1848 1912), The Young Paperboy, signed watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)
The Young Paperboy
16.5 x 20.5 cm
Watercolor and brown ink on paper
Signed lower right
In good condition, the paper is slightly yellowed by time, some o...
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Academic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
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...
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Romantic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
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
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
Félix Ziem (1821-1911) Studies of Landscapes and Seascapes, original Drawing
By Félix Ziem
Located in Paris, FR
Félix Ziem (1821-1911)
Studies of landscapes and seascapes
graphite on paper,
14 x 22 cm
Stamp of the Ziem Estate bottom left
Framed : 25 x 33 cm
A rare exemple of mutiple studies ...
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Romantic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Femme mettant ses bas by Maximilien Luce
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maximilien Luce
1858-1941 French
Femme mettant ses bas
(Woman putting on her stockings)
Pastel on paper
Signed "Luce 89" (lower left)
Maximilien Luce’s Femme mettant ses bas is a...
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Post-Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
19th C. Newspaper Illustration of Hiram H. Hobbs, Foreman of the Grand Jury 1898
Located in Soquel, CA
Historical late 19th century portrait of Hiram H. Hobbs, Foreman of the Grand Jury of San Francisco y Richard Langtry Partington (American, ...
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American Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Illustration Board
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...
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Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Miniature 19th Century Watercolour - The Street Performer
Located in Corsham, GB
A detailed miniature watercolour study depicting figures enjoying a street performer. Possibly Turkish or Middle Eastern. Well presented in an ornate gilt-effect frame. Signed indist...
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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
Louis DAVID (1798-1849) Le Moulin La Butte aux Cailles, Paris, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Louis-Alphonse DAVID (1798-1849)
Le Moulin de la Butte aux Cailles, Paris, (The Mill at la Butte aux Cailles)
signed lower left
Pencil and white chalk on paper
22,5 x 36 cm
Framed : 40,5 x 55 cm
Louis-Alphonse David is known for a relatively small body of work, including portraits and large compositions. In any case, in this work he shows a remarkable mastery of drawing, with particularly suggestive and subtle plays of light and shadow.
The Butte aux Cailles, now part of the 13th arrondissement of Paris, was a hill covered in meadows, vineyards and woods, built with several windmills and overlooking the river Bièvre. It was named after Pierre Caille...
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Romantic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Chalk
Ancient Persian Miniature - Original China Ink and Watercolour - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Persian Miniature is an original China Ink and Watercolour realized by an artist of 19th Century.
Good condition for a little brown ...
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Old Masters 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Nude of Woman - Original Pencil - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is an original pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized by Anonymous French Artist of the late 19th Century.
In very good conditions. Image Dimensions: 43.5 x ...
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Modern 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Two Metamorphosed Women with a Mythological Creature
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is part of my private collection. It is limited in edition artist signed lower right and is in very good condition. Walter Becker was a German artist. Another impress...
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Abstract Expressionist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
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)
...
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Victorian 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
“European Village”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper laid down to heavy card stock by the American artist, Edward Loyal Field. The watercolor is of a European scene, perhaps Holland when the artist...
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Academic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
French School 19th Century, Portrait of a dandy, watercolor on paper
Located in Paris, FR
French School 19th Century,
Portrait of a dandy,
watercolor on paper
19 x 13 cm
Signed (?) with pencil lower right "L ... " illegible
Framed : 29 x 23 cm
Category
Romantic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of an Old Lady, 1886
Located in Stockholm, SE
This small and delicate watercolor is believed to depict Madame Papillon, a subject also portrayed by Hanna Pauli in an oil painting dated 1886. The portrait was created during the s...
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Pastel & Pencil on Paper.The Chapel Saint Pierre, Villefranche, South of France.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 19th century pastel drawing view of the Chapel Saint Pierre at Villefranche, with the harbour beyond, by British artist Hercules Brabazon Brabazon...
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, 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...
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Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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
French 19th century Pen and Ink landscapes from a sketch folder
Located in Woodbury, CT
Interesting and well-drawn French late 19th-century landscape sketch in pen and ink .
Emile Cagniart was born in Paris where he would remain for his sixty years. Like many young asp...
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Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
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
Study of the Pergamene Head, or The Dying Alexander
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite with white heightening on greenish beige wove paper, 17 1/4 x 12 1/2 (437 x 317 mm). Scattered edge wear, tears and losses around the perimeter of the drawing. Margins are wide and the image area is clean and intact. Scattered light soiling and toning, all consistent with age.
A dramatic image by a highly skilled draftsman, this works is likely a life study of the Hellenistic sculptural masterpiece of the same title, which is housed in the Uffizi's collection of ancient statues...
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Italian School 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Siebe Johannes Ten Cate (1858-1908) A Dune Landscape, pastel signed
Located in Paris, FR
Siebe Johannes ten Cate (1858-1908)
A Dune Landscape
Signed lower right
Pastel on paper
25.5 x 39.5 cm
in good condition, very fresh, traces of pinholes in the upper corners barely...
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Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
19th Century Loch Tay Scottish Landscape
By Aaron Edwin Penley
Located in Soquel, CA
Masterful Scottish watercolor landscape of Loch Tay with boats and small figures on the short by Aaron Edwin Penley (English, 1826-1897)....
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Realist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Edouard Detaille (1848 1912) Soldiers, a study, ink on wood
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)
Soldiers, a study
Black ink on a wood panel
12.5 x 13 cm
Framed : 20 x 20.5 cm
On the back of the panel a label inscribed "Dessin à la plume par Detaill...
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Academic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Persephone, 19th Century Classical French Academy Drawing, Chalk and Pencil.
Located in Cotignac, FR
19th Century French Academy drawing of a classical maiden, signed Xavier Rendeley bottom right, numbered and dated 2nd April 1883. Presented in ...
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil
Mountain landscape with an aqueduct and dam - FRENCH SCHOOL
Located in Middletown, NY
Pencil on smooth cream wove paper with a window pane drawn in gold ink, 8 3/8 x 11 3/4 inches (213 x 298 mm). Signed illegibly and dated in ink and again in pencil within the lower m...
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French School 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
" 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
Ferdinand Heilbuth, Woman lying on the shore, watercolor and gouache on paper
Located in BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, FR
Born German, Ferdinand Heilbuth (1826-1889) made most of his artistic career in France and specialized in outdoor genre scenes. This gouache watercolor depicts a young woman lying in...
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Harvest Time The Hills of Mt Tamalpais near Lake Bon Tempe 1890s
Located in Soquel, CA
Harvest Time The Hills of Mt Tamalpais near Lake Bon Tempe 1890s
The Hills around San Rafael in the 19th century were a time of work and play as seen in this watercolor near Lake Bon...
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American Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Laid Paper
Rough Weather at Blatchington Pulling in the Fishing Nets on the English Coast
Located in Soquel, CA
Drypoint etching rawing of a coastal scene with figures drawing a net or boat form the sea by Sir Francis (Frank) Job Short (British, 1857 - 1945)
Sir Frank Short, Royal Academy*, was a printmaker and teacher of printmaking. He revived the practices of mezzotint* and aquatint* engraving, and also wrote about printmaking to educate a wider public.
Signed "Frank Short" lower right with monogram in the print "S within a shield"
Titled lower left "Rough Weather at Blatchington"
Lower left "Trial Proof"
Image, 8.5"H x 10.88"W
Mat, 16"H x 20"W x 0.13
Professionally cleaned and ph nuetral washed by our paper conservator. (new images posting)
Francis Job Short was born on 19 June 1857 in Britain, at Stourbridge, Worcestershire. He was educated to be a civil engineer.
He was engaged on various works in the Midlands until 1881, when he came to London as assistant to Mr Baldwin Latham in connection with the Parliamentary Inquiry into the pollution of the river Thames. In 1883 he was elected an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Having worked at the Stourbridge School of Art in his early years he joined the South Kensington School of Art*, in 1883. He also worked at the life class under Professor Fred...
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Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rag Paper, Drypoint, Etching, Gouache
GIRL WADING
Located in Portland, ME
Potthast, Edward H. GIRL WADING. Colored pencil drawing on paper, not dated. Signed recto, lower right "E. Potthast," lower right, and inscribed "Holiday Greetings" and signed "Edw. ...
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American Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Raphael’s Skull
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Ettore Calzone Collection, Rome, by 1912.
Exhibited:
“Raffaello: L’Accademia di San Luca e il mito dell’Urbinate,” Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome, 21 October 2020...
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Old Masters 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Village Scene, Cornwall England - 19th Century, Impressionist Landscape Drawing
Located in Norwich, GB
A lovely and very fresh watercolour on paper by John Baragwanath KING (1864—1939)
This village scene is signed lower left, and measures 25 x 38 cm. It is presented in its original frame - the framed is 39 x 51cm
Born in Cornwall, the artist trained first as an engineer before turning to art, and exhibited in London, Manchester and Paris. He lived at 'Westbourne', St Austell...
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Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Attrib. William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854) - Framed Watercolour, Sidmouth
By W. H. Bartlett
Located in Corsham, GB
Attributed to William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854). A coastal landscape near Sidmouth. Inscribed verso 'where his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent expired'. Presented in a simple gilt-e...
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Henri Harpignies (1819-1916) A Barrier on the hedge, study, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Henri Harpignies (1819-1916)
A Barrier on the hedge, study
Signed lower left, annotation "branches séchées sur la barrière" (dried branches on the fence) on the upper right
Charcoal...
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Barbizon School 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
Basilica di Santa Maria from the Grand Canal, Venice
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and sepia wash on light wove paper, 5 1/8 x 4 inches (128 x 100 mm), signed in brown ink and dated in black ink below the image. Scattered light foxing and uniform toning. Adhered to nonarchival white cardstock, creating minor cockling, and obscuring the verso.
Alberto Prosdocimi (1852-1925) was an Italian watercolorist and celebrated mansucript illuminator known for his atmospheric cityscapes and interior views of Venice. His canal scences are simple yet masterful, filled with languid motion...
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Italian School 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Figure of Woman - Drawing by Achille Devéria - Early 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure of Woman is a Pencil Drawing realized by Achille Deveria (1800-1857).
Good condition on a little paper included a blue cardboard passpartout (31.5x24.5 cm).
Signature on pla...
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Modern 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
19th Century Landscape -- Cape Ann, Gloucester Harbor
Located in Soquel, CA
Late 19th century delicate watercolor of the harbor at Cape Ann, Gloucester, Massachusetts depicting rocks in the calm water along with seagulls and sailboats in the distance, by 19th century artist and Reverend William George Puddefoot (American, 1842-1925). Signed "W.G. Puddefoot" lower left. Titled on verso, "Cape Ann Scenery / Near Gloucester, Sunset". Presented in a carved giltwood frame and off-white mat.
Reverend William George Puddefoot [1842-1925] (also known as W C Puddefoot) was an artist, traveler, lecturer and the field secretary for the American Home Missionary Society [1826-1893]. For his work, Puddefoot traveled all over the US, lecturing and doing missionary work, including: Iowa, Minnesota, Indiana Pennsylvania, California and Connecticut. He was known for being an extremely colorful character especially in his sermons and lectures. Puddefoot wrote the book Minute Man...
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American Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Woman with Turban (by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance") - Antique
Located in New Orleans, LA
Many of you clicking on this are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the turn of the 20th century sparked an arts r...
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Romantic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
British 19th Century chalk drawing of Christ in Glory by G F Watts
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
George Frederic Watts (British, 1817-1904)
Christ in Glory
Red chalk in an arched mount
Inscribed verso, including a signed letter verso from R H Jefferies, Curator of The Watts Ga...
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Pre-Raphaelite 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Follower of Francis Wheatley, 19th century portrait of young maiden with flowers
Located in Harkstead, GB
A really charming, early 19th century portrait of a young maiden carrying a basket of flowers. The face is beautifully painted with a slight blush to her cheeks and striking touches ...
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Romantic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Pencil
Paul Gavarni (1804-1866) The Puppeteer, "Janvier", original signed drawing
By Paul Gavarni
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Gavarni (1804-1866)
The Puppeteer, Study for "Janvier"
Signed lower left
Pen and black ink, black ink wash on paper
28 x 20 cm
In good condition except some stains particularly ...
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Romantic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
The actor Karl Seydelmann, probably as Max Piccolomini / - Theatrical Realism -
Located in Berlin, DE
Theodor Hosemann (1807 Brandenburg - 1875 Berlin), The actor Karl Seydelmann probably as Max Piccolomini, around 1840. Watercolor with pencil, 20.5 cm (height) x 14.7 cm (width), sig...
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Realist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
John Cantiloe Joy, 19th Century seascape, maritime interest
Located in Harkstead, GB
A wonderful example of the rare and intricate work of John Cantiloe Joy (1806-1866)
Shipping off the Norfolk coast with figures on the shore
Watercolour over traces of pencil
6½ x 1...
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Victorian 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Siebe Johannes Ten Cate (1858-1908) Mill and sailboat in the moonlight, pastel
Located in Paris, FR
Siebe Johannes ten Cate (1858-1908)
Mill and sailboat in the moonlight,
Signed lower rigt
Pastel on paper
40 x 31 cm
Framed under glass : 52 x 44 cm
This landscape shows the out...
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Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Reclining female nudes with an umbrella
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
HENRI LEBASQUE
(Champigné 1865 - 1937 Le Cannet)
Reclining female nudes with an umbrella
Pencil, stumping and heightened with watercolor
27 x 24 cm
Stamp lower right « H. Lebasque ...
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Art Nouveau 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, 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...
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Realist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Charming early 19th century Graphite Portrait of a Young Boy with Birds
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charming early 19th century Graphite Portrait of a Young Boy with Birds
A young child sits with a bird on his finger and a nest of birds on his lap
A wonderful antique drawing - Po...
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Fernand de Launay (1855-1904) Portrait of a child, 1890, original drawing
By Fernand de Launay
Located in Paris, FR
Fernand de Launay (1838-1904)
Portrait of a child, probably the daughter of the artist
Lead pencil on paper
Signed and dated "4 septembre 1890" on the lower left
27 x 21 cm
In quite ...
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Academic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Temple Official
Located in London, GB
'Temple Official', pencil and watercolour on paper by Robert Taylor Pritchett (1882). This is the artist's portrait of a financial official in a Cantonese temple in Guangzhou, China in the latter half of the 19th century. His garment is typical of that of a senior civil servant of the Chinese government. Clothes were designed to indicate rank and status, becoming so distinct that the wearer’s position could be ascertained at a glance. During his second career as an artist, Pritchett traveled widely in the Pacific region in the 1880s. This artwork has been professionally restored and cleaned to preserve it for decades to come and therefore in good overall condition. It has also been newly framed and glazed. The artist has written 'The Treasurer & Temple' and '5 Geni Temple, Canton Jan. 22 1882' on the lower left and right hands of the artwork. Upon request a video of the work may be provided.
About the Artist: Robert Taylor Pritchett (1823 - 1907), a gun maker and artist, was the son of Richard Ellis...
Category
19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Circle of Samuel Prout, 19th Century watercolor, Castle in a river landscape
By Samuel Prout
Located in Harkstead, GB
An enchanting 19th century watercolor with figures before a castle in a river landscape.
Circle of Samuel Prout (1783-1852)
Figures before a castle in a river landscape
Watercolour
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Category
Victorian 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Woman with Red Sash
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
An influential critic, writer and teacher, Philip Leslie Hale was an American Impressionist with an experimental, avant-garde approach to painting. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of author Edward Everett Hale and the younger brother of artist Ellen Day Hale, Philip was raised in a lively intellectual atmosphere. He probably received his first artistic training from his paternal aunt Susan Hale, after which he entered the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School under Edmund Tarbell, an American Impressionist painter who greatly influenced Hale’s style. A year later in 1884, the young artist moved to New York City, where he enrolled at the Art Students League and studied under Kenyon Cox and J. Alden Weir. There, his fellow students included Theodore Butler and William Howard “Peggy” Hart.
In 1887, Hale traveled to Paris with Theodore Butler and Susan Hale, where he furthered his artistic training at Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian. During this first year, he studied with Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, Gustave Boulanger and Henri Lucien Doucet...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
19th Century Watercolour - Rest on the flight to Egypt
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour depiction of the Holy family's flight to Egypt. They stop to rest beneath a tree with an infant St. John the Baptist to the right of the composition. Unsigned....
Category
19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Thomas Leeson Rowbotham, Victorian blacksmith
Located in Harkstead, GB
A really charming study of a blacksmith puffing on a clay pipe at the forge door.
Thomas Charles Leeson Rowbotham Junr (1823-1875)
Village Blacksmith Patterdale, Aug 1848
Signed, in...
Category
Victorian 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
