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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Late 18th Century Watercolour, A Swiss Village, Circle of Claude-Louis Châtelet
Located in Cotignac, FR
A late 18th or early 19th century watercolour view of a group of figures in a village square. Though not apparently signed the work is very competent and of high quality. It is frame...
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French School 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
17th Century Figures Harvesting in a Hilly Landscape
Located in Stockholm, SE
A fine watercolor and sepia drawing of people harvesting in a hilly landscape attributed to Antonio Grano (c.1669-1718). In the front of the image is a shepherd resting against a roc...
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Italian School 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
18th C Italian Classical Grand Tour Ancient City Old Ruins & Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: The Italian City
Artist/ School: English/ Italian School, late 18th century; a Grand Tour work.
Medium: pencil drawing.
Size: 6.75 x 9.75 inches
Provenance: from a priva...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
The Tiber, near Rome / Italian School 18th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
Pen and sepia ink wash on cream laid paper, 4 1/8 x 6 3/16 inches (103 x 152 mm). In good condition with scattered areas of light brown discoloration, and un...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Laid Paper, Pencil
Framed 18th Century Pen and Ink Drawings - Designs for Capital & Base Supports
Located in Corsham, GB
Framed 18th-century pen and ink drawings of elaborate capital and base supports, inspired by Ancient Greek architecture and design. Well presented in a fluted gilt-effect frame. Unsi...
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18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Landscape - Drawing by Jan Peter Verdussen - 1745 ca
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a beautiful drawing in pencil and watercolor on paper realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1745 ca.
In good condition, excpet for some foxing on the right.
The artwork r...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
View of a Mansion in the South of France, a drawing by Claude-Joseph Vernet
By Claude-Joseph Vernet
Located in PARIS, FR
We would like to thank Madame Beck-Saiello for confirming the autograph nature of this drawing after an in-person examination.
It was probably during an excursion in the countryside near Avignon that Claude-Joseph Vernet executed this drawing, enhanced with pen and brown ink, depicting a mansion on a hilltop overlooking a small village with geometric shapes.
1. Joseph Vernet, a painter influenced by Italy
Claude-Joseph Vernet was born in Avignon in 1714, the son of Antoine Vernet (1689-1753), an artisan painter of architectural decorations, coach panels, and the like. He moved to the studio of Philippe Sauvan (1697-1792), a leading history painter in Avignon, and then worked with Jacques Viali (active 1681-1745), a decorative, landscape, and marine painter in Aix-en-Provence. Vernet's first recorded paintings were decorative overdoors executed in 1731 in the Aix townhouse of the marquise de Simiane. In 1734, Joseph de Seytres, marquis de Caumont, a leading amateur in Avignon, sponsored Vernet to make a study trip to Italy to complete his artistic education and to draw antiquities for his patron.
As Avignon was a papal territory in Vernet's day, he also had a number of useful introductions among influential churchmen when he arrived in Rome. Vernet was soon at home in the French community there, and he was encouraged by Nicolas Vleughels (1668-1737), director of the Académie de France in Rome, even though the young painter had no official affiliation with the royal institution. He likely entered the studio of the French marine painter Adrien Manglard...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Laid Paper, Pen, Carbon Pencil
Preparations for the fireworks display held in Piazza Navona in 1729
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
VERY IMPORTANT DRAWING BY
JACQUES DUMONT called « LE ROMAIN"
(Paris 1701-1781)
Preparations for the fireworks display held in Piazza Navona in Rome on November 30,
1729, for the bi...
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French School 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Ink, Pen
Drawing PAU de SAINT-MARTIN pencil gouache sanguine Landscape mill river 18th
Located in PARIS, FR
Alexandre PAU from SAINT-MARTIN
Mortagne-au-Perche, 1751 - 1820
Three pencils
30 x 46 cm (46 x 60 cm with frame)
Signed lower right "P. Saint Martin"
Collector's stamp lower right "I...
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18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper, Carbon Pencil
Dog with Plants - Original China Ink Drawing by Jan Pieter Verdussen - 1751
Located in Roma, IT
Dog with plants in the garden is a beautiful artwork realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1751.
pen and watercolour on brown paper. In good codition except for some pencil marks and t...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Dutch Men o War Setting Sale In A Fresh Breeze
By Ludolf Bakhuisen
Located in Brecon, Powys
Ludolf Bakhuizen 1631 - 1708
Dutch Men oWar Setting Sale in a Fresh Breeze
Provenance Christies 1998
Pen and Grey Ink and Grey Wash.
Image 5 x 7.25". Fr...
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Dutch School 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Roman Ruins - Original Pencil on Cardboard - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Roman Ruins" is an original pencil drawing on ivory-colorated cardboard by Anonymous Artist of XVIII Century.
In excellent conditions: As good as new.
This is an original drawing ...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
HUBER Johann Kaspar. View of a city thought to be Antwerp. Wasked ink.
By HUBER JOHANN KASPAR
Located in Paris, FR
Johann Kaspar HUBER is a Swiss painter.
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18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Ruines Romanes - Roman Ruins - Ink and Watercolor by J. P. Verdussen - 1742
Located in Roma, IT
China ink and watercolor on paper.
Hand dated.
Conditions: Foxing on the top right of the paper
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Queen's College and the High, 18th Century Oxford watercolour painting
Located in London, GB
Anonymous
Queen's College and the High, Oxford
Watercolour
12 x 16 cm
Initialled to bottom left
This highly-detailed watercolour depicts everyday life in front of Queen's College...
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Realist 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Watercolour of the Radcliffe Camera from the great quadrangle of All Souls
Located in London, GB
Rev. William Henry Barnard (Co. Donegal or Co. Derry 1767-1818 London)
The Radcliffe Camera from the Great Quadrangle of All Souls College, Oxford
Pen and brown ink and watercolour, on paper
30 x 44 cm
Signed with initials 'H.B.' (lower right)
Rev William Henry Barnard was an extremely well-connected artist and clergyman -being first cousin of Prime Minister George Canning...
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Realist 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
A landscape drawing by Claude Lorrain, with a preliminary sketch on the verso
Located in PARIS, FR
This study presents a typical Roman countryside landscape: an ancient mausoleum in front of which a cart is passing by followed by two peasants. If the technique (a pen drawing on graphite lines, completed with a wash of brown and grey inks) and the signature inevitably evoke the art of Lorrain, we find on the verso of this drawing additional evidences that lead us to consider this unpublished drawing as a work by the master.
The motif of the mausoleum has been taken up in pen on the verso in a technique that can be found in several other drawings by Lorrain. There is also a study of three characters, which can be considered as preparatory to Lorrain’s painting entitled The Port of Ostia with the Embarkation of Saint Paula, leading us to claim this attribution with a dating of around 1639.
1. Claude Lorrain or the perfection of classical landscape in Rome in the 17th century
Claude Gellée was born in 1600 in Chamagne in Lorraine. Orphaned at the age of twelve, he spent a year with his brother in Freiburg, where the latter was a woodcarver. Claude Gellée then probably arrived in Rome in 1613, where he joined the workshop of Agostino Tassi (1580 - 1644) in 1617. Between 1619 and 1620 he studied for two years in Naples in the workshop of Goffredi Wals (who was himself a former pupil of Tassi).
In 1625 he returned to Lorraine for two years where he worked alongside Claude Deruet. He then returned to Rome, a city he never left for the rest of his life (except for short trips to the surrounding countryside).
From 1627 to 1650 he lived in Via Margutta. From 1635 onwards he became a renowned painter and commissions started to pour in. Considered during his lifetime as the most accomplished of the classical landscape painters, his reputation never faded.
Between 1629 and 1635 Le Lorrain often went to the Roman countryside to draw with his friend Joachim von Sandrart (1606 - 1686). He became a member of the Academy of Saint Luke in 1633, while being closely acquainted with the Bentvueghels, this guild which brought together the young Nordic painters active in Rome. In 1643 he joined the Congregation of the Virtuosi. In 1650 he moved to Via Paolina where he lived until his death.
Little is known of his intimate life. He seems to have had a daughter, Agnes, from an ancillary love affair. In 1657/ 1658 she moved in with him. Stricken with gout in 1663, he died in 1682.
2. Description of the drawing; the technique of nature studies
Two peasants are walking behind a horse-drawn cart on a road that winds through ancient tombs. While a rectangular tomb with a columned facade can be seen in the distance, the cart passes an important ancient building. It has a circular shape and its partially ruined façade is decorated with columns. The start of a second floor can...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen, Graphite
Swiss School, The Cave Of Vicovaro near Tivoli
By Paul Birmann
Located in PARIS, FR
Peter Birmann
Basel 1758 - 1844
The Vicovaro grotto
Gouache on blue paper
29 x 47cm
Provenance: Kasimir Hagen, Cologne, his stamp (Lugt 4795) on verso
Exhibition: Europaïsche ...
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Romantic 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Rome, The Countryside- China Ink Drawing by Jan Pieter Verdussen - 1742
Located in Roma, IT
Rome is a beautiful artwork realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1742.
In good condition except for some pencil marks and traces of sealing wax on the back and some diffused foxings.
...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Venice Landscape - Ink and Watercolor - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Venice Landscape is an original, splendid drawing in pen and watercolor realized by an Anonymous Venetian School, XVIII century. The state of preserva...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Imaginary View of an Italian Port, a signed and dated drawing by Jacobus Storck
Located in PARIS, FR
In this finely executed pen and wash drawing, Jacobus Storck presents us with an imaginary view in an Italian port. The splendor of the buildings (the large sculpted fountain surmoun...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Pen, Ink
La Campagne de Rome - Roman Countryside - Drawing by J. P. Verdussen - 1740ca
Located in Roma, IT
China ink and watercolour on paper.
Realized in 1740 ca.
Very good conditions.
Includes passepartout.
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Landscape with Cattle
By Hendrick V. Tavernier
Located in Chicago, IL
verso: signed and dated "H. Tavernier, 1779"
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18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Vue de Macerata et de sa Campagne - drawing by J. P. Verdussen - 1742
Located in Roma, IT
China ink and watercolour on paper.
Some foxing, otherwise very good condition.
Titled and dated.
Includes passepartout.
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18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
William Payne (1760-1830) - 1798 Watercolour, Village By The River
By William Payne
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed to the lower left. Presented in a gilt frame with foliate detailing. On paper.
Category
18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape - Watercolor and Pencil by Jan Peter Verdussen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a beautiful dranwing in watercolor and pencil on ivory-colored paper realized by Jan Peter Verdussen.
In good condition; only a sma...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Rocky Landscape with Trees and Temple Ruins a drawing by Giulio Parigi (ca 1615)
Located in PARIS, FR
This Rocky Landscape with Trees and the Ruins of a Temple is a drawing by Giulio Parigi, an eclectic and prolific artist of the Medici court. An engraver, architect, furniture and je...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Laid Paper, Pen
Port - Pencil on Paper - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Port is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the XVIII century.
The State of preservation is good, except for some diffused foxing.
Sheet dime...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
France 18th Century, Pastorale (Arcadian Landscape), original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
France 18th Century,
Pastorale (Arcadian Landscape)
Black chalk and heightenings of white gouache on blue-grey paper
19 x 31 cm
Framed : 34.5 x 46.5 cm
The atmosphere and the subje...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Turin Countryside - Original Ink and Watercolor by Jan Pieter Verdussen - 1744
Located in Roma, IT
China ink and Watercolour. With handwritten notes, indicating the place and date of the artwork in lower margin: "Fait proche de Turin, ce 13 Juin 1744". Numbered on the lower right ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
The Gardens of Rome - Ink and Watercolor by J. P. Verdussen - 1742
Located in Roma, IT
China ink and watercolor on paper realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1742.
Hand dated.
Conditions: five holes on top margin and on the bottom right of the paper. Foxing on the top ...
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18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
The Gardens in Rome - Drawing by J. P. Verdussen - 1741
Located in Roma, IT
China ink and watercolour on paper.
Hand dated.
Good condition except for some foxing.
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18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Continental School 18th Century Watercolour - Architectural Drawing
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolor Baroque architectural study. Unsigned. Presented in a gilt frame and wash line mount. On Laid paper.
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18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
A bridge over river Oil on canvas British Inscribed William Marlow
Located in London, GB
William Marlow (1740 - 1815)
A bridge over river
Oil on canvas
Inscribed, 'William Marlow' to old label verso
Provenance:
J. Palser & Sons, 27 King Street, London
Dimensions:
(Fra...
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English School 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
Landscape - Pencil on Paper by J. P. Verdussen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing is realized by Jan Peter Verdussen.
The artwork has some folds and foxings and is repaired on the middle line.
The artwork represents a landscape.
...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Ancient Ruins - Watercolor by Abraham Rademaker - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Ruins is an original old master artwork realized by Abraham Rademaker (1677-1735) in 18th Century
Wonderful watercolor by the famous 18th-centur...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Rome/Tevere - Pencil and Watercolor Drawing - 1741
Located in Roma, IT
Rome is a beautiful artwork realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1741.
In good condition except for some pencil marks and traces of sealing wax on the back and some diffused foxings.
...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
A sketch of children climbing a fence
Located in Maidenhead, GB
Peter de Wint OWS (1784-1849)
A sketch of children climbing a fence
Watercolour and graphite on paper
7 x 17.8 cm; (within frame) 26.7 x 36.5 cm.
Provenance:
Bequeathed by the a...
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English School 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
St. Gregory in Rome - Original Ink and Watercolor by J. P. Verdussen - 1741
Located in Roma, IT
St. Gregory in Rome is a beautiful artwork realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1741.
Ink and watercolour on brown paper. In very good codition. Dated on the lower margin. The origin...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Landscape with Figures in the English Countryside
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Landscape with Figures in the English Countryside
Pen, ink and graphite with gray and brown washes on laid watermarked paper, c. 1740
Signed by the artist lower left of image: "Chate...
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Romantic 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Tribuna della Basilica - Drawing by Giovanni Fontana - 16th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Tribuna della Basilica Labicana is an original old master artwork realized in 16th century by Giovanna Fontana.
IIvory colored paper attached on an ivory colored sheet (cm 27 x 36.7...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Rome, The Countryside - China Ink Drawing by Jan Pieter Verdussen - 1742
Located in Roma, IT
Rome is a beautiful artwork realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1742.
In good condition except for some pencil marks and traces of sealing wax on the back and diffused foxings.
Hand...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Ancient Ruins - Watercolor by Abraham Rademaker - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Ruins is an original old master artwork realized by Abraham Rademaker in 18th Century
Wonderful watercolor by the famous 18th-century painter an...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Landscape - Original Pencil Drawing by J. P. Verdussen - Mid-18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in pencil on ivory-colored paper realized by Jan Peter Verdussen.
The artwork has some folds rips and foxings and is repaired on the middle line.
T...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Landscape - Original Pencil on Paper by J. P. Verdussen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in pencil on ivory-colored paper realized by Jan Peter Verdussen.
The artwork has some folds and foxing and is repair on the middle line.
The artwo...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Landscape - Pencil Drawing by J. P. Verdussen - Mid-18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a beautiful drawing in pencil on ivory-colored paper realized by Jan Peter Verdussen.
The artwork has some folds and foxings. The artwork represents a landscape.
Inclu...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Wide Valley - Watercolor by Anonymous Flemish Master 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
High quality watercolor drawing on paper representing a landscape. Faded handwritten text on top of sheet, not readable.
Quite good conditions.
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18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Figures by a River at the Edge of a Wood
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Ferdinand von Kobell (1740–1799)
Figures by a River at the Edge of a Wood
Black chalk, stump and white chalk highlights, on paper
19 x 28.8 cm
Signed and dated lower right: 1777
P...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Landscape - Sanguine Drawing - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a beautiful artwork realized by Jan Peter Verdussen.
In good condition.
illegible Hand-signed on the lower right margin.
passepartout included ( 49 x 69 cm).
The artwork represents a landscape river in sanguine drawing...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Plants - Original China Ink Drawing by Jan Pieter Verdussen - 1740
Located in Roma, IT
Plants is a beautiful artwork realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1740.
pen and watercolour on brown paper. In good codition except for some pencil marks and traces of sealing wax on...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Drawing front back watercolor figurative landscape 18th century
Located in Florence, IT
The sheet is (27.8 x 39.2 cm) double-sided.
The front (watercolor ink, white lead) depicts a rural hamlet, in which a church is also glimpsed, characterized by various buildings of ...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
19th Century Watercolor by Samuel Phillips Jackson, RWS
By Samuel Phillips Jackson
Located in New York, NY
Samuel Phillips Jackson R.W.S. (British, 1830-1904)
Untitled Landscape, 18th century
Watercolor on Paper
Sight size: 8 1/4 x 12 3/4 in.
Framed: 17 1/2 x 22 in.
Signed lower left: S.P. Jackson R.W.S.
Samuel Phillips Jackson was born in the city of Bristol in September 1830, the son of the equally eminent watercolourist Samuel Jackson...
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English School 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Saint Jerome Praying, with a Landscape in the Background
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
STEFANO DALL’ARZERE
(Padua, circa 1520 – 1570)
Saint Jerome Praying, with a Landscape in the Background
Pen and brown ink, heightened with white over black chalk lines
15.5 x 12 cm...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
18th Century Watercolour - A Horse Ride For The Children
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour showing a mother and father raising a small child onto the back of a horse while three more children sit on a wooden sled pull...
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18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
View of an Antique City, a wash landscape by Jan de Bisschop (1628 - 1671)
Located in PARIS, FR
The attribution to Jan de Bisschop has been confirmed by the RKD with the following comment: "We base this attribution on the dark washes, the subject represented and the monogram".
...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
J. March - Framed 1793 Watercolour, View of Derwent River
Located in Corsham, GB
A very fine late 18th century watercolour of the Derbyshire countryside. Finely presented in a washline mount and gilt effect frame. Inscribed on the reverse of the frame "Verso - view of Grange from an emergence to the southward with the Derwent River and Lake...
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18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Louis Lesueur (1746-1803) Landscape with ruins, 1789, drawing signed and dated
Located in Paris, FR
Louis Lesueur (1746-1803)
A Fantasy Landscape with ancient ruins, 1789,
signed and dated "L Lesueur 1789" in the bottom centre
Pen and ink and ink wash on paper
14.8 x 22 cm
In goo...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Landscape with Trees and a Fisherman walking, a drawing by Jan Van Goyen
By Jan Josefsz Van Goyen
Located in PARIS, FR
No Dutch draughtsman ever captured the atmosphere of the rural countryside of Holland with the same atmospheric and engaging simplicity that Van Goyen achieved in drawings such as this. Indeed, his landscapes were seminal in the development of the genre. The present sketch conveys a striking sense of movement within the natural landscape, conveyed by the deftly applied strokes of chalk, from which the artist’s hand can be sensed. The composition is characteristic of his work, with the low horizon affording significance to the broad sky and the soaring birds within. This feeling of windswept motion powerfully evokes the expansive Dutch farmland with which he was evidently preoccupied.
1. Jan van Goyen...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Ink, Laid Paper
