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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
The Siege of Douai, a red chalk drawing preparatory to the tapestry cartoon
Located in PARIS, FR
Provenance:
Jean-Marc (dit John) Du Pan (1785 -1838) – his stamp lower right (L. 1440)
Ferdinand Van den Zande (1780 - 1853) - his sale on April 30, 1855 - number 3016
Jules Miche...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
18th Century Watercolour - Court Scene
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed and dated indistinctly under the mount. Presented in a gilt frame and wash-line mount. On paper.
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
William Payne (1760-1830) - 1798 Watercolour, Village By The River
By William Payne
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed to the lower left. Presented in a gilt frame with foliate detailing. On paper.
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Continental School 18th Century Watercolour - Architectural Drawing
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolor Baroque architectural study. Unsigned. Presented in a gilt frame and wash line mount. On Laid paper.
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Sketch of Three Figures
Located in London, GB
Benjamin Robert Haydon
1786 - 1846
Sketch of Three Figures
Pen and ink on paper,
Image size: 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches (25 x 20 cm)
Acid Free mount
Provenance
Private Collection
Collecti...
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English School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
French School 18th Century, Portrait of a gentleman, pastel
Located in Paris, FR
French School of the 18th Century
Portrait of a gentleman
Pastel on paper
25 x 18 cm
Framed : 49 x 32 cm
The mounting of this work is marked "Attribué à Saint Aubin", which means t...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Sacra Famiglia - Etching - Late 18th century
Located in Roma, IT
Sacra Famiglia is a print artwork on paper in the late 18th century by an Anonymous Artist.
Etching on paper
Good conditions with slight foxing and age margins
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Etching
Pair of Engravings of Architectural Studies by Alessandro Specchi
By Alessandro Specchi
Located in New York, NY
Pair of engravings of architectural studies by Alessandro Specchi. Pair of original engravings of architectural studies in black painted frames of the staircase in Palazzo Barberini,...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Parmigianino Figural Ink Study
Located in New York, NY
Lombard School ink figural study of the Three Graces inscribed "Le Parmesan," and "Ecole Lombard." Pen and brown ink. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Il Parmigianino (1503-1540.) P...
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Renaissance 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Study of an oak tree and its reflection – French School, 18th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
Red chalk on cream wove paper 10 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches (256 x 212 mm), top margin slightly trimmed. One ¼-inch vertical edge tear at center-left top margin (unobtrusive). Two spots of l...
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French School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Handmade Paper
A pair of portraits in profile (2 works) – English School, 18th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Red crayon on cream laid paper, 3 3/4 x 4 inches (95 x 102 mm) ; 3 3/4 x 3 1/8 inches (95 x 80 mm). Each with scattered early repairs done with non-archival tape on the verso; the sm...
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English School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Laid Paper
Neoclassical composition of a sculptor kneeling before his statue of the Madonna
Located in Middletown, NY
An allegory of loyalty, with the subject's dog pictured seated, holding his master's chisel in his mouth; fidelity personified.
Italian School, 18th century
Ink wash in gray and bl...
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Italian School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Laid Paper, Ink, Watercolor
An architectural Capriccio by J.B Lallemand ... with Notre-Dame of Dijon
Located in PARIS, FR
At first glance, this attractive genre scene by Jean-Baptiste Lallemand is an enigma. What is the point of depicting Dijon's Notre-Dame church in the background of a harbor landscape...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Watercolor, Felt Pen
Late 17th cent. Drawing of a rider galloping away from the viewer
By Georg Philipp Rugendas the Elder
Located in Greenwich, CT
Late 17th-early18th century Drawing
Pen and brown ink , brush and gray wash on paper
att. to Georg Philipp Rugendas (1666 – 1742)
bears a period ink inscription in bottom margin...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Pen
Italian School 18th Century Pen and Ink Drawing - Design for an Ewer
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine 18th century design for an Ewer in the Baroque style. Mounted in a sleek gilt frame. On very early hand made laid.
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
17th Century Dutch Old Master Ink Drawing Christ on the Cross Many Figures 1674
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Christ on the Cross
attributed to Jan Luyken (Dutch, 1649–1712)
inscribed 1674 upper corner
pencil drawing, watercolor and ink wash on paper over oard, framed
framed: 12 x 11 inches
...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil, Ink, Watercolor
Miniature 18th Century Watercolour - Lady with Ribbons
Located in Corsham, GB
An exquisite 18th century miniature portrait in watercolour, depicting a beautiful young women wearing a pastel gown, pearls and ribbons. Well presented in a brass oval window with g...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled-055 Pastel Figure by Hans Burkhardt
Located in Hudson, NY
Hans Burkhardt frequently used live models for his figural pastels, which he maintained an interest in throughout his long career.
Untitled (1972)
Pastel on paper
25" x 20"
Signed a...
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American Modern 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Dutch Men o War Setting Sale In A Fresh Breeze
By Ludolf Bakhuisen
Located in Brecon, Powys
Ludolf Bakhuizen 1631 - 1708
Dutch Men oWar Setting Sale in a Fresh Breeze
Provenance Christies 1998
Pen and Grey Ink and Grey Wash.
Image 5 x 7.25". Fr...
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Dutch School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
18th Century Pastel Portrait of a Gentleman
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 18th Century pastel portrait on paper of a bearded gentleman. Presented under glass in a fine period gilded carved wood frame.
A cha...
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Rococo 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Disegno italiano figurativo paesaggio su carta del XVII secolo
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno, biacca e matita su carta grigio azzurra per soggetto e per motivi stilistici può essere attribuito alla mano di Gaspard Dughet, pittore nato a Roma da una famiglia di ori...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pencil, Paper
Oil Landscape titled "A View of Irvington on Hudson"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"A View of Irvington on Hudson," a watercolor by John Henry Hill, captures the picturesque beauty of Irvington, a charming village nestled along the Hudson River. Hill, celebrated fo...
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Hudson River School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Venus
Located in London, GB
Richard Westall, R.A. (1765-1836)
Venus
signed and dated ‘R. Westall 1794’ (lower right)
pencil and watercolour, with white heightening
image 11 ⅞ x 15 ¼ in. (30.2 x 38.7 cm.)
frame 22 ⅛ x 26 in. (56.3 x 66.1 cm.)
Provenance:
Private Collection, UK.
Venus (1794) was produced during a highly creative and defining period of Richard Westall’s career and artistic development, when from 1790-95 the ambitious young artist was sharing a house at 57 Greek Street, Soho, with his friend Sir Thomas Lawrence, the future President of the Royal Academy.
Whilst lodging together, Lawrence became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1791, Westall the following year, and both were elected full-members in 1794 – the year Lawrence was appointed Painter-in-Ordinary to His Majesty King George III. Westall was to become Queen Victoria’s first Drawing Master, before her ascension to the throne.
It was in this very year, 1794 - as the two young artists became Royal Academicians - that the present watercolour was executed, and it is exciting to speculate that Lawrence would have examined and given his thoughts on the work.
Highly comparable to The Wallace Collection’s Nymph and cupids (c.1793, cat. P757), acquired by Francis Seymour-Conway (1777-1842), 3rd Marquess of Hertford, (who hung it in his bedroom), the mid-1790s saw Westall exhibiting and returning to similar subject-matter on a number of occasions. Two works with titles that could be applied to the present picture were exhibited at the Royal Academy, in 1794 (no. 341 Nymph and Cupids) and 1795 (no. 620, A Wood–nymph and Cupids). However, a print after the watercolour, engraved by F. Screen, entitles the piece Venus.
Westall is regarded as a great virtuoso watercolourist, and Venus is evidence of the young artist’s mastery of the medium. Indeed, it is unusual to find a watercolour of comparable age so well preserved, and retaining such vibrancy - the superb condition providing an insight into his exceptional brushwork and use of colour.
Venus languishes luxuriously on her woodland bed, the trunk of a tree resembling a curtain, while three winged putti play beside her, seeming to gesture to someone in the woods. Cupid draws back his bow and aims an arrow of love, perhaps about to pierce the heart of a hunting nobleman, or unsuspecting woodcutter. The striking contrast between the almost luminescent nymph, with the deep, rich, luxuriant forest, gives the glade an alluring sense of mystery – perhaps an allusion to the mysteries of the heart, a pre-occupation with Romanticism, central to the emerging thought of the time. Westall can be classified as one of the great Romantic artists, and even painted Lord Byron’s portrait...
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Romantic 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777) The Baptism of Carloman, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777)
The Baptism of Carloman
Pen and back ink on paper
13.3 x 16 cm
Inscribed in the lower border "Le Pape baptise Carloman, fils ainé de Charlemagne" ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Landscape with Figures in the English Countryside
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Landscape with Figures in the English Countryside
Pen, ink and graphite with gray and brown washes on laid watermarked paper, c. 1740
Signed by the artist lower left of image: "Chate...
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Romantic 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
A View of the Bay of Naples, a drawing by Thomas Wijck (1616 ? - 1677)
By Thomas Wijck
Located in PARIS, FR
This large-scale study was executed in August 1639 by Thomas Wijck, an artist of the Dutch Golden Age during his stay in Naples, probably outdoors near th...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Felt Pen
French school 18th Century, A mytholological scene with a couple, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French school 18th Century,
A mytholological scene with a couple,
Pen and brown ink, brown ink wash on paper
11.5 x 11.5 cm, diameter of the main scene : 10,5 cm
in a modern frame under glass : 33.5 x 33.5 cm
This drawing by a particularly talented 18th-century artist - as yet unidentified - is notable for its mastery of pen and wash...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777) A scene of ancient sacrifice, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777)
A Scene of ancient sacrifice
Pen and brown ink, brown ink wash on paper
10 x 15 cm
In good condition
In a modern frame under glass 16.5 x 21.8 cm...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
John Miers late 18th Century Georgian English silhouette portrait
Located in Harkstead, GB
A very finely detailed silhouette in very good condition by one of the truly great silhouette artists of the Georgian period.
John Miers (1758-1821)
Portra...
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English School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Watercolor
Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777) Putti playing around a sculpture, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777)
Putti playing around a sculpture, a mythological scene
Pen and brown ink on paper
15.4 x 31 cm
In good condition
The ancient mount has has a smal...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
"Three Herons" - Hand Watercolor Engraving
Located in Soquel, CA
"Three Herons" - Hand Watercolor Engraving
"Three Herons" from a collection of the Most Rare Birds Drawn and Engraved From Life, A Natural and Rational History of the Different Bird...
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French School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving, Paper
"Collection Of The Most Rare Birds" - Hand Watercolor Engraving
Located in Soquel, CA
"Collection Of The Most Rare Birds" - Hand Colored Engraving
Collection of the Most Rare Birds Drawn and Engraved From Life, A Natural and Rational Histor...
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French School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor, Paper
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Insubria
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Insubria'
Italian School, 18th century
ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass)
image size: 10.5 x 7 inches
overall framed: 17 x 13 inches
...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Archival Paper
Antique Birds - 17th Century Hand Watercolor Engraving
Located in Soquel, CA
Antique Birds - 17th Century Hand Watercolored Etching
Antique Birds, from a collection of the Most Rare Birds Drawn and Engraved From Life, A Natural and Rational History of the Di...
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French School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving, Paper
The Infant Jupiter Nursing from the She-Goat Amaltheia (The Birth of Jupiter)
By Luigi Quaini
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Infant Jupiter Nursing from the She-Goat Amaltheia
(The Birth of Jupiter)
Red chalk and wash on off-white paper, c. 1700
Unsigned
Attribuuted to Quaini by Dwight Miller, the sch...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
European Pastoral Scene on Vellum. Probably Eighteenth Century
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Unknown
(European, probably Eighteenth Century)
Shepherds and Peasants in a Landscape
Ink, watercolor, and gouache on vellum; 12 5/8 x 19 3/8 inches
Framed: 20 x 28 inches (approx.)
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Vellum
Drawing PAU de SAINT-MARTIN pencil gouache sanguine Landscape mill river 18th
Located in PARIS, FR
Alexandre PAU from SAINT-MARTIN
Mortagne-au-Perche, 1751 - 1820
Three pencils
30 x 46 cm (46 x 60 cm with frame)
Signed lower right "P. Saint Martin"
Collector's stamp lower right "I...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper, Carbon Pencil
Allegory of Chastity, a drawing attributed to G. Porta with great provenance
Located in PARIS, FR
This magnificent drawing from the Venetian Renaissance intrigues us in many ways. It depicts an allegorical composition whose meaning partly escapes us: a veiled figure seated on a stone bench (which we have identified as Chastity), seems to be turning away from a woman's bust beside her, below which are two rabbits, a traditional allegory of fertility, but also sometimes of lust.
This drawing, executed on blue paper, undoubtedly belongs to the Venetian Renaissance. The inscriptions on the back of the old mounting board indicate the various attributions considered by its last owner, the British painter and art historian Sir Lawrence Gowing. We have retained the attribution to Giuseppe Porta proposed by art historian John Arthur Gere as the most relevant.
We were incredibly fortunate to find a hexagonal frame of a very similar format for this drawing, the upper corners of which were formerly cut (irregularly). This 17th-century Dutch frame comes from an aristocratic collection in Lombardy, and creates a kind of fascinating chase around this Venetian drawing...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
A dazzling Venetian Regatta Boat Study attributed to Alessandra Mauro
Located in PARIS, FR
This stunning Baroque study depicts a regatta boat, a type of vessel developed in eighteenth-century Venice for the regattas organized by the Serenissima during visits by royalty and princes. We propose to link this drawing to the work of Alessandro Mauro, an artist who specialized in this type of composition, as illustrated by a drawing from him at the Metropolitan Museum.
1. Description of the boat
The greatest decorative fantasy reigns in this preparatory study, which blends mythological and exotic elements with references to ancient Egypt. Our drawing is probably an initial thought, destined to be refined and clarified later in pen and ink (as evidenced by the ink stain in the lower right). A quadriga of seahorses guided by Neptune stands at the stern of the boat, shown well above the waterline (perhaps to outline its empty volume). One of the seahorses is ridden by a newt, while Amphitrite lies at the feet of the sea god.
The center of the boat is occupied by a vast baldachin resting on four atlantes and surmounted by a figure riding an animal (a dragon?). Three figures sit beneath the canopy, one of them on a griffin-shaped seat. This allusion to Egyptian antiquity echoes the winged sun (sometimes a symbol of the god Horus, as in the temple of Edfu in Egypt) that adorns the sides of the promontory on which this baldachin rests.
Another flag-bearer figure crouches at the stern of the boat on a raised seat, on the reverse of which is a crowned mermaid whose arm, extended backwards, rests on a mascaron decorated with a radiant face (Helios?) and whose torso surmounts an elephant's head. The heads of the rowers and their oars are sketched all along the boat, whose sides are embellished with elongated naiads.
2. The Venetian regatta boats
An exhibition held in 2013 at the Ca' Rezzonico (the Venetian eighteenth-century museum) paid tribute to these regatta boats through studies and prints depicting them. The regattas organized by the Serenissima in honor of visiting princes and sovereigns were among the most spectacular ceremonies in Venice. Some important artists of the 18th century contributed to the creation of these extravagant boats which were given exotic names such as bissona, malgarota or peota.
The specialists in this field were Andrea Urbani and the brothers Alessandro and Romualdo Mauro. They were born into a family of theater decorators in Piedmont, but little is known about their detailed biography. Alessandro was the architect of the Dresden opera house and of the St. Samuel Theater in Venice (in collaboration with his brother Romualdo), but also worked as stagehand and set designer in Vienna, Rome and Turin. A drawing produced around 1737 from the Metropolitan Museum (7th photo in the gallery) bears witness to his activity as a regatta boat designer.
This drawing is a much more elaborate version than the one presented here, having been entirely reworked in brown ink. However, a figure at the bow of the boat, executed solely in black chalk, still bears witness to a technique similar to that of our drawing.
It is difficult to know whether the boat depicted in our drawing was a project for an actual boat or whether it remained in the planning stage, but the front of our boat (Neptune and the quadriga of seahorses ridden by a newt) bears several similarities to that of a parade boat depicted in the print published by Michele Marieschi entitled Regatta on the Grand Canal, between the Foscari and Balbi Palaces (last photo in the gallery). This print is dated 1741, which could confirm that our work dates from around 1740.
The area between Neptune and the quadriga that precedes him on this strange paddle-boat appears to be partially submerged, confirming that the waterline of our boat was probably intended to be much lower than the one shown in our drawing.
The Correr Museum’s collection holds one of the most important collection of engravings and drawings devoted to these specifically Venetian Baroque productions. These boats were intended to last the duration of a festival. Today, they are only documented by preparatory drawings or prints that testify to the sumptuousness of their decoration. This taste for regatta boats lasted throughout the Venetian eighteenth century, and the conception of regatta boats also attracted great masters such as Giambattista Tiepolo, Francesco Guardi or Giambattista Piranesi...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Study for a fresco
Located in Paris, IDF
Attributed to Francesco PENNI (1488 – 1528)
Study for a fresco
Pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white on prepared paper
14 x 12 cm
On the mount, handwriting inscriptio...
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Renaissance 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Mughal School, 18th century – Emperor Jahangir in his harem in flagrante delicto
Located in Middletown, NY
Emperor Jahangir in his harem surrounded by lotus blossoms; symbols of paradise itself.
Circa 1690. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on cream laid paper, 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches (...
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Rajput 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold
Diana and her Nymphs bathing
Located in Paris, IDF
Attributed to LAURENT HUBERT
(Active circa 1749 - 1780)
Diana and her Nymphs bathing
Red and black chalk on paper heightened with white 49,5 x 33,5 cm
Provenance:
Private collectio...
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French School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Bartolomeo Passarotti (1529-1592) - Study Of Two Legs
Located in Paris, IDF
BARTOLOMEO PASSAROTTI
(Bologna 1529 - 1592)
Study of two legs
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper
34,5 x 21,5 cm
Bears lower left the collector mark of Maurice Marignane ...
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Renaissance 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
George Edwards: 18th Century Engravings of Birds
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Mughal School, 18th Century Emperor Jahangir with Empress Nur Jahan
Located in Middletown, NY
Emperor Jahangir and Empress Nur Jahan exchanging lotus blossoms; a symbol of beauty, purity, honesty, rebirth, self-regeneration, and enlightenment....
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Rajput 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold
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...
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Italian School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Mughal School, 18th century – Emperor Jahangir in his harem in flagrante delicto
Located in Middletown, NY
An illuminated page from a book likely in reference to palace life during Emperor Jahangir's reign over the Mughal Empire.
Circa 1750. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on cre...
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Rajput 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold
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
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French School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Stage design of Mausoleum. Entourage Galli Bibbiena.
Located in Firenze, IT
The Galli Bibiena Dynasty and European Courts.
The Galli Bibiena family, renowned Italian artists and scenographers, served the most distinguished European courts, including those ...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Mughal School, 17th century Tiger Hunt near the Jahangir Maha, Agra
Located in Middletown, NY
An illuminated page from a book likely in reference to palace life during Emperor Jahangir's reign over the Mughal Empire.
c 1690. Gouache and ink with heightening in gold on light ...
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Rajput 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold
Mughal School, 18th century Emperor Jahangir with Empress Nur Jahan & concubine
Located in Middletown, NY
An illuminated page from a book likely in reference to palace life during Emperor Jahangir's reign over the Mughal Empire.
circa 1750. Gouache and ink with heightening in gold on li...
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Rajput 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold
A Pair of 18th cent Dutch Still Life Watercolors Flowers in a Glass Vase 1797
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Cornelis Johannes de Bruyn (c. 1763- c. 1828)
A lovely pair of 18th century Dutch still life watercolors depicting assorted flowers in a glass vase.
Watercolor on paper
13 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches (34.6 x 24.4 cm) each
Framed: 23 x 18 1/2 inches each
Signed: J.C.J. Bruyn 1797 G
(Please request photos of the actual frame)
Johannes de Bruyn made his debut as a flower and fruit still life painter in the 19th
century in Utrecht. He was a student of the painter G.J. van Hulstyn. In our pair of flower still lifes, Cornelis Johannes de Bruyn has depicted two bouquets of colorful flowers set in a stone niche. They are delicate, highly detailed, realistic pieces painted in the vein of seventeenth century Old Master works. Each bouquet is arranged in a low glass bowl on a small marble pedestal...
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Dutch School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Dancing Couple (recto) Various sketches (verso)
By Hubert Robert
Located in Paris, IDF
Attributed to HUBERT ROBERT (Paris 1733 - 1808)
Dancing couple (recto) Various sketches (verso)
Red chalk and charcoal on the reverse
numbered in pencil “4229”
circa 1770
34 x 21 c...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Mughal School, 18th century Emperor Jahangir taking tea in his harem
Located in Middletown, NY
An illuminated page from a book likely in reference to palace life during Emperor Jahangir's reign over the Mughal Empire.
circa 1750. Gouache and ink with heightening in gold on li...
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Rajput 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold
Mughal School, 17th century – Emperor Jahangir reclining in his harem
Located in Middletown, NY
An illuminated page from a book likely in reference to palace life during Emperor Jahangir's reign over the Mughal Empire.
Circa 1690. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on light...
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Rajput 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold
French school Drawing 18th Portrait Ténor SAINT AUBIN three chalks Paris Opéra
Located in PARIS, FR
French school of the 18th century
Three pencils (pencil, red chalk, white chalk) on paper
27 x 18 cm (45 x 34 cm with frame)
Inscription at bottom “Saint-Aubin de l’Académie de musique”
Dated "1785"
Augustin d'Herbez known as "Saint-Aubin" was a tenor and member of the Royal Academy of Music...
Category
Academic 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Paper, Chalk
Rajput School, 17th century Krishna with his beloved, Radha; from Mahabharata
Located in Middletown, NY
Vishnu in the form of Krishna being serenaded with his beloved Radha. An illuminated page from the epic of Mahabharata
circa 1690. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on cream lai...
Category
Rajput 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold
Portrait of woman
Located in PARIS, FR
French School of the 18th century
Woman portrait
Pastel on paper mounted on canvas
Pastel: 46.5 x 63 cm (18.3 x 24.8 inches)
Frame: 57 x 71 cm (22.4 x 28 inches)
Very good condition
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Category
Academic 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
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