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Medium: Chalk
Seamed
Located in Columbia, MO
JENNIFER VIVIANO
Seamed
2018
Chalk pastel and graphite on paper
8 x 22 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Graphite
Profile of a Woman
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
Profile of a Woman
Conté crayon on paper
12.25 x 6.75 inches (31.1 x 17.1 cm)
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City
Category
20th Century Contemporary Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté
Framed 19th Century Sanguine - Portrait of Two Saints
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine sanguine and graphite study of two saints, possibly copied from an earlier work by a 15th-century renaissance master. The delicate drawing has been beautifully presented in an...
Category
19th Century Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
$432 Sale Price
20% Off
Study of a girl sitting and reading a book
By William Hoare
Located in Bath, Somerset
A study in red chalk of a girl sitting and reading a book. Red chalk on paper under glass in a giltwood and gesso frame. This small drawing has a sense of intimacy in the capturing of a moment where the sitter is seemingly unaware of being observed, unlike the feeling of formailty and self-awareness in a staged portrait sitting
Provenance:
Private collection, Somerset
With J. Davey & Sons Ltd, Liverpool
William Hoare...
Category
Late 18th Century English School Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Glass
$2,167 Sale Price
20% Off
Ball Playing Nudes
Located in London, GB
ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER 1880-1938 (German)
Aschaffenburg 1880 - 1938 Davos
Title: Ball Playing Nudes Ballspielende Akte, 1932
Technique: Chalk Drawing on Smooth Wove Paper
Paper s...
Category
1930s Expressionist Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Old Masters Chalk Drawing, 17th Century Italian Sanguine on Paper
Located in London, GB
Sanguine chalk on paper
Image size: 7 x 8 1/2 inches (18 x 22 cm)
Acid free cut-out mount
This 17th century drawing depicts a reclining woman with her back.
The Sanguine chalk that...
Category
17th Century Italian School Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
20th century interior dark moody Black & White Conte Drawing tree walls signed
By Laurence Rathsack
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Tree in Court" is a framed conte drawing in black by Laurence Rathsack, signed with his initials. A lone tree stands at the center of a high-walled courtyard. A small amount of light enters from windows high above, which the leafless tree struggles to reach.
Art size: 9 1/4" x 5 1/4"
Frame size: 17 1/2" x 13 1/2"
Painter and Educator, Laurence Rathsack was born and raised in Milwaukee. He studied under Alfred Pelikan while in high school. One of Rathsack’s block prints, River Bridge, can be seen in the book, Milwaukee Senior High School Block Prints. His art mentors at college were Robert von Neumann...
Category
1950s Modern Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté, Paper
"Abstract Figure With Bird" original conte cubist drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present work, drawn with black Conté crayon on a calendar sheet, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a rhythmic vision. The scene is dominated by the figure of a woman in a ...
Category
1950s Modern Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté
Ceiling Fresco
Located in Houston, TX
William Russell Flint was a Scottish artist and illustrator who was known especially for his watercolour paintings of women. He also worked in oils, tempera and printmaking. He was b...
Category
1960s Other Art Style Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Seated Nude female figure chalk drawing by Hilary Hennes
Located in London, GB
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Hilary Hennes (née Hilary Miller) (1919 - 1993)
Seated Nude
Chalks
56 x 38 cm
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Standing Nude female figure chalk drawing by Hilary Hennes
Located in London, GB
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Hilary Hennes (née Hilary Miller) (1919 - 1993)
Standing Nude
Chalks
56 x 38 c...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
"Art Deco Abstract, " Conte Crayon in Black & Sepia signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing,"Art Deco Abstract," Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with abstracted biomorphic forms in her elegant modernist style. Dominant in the image are two lilies, their ...
Category
1950s Modern Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté
Female Portrait Sketch #2
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A colorful sketch of a female bust, in the style of contemporary academic realism.
Artist Bio
Ben Fenske (b. 1978) although a native of Minnesota, a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Conté, Crayon
$520 Sale Price
35% Off
Woman Sits and Looks About_America Martin_Blue Chalk on Paper_Figurative
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Woman Sits and Looks About"
Blue Chalk on Paper
30” x 28” Framed
AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist based in Los Angele...
Category
2010s Contemporary Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
$4,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Bust Of A Woman In Profile, Sanguine On Paper, Signed And Dated
Located in PARIS, FR
Nicolas-André COURTOIS
Paris 1734-1806
Bust of a woman in profile
1791
Sanguine
Signed and dated lower left on the original mount
43.5 x 37 cm framed
19 x 25 cm
Category
Late 18th Century French School Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Royal Academy Series-4, Conte on Paper, Modern Artist Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-4
Conte on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size)
1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition)
Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta.
Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque.
Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...
Category
1920s Modern Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Conté
Angelique Bodin - Early 19th Century Sanguine, Young Lady With Dove
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine early 19th Century portrait in conte and sanguine. The young lady has beautifully curled, dark hair and gently holds a graceful turtle dove to her chest as she smiles coyly ov...
Category
19th Century Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Peter Collins ARCA - 1980 Sanguine, The Muse
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine portrait of a young woman by the listed British artist Peter Collins. Very well presented in a contemporary black frame with double card mount. Signed and dated. On wove.
Category
20th Century Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
$326 Sale Price
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DRAWING OF SAM III
By Amanda Watt
Located in Aventura, FL
Original pencil, chalk and crayon drawing on paper. Hand signed and dated on front by the artist. Framed. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. A...
Category
1990s Contemporary Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Crayon, Pencil
$950 Sale Price
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Tony Broderick, King's College Cambridge Chapel West Front conte drawing (1995)
Located in London, GB
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Category
1990s Realist Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté
Tony Broderick, Trinity College Cambridge Hall From Exterior conte drawing
Located in London, GB
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Category
20th Century Modern Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté
Paul Brown 'Webb Takes Care Of Atkinson' c1929 Conte Crayon Polo Drawing
Located in Bristol, CT
Sz: 13" x 17"
James Watson Webb II (known as James Sr.) (July 1, 1884 – March 4, 1960) was an American polo champion and insurance executive. He was a grandson of William Henry Vanderbilt and James Watson Webb.
In 1921, and, again in 1924 and 1927, he played on the American polo team that won the International Polo Cup...
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1920s Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté
Studious Girl Reading a Book - Women's Education - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
The work represents a carefully rendered and meticulously observed environmental portrait of a young girl absorbed in study in front of a book case. It celebrates the intelligence of womanhood from a woman's perspective. Initialed in cartouche lower right
literature: "The Silver Pencil", Hardy, Harper's Monthly, June 1912, pg. 22
Elizabeth Shippen Green (September 1, 1871 – May 29, 1954) was an American illustrator. She illustrated children's books and worked for publications such as The Ladies' Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post and Harper's Magazine.
Education
Green enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1887 and studied with the painters Thomas Pollock Anshutz, Thomas Eakins, and Robert Vonnoh.[2] She then began study with Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute where she met Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith.
New Woman
As educational opportunities were made more available in the 19th century, women artists became part of professional enterprises, including founding their own art associations. Artwork made by women was considered to be inferior, and to help overcome that stereotype women became “increasingly vocal and confident” in promoting women's work, and thus became part of the emerging image of the educated, modern and freer “New Woman”.[4] Artists "played crucial roles in representing the New Woman...
Category
1910s Academic Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
Alfred Daniels: Almshouses Canning Circus Nottingham - Conte Modern British Art
Located in London, GB
Alfred Daniels (1924-2015)
Almshouses Canning Circus Nottingham, 1975
Conte and wash
33x62cm
Born in the East End of London, in Bow, Daniels (known as ‘Danny’) was apprenticed to hi...
Category
1970s Modern Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté
Portrait Sketch
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A portrait of a male head, in profile by BenFenske. The artist uses a variety of colors to convey a naturalist impression.
Artist Bio
Ben Fenske (b. 1978) although a native of Minn...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Conté, Crayon
$520 Sale Price
35% Off
Ganesha, Indian God, Pastel on Paper, Mauve Pink, Red by Indian Artist"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sanatan Dinda - Ganesha - 28 x 20 inches (unframed size)
Conte & Dry Pastel on Paper
Proposed Frame Size : 3 inches mount on all sides and 1 Inch frame
Supported by Artist's Authent...
Category
2010s Contemporary Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper, Conté
Ansel and Predillo
Located in Toronto, ON
15" x 19" Unframed
Original Watercolour
Hand Signed by Joe Lasker
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté, Pencil, Watercolor
Fruit Gatherers - 1930s Design for a mural by Harry Carleton Attwood
Located in London, GB
HARRY CARLETON ATTWOOD
(1907-1985)
Fruit Gatherers - Design for Eltham Palace
Chalks
Framed
23 by 13 cm., 9 by 5 in.
(frame size 39.5 by 31.5 cm., 15 ½ by 12 ½ in.)
Attwood was b...
Category
1930s Art Deco Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Evasion by Yvon Pissarro - Contemporary work on paper
Located in London, GB
Evasion by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937)
Conté chalk, crayon, pastel pencil on paper
65 x 50 cm (25 ⁵/₈ x 19 ³/₄ inches)
Signed twice y. vey
Provenance: Studio of the artist, Montpellier
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Paper, Conté, Crayon, Pastel, Pencil
Portrait of Cecil Day Lewis 20th Century Original Chalk Drawing
Located in London, GB
Sir William Rothenstein
1872 - 1945
Portrait of Cecil Day Lewis
Black and white chalk on paper
Image size: 13 ½ x 9 inches
Period gilt frame
Category
20th Century Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
"Bean"
Located in Toronto, ON
Sara Shields works in chalk pastels, coloured pencil, and ink to create large-scale drawings that evoke an otherworldly quality. She graduated from Centennial College’s Fine Arts Stu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Oil Pastel
$3,000
Good Afternoon of a Faun
Located in Toronto, ON
14" x 17.5" Unframed
Original Conte Crayon and Watercolour Drawing
Hand Signed by Joe Lasker
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Conté, Watercolor
Portrait de femme
Located in BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, FR
Dédicacé, signé et daté à droite « Hommages respectueux / à Madame Frédérique de Faye / E. Maxence / 1901 »
Ce portrait d’une jeune femme au visage doux et mystérieux, portant une c...
Category
Early 20th Century Symbolist Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
Beheading scene in front of an enthroned king, probably a martyr scene
Located in PARIS, FR
Italian School
Around 1700
Beheading scene in front of an enthroned king, probably a martyr scene
Black pencil
21.5 x 28 cm
29.5 x 39 cm
Provenance: Fryszman collection, sale on 01...
Category
Early 18th Century Italian School Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
French Contemporary Art by Francine Ledieu - Paris Rue Rameau
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on cardboard
Francine Ledieu is French artist born in 1931 who lives and works in Paris, France. In the 50s, she was a student of Maurice Rocher who specialized in Sacred art. I...
Category
1960s Abstract Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Paper
French Contemporary Art by Francine Ledieu - Paris Metro
Located in Paris, IDF
Black chalk on paper
Francine Ledieu is French artist born in 1931 who lives and works in Paris, France. In the 50s, she was a student of Maurice Rocher who specialized in Sacred ar...
Category
1960s Abstract Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Paper
Figure Study
Located in London, GB
Black and red chalk on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 31cm x 27cm (50cm x 45cm framed).
Delmotte was a painter, draftsman, watercolourist and Belgian sculptor. A realist painter at first, he was influenced by Expressionism of the beginning of the century. An impressive list of gallery exhibitions of his work during his lifetime, either independently or as part of a group, indicate that he was a known and successful figure in art worlds of Belgium and Europe. Marcel Delmotte received numerous awards and honors throughout his career. He was named Knight of the Order of Leopold II...
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1930s Art Deco Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Jacques Gamelin (1738-1803) Study After Raphaël, 1768, Black Stone White Chalk
Located in PARIS, FR
Jacques GAMELIN
Carcassone 1738-1803
Study after the triton of the Triumph of Galatea by Raphaël
1768
Black stone and light white chalk on blue paper
Signed and dated lower right
41...
Category
18th Century French School Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Handmade Paper
VI Rose Nose Cat
By Mary Spain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
VI Rose Nose Cat
Colored chalks on black paper, 1977
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
Part of a series entit...
Category
1970s American Modern Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Littlehampton Watercolour Early 20th Century
Located in London, GB
Horace Mann Livens
1862 - 1936
Littlehampton
Watercolour, gouache, and black chalk on paper, signed and dated '10' lower left
Image size: 11 ¼ x 15 inches (28.5 x 38 cm)
Acid free mo...
Category
Early 20th Century Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Watercolor, Gouache
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...
Category
17th Century Dutch School Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
$1,796 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled
Located in Wien, 9
> chalk on sandpaper
> signed and dated lower right
Barbara Szüts was born in Bad Bleiberg in Carinthia (AUSTRIA) in 1952. She studied painting with Carl Unger at the University of ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Inconscience by Yvon Pissarro - Contemporary work on paper
Located in London, GB
Inconscience by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937)
Conté chalk and pastel pencil on paper
50 x 65 cm (19 ³/₄ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, y. vey
Provenance: Studio of the artist, Montpe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Conté, Pastel, Pencil
In the forest of Durlach - Quiet ripple in a secret place -
Located in Berlin, DE
Franz Xaver Graessel (1861 Oberasbach/Baden - 1948 Emmering). In the forest of Durlach. 1881. Pencil drawing, heightened with white, on grey-green paper. 33 x 41.7 cm. Signed, dated and inscribed by the artist himself: 'Franz Graessel. Durlach, 12 April 1881".
About the artwork
The drawing depicts a view of the woods which, as if sharpening the visual focus, remains diffuse at the edges and does not allow the viewer to locate himself in the picture. As a result, the landscape appears to be an apparition, but at the same time it is given real substance by the solidity of the massive arched bridge made of quarry stone. As the main motif of the painting, the bridge, which blends in with nature like an archaic relic, also acts as a visual guide, drawing attention to the white, raised waters of the stream and the surrounding vegetation. The diffusion of perception that takes place there, however, draws the eye back to the bridge and thus to the overall view. This movement initiating a constant alternation of diffusion and concretion, which is the specific tension of the painting that brings the landscape to life. The materialisation and dematerialisation, however, does not take place solely through the eye's wandering through the picture; it is simultaneously linked to the viewer's approach to and distance from the picture, which loses its richness of detail precisely in the close-up, only to reconfigure itself with increasing distance.
In this work, which dates from Graessel's studies in Karlsruhe, the artist reflects on the emergence of pictorial objectivity. Here, however, nature is more than a mere motif. The real connection between culture and nature is symbolically expressed by the choice of green paper.
The drawing is an impressive testimony to Graessel's mastery of the sprezzatura with which he skilfully applies the most abstract of strokes, which visibly merge towards the centre of the picture. The signature and the exact date prove that Graessel gave this work more than the character of a mere sketch.
About the artist
Franz Graessel grew up in an environment that was to nourish his later key motifs: his parents' house was a mill. After attending the Karlsruhe Academy of Art from 1878 to 1884, where he studied under Carl Hoff, Graessel continued his training at the Munich Academy from 1886 to 1890 as a pupil of Wilhelm von Lindenschmidt. Trained primarily in genre and portrait painting, he initially portrayed the life of Black Forest farmers. From 1894 he turned increasingly to animal painting, concentrating on the depiction of ducks and geese, which earned him the nickname 'Enten-Graessel'. Graessel's work thus parallels that of Alexander Koester...
Category
1880s Naturalistic Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pencil, Paper
$2,269 Sale Price
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Drawing of a captive woman
By Henry Fuseli
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Sir Thomas Lawrence, who acquired the contents of Fuseli’s studio;
Susan, Countess of Guilford, née Coutts (1771-1837), acquired from the Lawrence estate;
Susan, Baroness North (1797-1884), daughter of the above;
Mrs A. M. Jaffé, acquired in France, c. 1950 to 2016.
Black chalks, on buff-coloured paper
Stamped verso: ‘Baroness Norths Collection / of Drawings by H Fuseli Esq.’
Framed dimensions: 26.38 x 20.63 inches
This boldly drawn sheet depicting a seated figure was made by Fuseli at an important and highly productive moment in his career. The monumental drawing is closely related to another sheet by Fuseli in the British Museum which Schiff published as subject unknown. Both drawings were made when Fuseli was designing his most important sequence of historical works, including scenes from Shakespeare and Milton, The Nightmare and The Death of Dido which was exhibited at the Royal Academy to great critical acclaim in 1781. The present drawing does not relate directly to any of Fuseli’s finished historical paintings of the period, but evidently the image of a slightly menacing, seated and covered old woman was precisely the sort of motif he was playing with. It is notable that the same figure reappears later in Fuseli’s work as the witch from Ben Jonson’s Witch’s Song which Fuseli produced as both a painting and engraving in 1812.
Fuseli returned to London in 1779 from a highly creative and productive period in Rome and established himself as one of the leading history painters of the period. Fuseli re-established contact with his old mentor Sir Joshua Reynolds, becoming a regular guest at his dinner table and visitor to his studio. The earliest and most striking manifestation of this strategy was Fuseli's Death of Dido, exhibited in 1781 at the Royal Academy. Executed on the same scale as Reynolds's version (Royal Collection), Fuseli's vertically oriented picture was hung directly opposite Reynolds's with its horizontal orientation, inevitably inviting comparison between the two works and garnering Fuseli much publicity and favourable reviews in the newspapers.
The present, previously unpublished sheet, relates closely to a drawing now in the British Museum. That sheet shows the same seated old woman, drawn on a smaller scale and more schematic in design, seated next to an anatomical drawing of a man. The pose of this figure is related to the pose of Dido in his Death of Dido; the foreshortened torso, arrangement of head, oblique view of Dido’s features and arms all suggest that the study can be viewed as an initial thought for the composition. Fuseli may have initially thought of including the figure of the hunched and covered old woman. Drawn on identical paper to the British Museum sheet, our study is an enlarged depiction of the same figure, more elaborately delineated and developed. The presence of a chain to the right of the figure, suggests that the iconography was related in some way to a scene of imprisonment.
Fuseli had first explored the motif of the hooded old woman in an early Roman drawing, 'The Venus Seller'. The idea of a grotesque old woman, hooded and with angular nose and projecting chin seen in profile was most spectacularly used by Fuseli in his sequence of paintings depicting The Three Witches from Macbeth. Fuseli seems to have kept the present sheet and may have returned to it when preparing a painting of The Witch and the Mandrake from Ben Jonson’s Witch’s Song from his Masque of Queens in 1812. Here the same seated figure looks out from under her hood and picks a mandrake by moonlight. Jonson’s drama had been performed at the court of James I in 1609, inspired the subject. To throw the nobility of the queens into relief, the poet added a coven of witches, one of whom declares: ‘I last night lay all alone, On the ground, to hear the mandrake groan; And plucked him up, though he grew full low, And, as I had done, the cock did crow.’ The figure was reversed in the associated etching which was published in 1812. It seems likely that the present drawing remained as part of Fuseli’s working archive of figure studies.
The present drawing was presumably purchased with the bulk of Fuseli’s drawings after the artist’s death by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Lawrence’s large group of Fuseli drawings were then acquired by Susan, Countess of Guildford (1771-1837). Lady Guildford was the eldest daughter of the banker Thomas Coutts (1735-1822), who himself had supported Fuseli’s journey to Rome in the 1770s and had remained one of the artist’s key...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
American Contemporary Art by Katherine Filice - Soulmates No. 1
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink, chalk & mica on sculpted reclaimed paper
Framed 26 x 17.5 x 2 in, white wood frame
Katherine Filice is an award-winning American abstract artist born in 1963 who lives and work...
Category
2010s Abstract Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper, Chalk, Mica
$792 Sale Price
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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...
Category
19th Century Romantic Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Abandon by Yvon Pissarro - Contemporary work on paper
Located in London, GB
Abandon by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937)
Conté chalk on paper
50 x 65 cm (19 ³/₄ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed centre right, y. vey
Provenance: Studio of the artist, Montpellier
Artist biogr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Conté
Cadmus Slaying a Dragon (God Series)
By Harold Town
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Harold Town (1924-1990) is the ultimate chameleon of Canadian art. One of the founders of Painters Eleven, he remains one of the most fascinating characters from this important colle...
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1970s Modern Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pastel, Graphite
Indifference by Yvon Pissarro - Contemporary artwork
Located in London, GB
Indifference by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937)
Conté chalk and pastel pencil on paper
50.3 x 64 cm (19 ³/₄ x 25 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed lower right, y. vey
Provenance: Studio of the artist, Mon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Conté, Pastel, Pencil
Bathing Women Badende Frauen - Landscape Bathers German
By Erich Heckel
Located in London, GB
This watercolour is hand signed with the artist’s monogram and dated in pencil "EH 29" [1929] in the lower right image.
It is also hand titled in pencil “Badende Frauen” [Bathing Wo...
Category
1920s Expressionist Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Watercolor
Young Man with a Sword, a Fist on his Hip, a drawing by Cornelis Saftleven
Located in PARIS, FR
Black chalk and white highlights on paper (originally washed in blue)
Monogrammed and dated 1630 on the right
This drawing, executed in black chalk and enhanced with white brushwor...
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1630s Old Masters Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Canadian Contemporary Art by Christian Frederiksen - The Fire Tree
Located in Paris, IDF
Chalk pastel and acrylic on illustration board
Christian Frederiksen is a Georgian artist born in 1989 who lives and works in Calgary, Canada. He loves to experiment with new ways o...
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2010s Contemporary Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Illustration Board, Chalk
$1,080 Sale Price
20% Off
"Paul Brown 'The First Fence Pink Coat Cup' West Hills, L.I. Race Meeting" 1926
Located in Bristol, CT
West Hills Race Meeting November 13, 1926
Drawn on stone 4/35 signed Paul Brown lower right
Art Sz: 13"H x 22"W
Category
1920s Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté
Large black and white drawing titled 'Waves' by French artist Yvon Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Waves by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937)
Conté chalk on paper
70 x 100 (27 ¹/₂ x 39 ³/₈ inches)
Signed and dated Yvon Pissarro 1986
Provenance
Studio of the ar...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Conté
MOURNING DOVE AND NEST WITH WHITE STRING - Realism / Charcoal Drawing / Wildlife
Located in New York, NY
Original drawing by Patricia Traub
Category
2010s Contemporary Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal, Pastel, Graphite
DRAWING OF SAM II
By Amanda Watt
Located in Aventura, FL
Original pencil, chalk and crayon drawing on paper. Hand signed and dated on front by the artist. Framed. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. A...
Category
1990s Contemporary Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Crayon, Pencil
$950 Sale Price
50% Off
The Cleansing of the Temple, Late 18th European School Graphite Drawing
Located in London, GB
Pencil and chalk on paper
Image size: 8 1/2 x 13 inches (22 x 33cm)
This wonderful drawing depicts 'The Cleansing of the Temple', a biblical narrative where Christ expels merchants...
Category
Late 18th Century Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Graphite
GOAT WITH ORANGE COLLAR - Traditional Realism / Animal Drawing / Farm Animal
Located in New York, NY
Original drawing by Patricia Traub.
Category
2010s Contemporary Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal, Pastel, Graphite
"Petie (Duck)" conte crayon drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a duck in a watery landscape, rendered in her elegant modernist style. Other forms in the drawing appear to shoot up like le...
Category
1950s Modern Chalk Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté
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