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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
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

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Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Fine 18th Century Italian Old Master Drawing Mother & Children
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Giovanni Battista Cipriani, RA, Italian 1727-1785 Sketch of a mother with three children; black and red chalk on laid paper with watermark '© TAYLOR', 22.4 x 17.5 cm. Provenanc...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Chalk

Fine 17th Century Dutch Old Master Watercolor Drawing Hunting Party Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Hunting Party Attributed to Dirk Maes (1659-1717) Dutch. Figures in a Classical Landscape, Watercolour and wash on paper, Mounted, unframed image 6.75" x 9.75" (17.1 x 24.7cm)...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Design for a theatre fresco with fancy plasterwork - early 18th century French S
Located in Middletown, NY
Pen and sepia ink on cream laid paper, 8 3/4 x 5 3/8 inches (222 x 136 mm). Scattered paper tape repairs on the verso in the area of the upper left corner, and along the right sheet...
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French School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Laid Paper

Life study of a male nude in repose - European School, late 18th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
European School, late 18th century. Red chalk with primo pensiero in graphite on cream laid paper, 8 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (215 x 293 mm). Scattered light handling wear and multiple s...
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Naturalistic 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil, Graphite, Chalk, Laid Paper

17th C Dutch Old Master Ink & Wash Painting Biblical Figures Rembrandt Pupil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figure being Comforted (Job?) circle of Willem Drost (Dutch 1633-1659) *See notes below ink and wash drawing on paper (Arms of Amsterdam watermarked) Dutc...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor

18th century French oriental battle scene skirmish drawing
Located in Antwerp, BE
Fine 18th century French School drawing of an oriental battle scene battle Scene This skilful drawing has been quickly and confidently drawn, it depicts oriental warriors in a battl...
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French School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pen

A View of Capodimonte and A View of Posillipo in Naples; Two Drawings
Located in New York, NY
PROVENANCE Mortimer Brandt, until 1993 and thus by descent in the family to Private Collection, Baltimore until the present time We would like to thank Charles Beddington for ident...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pen, Ink, Laid Paper

The Introduction, French School, 18th century
Located in Middletown, NY
In this charming scene a maid appears bashful as she is introduced by her mother to the shepherd’s son. Ink and wash on hand made, cool-toned cream laid paper, 6 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches...
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French School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper

18th Century Italian Old Master Drawing Nude Figure Sketches Male & Female
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figurative Sketches Italian School, mid 18th century circle of Pompeo Batoni (1707-1787) charcoal and pencil, heightened with white chalk, unframed paper: 21.5 x 29cm. Provenance: ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Chalk, Charcoal, Pencil

A View of Risenholme, 18th Century English Signed Watercolour Landscape
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed and entitled bottom right Image size: 12 x 10 inches (30.5 x 25.5 cm)
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Frederick I of Prussia
By Georg Philipp Rugendas the Elder
Located in PARIS, FR
Georg Philipp I RUGENDAS (1666-1742) Frederick I of Prussia Red chalk, ink and brown wash on paper 45x42 cm This drawing has been long considered representative of Charles VI. In r...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

18th Century Old Master pencil study of cows by French artist Jean Baptiste Huet
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A rare and charming study of cows by 18th Century French painter, engraver and designer Jean-Baptiste Huet. The details are: Jean Baptiste Huet (French, 1745 – 1811) Study of cows P...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Ramnagar Fort, India, Company School Late 18th Century Pen and Ink
Located in London, GB
Company School 18th Century Ramnagar Fort, India Pen & ink on paper Inscribed and dated 1793 Acid free mount This incredible detailed work would probably have been drawn by an En...
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English School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Pen

"Spring at Window" 18th Century Antique realism Watercolor painting on Paper
Located in Jacksonville, FL
The painting is signed and dated 1858 Felix Schlesinger (1833-1910) was a German painter known for his charming and detailed portrayals of domestic ...
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Realist 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777)  A Mythological scene, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777)  A Mythological scene Pen and black ink on paper Bears an old inscription with the name of the artist on the lower left border of the mount 20.7 x ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Nicolaus Ritter (1777-1797) Selfportrait of the artist, 1793, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Nicolaus Ritter (1777-1797) Selfportrait of the artist at the age of 16, 1793 Charcoal on paper 30 x 22.5 cm In a moderne frame : 48.3 x 40.7 cm The drawing is annotated on the reve...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Providenza
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Providenza' 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 inche...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Figure from the Battle of Cascina, 18th Century Italian Red Chalk
By Michelangelo
Located in London, GB
Red chalk on paper Stamped 'RC' lower left as part of Richard Cosway's art collection Image size: 6 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches (16 x 21.5 cm) This study is taken from Michelangelo's Battle ...
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Italian School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Chalk

The Allegory of Minerva, Sanguine Chalk Drawing, 18th Century Italian
Located in London, GB
Sanguine chalk on paper Image size: 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (19 x 24 cm) Acid free mount This is a sanguine chalk sketch after a print made by the French artist Francois Perrier in 163...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Chalk

Portrait of a Man Wearing a Turban, 18th Century Pastel Drawing
By Thomas Frye
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper Image size: 13 x 17 1/2 inches (33 x 44.5 cm) Mounted and framed This original pastel drawing by Thomas Frye is a half-length portrait of a man dressed in a turban. This drawing is the original sketch for one of the heads depicted in Frye's collection 'Twelve Mezzotint Prints' of 1760 and it can be assumed that this pastel work was created earlier of this same year. Two versions of the print, created from this original work, are currently held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Frye's evocative figures, although presumably based on living models, exceed the conventions of portraiture, and also function as character studies. The man shown here - dressed in the fashionable 'Turkish' manner - turns with parted lips as if poised to speak, while raising the elegant fingers in one hand in a rhetorical gesture. His long eyelashes and smoothly rendered wrinkles and dimples are hallmarks of Frye's refined style. The Artist Thomas Frye (c. 1710 – 3 April 1762) was an Anglo-Irish artist, best known for his portraits in oil and pastel, including some miniatures and his early mezzotint engravings. He was also the patentee of the Bow porcelain factory, London, and claimed in his epitaph to be "the inventor and first manufacturer of porcelain in England," though his rivals at the Chelsea porcelain factory seem to have preceded him in bringing wares to market. The Bow porcelain works did not long survive Frye's death; their final auctions took place in May 1764. Frye was born at Edenderry, County Offaly, Ireland, in 1710; in his youth he went to London to practice as an artist. His earliest works are a pair of pastel portraits of boys...
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English School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Oil Pastel

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...
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Italian School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Chalk

The Entrance to Bifrons Place, 18th Century British Watercolour
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper Image size: 19 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches (50 x 34.5 cm) Mounted and framed Bifrons Place was built in 1607-11 for John Bargrave. The unusual name of the house is said...
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English School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

The Boxing Match
Located in London, GB
Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on laid paper Image size: 12 ¾ x 16 inches (33 x 40.5 cm) Wash mount and period frame Boxing was a subject that Rowlandson depicted on a number ...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Pencil

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...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Chalk, Graphite

Portrait of a Young Woman
Located in London, GB
Red chalk on paper Image size: 7 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (19 x 23.5 cm) Contemporary frame An enigmatic portrait of a young woman after Sir Peter Lely's drawing, currently shown in the B...
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Victorian 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Chalk

Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Africa
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Africa' 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 co...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

A pair of oval drawings for Ovid, Metamophoses
By Charles Joseph Natoire
Located in Fairlawn, OH
A pair of oval drawings for Ovid, Metamophoses Left: The Triumph of Amphitrite (Book I) Right: Diana and Actaeon (Book III) From: Ovid, Metamophoses These mythological studies are a...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Pen

Veneto Figurative Landscape drawing end of the 18th watercolors on paper
Located in Florence, IT
The drawing (ink wash, white lead on paper 27.8 x 39.2 inch) has a signature in cursive on the bottom right corner but it hasn't been interpreted yet. However, by its artistic manner...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Florence Religious Figurative Portrait Painting signed and dated 18th century
Located in Florence, IT
This small portrait is signed and dated among the bottom edge "Io(hannes) Baptista Scarlattius Rondinelli Fecit Anno 1754". Giovan Battista Scarlatti Rondinelli was an important memb...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Tempera, Pencil

Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Female Statue of Beauty
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Belleza (The Art of Beauty) 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...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Marriage
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Concordia Maritale (harmonious marriage) 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 o...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

The Abduction of the Sabine Women , a Renaissance drawing by Biagio Pupini
Located in PARIS, FR
This vigorous drawing has long been attributed to Polidoro da Caravaggio: The Abduction of the Sabine Women is one of the scenes that Polidoro depicted between 1525 and 1527 on the façade of the Milesi Palazzo in Rome. However, the proximity to another drawing inspired by this same façade, kept at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and to other drawings inspired by Polidoro kept at the Musée du Louvre, leads us to propose an attribution to Biagio Pupini, a Bolognese artist whose life remains barely known, despite the abundant number of drawings attributed to him. 1. Biagio Pupini, a Bolognese artist in the light of the Roman Renaissance The early life of Biagio Pupini, an important figure of the first half of the Cinquecento in Bologna - Vasari mentions him several times - is still poorly known. Neither his date of birth (probably around 1490-1495) nor his training are known. He is said to have been a pupil of Francesco Francia (1450 - 1517) and his name appears for the first time in 1511 in a contract with the painter Bagnacavallo (c. 1484 - 1542) for the frescoes of a church in Faenza. He then collaborated with Girolamo da Carpi, at San Michele in Bosco and at the villa of Belriguardo. He must have gone to Rome for the first time with Bagnacavallo between 1511 and 1519. There he discovered the art of Raphael, with whom he might have worked, and that of Polidoro da Caravaggio. This first visit, and those that followed, were the occasion for an intense study of ancient and modern art, as illustrated by his abundant graphic production. Polidoro da Caravaggio had a particular influence on the technique adopted by Pupini. Executed on coloured paper, his drawings generally combine pen, brown ink and wash with abundant highlights of white gouache, as in the drawing presented here. 2. The Abduction of the Sabine Women Our drawing is an adaptation of a fresco painted between 1525 and 1527 by Polidoro da Caravaggio on the façade of the Milesi Palace in Rome. These painted façades were very famous from the moment they were painted and inspired many artists during their stay in Rome. These frescoes are now very deteriorated and difficult to see, as the palace is in a rather narrow street. The episode of the abduction of the Sabine women (which appears in the centre of the photo above) is a historical theme that goes back to the origins of Rome and is recounted both by Titus Livius (Ab Urbe condita I,13), by Ovid (Fasti III, 199-228) and by Plutarch (II, Romulus 14-19). After killing his twin brother Romus, Romulus populates the city of Rome by opening it up to refugees and brigands and finds himself with an excess of men. Because of their reputation, none of the inhabitants of the neighbouring cities want to give them their daughters in marriage. The Romans then decide to invite their Sabine neighbours to a great feast during which they slaughter the Sabines and kidnap their daughters. The engraving made by Giovanni Battista Gallestruzzi (1618 - 1677) around 1656-1658 gives us a good understanding of the Polidoro fresco, allowing us to see how Biagio Pupini reworked the scene to extract this dynamic group. With a remarkable economy of means, Biagio Pupini takes over the left-hand side of the fresco and depicts in a very dense space two main groups, each consisting of a Roman and a Sabine, completed by a group of three soldiers in the background (which seems to differ quite significantly from Polidoro's composition). The balance of the drawing is based on a very strongly structured composition. The drawing is organised around a median vertical axis, which runs along both the elbow of the kidnapped Sabine on the left and the foot of her captor, and the two main diagonals, reinforced by four secondary diagonals. This diamond-shaped structure creates an extremely dynamic space, in which centripetal movements (the legs of the Sabine on the right, the arm of the soldier on the back at the top right) and centrifugal movements (the arm of the kidnapper on the left and the legs of the Sabine he is carrying away, the arm of the Sabine on the right) oppose each other, giving the drawing the appearance of a whirlpool around a central point of support situated slightly to the left of the navel of the kidnapper on the right. 3. Polidoro da Caravaggio, and the decorations of Roman palaces Polidoro da Caravaggio was a paradoxical artist who entered Raphael's (1483 - 1520) workshop at a very young age, when he oversaw the Lodges in the Vatican. Most of his Roman work, which was the peak of his career, has disappeared, as he specialised in facade painting, and yet these paintings, which are eminently visible in urban spaces, have influenced generations of artists who copied them abundantly during their visits to Rome. Polidoro Caldara was born in Caravaggio around 1495-1500 (the birthplace of Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, who was born there in 1571), some forty kilometres east of Milan. According to Vasari, he arrived as a mason on the Vatican's construction site and joined Raphael's workshop around 1517 (at the age of eighteen according to Vasari). This integration would have allowed Polidoro to work not only on the frescoes of the Lodges, but also on some of the frescoes of the Chambers, as well as on the flat of Cardinal Bibiena in the Vatican. After Raphael's death in 1520, Polidoro worked first with Perin del Vaga before joining forces with Maturino of Florence (1490 - 1528), whom he had also known in Raphael's workshop. Together they specialised in the painting of palace façades. They were to produce some forty façades decorated with grisaille paintings imitating antique bas-reliefs. The Sack of Rome in 1527, during which his friend Maturino was killed, led Polidoro to flee first to Naples (where he had already stayed in 1523), then to Messina. It was while he was preparing his return to the peninsula that he was murdered by one of his assistants, Tonno Calabrese, in 1543. In his Vite, Vasari celebrated Polidoro as the greatest façade decorator of his time, noting that "there is no flat, palace, garden or villa in Rome that does not contain a work by Polidoro". Polidoro's facade decorations, most of which have disappeared as they were displayed in the open air, constitute the most important lost chapter of Roman art of the Cinquecento. The few surviving drawings of the painter can, however, give an idea of the original appearance of his murals and show that he was an artist of remarkable and highly original genius. 4. The façade of the Milesi Palace Giovanni Antonio Milesi, who commissioned this palace, located not far from the Tiber, north of Piazza Navona, was a native of the Bergamo area, like Polidoro, with whom he maintained close friendly ties. Executed in the last years before the Sack of Rome, around 1526-1527, the decoration of Palazzo Milesi is considered Polidoro's greatest decorative success. An engraving by Ernesto Maccari made at the end of the nineteenth century allows us to understand the general balance of this façade, which was still well preserved at the time. The frescoes were not entirely monochrome, but alternated elements in chiaroscuro simulating marble bas-reliefs and those in ochre simulating bronze and gold vases...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Gouache, Pen

Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Magnaminita
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Mgnaminia' 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

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Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Sicilia
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Sicilia' 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 c...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical India
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'India' 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 con...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Figure Fame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Fame' 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 cond...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper, Ink

View of the Posillipo coastline near Naples by William Marlow (1740 - 1813)
By William Marlow
Located in PARIS, FR
In this drawing, inspired by his stay in Naples in 1765, William Marlow presents us with a view of Cape Posillipo, to the west of Naples, an essential stage during the Grand Tour. Th...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Florence Drawing Love Marriage Figurative Scene Watercolors paper 18th
Located in Florence, IT
Watercolors and ink on paper by Giuseppe Piattoli (Florence 1748 - 1834). It's the preparatory drawing of one of the 40 plates printed by Carlo Lasinio (Treviso, 1759 - Pisa 1838) f...
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Rococo 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Bacchanal scene with nymp and Satyrs, pencil on Paper signed and dated 1778
Located in Paris, FR
A Nymph and two Satyrs Signed lower right "................fecit" and dated 1778 Grey wash over charcoal and brown ink, on laid paper 27 x 40.5 cm / 10.5 X 16 inches Framed : 51 x...
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Academic 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

18th Century School, Courtyard of a palazzo, Architectural Capriccio, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
18th Century french School, Courtyard of a ruined palazzo, An Architectural Capriccio, Pen and black ink and black ink wash on paper 17 x 12 cm In good condition Framed : 32 x 26 c...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Napoli
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Napoli' 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 co...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

18th Century Italian School, An Architectural Capriccio, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
18th Century Italian School, An Architectural Capriccio, Pen and black ink and brown ink wash on paper 17 x 18,5 cm Framed : 27 x 29 cm The 18th century was truly the golden age o...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Antique French Miniature Portrait of Lady Biographical details with painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Miniature Portrait French School, late 18th/ early 19th century framed: 5.5 x 5.5 inches board: 2 x 2 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sound c...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

18 / 19th century French mythological oil sketch - Aenas and Dido - Love
Located in Antwerp, BE
Fine 18th / 19th century French School sketch of Aeneas Recounting his Travels and Exploits to Dido This skilful work has been swiftly and confidently painted, with a beautiful impa...
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French School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

French school French Revolution Revolutionary Drawing Wash Painting Realist
Located in PARIS, FR
French school of the end of the 18th century Pen and wash on paper Unsigned 11 x 18 cm (30.5 x 35 cm with the frame) This drawing represents the regi...
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Realist 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Drawing pencil carbon Sketch Religious Saints miniaturist German baroque 18th
Located in PARIS, FR
Johann Jacob HOCH Mainz, 1750 - 1829 Pencil 33 x 21 cm (50 x 40,5 cm with the frame) Signed and dated lower left "Johann Jacob Hoch / 13 July 1778" Nice frame in pitchpin Johann Jac...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Carbon Pencil

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

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Watercolor, Engraving

Fine 18th Century French Old Master Ink Wash Drawing Cain & Abel Fighting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Cain et Abel' Circle of Franois Devosge (1732-1811) French pencil drawing with watercolour wash on paper size: 12.25 x 9 inches private collection, France The painting is in overall...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Washi Paper, Color Pencil

Drawing Ink 16th 17th Flemish DE VOS Religious Martyrdom of James The Great
Located in PARIS, FR
Flemish school from the beginning of the 17th century (Circle of Martin DE VOS) Drawing Pen and wash 38 x 32 cm (58 x 52 cm with the frame) Inscription "Martin de Vos" Excellent cond...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil

1600’s Flemish Old Master Ink Wash Drawing Biblical Figures Group on paper
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figure Studies Attriubted to Cornelis Schut (1597 - 1655) Flemish ink drawing on paper, inscribed on mount size: 4.75 x 7 inches private collection, France The painting is in overa...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor

French School 18th Century, L'étonnement, form of expression, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School 18th Century, L'étonnement, Astonishment as a form of expression, Titled on the lower right "L'étonnement N°9" Black chalk on paper 43 x 29 cm In good condition, a sta...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Chalk

French School 18th Century, Le Rire, Laughter as a form of expression, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School 18th Century, Le Rire, Laughter as a form of expression, Titled on the lower right "Le rire N°12" Black chalk on paper 43 x 29 cm In quite good condition, stains vsibl...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Chalk

French School 18th Century, Le Mépris et la Haine, form of expression, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School 18th Century, Le Mépris et la Haine, Contempt and Hate as a form of expression, Titled on the lower right "Le mépris et la haine N°7" Black chalk on paper 43 x 29 cm I...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Chalk

18th Century French sanguine drawing of figures in the Roman ruins by Robert
By Hubert Robert
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Hubert Robert (French, 1733 – 1808) Figures in the Roman ruins Sanguine on paper 29.6 x 35.6 cm. Bearing watermark from ‘Jan Honig & Zoonen, Amsterdam’ Provenance: Hal O’Nians, Fine...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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A rural landscape, a drawing partly attributed to Francois Boucher
By François Boucher
Located in PARIS, FR
Provenance: • Bought from Sicart in Lyon by the Marquis de Chennevières (1820 - 1899) - Chennevières Collection (stamped lower left - Lugt 2072) • Inscribed on the back of the mount "Salle 10/Delestre, 27 February 1899” • Sold in Paris at the Hôtel Drouot during the second Chennevières sale (4 to 7 April 1900, n°44) as François Boucher - number 44 (sold for 18 francs to Roblin) • Sold in Paris at the Hôtel Drouot, 4 and 5 March 1901, n°12 as François Boucher Bibliography: this drawing is cited by Chennevières in "Une collection de dessins d'artistes français" (chapter XVIII, page 24-25) and is number 1033 of the Catalogue de la Collection Chennevières compiled by Louis-Antoine Prat with the collaboration of Laurence Lhinares. This well-documented drawing was given to Boucher by the Marquis de Chennevières, one of the most important collectors of drawings at the end of the 19th century. While the landscape is reminiscent of Boucher's other landscape drawings, our drawing was probably modified at a later stage by the addition of the two figures in the right foreground and by the slight enhancement of the horizon line behind them. 1. François Boucher, the master of French rocaille The extraordinary career of Francois Boucher was unmatched by his contemporaries in versatility, consistency, and output. For many, particularly the writers and collectors who led the revival of interest in the French rococo during the last century, his sensuous beauties and plump cupids represent the French eighteenth century at its most typical. His facility with the brush, even when betraying the occasional superficiality of his art, enabled him to master every aspect of painting – history and mythology, portraiture, landscape, ordinary life and, as part of larger compositions, even still life. He had been trained as an engraver, and the skills of a draftsman, which he imbued in the studio of Jean-Francois Cars (1661 – 1738), stood him in good stead throughout his career; his delightful drawings are one of the most sought-after aspects of his oeuvre. As a student of Francois Lemoyne (1688 - 1737), he mastered the art of composition. The four years he spent in Italy, from 1727-1731, educated him in the works of the masters, classics, and history, that his modest upbringing had denied him. On his return to Paris in 1734, he gained full membership of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture with his splendid Rinaldo and Armida (Paris, Musée du Louvre). Although, throughout his career, he occasionally painted subjects taken from the Bible, and would always have considered himself first as a history painter, his own repertoire of heroines, seductresses, flirtatious peasant girls and erotic beauties was better suited to a lighter, more decorative subject matter. His mastery of technique and composition enabled him to move from large scale...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Chalk

Italian 18th Century red chalk study of a seated man by Zuccarelli
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Francesco Zuccarelli RA (Italian, 1702-1788) Study of a seated man Red chalk 11.1/8 x 7.5/8 in. (28.3 x 19.3 cm.) Provenance; Colnaghi & Co, London Francesco Zuccarelli was born in ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Chalk

Four Women, a drawing by Francesco Furini after Ghiberti's Paradise Gate
Located in PARIS, FR
We thank Carolina Trupiano Kowalczyk for her help in describing this drawing and for confirming the attribution to Francesco Furini; her presentation (in Italian) is available on req...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Chalk

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