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Romantic Landscape 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
Landscape with cattle in watercolor
Located in DEVENTER, NL
This beautifully excecuted landscape with cattle in watercolor was made by Abraham Hendrik Winter (1800-1861). Winter was born in Utrecht (the Netherlands) in 1800 and was a teacher ...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Landscape with cattle in watercolor
Landscape with cattle in watercolor

Abraham Hendrik Winter
Landscape with cattle in watercolor

Tropical Landscape with Palm Trees and Flamingo, German Romantic Art, Nature Art
Located in Greven, DE
Signed Pencil Drawing by Andreas Geist, a German painter of animals and theatre sceneries. Andreas Geist was born as the son of the painter Joseph Gei...
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19th Century Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Crayon, Handmade Paper

Tropical Landscape with Palm Trees and Flamingo, German Romantic Art, Nature Art
Tropical Landscape with Palm Trees and Flamingo, German Romantic Art, Nature Art

Andreas Geist
Tropical Landscape with Palm Trees and Flamingo, German Romantic Art, Nature Art, c. 1830

WOP 2 - 00648
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed full sheet 22.5 x 30.25 inches signed, dated and titled on lower right Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint ...
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2010s Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

WOP 2 - 00648
WOP 2 - 00648

Hiro Yokose
WOP 2 - 00648, 2015

WOP 2 - 00650
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed full sheet 22.5 x 30.25 inches signed, dated and titled on lower right Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint ...
Category

2010s Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

WOP 2 - 00650
WOP 2 - 00650

Hiro Yokose
WOP 2 - 00650, 2015

Southern Landscape, Ships, Old Master Drawing, 19th Century, by Von Stengel
Located in Greven, DE
Southern Landscape with View of a Castle and Ships passing by Pen and brush in brown and black over pencil, brown and grey wash, 17,5 x 22,7cm Plain black moulding with golden pearl ...
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19th Century Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Southern Landscape, Ships, Old Master Drawing, 19th Century, by Von Stengel
Southern Landscape, Ships, Old Master Drawing, 19th Century, by Von Stengel

Southern Landscape, Ships, Old Master Drawing, 19th Century, by Von Stengel, circa 1810

WOP 2 - 00641
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper image size: 7.25 x 13.25 inches Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated...
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2010s Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Oil

WOP 2 - 00641
WOP 2 - 00641

Hiro Yokose
WOP 2 - 00641, 2015

WOP 2 - 00640
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed signed lower right Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated wi...
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2010s Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Oil

WOP 2 - 00640
WOP 2 - 00640

Hiro Yokose
WOP 2 - 00640, 2015

WOP 2 - 00652
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed full sheet 22.5 x 30.25 inches signed, dated and titled on lower right Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint ...
Category

2010s Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

WOP 2 - 00652
WOP 2 - 00652

Hiro Yokose
WOP 2 - 00652, 2015

WOP 2 - 00651
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed full sheet 22.5 x 30.25 inches signed, dated and titled on lower right Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint ...
Category

2010s Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

WOP 2 - 00651
WOP 2 - 00651

Hiro Yokose
WOP 2 - 00651, 2015

Italian gothic 19th century Italian religious figurative drawing pencil on paper
Located in Florence, IT
This small drawing (pencil on paper, 25 x 19.5 cm) depicts a friar (who from the style of his tonsure and tunic would appear to be a Franciscan) on the left, seated in the act of rea...
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19th Century Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

Italian gothic 19th century Italian religious figurative drawing pencil on paper

Luigia Orsi
Italian gothic 19th century Italian religious figurative drawing pencil on paper, 19thC

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.
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19th Century Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper

Old Master Drawing, View of Naples, 18th Century, Italian School
Old Master Drawing, View of Naples, 18th Century, Italian School

Old Master Drawing, View of Naples, 18th Century, Italian School, circa 1870

Mountainous Riverlandscape with resting Wanderers, German, Aquatint, old master
Located in Greven, DE
German or Swiss School, probably Circle of Christoph Nathe (1753-1808)), around 1800; beautiful old master drawing/ aquatint, inscribed "P 50/ 1871 gekauf...
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19th Century Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Handmade Paper

Mountainous Riverlandscape with resting Wanderers, German, Aquatint, old master
Mountainous Riverlandscape with resting Wanderers, German, Aquatint, old master

Mountainous Riverlandscape with resting Wanderers, German, Aquatint, old master, c. 1800

Landscape by Moonlight, Waterfall, Monthelier, French Romantic Art, Christmas
Located in Greven, DE
Fine Watercolour Drawing by Alexandre Jules Monthelier. He was a French Artist who worked in France and created many drawings of famous landscape and sceneries (e.g. the cathedral of...
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19th Century Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Handmade Paper

Landscape by Moonlight, Waterfall, Monthelier, French Romantic Art, Christmas
Landscape by Moonlight, Waterfall, Monthelier, French Romantic Art, Christmas

Jules Alexandre Monthelier
Landscape by Moonlight, Waterfall, Monthelier, French Romantic Art, Christmas, c. 1850

Pair of Sea Views, decorative Drawings, Marine Interior, French Coast, Moin
Located in Greven, DE
A Pair of Drawings, Framed Signed and dated 1855 Chalk in black, brown wash, heightened with white, on paper each sheet, 46 x 31 cm . Framed. Two Landscape and Sea View Old Master Drawings, Paris, 18th Century, by Mozin Charles Louis Mozin (* 12 March 1806 in Paris; † 7 November 1862 in Trouville-sur-Mer) was a French painter. He is the grandfather of the Post-Impressionist Fernand Piet. The brother of the composer Théodore Mozin was a pupil of Xavier Leprince. He is considered the "discoverer" of Trouville-sur-Mer, which developed into a popular seaside resort at the end of the 19th century. At the age of nineteen, he first came to the fishing village on the coast...
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19th Century Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Chalk

Pair of Sea Views, decorative Drawings, Marine Interior, French Coast, Moin
Pair of Sea Views, decorative Drawings, Marine Interior, French Coast, Moin

Charles Louis Mozin
Pair of Sea Views, decorative Drawings, Marine Interior, French Coast, Moin, 1855

Historical figurative drawing of 19th century Italian Romanticism
Located in Florence, IT
The subject illustrated here is one of the moments that mark the centuries-long history of Genoa's glorious Maritime Republic, when the ashes of St. John the Baptist, one of the city...
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1860s Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Pen, Pencil

Historical figurative drawing of 19th century Italian Romanticism
Historical figurative drawing of 19th century Italian Romanticism

Francesco Gandolfi
Historical figurative drawing of 19th century Italian Romanticism, circa 1865

View of the Ovo Castle in the Moonlight, a 19th century Neapolitan gouache
Located in PARIS, FR
Neapolitan gouaches appeared in the eighteenth century when tourism in the Naples area was developing: the discoveries of Herculaneum and Pompeii made this city a mandatory stop on the Grand Tour, the journey made by wealthy Europeans to complete their education. Generally small in size for ease of transport and affordable in price, these gouaches were the ideal travel souvenir that these tourists of the early days were bringing back to capture the idyllic landscapes they had discovered during their journey and to share them with family and friends upon their return at home. The Bay of Naples and the eruptions of Vesuvius are the favourite themes of these views. Here we have a view of the Ovo Castle, which was rebuilt on the island of Partenope, in the middle of the Bay of Naples and about a hundred metres from the shore by the Normans in the 12th century on antique ruins...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

View of the Ovo Castle in the Moonlight, a 19th century Neapolitan gouache
View of the Ovo Castle in the Moonlight, a 19th century Neapolitan gouache

View of the Ovo Castle in the Moonlight, a 19th century Neapolitan gouache, circa 1830

WOP 2 - 00642
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed full sheet 22.5 x 30.25 inches signed, dated and titled on lower right Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint ...
Category

2010s Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

WOP 2 - 00642
WOP 2 - 00642

Hiro Yokose
WOP 2 - 00642, 2015

WOP 2 - 00643
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed full sheet 22.5 x 30.25 inches signed, dated and titled on lower right Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint ...
Category

2010s Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

WOP 2 - 00643
WOP 2 - 00643

Hiro Yokose
WOP 2 - 00643, 2015

WOP 2 - 00647
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed full sheet 22.5 x 30.25 inches signed, dated and titled on lower right Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint ...
Category

2010s Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

WOP 2 - 00647
WOP 2 - 00647

Hiro Yokose
WOP 2 - 00647, 2015

WOP 2 - 00649
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed full sheet 22.5 x 30.25 inches signed, dated and titled on lower right Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint ...
Category

2010s Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

WOP 2 - 00649
WOP 2 - 00649

Hiro Yokose
WOP 2 - 00649, 2015

Romantic landscape drawings and watercolors for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Romantic landscape drawings and watercolors available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add landscape drawings and watercolors created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Leo Primavesi, George Augustus Wallis, Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, and Jules Noel. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Romantic landscape drawings and watercolors, so small editions measuring 3.59 inches across are also available. Prices for landscape drawings and watercolors made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $245 and tops out at $24,000, while the average work sells for $1,025.

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