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Period: Late 19th Century
Attrib. Jane E. Simpson - Late 19th Century Watercolour, Seascape Near Torquay
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful watercolour scene depicting a scenic stretch of Cornish coastline with enchanting seafront property's perch on a cliff. Well-presented in a gilt-effect frame. Signed 'ne...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Regent's Park, London by Camille Pissarro - Watercolour on paper
Located in London, GB
Regent's Park, London by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
Watercolour on paper
16.5 x 24.5 cm (6 ¹/₂ x 9 ⁵/₈ inches)
Inscribed, signed and dated lower left, C.Pissarro 1890
Camille Piss...
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Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
James George Philp, On The Derwent, Derbyshire, Antique Watercolour
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This 19th-century watercolour by British artist James George Philp (1816-1885) depicts a tranquil view on the River Derwent in Derbyshire.
Meandering between craggy tree-lined banks...
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English School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
Nathaniel Everett Green (1823-1899) - Framed Watercolour, Waiting on the Tide
Located in Corsham, GB
A captivating watercolour painting by Nathaniel Everett Green (1823-1899), depicting boats in an estuary at low tide. The artist has signed the...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
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 Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Platinum, Paper, Watercolor
Rose Emelie Stanton (1838-1908) - 1880 Watercolour, The Return of Gladstone
Located in Corsham, GB
An interesting watercolour study depicting the return of British prime Minister William Gladstone to office in 1880. Gladstone's second administratio...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour - Wreckage at Low Tide
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine late 19th century watercolour depicting a piece of wreckage on golden sands at low tide. Further along the shoreline the artist captures several figures with a horse and cart....
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Portrait of Lady Eugène Pegg walking in Saint Germain park (Paris)
By James Tissot
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
James TISSOT
(Nantes 1836 – Chenecey-Buillon 1902)
Madame Eugène Pegg walking at Saint Germain
H. 49 cm; L. 32 cm
Watercolor over pencil lines
Titled, located and dated on the back
...
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French School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor, Paper
Edmond Albert Joseph Tyrel de Poix, Landscape With Watermill, Mother & Child
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming 19th-century drawing by British artist Edmond Albert Joseph Tyrel de Poix (1840-1916) depicts a mother and child standing by a mill pond before a rustic watermill.
De Poix was a gentleman artist descended from French nobility...
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English School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Woman with a Blue Kerchief: watercolor by Irish artist Magrath
Located in Philadelphia, PA
William Magrath
(Irish, 1838-1918)
Woman with a Blue Kerchief
Watercolor on paper, mounted; 18 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches
Signed and dated at upper right: "W Magrath/1876"
Stamped on stret...
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Realist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Auguste Gardanne (1840-1890) Carriages and horses, War of 1870, double sided
Located in Paris, FR
Auguste Gardanne (circa 1840- circa 1890)
Carriages and horses during the franco-prussian war of 1870
Pencil and watercolor on paper
On the reverse Studies of horses
Pencil and water...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Auguste Gardanne (1840-1890) Soldiers at rest, War of 1870, wartercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Auguste Gardanne (circa 1840- circa 1890)
Soldiers at rest during the franco-prussian war of 1870
Watercolor on paper
On the reverse Study of a battlefield (?)
Pencil on paper
Mark o...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Edmond Albert Joseph Tyrel de Poix, Landscape With Pub & Signpost
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming 19th-century drawing by British artist Edmond Albert Joseph Tyrel de Poix (1840-1916) depicts a timber-framed public house, figures, horses and a leaning signpost.
De ...
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English School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Late 19th Century Watercolour - Crashing Estuary Waves
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine late 19th century watercolour by an unknown hand, evocative of tidal waters and the coastline of the British Isles. Unsigned. Well presented in a cream card mount and antique ...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Late 19th Century Watercolour - The Accordion Player
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming street scene depicting figures gathered around an accordion player by a barn door. Through the men's relaxed mannerisms and quiet comradery, the artist illustrates a reali...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Frank Catano (fl.1880-1920) - Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour, Italian Bay
By Frank Catano
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine late 19th/early 20th century watercolour scene by Frank Catano (fl.1880-1920). The scene depicts a picturesque Italian bay with figures walking the coastal path. The artist ha...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Alexandre Bida (1813-1895) A Young Woman in profile, Signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Alexandre Bida (1813-1895)
A Young Woman in Profile
Signed with the monogram lower right
Pencil on grey-blue paper
17.7 x 11.5 cm
Framed : 36.5 x 27 cm
This drawing shows Bida's tec...
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Romantic Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Girl in The Garden, Wonderful English Watercolor Flowers, Roses, Surrey Cottage
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Benjamin D. Sigmund (English, 1857 - 1947)
Signed: B. D. Sigmund (Lower, Left)"
" Girl in the Garden ", c. 1890s
Watercolor on Paper
10 1/2" x 14 1/2"
Housed in its original 2" ...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Coastal landscape, 1882
Located in PARIS, FR
Frank Charles Peyraud (1858-1948)
Coastal landscape, 1882
Charcoal and shading on paper
Signed "C. Peyraud", dated "82" and dedicated "à l'ami Baradat" ? lower right
29.5 x 56 cm
Slightly oiled
A French-born artist born in Switzerland in 1858, Frank Charles Peyraud showed an early interest in drawing and painting. He grew up in a rural environment before studying architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, encouraged by his father. In 1877, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1881, Frank Peyraud...
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Post-Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Late 19th Century Gouache - Last Goodbyes
Located in Corsham, GB
A poignant study of a mother and child saying goodbye to a knight on horseback as he rides into the sunset. Finished with touches of gouache. Well presented in a delicate gilt effect...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Gouache
Two figures amongst some ruins – English School 19th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
Pen and ink and watercolor on mid-weight, cream wove paper, 8 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches (222 x 312 mm). Scattered light wear along the sheet perimeter, as well as a dog-eared lower right c...
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English School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Pencil
Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour - Sleeping Child
Located in Corsham, GB
A watercolour study on a printed base of an angelic child asleep on a wicker basket in a cosy corner. His mother and sister appear to be seated in the hall behind him and a bonnet li...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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.
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French School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Worplesdon Lodge – English School 19th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
This charming landscape features the structure now known as the Worplesdon Place Hotel, near Guildford, Surrey. The house is of notable historical significance, and it is registered ...
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English School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Handmade Paper, Pencil
Stanley Llewellyn Wood (1866-1928) - Late 19th Century Gouache, Surrender!
By Stanley L. Wood
Located in Corsham, GB
Well presented in a simple wood frame with gilt slip. Signed to the lower left. On paper.
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Gouache
The Shambles, York, with Yorkminster in the background
Located in Middletown, NY
Black crayon on white wove paper, 4 3/8 x 5 3/8 (110 x 135 mm), signed in pencil on the verso. Adhered to an archival laid-paper mount at each of the four corners on the verso. With ...
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English School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Crayon, Handmade Paper
P. L. - C.1890 Watercolour, Lay thy Sweet Hands In Mine, and Trust to Me
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour scene depicting a classically dressed couple in a summer garden. Inscribed to the lower border 'Lay thy sweet hands in mine, and trust to me' in a ribbon banne...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Rudolf Johann Weiss (1846-1933) - Gateway of Ptolemy III Thebes Egypt 19thC W/C
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Rudolf Johann Weiss
(Swiss, * 3.9.1846 Basel; † 17.4.1933 Biel/Bienne, Switzerland)
Ancient Gateway of Ptolemy III by Thebes in Egypt
• 19th century water colour on paper, visible ...
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Victorian Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Le Lever - Impressionist Figures in Interior Pastel by Jean Louis Forain
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist figurative pastel on board circa 1895 by sought after French impressionist painter Jean Louis Forain. The piece depicts a man asleep in a bed while a woman stands at the foot of the bed getting dressed. The room is dimly lit by the bedside lamp.
Signature:
Signed upper right
Dimensions:
Framed: 22"x26"
Unframed: 15"x19"
Provenance:
Galerie Jean-Claude Bellier
Jean Forain was the son of a painter and decorator and was apprenticed to a visiting card engraver. He studied briefly under Gérôme and Carpeaux at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and regularly visited the Louvre, where he copied works by the masters. It is said that for a time he made a precarious living by selling small drawings in the style of Grévin. He went on to collaborate on various publications as a draughtsman and columnist, starting in 1876 on La Cravache and then collaborating on the newspapers Le Journal Amusant, Le Figaro and L'Écho de Paris. This introduced him to the diverse worlds of Paris society - the world of the theatre, of shows, and of literature - where he wryly noted the habits and shortcomings particular to each. This led him to follow a route very characteristic of this period, already seen in the work of Steinlen, Caran d'Ache and Toulouse-Lautrec in the journals La Pléiade, La Vogue and La Revue Blanche.
His work draws a picture of the society of the period, not in a strictly imitative fashion but in the form of the 'dessin-charge' or mild caricature. In 1880 he illustrated Parisian Sketches...
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Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel, Board
Fishing Boats, late 19th Century French Marine Mauve Ink Drawing
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 19th century mauve ink drawing on paper of fishing boats at harbour by noted French artist Georges Ricard-Cordingley. The drawing is signed bottom left and carries various annotations and another small sketch. The drawing is presented in a period wood frame under glass with a double card mount.
Provenance: This drawing came from the estate of the artist's daughter who had acquired it directly from her father.
A charming drawing capturing the scene fishing boats at harbour with extensive detail of the rigging and sails. It seems to be a preparatory sketch as it carries extensive colour and other annotations. There is also a smaller sketch bottom right which shows the boat from a different perspective. The figures are well annotated and Cordingley has achieved great detail but with a lightness of touch.
The sketch is even more interesting as it is completed in mauve ink. This was a fashionable and technical innovation at the time as the colour was only 'invented' in the late 1850s. A really interesting, lovely and evocative drawing.
Georges Ricard was born on January 30, 1873 in Lyon, son of Prosper Louis Ricard and Georgina Marie Cordingley. He spent part of his childhood in Lyon and Boulogne-sur-Mer. He displayed early gifts for drawing. He lost his father in 1885.
He began his training around 1887, becoming a pupil of Jean-Charles Cazin, a landscape painter from Pas-de-Calais and the Côte d'Opale. He then joined the School of Fine Arts in Lyon and remained there from 1888 to 1889. He moved to Paris in 1890, where he studied at the Académie Julian as a pupil of Benjamin Constant, Louis Martinet and Jules Lefebvre.
He lost his mother around 1892, went to England to his maternal family and added his mother's name to his name. He embarked for the North Sea with the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen and carried out his first studies. In 1894, he met with great success at the court of Queen Victoria. He embarked a second time, in 1895, still for the North Sea and produced numerous studies of waves of clouds, of the port and of portraits of fishermen which he exhibited in Paris and London. He embarked a third time, around 1896, in the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean with the Société des Travaux de Mer and was shipwrecked in Newfoundland.
In 1901, he set up his studio in Boulogne-sur-Mer. He divided his time between London, Paris and Boulogne-sur-Mer and painted portraits and seascapes. He realized the decoration of the casino of Wimereux.
He travelled to Australia, where he exhibited from 1909 to 1910.
In 1911, he married Suzanne Giraud-Teulon, the daughter of historian Alexis Giraud-Teulon, and had three children, Éliane, Louis and Gabrielle.
During the First World War, he was assigned to Lyon as a stretcher...
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Romantic Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink
Woman in thought and Child: the page boy intriguing 19th Century Master drawing
Located in Norwich, GB
A virtuoso charcoal sketch by the Frech 19th Century master Gustave Jean Jacquet (1846-1904). It depicts a thoughtful woman (or woman in thought?) with her face resting on her hand...
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French School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Charcoal, Laid Paper
Les ruban verts, 1897
Located in BLARICUM, NL
THEO VAN RYSSELBERGHE
Gent 1862-1926 Saint-Clair, Var
LES RUBANS VERTS
Portrait of Marquerite Mommen-Ithiers
1897
Pastel on paper
90 x 65 cm.
Signed and dated: lower right with mo...
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Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
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 Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Woman On Bicycle - Drawing by Adolphe Léon Willette - 1890s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman On Bicycle is a Blue Pencil Drawing realized by Adolphe Léon Willette in 1890s.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Monogrammed, included a wh...
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Modern Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Thomas William Morley (1859-1925) - Watercolour, Honfleur Street Scene
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine late 19th-century watercolour with gouache detail by the artist Thomas William Morley (1859-1925). Here he has captured a group of flower sellers in a market square. Executed ...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
George Stanfield Walters (1838-1924) - Framed Watercolour, Beached at Sunset
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming seascape in watercolour, by the well listed artist George S. Walters (1838-1924). The painting shows a stranded ship at low tide. A figure can be scene busy in the foregro...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Felician Myrbach (1853-1940) The Musketeers, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Felician Myrbach (1853-1940)
The Musketeers
bears the monogram "M" on the lower left
Ink and pencil on paper
26,7 x 23,7 cm
in good condition,
In a mod...
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Art Nouveau Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
Sunset Sailors is a Watercolor by Swedish Artist Carl L Lindqvist, Painted 1898
Located in Stockholm, SE
Discover this watercolor "Sunset Sailors" by Carl L. Lindqvist (1856-1941).
Step into the enchanting world of the Swedish artist Carl L. Lindqvist with his captivating watercolor pa...
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Realist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920) A Walk along a path, signed watercolor
By Paul Lecomte
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920)
A Walk along a path
Watercolor on paper,
27.5 x 18.5 cm
Signed lower right and dedicated "A l'ami Fath"
In its original vintage frame : 47 x 37 cm
The...
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Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (Standing man with umbrella behind)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Standing man with umbrella behind)
Graphite on paper, c. 1890's
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Lucien Goldschmidt (1912-1992), noted art
...
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French School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Sketch of a head - Carved in stone -
Located in Berlin, DE
Emil Faesch (1865 Basel - 1915 Basel). Sketch of a head. Charcoal on painting cardboard, 60 x 47.5 cm (folio size), signed and dated at lower right "E. Faesch. 1888.".
Minor browning.
- Carved in stone -
About the artwork
The life-size head has an immensely present presence. This effect is due to the fact that Faesch took his cue from academic classical...
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Realist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Felician Myrbach (1853-1940) L'Araignée du Prophète, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Felician Myrbach (1853-1940)
L'Araignée du Prophète, the spider of the Prophet
bears the monogram "Mb" on the middle left, titled in the middle
Ink on paper
31,8 x 21.9 cm
in quite ...
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Art Nouveau Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
John Lawson (b.1838) - Late 19th Century Watercolour, The Holy Family
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine late 19th Century watercolour, showing a tender depiction of the Holy family. Jesus, as a child, holds his mother's hand as his father, Joseph, is seen busying himself in his ...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Felician Myrbach (1853-1940) Pour Guitare solo, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Felician Myrbach (1853-1940)
Pour Guitare solo, For Solo Guitar
bears the monogram "M" in the middle left, titled in lower left
Ink on paper
29,8 x 18,8 cm
in good condition, traces...
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Art Nouveau Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Study with Torso, Hands, and Umbrella - The characteristic of the inconspicuous
Located in Berlin, DE
Paul Friedrich Meyerheim (1842 Berlin - 1915 ibid.). Sketch of a female torso with hands and an umbrella. Pencil on paper, 27.5 x 22.5 cm (visible size)...
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Realist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Shady hollow way - Into the heart of the forest -
By Hans Dvoràk
Located in Berlin, DE
Hans Dvořák (19th century). Shady hollow way in a sunny forest. Watercolour and pen-and-ink drawing, 58.5 x 43 cm (visible size), 70 x 55.5 cm (frame), signed and dated "Hans Dvořák ...
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Realist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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 Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Horse's Head - Drawing - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Horse's Head is an original pencil drawing on paper, attributed to Luigi Galli and realized in the late 19th Century.
With another drawing of hands...
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Modern Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
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 Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, 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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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
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 Late 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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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
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 Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
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 Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Gouache, Rag Paper
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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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
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...
Category
Academic Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cardboard, Carbon Pencil
[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...
Category
Naturalistic Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor, Rice Paper
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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 Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
