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Period: Mid-18th Century
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 Mid-18th Century 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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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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Mid-18th Century 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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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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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 Mid-18th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
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 Mid-18th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
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 Mid-18th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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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 Mid-18th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Watercolor
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 Mid-18th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Pencil, Laid 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 Mid-18th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
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...
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Romantic Mid-18th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
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 Mid-18th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
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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Watercolor, Ink
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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Pencil
Landscape - Ink and Watercolor by Verdussen - Mid 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in ink and watercolor artwork realized by Jan Peeter Verdussen.
Good conditions except some minor stains and folds.
Jan Peeter Verdussen (1700-1767...
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Mid-18th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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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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Speech - Original China Ink Drawing by Jan Pieter Verdussen - Mid 1747
Located in Roma, IT
Speech is an original and unique drawing in ink on paper realized by Jan Peter Verdussen, with sketches on the rear.
The State of preservation is very good with the traces of time.
...
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Old Masters Mid-18th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink
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 Mid-18th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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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 Mid-18th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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