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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
View of the Posillipo coastline near Naples by William Marlow (1740 - 1813)
By William Marlow
Located in PARIS, FR
In this drawing, inspired by his stay in Naples in 1765, William Marlow presents us with a view of Cape Posillipo, to the west of Naples, an essential stage during the Grand Tour. Th...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
A View of Riseholme, 18th Century English Signed Watercolour Landscape
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed and entitled bottom right
Image size: 12 x 10 inches (30.5 x 25.5 cm)
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18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Study for « The Chinese Masquerade » by Jean-Baptiste Pierre (1714 - 1789)
By Jean-Baptiste Pierre
Located in PARIS, FR
Arriving in Rome in June 1735 as a resident at the Royal Academy, Pierre was unable to attend the Winter Carnival festivities of 1735, which he nevertheless immortalised in an engrav...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
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". Framed 13.5" x 14.25
The work...
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Dutch School 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
In the manner of Herman van Swanevelt (1603-1655) An Italianate Landscape.
Located in Sydney, NSW
Dutch School, 17th Century.
In the manner of Herman van Swanevelt (1603-1655).
Title: An Italianate Landscape.
This work closely relates to a group called the Italianate painters. Th...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
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
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Ink, Pen
Disegno figurativo fiammingo ad acquerello del XVIII secolo, scena di genere
Located in Florence, IT
Sullo sfondo di un paesaggio dai tratti centro-settentrionali europei-in cui si riconoscono una cappella e il profilo di una città dagli alti pinnacoli-si svolge una scena di svago, ...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Return from the Hunt, Pen and Ink 17th Century Artwork, Handmade Gilt Frame
Located in London, GB
Pen and ink, brown wash, heightened with white bodycolour
Image size: 9 x 10 1/2 inches (22.75 x 26.75 cm)
Mounted with hand made gilt frame
Lingelbach presents a scene from the end...
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18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Joshua Gosselin (1739-1813) - 1772 Watercolour, The Wayside Cottage
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine 18th century watercolour study depicting figures on a road by a wayside cottage. The colours and style are typical of the period and the piece serves as an excellent example o...
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18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
View of a Cathedral, 17th Century Dutch Ink and Wash Artwork, Mounted
Located in London, GB
Ink and wash on paper
Image size: 7 1/2 x 6 inches (19 x 15.25 cm)
Mounted
This drawing is of a Gothic style church in the Netherlands that is likely to have been built in the 15th ...
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18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, 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
Watercolor, 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
Watercolor, Ink
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
Watercolor, Ink
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
Watercolor, Ink
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
Watercolor, Ink
John Inigo Richards RA (Attributed), Landscape With Country Track & Figures
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This late 18th-century gouache by British artist John Inigo Richards RA (1731-1810) depicts a picturesque landscape with track, figures and distant cottages.
Immersed in the raucous drama of London’s 18th-century theatre scene, Inigo Richards sought solace in the British countryside. As the principal scene painter at Covent Garden Theatre, his bucolic backdrops brought colour and context to numerous plays featuring leading actors. For inspiration, he’d escape to the delights of rural England...
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Romantic 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Village of Lekkerkerk on the River Lek: a 18th century dutch watercolor
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Nicolaes Wicart
(Dutch, 1748-1815)
Village of Lekkerkerk on the River Lek
Watercolor on paper, 8 x 12 inches (sight)
Signed at lower left: "Wicart"
Inscribed in ink on verso: "4 Dorp...
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Realist 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Mount Posillipo Near the Tomb of Virgil, Naples, 1779
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Jean-Claude-Richard de Saint Non
(French, 1727-1791)
Mount Posillipo Near the Tomb of Virgil, Naples, 1779
Watercolor on paper, 15 x 20 inches
Inscribed on verso: (in pencil) "l ' A...
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Realist 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
19th century view of Raglan Castle by English artist David Hall McKewan
Located in Philadelphia, PA
David Hall McKewan
(English, 1817-1873)
Raglan Castle
Watercolor on paper, 9 x 13 inches (sight)
David Hall McKewan studied watercolor painting under David Cox (the elder) and exhib...
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Realist 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
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
A View of Capodimonte and A View of Posillipo in Naples; Two Drawings
Located in New York, NY
PROVENANCE
Mortimer Brandt, until 1993 and thus by descent in the family to
Private Collection, Baltimore until the present time
We would like to thank Charles Beddington for ident...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Ink, Laid Paper
Ramnagar Fort, India, Company School Late 18th Century Pen and Ink
Located in London, GB
Company School
18th Century
Ramnagar Fort, India
Pen & ink on paper
Inscribed and dated 1793
Acid free mount
This incredible detailed work would probably have been drawn by an En...
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English School 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Veneto Figurative Landscape drawing end of the 18th watercolors on paper
Located in Florence, IT
The drawing (ink wash, white lead on paper 27.8 x 39.2 inch) has a signature in cursive on the bottom right corner but it hasn't been interpreted yet. However, by its artistic manner...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
John Inigo Richards RA (Attributed) Landscape With Country Track & Figures
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This late 18th-century gouache by British artist John Inigo Richards RA (1731-1810) depicts a picturesque landscape with track, figures and distant cottages.
Immersed in the raucous drama of London’s 18th-century theatre scene, Inigo Richards sought solace in the British countryside. As the principal scene painter at Covent Garden Theatre, his bucolic backdrops brought colour and context to numerous plays featuring leading actors. For inspiration, he’d escape to the delights of rural England, often sketching in Kent and the home counties. Charming cottages and churches accompany dappled trees and far-reaching views. All brought back to the studio before working up a design.
Alongside his ‘day job’, Inigo Richards produced landscapes in watercolour and gouache. His beautifully rendered views capture a pastoral idyll in miniature, each composition rendered with dexterity and fine detail. Note the weight of the figures here, the cattle drover...
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Romantic 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper
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 1629.
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, Graphite, Pen
A rural landscape, a drawing partly attributed to Francois Boucher
By François Boucher
Located in PARIS, FR
Provenance:
• Bought from Sicart in Lyon by the Marquis de Chennevières (1820 - 1899) - Chennevières Collection (stamped lower left - Lugt 2072)
• Inscribed on the back of the mount "Salle 10/Delestre, 27 February 1899”
• Sold in Paris at the Hôtel Drouot during the second Chennevières sale (4 to 7 April 1900, n°44) as François Boucher - number 44 (sold for 18 francs to Roblin)
• Sold in Paris at the Hôtel Drouot, 4 and 5 March 1901, n°12 as François Boucher
Bibliography: this drawing is cited by Chennevières in "Une collection de dessins d'artistes français" (chapter XVIII, page 24-25) and is number 1033 of the Catalogue de la Collection Chennevières compiled by Louis-Antoine Prat with the collaboration of Laurence Lhinares.
This well-documented drawing was given to Boucher by the Marquis de Chennevières, one of the most important collectors of drawings at the end of the 19th century. While the landscape is reminiscent of Boucher's other landscape drawings, our drawing was probably modified at a later stage by the addition of the two figures in the right foreground and by the slight enhancement of the horizon line behind them.
1. François Boucher, the master of French rocaille
The extraordinary career of Francois Boucher was unmatched by his contemporaries in versatility, consistency, and output. For many, particularly the writers and collectors who led the revival of interest in the French rococo during the last century, his sensuous beauties and plump cupids represent the French eighteenth century at its most typical. His facility with the brush, even when betraying the occasional superficiality of his art, enabled him to master every aspect of painting – history and mythology, portraiture, landscape, ordinary life and, as part of larger compositions, even still life. He had been trained as an engraver, and the skills of a draftsman, which he imbued in the studio of Jean-Francois Cars (1661 – 1738), stood him in good stead throughout his career; his delightful drawings are one of the most sought-after aspects of his oeuvre.
As a student of Francois Lemoyne (1688 - 1737), he mastered the art of composition. The four years he spent in Italy, from 1727-1731, educated him in the works of the masters, classics, and history, that his modest upbringing had denied him.
On his return to Paris in 1734, he gained full membership of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture with his splendid Rinaldo and Armida (Paris, Musée du Louvre). Although, throughout his career, he occasionally painted subjects taken from the Bible, and would always have considered himself first as a history painter, his own repertoire of heroines, seductresses, flirtatious peasant girls and erotic beauties was better suited to a lighter, more decorative subject matter. His mastery of technique and composition enabled him to move from large scale...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Pavilion with waterfall, an ink wash attributed to Hubert Robert (1733 - 1808)
By Hubert Robert
Located in PARIS, FR
This large wash drawing is a slightly enlarged version of a composition executed by Hubert Robert in 1761, at the end of his stay in Rome. This composition is a marvellous synthesis of the painter's art: the clatter of the waterfall, in a grandiose setting inspired by antiquity, is opposed to the intimacy of a genre scene, made up of a few peasant women performing some agricultural work.
1. The stay in Italy, an important founding stage in Hubert Robert's carrier
Hubert Robert came from a privileged family of Lorraine origin, linked to the Choiseul-Stainville family, where his father was an intendant. The protection of this powerful aristocratic family enabled him to study classical art at the Collège de Navarre (between 1745 and 1751). After a first apprenticeship in the workshop of the sculptor Slodtz (1705 - 1764), he was invited by Etienne-François de Choiseul-Beaupré-Stainville (the future Duke of Choiseul, then Count of Stainville) to join him in Rome when the latter had just been appointed ambassador.
Hubert Robert arrived in Rome on 4 November 1754, aged twenty-one, and remained there until 24 July 1765. Thanks to his patron, he obtained a place as a pensioneer at the Académie de France without having won the prestigious Prix de Rome. On his arrival in Rome, he frequented the studio of the painter Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691 - 1765), the inventor of the ruins painting, and also benefited from the proximity of Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s studio (1720 - 1778). During his eleven-year stay in Rome, Hubert Robert studied the great Italian masters and drew many of the great archaeological sites, multiplying the sketches which he would use throughout his career, becoming one of the masters of the "ruin landscape".
Back in Paris in 1765, he was very successful. He was accepted and admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture on the same day, July 26th 1766, which was very unusual. He was appointed draughtsman of the king's gardens in 1784, then guard of the Royal Museum from 1784 to 1792. Arrested in 1793 and detained in the prisons of Sainte Pélagie and Saint-Lazare, he was released in 1794 after the fall of Robespierre and undertook a second trip to Italy. In 1800, Hubert Robert was appointed curator of the new Central Museum and died at his home in Paris in 1808.
2. Description of the artwork
This composition, formerly called "La Cascade du Belvédère Pamphile" , is undoubtedly inspired by the water theatres of the Frascati villas. Hubert Robert presents a hemicycle of columns with rustic bossages at the foot of which is a cascade of water falls into a basin. The hemicycle is flanked by two high walls, pierced by window wells topped with antique masks...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, 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
19th Century Watercolor by Samuel Phillips Jackson, RWS
By Samuel Phillips Jackson
Located in Larchmont, 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
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
Dutch School, Marine, Coastal Scene with Ships in Storm
Located in Greven, DE
Marine
Dutch School, 18th Century
Coastal Scene with ships in a storm
Gouache on prepared paper
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Landscape - Drawing - 1794
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in pencil realized by an anonymous artist in 1794.
Included a Passeprtout: 25 x33 cm
Good Conditions.
The artwork is depicted through delicate and...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Landscape with Trees and a Fisherman walking, a drawing by Jan 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
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
Italian Landscape, a drawing by Louis-Jean Desprez (1743 - 1804)
Located in PARIS, FR
This landscape, masterfully executed in pen and wash by Louis-Jean Desprez around 1779, probably represents a view of the Roman countryside. The treatment of the trees is very similar to that of two engravings which Desprez executed in Rome, The Island of Cythera and The Temple of Love.
1. Louis-Jean Desprez, a cosmopolitan life between Italy and Sweden
Born in Auxerre in 1743, Louis-Jean Desprez probably began his apprenticeship with the engraver Charles-Nicolas Cochin...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Ink
John Carter FSA (1748-1817) - Fine 1780 Watercolour, Dunstable Priory
Located in Corsham, GB
A marvellous original 1780 work by the well-known architect and watercolourist John Carter FSA (1748-1817), depicting the West Front of Dunstable Priory, a 12th Century Augustinian c...
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18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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
A Landscape Scene with two figures, a great tree and an obelisk, English School
Located in Greven, DE
A Landscape Scene, perhaps in a Parc, with a great tree and an Obelisk. in The foreground two figures are shown.
English School
inscribed "Pieter Rysbraeck?"
on paper, with passepart...
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Rococo 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper
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
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
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
View of Castle of Vianen, Batestein, Dutch Golden Age, Schouman, Old Master Art
By Aert Schouman
Located in Greven, DE
Though he is most celebrated today for his extraordinary work as an artist of ornithological and zoological subject matters, Schouman was also a prolific documenter of landscape in his native Holland. The present drawing, which depicts a view of the Castel of Vianen, fits securely into a corpus of drawings Schouman produced on the same scale and in the same distinctive combination of media, examples of which are today housed in the collection of the Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen, Middelburg.
Castle Batestein (also called Batenstein ) is a castle disappeared from the Netherlands . It was built on the banks of the Lek in the small town of Vianen, then in the province of South Holland (now in the province of Utrecht ).
The castle was burned down in 1696 and then demolished. Remains only the Hofpoort (or castle gate...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Pen
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
Landscape - Rome - China Ink and Watercolor - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Landscape - Rome" is an original China ink and watercolor drawing on ivory-colorated paper by Anonymous Artist of 18th Century, in 1700s.
In excellent conditions: As good as new.
...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
A Windmill above an Arched Bridge, at left a Quay Wall
Located in New York, NY
Inscribed “159” in the upper right
Provenance:
(Possibly) The Van Goyen sketchbook which in 1845 belonged to Andrew Geddes, A.R.A. (1783-1844), London; his sale, Christie's, London,...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, India Ink, Watercolor
On the road to Lanciano - China Ink - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Paese di Lanciano sulla Strada is an original china ink drawing on ivory paper by Anonymous Artist of XVIII Century.
In excellent conditions: As good as new.
Not signed.
Image Di...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
"Veduta Del Ponte Lugano su l'Avione" by Francesco Piranesi - Engraving
Located in Geneva, CH
Francesco Piranesi was born in Rome, the eldest son of Giovanni Battista Piranesi and his wife, Angela Pasquini. He was educated in printmaking by his father, along with his older sister Laura (1755–1785), also a noted printmaker at the time of his untimely death. He both engraved his own works of art and assisted his father's work in 1775. He then began to study with other experts: engraving with Giovanni Volpato, landscape painting under the German Jacob Philipp Hackert and his brother Georg and architecture under Pierre-Adrien Pâris.
Piranesi accompanied his father on two trips to the ancient Roman ruins of Paestum, Pompei and Ercolano, first in 1770 and then again in 1778. In this he was part of a group of engravers who collaborated with Benedetto Mori and the architect Augusto Rosa, considered the inventor of felloplastica, the art of building models of ancient monuments in cork. Giovanni Battista created a series of preparatory drawings on Paestum, which were completed by Francesco. Upon his father's death, shortly after the second voyage, Francesco acquired his father's publishing house and was responsible for printing most subsequent editions of his prints.
Piranesi collaborated with French artist Louis Jean Desprez...
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Realist 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Engraving
Old Master Drawing, Westerkerk Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, 17th century, Dutch
Located in Greven, DE
Jan van der Heyden (1637 Gorinchem - 1712 Amsterdam), attributed.
Old Master Drawing, Westerkerk Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, 17th century, Dutch
Westerkerk and Keizersgracht in Amsterdam
Backside: later drawn backside with village church of the 18th century
Chalk and pen on paper
23,5 x 18,5 cm
Preliminary drawing for a painting from the creative period c. 1667 - 1670. This painting has been published a few years ago by Peter C. Sutton in the catalogue raisonné of the artist.
Van der Heyden was initially a pupil of a glass painter, but later turned exclusively to architectural painting and went to Amsterdam, where he painted views of churches, castles, palaces, public squares, streets, canals, etc., most of which are richly decorated with staffage. In addition, van der Heyden was also active as an inventor, for example, he developed a street lighting system for Amsterdam by means of oil street lamps, which was in operation from 1669 to 1840. After a stay in London, he painted the London fire of 1666, which he either witnessed himself or had seen the consequences of. Certainly influenced by this, he did much to further the technical and organisational development of the fire brigade from 1669 onwards. His greatest invention was probably the fire hose, which enabled significant improvements in fire-fighting technology and tactics. He also improved the hand-operated fire engines of the time by making them smaller, more mobile and more powerful, and he developed the series connection of several pumps to increase the pressure in order to achieve a greater range for the water jet. In 1690, together with his son, he was the author and illustrator of the Brandspuiten-boek, the first manual for fire fighting.
Johann Lingelbach, Adriaen van de Velde and Eglon van der Neer...
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Dutch School 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
A Musical Party
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Dr. George Hamilton, Massachusetts; and by descent.
Private Collection, Ohio, until 2021.
Exhibited:
(Possibly) Clark Art Institute, Massachusetts (according to a handwritten inscription on the reverse).
This drawing by an anonymous, 16th-century German hand presents a delightful scene of nymphs—mostly nude but some draped with cloth—making music in an outdoor setting. The composition is executed within a roundel and centers on the harpsichord played by the figure seen from behind. She is accompanied by a host of other instruments, including horns, a harp, and a lira da gamba played by figures gathered nearby, several of which are positioned along the curved edges of the visual field. Two satyrs observe the merrymaking—one leans on the harpsichord while the other holds aloft a cup, presumably of wine, adding a bacchic element to the revelry.
The drawing was previously owned by Dr. George Hamilton, scholar of modern art and Director of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown (1966–1977). Hamilton played...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
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
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...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
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: "Chatelain fecit" (see photo)
A finished drawing, signed by the artist, showing his inspiration by Claude Lorain (1600 or 1604/5-1682)
Provenance: Mathias Komor Works of Art
Mary Whelan Prue Warburg (1909-2009)
Mary Whelan Prue Warburg (1909-2009), widow of Edward M.M. Warburg, founding Trustee and Board member of MoMA (1932-1958); Metropolitan Museum of Art Honorary Trustee 1983-1992
Regarding the artist:
"Topographical draughtsman and printmaker; son of Huguenot parents named Phillippe (he probably took name Chatelain later), worked and died in London in 1758 (not 1771 as stated by earlier authorities).
Chatelain worked for notable London publishers, including John Rocque, Francis Vivares and Arthur Pond...
Category
Romantic 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
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
Attributed G Dughet Landscape Drawing 17 century pencil white lead paper
Located in Florence, IT
The drawing, made of white lead and pencil on paper, is a study of two trees with a knotty trunk, typical of the mediterranean vegetation.
The subject can be found quite commonly in Gaspard Dughet's landscape paintings. Gaspard Dughet is an half french half italian artist who was the brother in law of Nicholas Poussin...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil
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...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, 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...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Landscape with Cattle
Located in Chicago, IL
verso: signed and dated "H. Tavernier, 1779"
Category
18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Rome/Tevere - Pencil and Watercolor Drawing - 1781
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.
...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
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