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Period: 19th Century
Landscape - Original Drawing on Paper by Ferdinand Chaigneau - Mid 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an Original Pencil Drawing realized by Ferdinand Chaigneau (1830-1906).
Good condition on a yellowed paper, included a brown and green cardboard passpartout (32.5x50 cm...
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Modern 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Vigilant Fox - The psyche of the fox -
Located in Berlin, DE
Carl Friedrich Deiker (1838 Wetzlar - 1892 Düsseldorf). Vigilant fox. Pencil drawing on brown paper, 18 × 29.5 cm (inside measurement), 31.5 x 43.5 cm (mount), signed and dated "Deiker [18]54" at lower right.
- a little bit stained, with a light water stain at lower right
About the artwork
Carl Friedrich Deiker's consummate ability to depict animals is already evident in this early work. He brought a whole new psychological dimension to animal painting, so that one could literally speak of animal portraits.
The naturalistic appearance of the fox alone makes it seem alive. Every strand of muscle, even every hair, is captured, which requires an intensive artistic study of animal anatomy and physiology. But the fox's real liveliness comes not from its natural appearance, but from its internal movement: Stretched out, it has been brought out of rest. It turns around and, with its ears pricked up, looks intently in the direction from which it has seen something. His mouth is slightly open and his pointed teeth are bared, as if he were growling. Tension gradually takes hold of his whole body. While the hind legs were still in a relaxed position, closely observed by Deiker, one front leg was already raised, ready to begin a rising movement. The fox seems so alarmed with all its senses that one gets the impression that, at any moment, its tail will move jerkily and the animal will jump up.
While wild animals have traditionally been portrayed as beasts or anthropomorphised, often for caricatural purposes, Deiker explores their inherent nature by attempting to capture their psychic impulses. The wild animal is neither bestial nor human, but a creature in its own right, valued by Deiker for its own sake. In this way, he brought the dignity of the animal into representation and raised animal painting to a whole new artistic level.
About the artist
Carl Friedrich Deiker was the son of the drawing teacher Christian Friedrich Deiker and the younger brother of the animal painter Johannes Deiker. In addition to the family art lessons, Christian Friedrich shared a studio with his brother Johannes at Braunfels Castle, Deiker attended the drawing academy in Hanau, and from 1858 he was a student at the Karlsruhe Art Academy, where he studied under the landscape painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer. Carl Friedrich Deiker was already in demand as an artist during his first year: Grand Duke Frederick I of Baden, Margrave Max of Baden and Grand Duke Michael of Russia bought hunting scenes by him.
In 1859 he went on a study trip to the Reinhardswald. Just as the Barbizon School had rediscovered the landscape, Deiker opened up the forest for animal painting.
From 1861-64 Deiker had his own studio in Karlsruhe, then moved to Düsseldorf, where his brother Johannes followed four years later. Deiker married a daughter of the landscape painter Karl Hilger and remained in Düsseldorf until his death.
In 1868 he finally achieved international fame with his painting 'Pursued Noble Deer' and was regarded as a virtuoso new founder of animal painting.
"Deiker brought for the first time a truly great artistic quality to animal painting [...]".
- Hans Vollmer
From 1870 he participated in the academic art exhibitions in Berlin, Dresden, Munich and Hanover. He was also very busy as an illustrator. He drew for the Gartenlaube, the Salon, the Universum, and produced many of the finely illustrated hunting and animal books of the period. He also worked as a printmaker, while his oil paintings circulated as reprints by Franz Dinger.
From 1865 to 1892 Deiker was a member of the artists' association Malkasten.
Carl Friedrich Deiker's life's work was honoured with a large posthumous memorial exhibition at the Düsseldorf Kunsthalle in 1892.
His son Carl Deiker, born in 1879, also became a painter.
Selection of art museums that own works by Carl Friedrich Deiker:
Hamburger Kunsthalle / Kunsthalle Karlsruhe / Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf / Wallraff Richartz Cologne.
Selected Bibliography
H. Schmidt: Johannes and...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Adam and Eve - Drawing - 1849
Located in Roma, IT
Adam and Eve is a drawing realized in 1849 and attributed to the painter and draughtsman Luigi Sabatelli (1772-1850).
Applied on cardboard: 35 x 25 cm
Hand-signed on the lower and ...
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Modern 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Donne con bambini - 1889
Located in Como, IT
Eugenio Spreafico (Monza, 1856 – Magreglio, 1919)
Donne con bambini - 1889
Tecnica mista su carta
Misure: 58x40 cm (80x62 cm inclusa la cornice)
Si forma artisticamente all'Accademia di Brera, dove è allievo di Francesco Hayez...
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Antique Horse Study; Legs and Rumps, 1838" Wouterus Verschuur (Dutch, 1812-1874)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Horse Study
"Legs and Rumps, 1838"
Wouterus Verschuur l (Dutch, 1812-1874)
Pencil on paper
Signed and Dated "W Verschuur 1838"
10 x 6 1/2 (17 1/2 x 14 frame) inches
In his time Wouterus Verschuur was an acclaimed and celebrated painter of horses. Through careful observation he learned to capture their physique and movement to perfection. As a true-born romanticist he was also interested in their character, thereby painting powerful carthorses in their stable, thoroughbred saddled horses during an afternoon ride or harnessed horses in action.
He was born to an Amsterdam jeweler and received his training from the landscape and cattle painters Pieter Gerardus van Os and Cornelis Steffelaar. As part of this education Verschuur had to copy works by the 17th century painter Philips Wouwerman. Like Wouwerman, Verschuur's subjects consist mostly of stable scenes, landscapes with horses and coastal landscape. These works reflect the enduring influence of the northern Baroque masters on nineteenth century art, revealing the artist's close study of his Dutch and Flemish predecessors harking back to Peter Paul Rubens.
Showing talent from a very early age, at 15 Verschuur had a painting exhibited at the "Exhibition of Living Masters" at Amsterdam in 1828. In 1832 and 1833 he won the gold medal at the annual exhibition at Felix Meritis. In 1833 he was appointed a member of the Royal Academy in Amsterdam. In 1839 he joined the artists' society, Arti et Amicitiae.
His reputation was also considerable abroad. He was often featured in the annual exhibitions which travelled the large European cities at that time. In 1855 Napoleon III purchased one of his paintings at the Exposition Universelle in Paris.
The Verschuur horse revels in its physicality, like a quintessential Baroque horse...
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Romantic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Attrib. John Massey Wright RWS (1777-1866) - Watercolour, Troilus & Cressida
Located in Corsham, GB
A finely detailed and engaging mid 19th Century watercolour, confidently attributed to the English watercolourist, John Massey Wright. The painting shows a scene from Shakespeare...
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Sketchbook Page with Figures and Anatomical Details in Pencil on Paper - Germany
Located in Soquel, CA
Sketchbook Page with Figures and Anatomical Details in Pencil on Paper
Drawings of a man at a desk and other figurative sections by an unknown artist (19th Century). On the left sid...
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Realist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Little girl with turkeys
Located in Como, IT
Eugenio Spreafico (Monza, 1856 - Magreglio, 1919)
Little girl with turkeys
Tecnica mista su carta
Size: 53x35 cm (81x61 cm including frame)
Si forma artisticamente all'Accademia di Brera, dove è allievo di Francesco Hayez...
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
19th Century Watercolour, A Coastal Meeting
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful study depicting two figures and a dog meeting on a coastal path. Marked with graphite grids. Unsigned. Presented in a gilt frame. On paper.
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Military Drawing 19th Ink on paper Souvenir barrack officers 1830 July Monarchy
By Richard de Querelle
Located in PARIS, FR
Richard de QUERELLES Neuviller (Bas-Rhin), 1808 - Paris, 1846
Drawing Pen and ink 17.5 x 19 cm (28 x 37.5 cm with the frame) Signed "R. de Querelles ” and untitled“ Barraque ”
Henri...
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French School 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Early 19th Century Watercolour - Rough Seas on the Northumberland Coast
Located in Corsham, GB
A wonderfully atmospheric 19th century watercolour study of the Northumberland cost. Typically English weather hampers the efforts of some fishermen getting out to sea. Figures can b...
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Felician Myrbach (1853-1940) Le Cadeau de Sahagun, original dawing
Located in Paris, FR
Felician Myrbach (1853-1940)
Le Cadeau de Sahagun, The Gift of Sahagun
bears the monogram "M" on the lower left, titled on the lower left
Ink on paper
29,8 x 18.7 cm
In a modern fra...
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Art Nouveau 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
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
Landscape with Shepherd - Drawing - 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape with Shepherd is a drawing in watercolor and pencil, realized by an Anonymous artist in the late 19th century.
Hand-signed, illegible.
Good conditions.
The artwork is re...
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Modern 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
The Gatehouse, St. Mary Abbey, York
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and wash in sepia and brown on heavy wove paper, 5 13/16 x 8 1/2 inches (146 x 215 mm). Scattered uniform age tone and discoloration throughout. Brown ink spot with associated sp...
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English School 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
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
Figure Bending Over
Located in New York, NY
Image dimensions: 5 ½ x 3 ½ inches
Framed dimensions: 12 ⅛ x 10 ⅜ inches
Inscribed at lower left: JS 220
Our drawing is also referred to as Young Boy Adjusting His Sandal, and is illustrated in the catalogue for Sargent's 1928 exhibition of drawings at Grand Central Art Galleries in New York. It is an example of an early study from life executed c. 1874-8.*
Sargent drew continuously from an early age and had benefited from the emphasis on drawing at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence where he entered the life class in 1870. He arrived in Paris on May 16th, 1874, with a large portfolio of drawings...
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American Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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
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...
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Realist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
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
Edward Hull (1810-1877) - Framed Watercolour, Exercising
Located in Corsham, GB
This charming watercolour shows a steady jockey exercising his owner's racehorse with a strong, galloping stride. The watercolour has been signed to the lower left. Immaculately pres...
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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...
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Framed 19th Century Watercolour - A Toast in the Tavern
Located in Corsham, GB
A finely executed genre scene from the 19th century, depicting a small gathering of merry men in a quiet tavern. A single figure has a glass raised in the centre of the scene as the tavern girl...
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER]. - Botanical Studies.
Located in London, GB
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].
Group of 12 flowers and insects.
Mid to late nineteenth century.
A fine group of Chinese export...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor, Rice Paper
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[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER]. - Botanical Studies
Located in London, GB
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].
A Group of 10 Flowers and Butterflies.
mid to late nineteeenth century.
A fine group of Chines...
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Naturalistic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rice Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
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William Moritz (1816-1860) An historical scene, drawing signed
Located in Paris, FR
William Moritz (1816-1860)
An historical scene,
signed lower left
Brown ink and brown ink wash on paper
17 x 16.5 cm
Framed : 27 x 23.5 cm
The subject of this charming drawing rema...
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Old Masters 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
A Group of twelve Courtiers
Located in London, GB
[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER].
Group of 12 Courtiers.
Mid to late nineteenth century.
12 hand painted water-colours on pith paper, pale blue silk borders, a few minor...
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Other Art Style 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Rice Paper
Carretto Siciliano (Sicilian Carriage) - Watercolor by M. De Vito - 1820 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolour on ivory colored and watermarked paper"J. Whatm Turkey M.", 1820 c.a.
Beautiful watercolour representing a typical Italian scene of ordinary life in XIX century: people...
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Old Masters 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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
Drypoint, Etching, Gouache, Rag Paper
Portrait - Original Charcoal Drawing By Edouard Dufeu - Late-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an Original Charcoal Drawing realized in the late-19th century by Edouard Dufeu (1836-1900).
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner.
Edouard Dufeu coming from a family originally from Egypt , Dufeu moved to Paris in 1860 and frequented the studio of Charles Gleyre...
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Modern 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Self-portrait - Homo nudus -
Located in Berlin, DE
Bruno Paul (1874 Seifhennersdorf - 1968 Berlin). Self-portrait, c. 1895. Pencil on paper, mounted on cardboard, 53.5 x 35 cm, signed 'Paul' at upper left.
- Homo nudus -
About the artwork
In a mirrored situation, Bruno Paul looks at himself in the picture. While his body, which is the size of the format, is shown in profile parallel to the picture, he turns his head into the picture in order to become aware of himself there, whereby the lighter use...
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Realist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Circle of David Roberts, 19th Century English watercolor, Cathedral interior
Located in Harkstead, GB
A very atmospheric scene of a religious ceremony in a Cathedral or church interior
Harry Willson (1813-1852)
A candlelit cermony in a cathedral
Signed
Watercolour with gouache and g...
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English School 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Watercolor
Miniatures with Text from the "Legend of Phra Malai"
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unknown Artist, Thailand, 19th century
Miniatures with Text from the "Legend of Phra Malai"
Double folio; ink, color and gold leaf, c. 1900
Unsigned
Script: Khmer (Cambodian) These texts are written in Khom script, a variant of Khmer script often used in Central Thai religious manuscripts.
Paired devas (lesser gods) on throne-like plinths addorse Khmer (Cambodian) script containing tales of Phra Malai, a Sri Lankan arhat or Buddhist saint known for his travels to hell. There, the compassionate monk gave teachings and comfort to sufferers. Phra Malai stories taught the karmic effects of human actions to the faithful as well as conveying Maitreya's message of hope for attaining nirvana.
Though known in neighboring countries, the stories of Phra Malai achieved their greatest popularity and influence in Siam (present day Thailand)
Condition: Very good
Sight window) size: 11-1/8 x 27 inches
Frame size: 19-5/8 x 34-7/8 x 3/4 inches
The legend of Phra Malai, a Buddhist monk of the Theravada tradition said to have attained supernatural powers through his accumulated merit and meditation, is the main text in this 19th-century Thai samut khoi (folding book) held in the Thai, Lao, and Cambodian Collections of the British Library. Phra Malai figures prominently in Thai art...
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Other Art Style 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pigment
Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour - Fishermen in the Bay of Naples
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine 19th century watercolour showing fishermen on a boat in the bay of Naples with Vesuvius in the distance. Unsigned. Mounted in a 20th century gilt frame. On paper.
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Follower of George Cattermole (1800-1868) - Watercolour, A Strong Disagreement
Located in Corsham, GB
An engaging graphite and watercolour study of two strong willed cavaliers having a disagreement. Painted in the manner of British illustrator and watercolourist, George Cattermole (1...
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Two Miniatures and text from the "Legend of Phra Malai"
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unknown Artist, Thailand, 19th century
Two Miniatures and text from the "Legend of Phra Malai"
Ink and color on paper, c, 1900
Unsigned as usual
Script: Aksar Chrieng or Khmer These texts are written in Khom script, a variant of Khmer script often used in Central Thai religious manuscripts.
Phra Malai was a Budhist monk whose meditations permitted him to travel to heaven and hell.
Condition: Good, with minor staining to text
Sight (window) size: 11-1/8 x 27 inches
Frame size: 19-3/4 x 35 x 3/4 inches
Framed in solid cherry wood with archival, acid free materials
The legend of Phra Malai, a Buddhist monk of the Theravada tradition said to have attained supernatural powers through his accumulated merit and meditation, is the main text in this 19th-century Thai samut khoi (folding book) held in the Thai, Lao, and Cambodian Collections of the British Library. Phra Malai figures prominently in Thai art...
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Other Art Style 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pigment
Alfred W Cooper, Young girl by a bridge, Victorian watercolor
Located in Harkstead, GB
Alfred W Cooper, 19th Century
Waiting by the weir
Signed with initials
Watercolour with touches of gouache
6¾ x 9¾ inches
12 x 16 inches with the frame
A delightful Victorian scene...
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Victorian 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Set of Three Antique Watercolors of Austrian Military Uniforms
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Antique set of three early 19th century watercolors of Austrian military uniforms depicted in a stark landscape in a matter of fact technique with han...
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Other Art Style 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
View of Constantinople
Located in Middletown, NY
A bright and beautiful Orientalist landscape by a master of the genre.
Watercolor and graphite on cream laid paper, laid down to archival board, 14 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches (374 x 170 m...
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Realist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
After A. C. Lovett (fl.1880-1900)- Framed Watercolour, Skinner's Horse Regiment
Located in Corsham, GB
The 1st Duke of York's Own Lancers (Skinners Horse), pictured here in their distinctive yellow uniform. This watercolour is based on a series of paintings by A.C Lovett illustrating the Armies of India. The Navy uniform...
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Signed Roman Religious Giordano Bruno Drawing Paper Painting 19th century
Located in Florence, IT
This small drawing (watercolors on paper 11.5 x 13 cm, with the painted wood frame 42 x 50 cm) is the draft of a painting depicting the martyrdom of Giordano Bruno...
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19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Rheims Cathedral
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor and gouache on cream wove paper. Signed and titled in watercolor in the lower right image area. Small circular pea-sized damp stain in the top center image area (visible in the are of the sky), and some additional small spots of unobtrusive foxing in the upper left sheet area. Otherwise in very good condition with fresh colors and intricate brushwork.
Henri Schäfer...
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Realist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
19th Century Italian Miniature Painting The Madonna & Child, Signed original
By J. Canava
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Madonna & Child
by J. Canava, Italian late 19th century
miniature painting on ceramic, framed within velvet inset and frame
image measures 3.2...
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Renaissance 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
19th Century Italian Miniature Painting The Madonna & Child, Signed original
By J. Canava
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Madonna & Child
by J. Canava, Italian late 19th century
miniature painting on ceramic, framed within velvet inset and frame
image measures 3.2...
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Renaissance 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Angels - Drawing - 1890s
Located in Roma, IT
Angels is a beautiful pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized in the 1890s by an unknown artist.
Good conditions with some foxing.
The artwork realized through deft pen st...
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Modern 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Sketches - Original Ink Drawing Henri Lehmann - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sketches is an original Drawing on paper realized by the painter Henri Lehmann (1814-1882).
Drawing in ink.
Fair conditions with aged margins.
The art...
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Modern 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Edouard Detaille (1848 1912), Three studies of horses, original signed Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)
Three studies of horses
16 x 10 cm
Pen and ink on paper
Signed lower left
The third study on the lower right has been ...
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Academic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Summer Triclinium - Drawing By Isidore Pils - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Summer Triclinium is a Pencil Drawing realized by Isidore Pils (1813-1875).
Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (37.5x55 cm).
Stamp Atelier on the lower right cor...
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Modern 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Watercolor French 19th signed DES FOUGERES Italian boy flute player Pifferaro
Located in PARIS, FR
G. DES FOUGERES (19th century) Watercolor and gouache 33 x 24 cm (38 x 29 cm with the frame) Signed lower left "G. des Fougères" Beautiful wood gilded frame of the beginning of the 2...
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French School 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Antique Horse "Heads, Hooves, Rump 1838" Wouterus Verschuur (Dutch, 1812-1874)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Horse Study
"Heads, Hooves and Rump, 1838"
Wouterus Verschuur (Dutch, 1812-1874)
Pencil on paper
Signed and Dated "W Verschuuur 1838"
10 x 6 1/2 (17 1/2 x 14 frame) inches
In his time Wouterus Verschuur was an acclaimed and celebrated painter of horses. Through careful observation he learned to capture their physique and movement to perfection. As a true-born romanticist he was also interested in their character, thereby painting powerful carthorses in their stable, thoroughbred saddled horses during an afternoon ride or harnessed horses in action.
He was born to an Amsterdam jeweler and received his training from the landscape and cattle painters Pieter Gerardus van Os and Cornelis Steffelaar. As part of this education Verschuur had to copy works by the 17th century painter Philips Wouwerman. Like Wouwerman, Verschuur's subjects consist mostly of stable scenes, landscapes with horses and coastal landscape. These works reflect the enduring influence of the northern Baroque masters on nineteenth century art, revealing the artist's close study of his Dutch and Flemish predecessors harking back to Peter Paul Rubens.
Showing talent from a very early age, at 15 Verschuur had a painting exhibited at the "Exhibition of Living Masters" at Amsterdam in 1828. In 1832 and 1833 he won the gold medal at the annual exhibition at Felix Meritis. In 1833 he was appointed a member of the Royal Academy in Amsterdam. In 1839 he joined the artists' society, Arti et Amicitiae.
His reputation was also considerable abroad. He was often featured in the annual exhibitions which travelled the large European cities at that time. In 1855 Napoleon III purchased one of his paintings at the Exposition Universelle* in Paris.
The Verschuur horse revels in its physicality, like a quintessential Baroque horse...
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Romantic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Double-sided drawing- Homme (recto)/ Homme (verso)
Located in GLEN IRIS, AU
Albert Marquet
Homme (recto)/ Homme (verso)
Pencil, 26 x 15cm
Provenance: Galerie Schmit, Paris
Albert Marquet was born in Bordeaux in ...
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Post-Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
People - Drawing by F.-A. Houbron - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
People is an ink on paper, realized in the late 19th Century by Frédéric-Anatole Houbron.
Monogram of the artist on the lower-left corner. Passpartout included cm 25.5x38
The artwork represents a sketch of a group of people in an indoor set.
Frédéric-Anatole Houbron was (1851- 1908).
Painter (gouache), watercolorist, draughtsman, he realized history painting...
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Modern 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
The Pipe's of Pan - British Watercolour by Hubert von Herkomer
Located in London, GB
SIR HUBERT VON HERKOMER, RA, RWS
(1849-1914)
The Pipe’s of Pan
Signed with initials and dated 26/2/74
Watercolour and bodycolour
17 by 22 cm., 6 ¾ by 8 ¾ in.
(frame size 42 by 49....
Category
Romantic 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of Woman - Original Pencil Drawing by Henri Regnault - 1861
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Woman is an original pencil drawing realized by Henri Regnault (1843-1871) in 1861.
Good condition, except for some torn and missing paper ...
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Modern 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Etude de fleurs (recto)/ étude de personnes (verso)
By Louis Valtat
Located in GLEN IRIS, AU
Louis Valtat
Etude de fleurs (recto)/ étude de personnes (verso)
pencil, signed with estate stamp, 21.5 x 27 cm
Provenance: Private Collection, Paris
Note: This do...
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Post-Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Portraits - Drawing by Félix Barrias - Late-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portraits is a drawing in China ink on paper realized in the late 19th Century by Félix-Joseph Barrias.
Monogrammed on the lower center.
Included a Passepartout: 33 x 50 cm
Good c...
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Modern 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Woman carrying a burden
Located in PARIS, FR
Beau dessin au lavis d'encre avec réhauts d'aquarelle d'un peintre français du XIXe. L'œuvre est signée en bas à gauche : à déchiffrer.
Daté de juillet 1852.
Dimensions : 24 x 15.5 cm
Category
Post-Impressionist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Louis Tinayre (1861-1942) An encampment of journalists, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Louis Tinayre (1861-1942)
An encampment of journalists in Chambéry,
signed and titled lower left "Campement de journalistes à Chambéry"
Ink on paper
In quite good condition, a a visible vertical fold in the centre, some stains and foxings
21 x 29 cm
Framed : 33.7 x 45.5 cm
Louis Tinayre's background and adventurous life obviously shed light on this humorous and detailed scene. He shows a remarkable sense of observation, capturing as a journalistic illustrator this scene of extraordianarian life.
We don't know for the moment why these journalists had to improvise a camp, probably in a hotel room. No doubt it was to cover a trial or a sensational news item that had filled all the hotels in the city with journalists who had flocked for the occasion. In any case, what interests Tinayre as an almost ethnographic observer is this camp of journalists, of which he makes a tender and comical scene.
One understands him better when one knows how he could be fascinated in the same way by the territories of Madagascar, the North Pole or the Far West that he painted and drew.
Louis Tinayre was born on 14 March 1861 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. His mother, Victoire Tinayre, was a teacher and a member of the International Workers' Association.
Louis was the son of a Communard couple. His father, Jean Joseph, known as Jules Tinayre (Issoire 1821 - Paris 1871) was shot during the Bloody Week. His mother, Victoire Tinayre, fled with her children. Louis was the first to be sent to Hungary, and the rest of the family (including his brother Julien) joined him there later. He studied Fine Arts at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest.
Returning to Paris in 1880 (after the amnesty), Louis Tinayre assiduously frequented Le Chat noir, where he met the positivists and Adèle Jacomet (Buenos Aires 1867-1946), whom he married in 1888.
He became an animal painter and press illustrator and was sent by Le Monde Illustré to cover the second expedition to Madagascar (then under French protectorate) in 1895.
He stayed there, fascinated, for six months and produced numerous drawings and photographs. Back in France, he created eight 5 x 4 meters dioramas presented at the National and Colonial Exhibition in Rouen in 1896.
He returned to Madagascar in 1898 to prepare the creation of a giant panorama representing the surrender of Antananarivo in 1895. The Malagasy pavilion at the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris allowed him to admire the dioramas (on the ground floor) and the panorama (on the first floor).
On his second trip, Tinayre took a Lumière cinematograph with him to document the daily life of the Malagasy people, no doubt to facilitate the design of the vast panorama. These short films were donated to the Cinémathèque française in 2009 by his grandson, Alain Tinayre.
One of the admirers of Tinayre's drawings, watercolours, paintings and photographs at the Universal Exhibition was Prince Albert I of Monaco: from 1901 onwards, Tinayre accompanied him on his hunts, painting scenes in North Africa, Russia, the Far West (Wyoming) and the North Pole. Tinayre, the official painter of the Prince's scientific expeditions, left his name to a glacier.
Together with the painter Alexandre Jean-Baptiste Brun, he painted the four murals in the large amphitheatre of the Oceanographic Institute in Paris. Louis Tinayre painted the figures while Alexandre Brun...
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Realist 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink