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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Preparations for the fireworks display held in Piazza Navona in 1729
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
VERY IMPORTANT DRAWING BY
JACQUES DUMONT called « LE ROMAIN"
(Paris 1701-1781)
Preparations for the fireworks display held in Piazza Navona in Rome on November 30,
1729, for the bi...
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French School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Ink, Pen
Studies for the Judgment of Solomon, a double-sided drawing by Simone Cantarini
Located in PARIS, FR
In this double-sided red chalk study, Simone Cantarini offers us a double reflection on the theme of the Judgment of Solomon. This sheet reveals his precise style and his sense of de...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Laid Paper
15th C. Tibetan Tsakali: "High Lama Presenting a Ceremonial Scarf"
Located in SANTA FE, NM
15th C. Tibetan Tsakali
"High Lama Presenting a Ceremonial Scarf"
MIneral pigne
6 1/4 x 4 (16 x 13 3/4 frame) inches
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper
Study of Feet and a Figure Sketch
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Attributed to Jacob JORDAENS (Antwerp 1593–1678)
Study of Feet and a Figure Sketch
Red and black chalk on laid paper
25.9 × 18.4 cm (10¼ × 7¼ in.)
Unsigned
Minor losses, folds, an...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Landscape - Drawing by Jan Peter Verdussen - 1745 ca
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a beautiful drawing in pencil and watercolor on paper realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1745 ca.
In good condition, excpet for some foxing on the right.
The artwork r...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
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
Materials
Chalk, Laid Paper, Pencil, Graphite
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
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Antique Italian artist - 18th/19th century figure drawing - St. Sebastian
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian artist (18th-19th century) - Study for a St. Sebastian.
28 x 22 cm. 50 x 35 cm with passepartout.
Ink and pencil drawing on paper, without frame (not signed).
Condition re...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Paper
$714 Sale Price
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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
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
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
Materials
Handmade Paper
$2,381 Sale Price
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FINE 18th CENTURY OLD MASTER CHALK DRAWING - ROMANESQUE FIGURES INTERIOR SCENE
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 18th century
Title: Classical figures within an interior.
Medium: chalk on paper, mounted.
Size: drawing: 11.5 x 13.5 inches
Provenance:...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Landscape with Trees and a Fisherman walking, a drawing by Jan Van Goyen
By Jan Josefsz Van Goyen
Located in PARIS, FR
No Dutch draughtsman ever captured the atmosphere of the rural countryside of Holland with the same atmospheric and engaging simplicity that Van Goyen achieved in drawings such as this. Indeed, his landscapes were seminal in the development of the genre. The present sketch conveys a striking sense of movement within the natural landscape, conveyed by the deftly applied strokes of chalk, from which the artist’s hand can be sensed. The composition is characteristic of his work, with the low horizon affording significance to the broad sky and the soaring birds within. This feeling of windswept motion powerfully evokes the expansive Dutch farmland with which he was evidently preoccupied.
1. Jan van Goyen...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Ink, Laid Paper
Draped Woman Holding A Branch
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
CARLO URBINO
(Crema 1525 - after 1585)
Draped Woman Holding a Branch
Pencil and brown ink on laid paper
13.6 x 7.7 cm
Unsigned
16th century
Mounted on 20th-century paper
Handwrit...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
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
French Art, Rococo, Portrait Queen Marie Antoinette France, Oval, Circle Vivien
Located in Greven, DE
French School, Portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette of France, Pastel /oil Pastel on Paper, Rococo, 18th Century. The Pastel is made in the style...
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Rococo 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Oil
$5,954 Sale Price
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Academy Study of a Seated Male Figure Seen from the Back
By Charles Joseph Natoire
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Attributed to Charles-Joseph NATOIRE (Nîmes 1700 – 1777 Gandolfo)
Academy Study of a Seated Male Figure Seen from the Back
(Youthful study executed around the 1720s–1730s, likely du...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Roman Charity (Cimon and Pero)
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Michel CORNEILLE the Younger (Paris, 1642 – 1708)
Roman Charity (Cimon and Pero)
Black chalk with white highlights on beige paper
Height: 28 cm – Width: 20 cm
Unsigned
France, cir...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Chalk
Annunciation Scene
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Pierre-Mathieu Ogier (active between 1676 and 1709)
Annunciation Scene
Engraved copper plate, dated 1691
17.5 x 11.2 cm
Provenance:
Private collection, France
This engraved copper...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Copper
Jan Cornelis Sylvius, Preacher by Rembrandt Van Rijn
Located in New Orleans, LA
Rembrandt van Rijn
1606–1669 Dutch
Jan Cornelis Sylvius, Preacher
New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish (Rembrandt) 235, state 2/2
Bartsch 280
Printed by Rembrandt
Signed and dated "Rem...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Etching
Grimace - China Ink and Watercolor Drawing - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Grimace is a beautiful brown and black China ink drawing and watercolor on wire rod paper, made by an anonymous artist of the late 18th century.
A precious old master's original dra...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Study of a Seated Satyr, Seen from Behind
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Domenico Maria Canuti (1625–1684)
Study of a Seated Satyr, Seen from Behind
Red chalk on laid paper with watermark
39 × 26 cm
Unsigned
Provenance:
Private Collection, France
Note...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Study of a Sleeping Girl in a Cap
By Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite on greenish gray wove paper. 15 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches (390 x 295 mm). Initialed "G. B." in pencil on the lower right recto. In generally good condition with some minor scattered surface soiling. Condition is consistent with age.
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This drawing is closely related to two known mid 18th century oils...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Graphite
Johann Weinmann: c18th Botanical Engravings in Decalcomania Frames, Set of 6
Located in Richmond, GB
A group of mezzotint engravings of flowers from: "Phytanthoza Iconographia", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames.
Johann Weinmann (1683-174...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
Italian School, late 16th century - Head of a Man and Écorché Studies of Arms
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Italian School, late 16th century
Head of a Man and Écorché Studies of Arms
Red chalk on laid paper,
21 x 11 cm
Provenance:
Collection of Michael Jaffé CBE (1923–1997), English art historian and Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Private collection, France
This drawing, attributed to the Italian School of the late 16th century, demonstrates the influence of Michelangelo’s approach to anatomy and expression. The sheet combines two distinct studies: an anatomical rendering of arms in the écorché technique, focusing on the musculature and skeletal details, and a head of a man, drawn with careful attention to light and shadow. The use of red chalk lends the work warmth and immediacy, qualities often associated with Renaissance studies of the human form.
The écorché studies reflect the Renaissance fascination with anatomy as both an artistic and scientific pursuit. The detailed depiction of the musculature suggests the artist’s interest in understanding the mechanics of the body, a practice heavily influenced by Michelangelo’s drawings...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Landscape - Original Pencil Drawing by J. P. Verdussen - Mid-18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in pencil on ivory-colored paper realized by Jan Peter Verdussen.
The artwork has some folds rips and foxings and is repaired on the middle line.
T...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Mercurio / Mercury
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely, early drawing of the Roman god Mercury.
Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper, with a partial crown and shield watermark, 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches (184x 123 mm) (matrix). In go...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper
George Edwards : A Set of Twelve 18th Century Etchings of Hummingbirds
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, Etching
The Death of Coresus
By Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE
(Tournus 1725 - 1805 Paris)
The Death of Coresus, circa 1750
Pen and brown ink, black ink tips, gray wash on black chalk, 455 x 385 cm
Bears on the reverse in ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
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 after paintings by Simon Vouet (1590-1649) that decorated the Chateau de Chilly. They were commissioned by the Marquis D'Effiat in 1630-31. The scholarly record documenting the commission are a series of engravings by Michel...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
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
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
La Femme Muse /// Allegorical Symbolism Romantic Old Masters European Drawing
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Unknown (Likely French, 18th Century)
Title: "La Femme Muse"
*No signature found
Circa: 1780
Medium: Original Pastel Drawing on heavy laid paper
Frami...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Laid Paper
$1,200 Sale Price
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Antique Italian artist - 18th/19th century figure drawing - The writer
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian artist (18th-19th century) - Study for a writer.
17 x 25.5 cm, with passe-partout.
Pencil drawing on paper, without frame.
- Work signed indistinctly lower left (under pas...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
$357 Sale Price
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The Adoration -Painting by Giuseppe Assereto - 1630
Located in Roma, IT
The Adoration is an original modern artwork realized by Giuseppe Assereto (died in Genoa in 1650) in the first half of the 17th Century.
Original Oil Painting on Canvas.
A 19th Century style gilded wood frame is included.
The Autograph of the work was confirmed by Camillo Manzitti.
Very good conditions. The frame is in excellent conditions too.
Reference:
C. Marcenaro, Pittori genovesi a Genova nel '600 e nel '700, Genova 1969, pp. 134 ; 135, n. 55.
Z. Wazbinski, Un Quadro Caravaggesco Di Gioacchino Assereto, in Prospettiva, n. 26, 1981, pp. 60 ; 63.
F. R. Pesenti, La Pittura in Liguria. Artisti del primo Seicento, Genova 1986, p. 397, nota 23.
A. Gesino, Tracce di Matthias Stom nel collezionismo tra la Sicilia e Genova, in Caravaggio e i genovesi, catalogo della Mostra a cura di A. Orlando, Genova 2019, pp. 182 ; 195.
The Adoration is an excellent example of the XVII Century Italian Painting. The style of the work denotes the suggestive influence of Assereto father's mature production, when influenced by Mathias Stom (Amersfoort, about 1600 - Sicily, after 1650) expresses dark sensibilities in a southern Italian style. In his works, however, there is an accentuated naturalism and interesting similarities with the production of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Gioacchino Assereto died in 1650, while, according to Soprani, he was intent on painting a Last Supper for the oratory...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
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...
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Academic 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Paper, Chalk
$2,381 Sale Price
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18th century English scene of a groom with a horse in a landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful 18th century English gouache on paper of a 18th century English scene of a groom with a horse in a landscape.
One of a set of five all framed in Hogarth frames.
L.Green ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$2,360 Sale Price
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Johann Weinmann: c.18th Engravings of Fruit in Decalcomania Frames
Located in Richmond, GB
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames.
Johann Weinmann (1683-1741), a G...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
View of a Mansion in the South of France, a drawing by Claude-Joseph Vernet
By Claude-Joseph Vernet
Located in PARIS, FR
We would like to thank Madame Beck-Saiello for confirming the autograph nature of this drawing after an in-person examination.
It was probably during an excursion in the countryside near Avignon that Claude-Joseph Vernet executed this drawing, enhanced with pen and brown ink, depicting a mansion on a hilltop overlooking a small village with geometric shapes.
1. Joseph Vernet, a painter influenced by Italy
Claude-Joseph Vernet was born in Avignon in 1714, the son of Antoine Vernet (1689-1753), an artisan painter of architectural decorations, coach panels, and the like. He moved to the studio of Philippe Sauvan (1697-1792), a leading history painter in Avignon, and then worked with Jacques Viali (active 1681-1745), a decorative, landscape, and marine painter in Aix-en-Provence. Vernet's first recorded paintings were decorative overdoors executed in 1731 in the Aix townhouse of the marquise de Simiane. In 1734, Joseph de Seytres, marquis de Caumont, a leading amateur in Avignon, sponsored Vernet to make a study trip to Italy to complete his artistic education and to draw antiquities for his patron.
As Avignon was a papal territory in Vernet's day, he also had a number of useful introductions among influential churchmen when he arrived in Rome. Vernet was soon at home in the French community there, and he was encouraged by Nicolas Vleughels (1668-1737), director of the Académie de France in Rome, even though the young painter had no official affiliation with the royal institution. He likely entered the studio of the French marine painter Adrien Manglard...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Laid Paper, Pen, Carbon Pencil
Landscape - Watercolor and Pencil by Jan Peter Verdussen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a beautiful dranwing in watercolor and pencil on ivory-colored paper realized by Jan Peter Verdussen.
In good condition; only a sma...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Set of Twelve 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
A sketch of children climbing a fence
Located in Maidenhead, GB
Peter de Wint OWS (1784-1849)
A sketch of children climbing a fence
Watercolour and graphite on paper
7 x 17.8 cm; (within frame) 26.7 x 36.5 cm.
Provenance:
Bequeathed by the a...
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English School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Turin Countryside - Original Ink and Watercolor by Jan Pieter Verdussen - 1744
Located in Roma, IT
China ink and Watercolour. With handwritten notes, indicating the place and date of the artwork in lower margin: "Fait proche de Turin, ce 13 Juin 1744". Numbered on the lower right ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
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
$766 Sale Price
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Rococo Portait, French Rococo, Marie Baudouin, Daughter of Francois Boucher
Located in Greven, DE
Portrait of the daughter of Francois Boucher, Marie-Emilie Baudouin, holding a basket of flowers. Pastel on Parchment. The work is related to an oval portrait painting...
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Rococo 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
$8,574 Sale Price
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Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Jerome
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Felice Pinariccio, known as Le Lasagna (active in Bologna during the 1560s-1570s)
Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Jerome
Pen and brown ink, brown wash heighte...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Sleeping Boy - Drawing by Giovanni Fontana - 16th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sleeping Boy is an original modern artwork realized in the 16th century by Giovanni Fontana.
Ivory colored sheet attached on an ivory colored cardboard (...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
$3,620 Sale Price
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H F Gravelot (1699-1773) Two Allegories, Faith and Vigilance, Pen and Ink
By Hubert-François Gravelot
Located in Paris, FR
Hubert-François Gravelot (1699-1773)
Two Allegories : Vigilance and Faith
Pen, black Ink, and black wash on paper
7.9 x 4.8 each one
Framed 22 x 26 cm
Old framing that needs to be...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Pantheon - Drawing by Giovanni Fontana - Late 16th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pantheon is an original drawing realized by the Italian architect Giovanni Fontana (1540-1614) in the late 16th century.
Ivory colored paper attached on an ivory colored sheet.
Inc...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
La Porcellana (A Market Scene of Porcelain Vendors)
Located in Greenwich, CT
An old master drawing that can live in a very contemporary environment! Remarkable use of line and expression - should be enjoyed in an important spot - can grace a kitchen or livin...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Framed 18th Century Watercolour - The Blind Man
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine 18th century portrait in watercolours, depicting a blind man seated in an expansive country landscape. The artist delicate brushwork and monochrome pa...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$307 Sale Price
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Vue de Macerata et de sa Campagne - drawing by J. P. Verdussen - 1742
Located in Roma, IT
China ink and watercolour on paper.
Some foxing, otherwise very good condition.
Titled and dated.
Includes passepartout.
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
18th Century Roman School , A Palazzo with antiques, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
18th Century Roman School
A Palazzo with antiques
Brown ink and pen, brown ink wash on paper
12.5 x 20 cm
Framed : 28,5 x 35.5
This nice drawing represents a genre scene, with a nobleman, priests, a mother and her children...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
$602 Sale Price
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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
Hercules vanquishing a drakaina (half‑woman, half‑serpent)
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Circle of Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727 – Madrid 1804)
Hercules vanquishing a drakaina (half‑woman, half‑serpent) – interpreted either as Echidna or a personified Hydra
c. ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Landscape - Pencil and Watercolor by Jan Pieter Verdussen - 1750
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a beautiful drawing in watercolor and pencil on ivory-colored paper realized by Jan Peter Verdussen.
In good condition; only a smallspots at the edges of the drawing an...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Rocky Landscape with Trees and Temple Ruins a drawing by Giulio Parigi (ca 1615)
Located in PARIS, FR
This Rocky Landscape with Trees and the Ruins of a Temple is a drawing by Giulio Parigi, an eclectic and prolific artist of the Medici court. An engraver, architect, furniture and je...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Laid Paper, Pen
Figures by a River at the Edge of a Wood
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Ferdinand von Kobell (1740–1799)
Figures by a River at the Edge of a Wood
Black chalk, stump and white chalk highlights, on paper
19 x 28.8 cm
Signed and dated lower right: 1777
P...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Three drawings by François Boucher in a mounting by Jean-Baptiste Glomy
Located in PARIS, FR
We would like to thank Juliette Parmentier-Courreau of the Custodia Foundation for her welcome and support during the consultation of Glomy’s Journal des Ouvrages.
This spectacularly large "feuille de desseins ajustés" commissioned by François Boucher from Jean-Baptiste Glomy is emblematic of the painter's art and mastery of rocaille. It is also fully representative of the taste of this period in the field of decorative arts. The largest of these three drawings, placed at the bottom of the composition, is particularly interesting: dating from around 1756, it constitutes a modello (apparently unpublished) for the frontispiece of the "Catalogue des tableaux de Monsieur de Julienne"), preserved in the Morgan Library in New York.
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 tapestry...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Ink
Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Jan Goeree (Middelburg 1670 – Amsterdam 1731)
Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam (c. 1724)
Red chalk for the architecture, pen and black ink, grey wash on paper
Composition reversed in preparation for engraving
25 × 17.5 cm
Watermark: Hunting horn, Churchill 318 (dated 1724)
Unsigned
Provenance
Private collection, France
Context & Attribution
Trained in the studio of Gérard de Lairesse, Jan Goeree was among the finest Dutch engravers of the early eighteenth century, celebrated for his architectural views of Amsterdam. This drawing is a preparatory study for an engraving of the same subject now preserved in a major public collection. The final print—slightly larger—closely follows the reversed composition of this sheet.
Subject
In the center of the Gothic nave, five bearers carry a catafalque toward a freshly dug grave—a tribute to the naval heroes often buried in the Nieuwe Kerk. This funerary motif, familiar from Dutch painting (e.g. Emanuel de Witte, 1657), evokes the vanitas theme and the transience of earthly life.
Technical Analysis
Goeree’s use of red chalk for the architecture and ink for the figures reveals his working method: the chalk lines could be used to produce a counterproof restoring the correct orientation of the architecture, while the inked figures remained adjustable before the design was transferred to the copper plate.
Place within the Oeuvre
Drawings of church...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Chalk
Man on Horseback Abducting a Woman
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Jean-Robert ANGO (Active 1759 – 1773)
Man on Horseback Abducting a Woman
Red chalk and white chalk
26.1 x 25.9 cm
Provenance
Libert-Castor sale, November 19, 1993 (lot no. 23, ill...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
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