Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
ROMANTIC STYLE
In emphasizing emotion and imagination, romantic art shifted away from the restraint of classicism and neoclassicism that had dominated art in Europe since the Renaissance. Romanticism achieved its greatest popularity in art, literature, music and philosophy between 1780 and 1830, although its expression of individual experiences ranging from awe to passion informed culture in the decades after.
Landscape painting was especially popular during the romantic period, as were nature studies of wild animals and fantasies of exotic lands. Romanticism varied across Europe as it reacted to the rise of industrialization, a more personal relationship with faith that was distanced from the church and the rationalist thinking of the Enlightenment.
British painters such as John Constable and J.M.W. Turner responded dramatically to the light and atmosphere of the natural world, while William Blake conveyed humanity’s connection to the divine in his visionary art. In Germany, the late-18th-century Sturm und Drang, or Storm and Drive, movement, with its probing of the unconscious, inspired a sense of mystery in work by romantic artists such as Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge. In France, where the French Revolution had turned tradition upside down, Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix used lush brushwork to paint monumental canvases with tumultuous scenes of nature and history.
The romantic movement and its subject matter were a significant influence on the Pre-Raphaelites, Symbolists and the American painters of the Hudson River School, as well as on other cultural movements in the 19th and 20th centuries that saw artists build on this perspective in which art was guided by emotion rather than reason.
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Style: Romantic
Portrait of a Melancholic Woman, a Drawing signed by Léon Bonnat
Located in PARIS, FR
This drawing by Léon Bonnat, the greatest portrait painter of the Third Republic, shows a woman of indeterminate age, caught in a melancholic pose.
1. Léo...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Cardboard
Recruits on a March
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Recruits on a March
Ink and watercolor on paper, mounted on support
Unsigned
Condition: watercolor sheet laid down on paper, moderately faded
Original Ackermann frame and matting
Ima...
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Early 1800s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Bouquet Bearer bright colors blue dress yellow wall pastel women fashion flowers
Located in Brooklyn, NY
soft pastel on toned archival sanded paper signed and dated bottom left this work is part on an ongoing series bt the artist depicting women with floral bouquets
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Pastel
The Violinist (Antique Ellsworth Woodward Figurative Graphite Sketch Drawing)
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 renaissance in the South, the arts and culture in general having been mostly moribund since the dispiriting defeat experienced in the Civil War. I won't bog you down with lots of detail here since all you have to do is Google his name to bring up a wealth of information about him. He is most famous for his leadership of the arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans, and its famous Newcomb Pottery...
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1890s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Theatre Scene, Opera, Old Master Drawing, Griselidis, Mallet, French Art
Located in Greven, DE
Unknown Artist, French School 18th Century, Circle of Mallet? Scene taken from the Decamerone.
Old Master Drawing
Category
18th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Cardboard
Cloak and Dagger (Ellsworth Woodward Antique Figurative Graphite Drawing)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Many of you clicking on this drawing 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 renaissance in the South, the arts and culture in general having been mostly moribund since the dispiriting defeat experienced in the Civil War. I won't bog you down with lots of detail here since all you have to do is Google his name to bring up a wealth of information about him. He is most famous for his leadership of the arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans, and its famous Newcomb Pottery...
Category
1890s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
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 ...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper, Watercolor
Charon's Ferry - Early 19th Century Scottish Romantic watercolour by David Scott
By David Scott
Located in London, GB
DAVID SCOTT, RSA
(British 1806-1849)
Charon’s Ferry
Signed with initials and indistinctly inscribed l.l.
Watercolour
Unframed, in mount only
29 by 40.5 cm., 11 ½ by 16 in.
(mount size 40.5 by 55.5 cm., 16 by 22 in.)
Provenance:
William Bell Scott, London;
Mrs Balton;
Private collection.
David Scott was born in Edinburgh. He studied art under his father, the engraver, Robert Scott. He exhibited his first picture oil painting, Hopes of Early Genius Dispelled by Death in 1828, becoming a regular exhibitor at the Royal Scottish Academy. In 1832 he visited Italy. He specialised in large canvases of historical or symbolist subjects, being much influence by William Blake. From the mid 1830s he became absorbed in a series of designs and illustration for Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner, Bunyan’s Pilgrim...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
French Romantic school, View of a citadel, pen and watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
French Romantic school, 19th century
View of a citadel
Pen and ink, watercolor and heightenings of white gouache on brown paper
18 x 29.5 cm
In good condition, some stains and traces...
Category
1850s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Gentleman with Mustache (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 renaissance in the South, the arts and culture in general having been mostly moribund since the dispiriting defeat experienced in the Civil War. I won't bog you down with lots of detail here since all you have to do is Google his name to bring up a wealth of information about him. He is most famous for his leadership of the arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans, and its famous Newcomb Pottery...
Category
1890s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
19th Century Romantic school, A Pavilion in a garden, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Romantic School, circa 1860
A pavilion in a garden , an animated view
Pen and black ink, black ink wash on paper
19.5 x 26.5 cm
In good condition, slightly undulating.
Framed : 39 x ...
Category
1860s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Old Master Drawing, View of Naples, 18th Century, Italian School
Located in Greven, DE
Italian Artist; Detailled and impressive old master drawing with the view Naples. Very fine Drawing with white heighting.
Category
19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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
1880s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Sir David Muirhead Bone, A Mediterranean evening on a P & O cruise liner
Located in Harkstead, GB
A wonderfully evocative scene of a passenger looking out to sea on the deck of an ocean liner - from the golden age of cruising.
Sir David Muirhead Bone
On a P & O, Mediterranean ev...
Category
Mid-20th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - Gaze up to the Sky
Located in Paris, IDF
Paper, pencil, charcoal on styrene board pasted on matte paper
Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She had an awakening of her talent i...
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Charcoal
Seated Young Lady (by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance") - Antique Drawing
Located in New Orleans, LA
Many of you clicking on this pen-and-ink of a pretty Edwardian-era lady are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the...
Category
1890s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - KA-E-RU
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencil on paper mounted on panel
Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She had an awakening of her talent in pencil drawing as a teenage...
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Charcoal
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - Peony
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencils on paper mounted on panel
Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She had an awakening of her talent in pencil drawing as a teenage...
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - A(A-Un)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencil on paper
Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She had an awakening of her talent in pencil drawing as a teenager. It was the bea...
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - Ova
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencil on paper
Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She had an awakening of her talent in pencil drawing as a teenager. It was the beau...
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - Noh Men
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencils on paper mounted on panel
Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She had an awakening of her talent in pencil drawing as a teenage...
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - Ephemeral
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencil on paper
Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She had an awakening of her talent in pencil drawing as a teenager. It was the beau...
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
French school 19th century, An italian bandit, 1864, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
French school 19th century,
An italian bandit, 1864,
watercolor on paper
On the reverse of the sheet (now under the back of the frame) an annotation, "Rome 1864"
25,5 x 21.5 cm (v...
Category
1860s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - See Through Everything
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencils on paper
Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She had an awakening of her talent in pencil drawing as a teenager. It was the be...
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - Forgiveness
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencil on paper mounted on panel
Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She had an awakening of her talent in pencil drawing as a teenager...
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - Conflict
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencil on paper mounted on panel
Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She had an awakening of her talent in pencil drawing as a teenage...
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Attributed to Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) La famille heureuse, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Attribuetd to Eugène Devéria (1805-1865)
La Famille heureuse (The Happy Family)
Watercolor on paper
23 x 18 cm
In quite good condition : a small tear i...
Category
1840s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - Chimi Moryo
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencils & acrylic on paper
Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She had an awakening of her talent in pencil drawing as a teenager. It w...
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Paper, Pencil
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 ...
Category
1880s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - Charm
Located in Paris, IDF
Multigrade pencils on cotton paper (Washi) marouflaged on Japanese wooden panel - dyptich
Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She had ...
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Panel, Pencil
Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (1848–1934), Henri Rochefort for a duel, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (1848–1934)
Portrait of Henri Rochefort ready for a duel,
Pencil on paper
Signed and titled lower left
28 x 21 cm
In good condition : the left and right borders irregularly cut
In a modern cardboard mount : 45.5 x 35 cm
Henri Rochefort, whose complete name was Victor Henri de Rochefort-Luçay , was born in Paris on January 31 , 1831, he died in Aix-les-Bains on 1 st July 1913. He was a french journalist , playwright and politician A great polemicist in the pages of his newspapers ( La Lanterne , La Marseillaise , L'Intransigeant), he defended radical and even extremist political options (anticlerical , nationalist , favorable to the Commune , Boulangist , socialist and anti-Dreyfusard ) which earned him the nickname of "The man with twenty duels and thirty trials », And convictions, in particular in the prison of Noumea from which, unique fact, he managed to escape in 1874.
Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (1848–1934) was a Swiss-French Impressionist painter, designer, watercolorist, and engraver who was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and died in France. His work often depicts the modern life in Paris.
He started out pursuing a military career, as an infantry officer (1866–1881). He was a lieutenant with the Twenty-third Infantry from 1868 to 1870. He fought in the Franco-Prussian War, was wounded at Rezonville, and was awarded the Légion d'Honneur. He subsequently served with the Ninety-fourth Infantry and the Seventy-third Infantry. At the time he left the army he held the rank of major, with the Chasseurs à Pieds.
He never ceased drawing. He was known for the first time in 1872 at the art exhibition Salon de Paris, where he presented a watercolor painting called Intérieur de forêt. The next year he presented the painting Le Vernan à Nass-sous-Sainte-Anne. From then on he was a regular contributor to the Salon de Paris, where he presented new works with views of Toulouse, Paris, Troyes, the edges of the Seine, and some portraits.
In 1881, after the army offered him the rank of commandant, he resigned to devote himself exclusively to painting. He took up residence in Paris. His works from this period represent mainly scenes of military life that allowed him to forge a reputation. Jeanniot established himself permanently in 1882 and obtained his first award the following year (medal third class of the Salon de Paris) with his les Flanqueurs (1883, Musée du Luxembourg). In 1886, La ligne de feu, souvenirs de la bataille de Rezonville, remembering the Battle of Mars-La-Tour (Museum of Pau), assured his notoriety.
From then on, he started to show a certain artistic independence. He then mostly portrayed Parisian women during the "Belle Epoque", women in bathing suits...
Category
1870s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Amorous Couple
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Amorous Couple
Watercolor on laid paper, c. 1810
Unsigned
Provenance: Emile Wolf (1899-1996)
The art collection of Emile Wolf was dispersed by Sotheby and Stair Galleries.
Condition: Excellent
22K gold leaf finishes corner frame (see photo)
“Mr. Wolf’s collection reflects a lifelong commitment to the arts. Although a mainstay of the Old Masters art scene in New York, Mr. Wolf’s collection spanned centuries and genres. He was an impassioned collector, and his Fifth Avenue apartment was filled with paintings and drawings that hung from floor to ceiling in every room. Space void of art was lined with an extensive library of art books that fueled his ardent collecting. Mr. Wolf took great joy in sharing this collection and his ideas with art historians, collectors, dealers and university students.
The Wolf collection included masterworks from every influential and groundbreaking Impressionist and modern artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, ranging from an outstanding grouping of works on paper by Picasso, Pissarro, and Cezanne to a Renoir oil...
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1810s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Achille Devéria (1800-1857) A galant scene Original Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Achille Devéria (1800-1857)
A galant scene
pencil on paper
Some stains (see photographs please)
Bears the stamp of the Achille Deveria Estate Sale o...
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1850s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Achille Devéria (1800-1857) Allez au diable, la fille est à moi Original Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Achille Devéria (1800-1857)
"Allez au diable, la femme est à moi" (Go to hell, This woman is mine)
pencil on paper
annotated on the upper border "Alle...
Category
1850s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Landscape with Men and Horses - Original China Ink and Watercolor - Early 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape with men and horses is a beautiful ink and pencil drawing. Due to the concerned subject matter and the typology of the image, it is assumed th...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
France circa 1820, Portrait of a gentleman, black chalk and pastel drawing
Located in Paris, FR
France circa 1820
Portrait of a gentleman
Black chalk and pastel on paper
12 x 10 cm
In its original mount, modern oak frame : 25 x 22.5 cm
Category
1820s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pastel
Artists and their muses
Located in London, GB
Playboy School, 20th Century
Artists and their muses: Titian and Violante; Sir Peter Lely and Nell Gwyn; Francois Boucher and Louise O’Murphy; Hogarth, Nell...
Category
1980s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
French School 19th century, Le Lavoir (The washing place), watercolor on paper,
Located in Paris, FR
French School, first half of the 19th century
Le Lavoir (The washing place)
Watercolor and pencil heightened with white gouache
Bears a monogramm R P B on the lower left
21.5 x 33.5 ...
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1820s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Denis Auguste Raffet (1804-1860) Studies of characters, drawing and watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Denis Auguste Raffet (1804-1860)
Studies of characters
Black pencil and watercolor on paper
18.5 x 25.5 cm
Stamp of the Raffet Estate Sale (1911) on the lower right
In good condition, foxings on the original mount
Framed 34 x 40 cm
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (2 March 1804 – 16 February 1860) was a French illustrator and lithographer. He was a student of Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, and was a retrospective painter of the Empire.
At an early age he was apprenticed to a wood turner, but took up the study of art at evening classes. At the age of 18 he entered the workshop of Cabanel, where he applied his skill to the decoration of china, and where he met Rudor, from whom he received instruction in lithography, in the practice of which he was to rise to fame. He then entered the École des Beaux-Arts, but returned to lithography in 1830 when he produced on stone his famous designs of Lützen, Waterloo, Le bal, La revue, and Les adieux de la garrison, by which his reputation became immediately established.[
Raffet's chief works were his lithographs of the Napoleonic campaigns, from Egypt to Waterloo, vigorous designs inspired by ardent patriotic enthusiasm. In this endeavor he was a contemporary of other French artist-lithographers of Napoleon and the French army including Hippolyte Bellangé, Horace Vernet, and Nicolas Toussaint Charlet. As an illustrator his activity was prodigious, the list of works illustrated by his crayon amounting to about forty-five, among which are Béranger's poems, the History of the Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, the History of Napoleon by de Norvins, the great Walter Scott by Auguste Defauconpret, the French Plutarch and Frédéric Bérat's Songs.
He went to Rome in 1849, and was present at the siege of Rome, which he made the subject of some lithographs, and followed the Italian campaign of 1859, of which he left a record in his Episodes de la campagne d'Italie de 1859. His portraits in pencil...
Category
1850s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
19th Century french school, Villefranche-sur Mer, the harbour, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
French School circa 1850
Villefranche sur mer, the Harbour
Watercolor on paper
16 x 24 cm
In good condition
Framed 29 x 38 cm
This very fine wat...
Category
1850s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
France middle 19th century, A Set of 6 drawings, landscapes and farms, Ink wash
Located in Paris, FR
France middle of 19th century (1843 ?)
A set of 6 drawings
Landscapes, trees, farms
Brown ink and brown ink wash on paper
Dimensions vary :
Farms and buildings ( x 3) : 27 x 34 cm
A...
Category
1840s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
French School 19th century, Set of nine humoristic drawings, pencil on paper
Located in Paris, FR
France, 19th century
Set of nine humoristic drawings, various subjects in the same mount
Black pencil, for some of them with highlights of white gouache
various dimensions : 6 x 5.5 ...
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1850s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
France 19th century, A Set of 5 drawings, landscapes and farms, Ink wash
Located in Paris, FR
France middle of 19th century
A set of 5 drawings
Landscapes, farms and ruins
Brown ink and brown ink wash on paper, Black ink and black ink wash on paper
Dimensions vary :
A big fa...
Category
1840s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Louis Gallait (1810-1887) Portrait of a Gentleman, watercolor and gouache
By Louis Gallait
Located in Paris, FR
Louis Gallait (1810-1887)
Portrait of a Gentleman,
Watercolor and gouache on paper, square white lines,
24 x 16 cm
Stamp of the Louis Gallait Estate on the mount on the lower righ...
Category
1850s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
France 19th century, The Bohème artist in his workshop, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
France circa 1850
The Bohème artist in his workshop
Watercolor on paper
15.5 x 21.5 cm
In good condition except a small tear (visible on the photographs) on the upper right border.
I...
Category
1840s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
French school of the nineteenth century, LW (?) Harbor scene, drawing signed
Located in Paris, FR
French school of the nineteenth century, LW (?)
Harbor scene, animation around a skiff
Pencil on paper Signed LW (?) Bottom right
15 x 21 cm
Framed : 27 x 34.5 cm
This very fine ...
Category
1840s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Romantic school, Woman and Infant with guards, watercolor signed dated 1847
Located in Paris, FR
Romantic school, mid 19th century
Antique Scene, Woman and Infant surrounded by guards
watercolor, pen and black ink and heightenings of white gouache on...
Category
1840s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
20th Century Watercolour Painting - At the Fish Market
Located in London, GB
William LEE-HANKEY (1869-1952, British)
At the Fish Market
1904
pencil, watercolor, bodycolor w/gum arabic
20 x 20 inches, inc. frame
Provenance: The Swan Gallery...
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Venus
Located in London, GB
Richard Westall, R.A. (1765-1836)
Venus
signed and dated ‘R. Westall 1794’ (lower right)
pencil and watercolour, with white heightening
image 11 ⅞ x 15 ¼ in. (30.2 x 38.7 cm.)
frame ...
Category
1790s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Denis Auguste Raffet (1804-1860) Studies of a Tiroler Kaiserjäger, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Denis Auguste Raffet (1804-1860)
Studies of a Tiroler Kaiserjäger,
Signed and dated 1849 lower right
Ink on paper
16.5 x 25.5 cm
In a nice period frame : 33 x 42 cm
Raffet had the occasion to draw studies of austrian soldiers as he took part as observer to the first Italian Independance War (1848-1849). It was the the first of many conflicts between the Kingdom of Sardinia , which later became the Kingdom of Italy , and the Austrian Empire.
The Kaiserjäger (imperial hunters) were founded in 1815 by Emperor Franz I. It was a great honor to enter the Kaiserjäger as they were the only ones to be honored with the term "imperial". However, only Tyrolese, Voralbergers and Welschtirolers were allowed.
They wore this characteristic hat as a parade headdress, it was made of matte black, waterproof felt. It consisted of a crown and brim adorned with a circular, green cord, the Jäger emblem and a plume of black rooster feathers. The hat cord was made of sheep's wool, and had a button and an acorn covered with a green wool.
These two studies clearly evoke the interest of the artist for this part of their uniform.
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (2 March 1804 – 16 February 1860) was a French illustrator and lithographer. He was a student of Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, and was a retrospective painter of the Empire.
At an early age he was apprenticed to a wood turner, but took up the study of art at evening classes. At the age of 18 he entered the workshop of Cabanel, where he applied his skill to the decoration of china, and where he met Rudor, from whom he received instruction in lithography, in the practice of which he was to rise to fame. He then entered the École des Beaux-Arts, but returned to lithography in 1830 when he produced on stone his famous designs of Lützen, Waterloo, Le bal, La revue, and Les adieux de la garrison, by which his reputation became immediately established.
Raffet's chief works were his lithographs of the Napoleonic campaigns, from Egypt to Waterloo, vigorous designs inspired by ardent patriotic enthusiasm. In this endeavor he was a contemporary of other French artist-lithographers of Napoleon and the French army including Hippolyte Bellangé, Horace Vernet, and Nicolas Toussaint Charlet. As an illustrator his activity was prodigious, the list of works illustrated by his crayon amounting to about forty-five, among which are Béranger's poems, the History of the Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, the History of Napoleon by de Norvins, the great Walter Scott by Auguste Defauconpret, the French Plutarch and Frédéric Bérat's Songs.
He went to Rome in 1849, and was present at the siege of Rome, which he made the subject of some lithographs, and followed the Italian campaign of 1859, of which he left a record in his Episodes de la campagne d'Italie de 1859. His portraits in pencil...
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1840s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) Family Portrait, 1826 Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Eugène Devéria (1805-1865)
A Family Portrait, 1826
pencil on paper
Signed lower right and dated 1826
19.5 x 27 cm
in a beautiful carved oak frame: 4...
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1820s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pencil
Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) Young Woman Profile Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Eugène Devéria (1805-1865)
A Young Woman Profile
Black pencil
21 x 19 cm
Stamp of the workshop on verso
Provenance: Family of the artist after an in...
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1830s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pencil
Studies of a statue and a sketch of a lady in ink
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
George Richmond RA (British, 1809 – 1896)
Studies of a statue and a sketch of a lady in ink
Pencil on paper and pen
6.7/8 x 9.3/4in. (17.5 x 25 cm.)
Provenance: Abbot and Holder and Moore Gwyn Fine Art
George Richmond was an English painter and portraitist. In his youth he was a member of the Ancients, a group of followers of William Blake. He was a keen follower or cricket, always to be found at Lords. He was a long life friend of Samuel Palmer and was a fellow student of Edward Calvert and Thomas Sidney Cooper. In 1888 Richmond went to Paris to study art and anatomy, it is possible this is from that period. His later works are portraits or prominent figures of the day such as William Wilberforce. He is buried at Highgate Cementary. Perhaps his most famous painting is a portrait of Charlotte Bronte...
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19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pen, Paper, Pencil
French Romantic School, View of a roman atrium, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French Romantic school circa 1850
An antique Roman Atrium
Ink, Ink wash and white gouache heightenings
30 x 13.5 cm
Framed 42 x 34 cm, the frame is old and damaged (see detail pict...
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1850s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
French Romantic School, Le Baiser (The Kiss) Study, charcoal and Ink drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French Romantic School circa 1830
"Le Baiser"
The Kiss, A hunter and a girl flirting, study of the girl in the upper register
pencil, pen and black ink
19.5 x 13 cm (view)
Framed ...
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1830s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Charcoal
An English scene of a Donkey and Rabbits in a field, with wild flowers
Located in Woodbury, CT
A wonderful English watercolor painting depicting A Donkey, Lambs and a Robin in a stable the night before Christmas..
This piece was drawn ...
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1990s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) The Children of the painter Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Eugène Devéria (1805-1865)
The children of the painter
Portrait in an oval, study for a portrait
Black pencil on paper
23 x 19 cm
Stamp of the worksh...
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1840s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pencil
Christmas night with Donkeys, a Robin and Lambs in a stable by a crib
Located in Woodbury, CT
A wonderful English watercolor painting depicting A Donkey, Lambs and a Robin in a stable the night before Christmas..
This piece was drawn ...
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1990s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
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