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Period: Late 19th Century
John Keeley RBSA (1849-1930) - Framed Watercolour, Woodlands Cottage
Located in Corsham, GB
A dynamic watercolour by British artist John Keeley, depicting two woodland cottages side by side in a landscape. The watercolour has been signed by the artist to the lower right. We...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
P. B - 1881 Watercolour, Boats Heading To Shore
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming late 19th Century nautical scene, showing boats returning to shore as storm clouds gather over a small coastal town in the dista...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$312 Sale Price
20% Off
Henry Edward Tidmarsh (1855-1939) - 1887 Watercolour, Unrequited Affection
Located in Corsham, GB
This charming scene depicts a woman dreamily looking upon a resting musketeer who does not seem to recognise her presence. The artist show the man looking unto the distance, resting ...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
La Sentinelle - Drawing By Maurice Chabas - 1898
Located in Roma, IT
La Sentinelle is a modern artwork realized by Maurice Chabas in 1898.
Sepia drawing.
Good conditions.
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Modern Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Original Japanese Watercolor and Woodblock Print of Orchid and Swallows
Located in Burbank, CA
Orchid and small swallows (Hokuri, kotsubame). Original preparatory watercolor next to the finished original Japanese woodblock print. This is a highly finished preparatory watercolo...
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Art Deco Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
$1,900 Sale Price
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James Whaite (fl.1876-1896) - Framed Watercolour, Cockle Pickers at Penmaenmawr
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful watercolour by landscape painter James Whaite (fl.1876-1896), depicting cockle pickers on a large North Wales beach. Signed to the lower left...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Sir Hubert J. Medlycott (1841-1920) - 1881 Watercolour A Corner in Genoa Harbour
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful watercolour scene depicting a busy corner of Genoa Harbour on a sunny day. The large sails of the ships cast shadows over the scene, covering the men moving barrels and ...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
J. W. Oddie (fl.1882-1886 - Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour, Church Fields
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming late 19th century watercolour of a pastoral landscape, with church spire viewable from distance fields. The artist has signed the scene to the ...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
William James Boddy (1832-1911) - 1890 Watercolour, Bridge Near Portinscale
Located in Corsham, GB
Close to the western shore of Derwentwater, this delightful watercolour depicts a village bridge from Portinscale. Framed in one of the stone arches, watering cattle have there heads...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
J. W. Oddie (fl.1882-1886) - Framed Watercolour, Gathering the Hay at Dusk
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming late 19th century watercolour of a pastoral landscape, with agricultural workers bringing in the last of the hay at dusk. The artist has signed the scene to the lower righ...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Walter William May (1831-1896) - Late 19thC Watercolour, Sunset At Low Tide
Located in Corsham, GB
A striking late 19th Century beach scene showing the silhouette of a wrecked boat on the wet sands at low tide. The artist has signed to the lower r...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Clay jug on a bench - The essence of the clay jar revealed by the sunlight -
By Hans Richard von Volkmann
Located in Berlin, DE
Hans Richard von Volkmann (1860 Halle (Saale) - 1927 ibid.), Clay jug on a bench. Pencil and Watercolour on paper. 20 x 26,7 cm (visible size), 37 x 45 cm (frame), dated and monogrammed lower left "Februar 1890 - HR. V. V."
- Minimally tanned. Framed behind glass in a passepartout.
About the artwork
Using the technique of his early youth - pencil and watercolour - Hans Richard von Volkmann depicts a still life. However, this is not a conventional indoor still life, but an open-air depiction, painted outdoors and not in the studio. It is therefore an open-air painting, characteristic of von Volkmann's oeuvre, which could have been painted in the Willingshausen colony of painters, where open-air painting was programmatically practised there and the artist stayed there that year.
And indeed, this painting is a manifesto of open-air painting. Von Volkmann demonstrates that leaving the studio for the light of nature leads to an entirely new quality of art. To prove this, he uses the genre of still life, which can be described as the studio subject par excellence. Moreover, light plays an essential role in the classical still life. It is the real protagonist of the still life. And it is precisely this moment, essential to the still life, that von Volkmann exploits to demonstrate the potential of plein-air painting: He presents the objects as they appear in the sunlight. The date of February and the bare branches in the foreground make it clear that this is a clear winter day in bright sunlight. The delicate plant in the foreground casts a clearly defined shadow, as does the jug. However, the shadow is most pronounced on the jug itself: The underside of the handle appears almost black, making the top, and therefore the jug itself, shine all the more brightly. The shining of the objects in the sunlight is also visible on the bench. As complementary phenomena to the shadow zones, light edges can be seen on the boards of the seats and the upper foot of the bench shines entirely in the light. To achieve this intensity of light, von Volkmann activated the bright white of the painting ground.
By depicting the objects in glistening sunlight, von Volkmann demonstrates that this quality of light is only to be found outdoors. And this light leads to a new way of looking at the objects themselves. The jug on the bench seems like an accidental arrangement, as if the artist had stumbled upon this unintentional still life and captured it with fascination. And in this fascination there is a moment of realisation that refers to the objects themselves. It is only when they shine brightly in the sunlight that their true nature is revealed. In this way, sunlight allows the objects to come into their own, so to speak. Sunlight, which is not present in the studio, gives the still life an entirely new dimension of reality, which is also reflected in the colours interwoven by the sunlight: The bench and the jug stand in a harmonious grey-pink contrast to the green of the implied meadow.
The emphasis on the jug as the central subject of the picture also implies that the watercolour has not been completed. This non finito inscribes a processuality into the picture, making it clear that something processual has been depicted, the temporality of which has been made artistically permanent. This is why von Volkmann signed the painting and dated it to the month.
About the Artist
Von Volkmann made his first artistic attempts at the age of 14. He painted many watercolours of his home town of Halle. This laid the foundation for his later outdoor painting.
In 1880 his autodidactic beginnings were professionalised with his admission to the Düsseldorf Art Academy. There he studied under Hugo Crola, Heinrich Lauenstein, Johann Peter Theodor Janssen and Eduard von Gebhardt until 1888. Von Volkmann then moved to the Karlsruhe Academy, where he was Gustav Schönleber's master pupil until 1892.
In 1883 he came for the first time to Willingshausen, Germany's oldest painters' colony, at the suggestion of his student friend Adolf Lins...
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Naturalistic Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
M. L. Boge - 1883 Watercolour, Alpine Village
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming late 19th Century watercolour showing a picturesque Alpine village with an arched stone bridge over a ravine and imposing mountains in the di...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$312 Sale Price
20% Off
James W. Milliken (1865-1945) - Watercolour, Market Place, Bethune France
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful depiction a a busting market place in the town square of Bethune, France. Crowds of women buy and sell produce from market stalls in their ap...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Charterhouse School Chapel watercolour by Meadows-Frost
Located in London, GB
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
James W. Milliken (1865-1945) - Watercolour, The Marketplace, Furnes Belgium
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful evening scene depicting a busy market place in Furness, Belgium. Women buy and sell produce from the quaint market stalls and a nun can be sc...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
George L. Harrison (1855-1925) - Framed 1888 Watercolour, At the Cottage Door
Located in Corsham, GB
This wonderful watercolour study by George L. Harrison (1855-1925), depicts two Dutch women conversing on the doorstep of a thatched cottage with chickens pecking in the foreground. ...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Sophy S Warren (act.1864-1878) - Watercolour, The River at Dawn
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine example of mid-19th century watercolour painting depicting a vast river landscape at dawn. A man standing in his boat in the foreground, punting into the sunlight. The artist ...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$363 Sale Price
20% Off
Isidore Pils (1813-1875) An Orientalist scene, signed watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Isidore Pils (1813-1875)
An Orientalist scene
Signed lower left
Pencil and heightenings of watercolor on paper
15 x 24 cm
paper yellowed by time, stains and a small repaired tear on the upper right edge.
In a modern mount 40.5 x 53 cm
Isidore-Alexandre-Augustin Pils (1815–1875) was a French academic painter of religious and military subjects.
Pils was born in Paris as the son of a soldier François Pils. At the age of twelve, he studied with Guillaume Guillon-Lethière for four years.
In 1831 he became a student at the École des Beaux-Arts and studied under François-Édouard Picot.
He competed for the Prix de Rome, which he won in 1838 for a history painting, St. Peter Healing a Lame Man at the Door of the Temple.
Although in poor health, Pils then spent the customary three years at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici, which then had Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres as its director. While in Italy he visited Naples, Venice, and Florence.
Pils's earlier paintings have religious themes. In 1849 he completed his most famous work, Rouget de L'Isle Singing La Marseillaise, which now resides at the Musée historique de Strasbourg. After experiences travelling with French troops through the Crimea, his themes took on military and nationalistic subjects. He later produced many military scenes during the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.
Pils was appointed professor of painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1863 but left the same year for two years in Algeria. In 1868 he was elected to seat #14 of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Among his students were Adrien Moreau...
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Academic Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
George Charles Francis (1860-1940) -Late 19th Century Watercolour, Mantes Market
Located in Corsham, GB
A wonderfully impressionist view of French market in Mantes-la-Jolie, France. Women gather at stalls under canopies, one woman walks towards the viewer in the foreground, a basket ov...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour - Country scene with Wagon
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine watercolour landscape, depicting two figure in a wagon, driven by two horned cattle. The wagon can be seen in the foreground making its way along a country road with goods. We...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
$423 Sale Price
20% Off
A. C. Tough - Late 19th Century Watercolour, Gryffin, Wales
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolours view of Gryffin, North Wales. A woman and child stand in the doorway of an old stone cottage to the left. The artist has signed to the lower left corner and t...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$312 Sale Price
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Elizabeth Surtees - Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour, The Upper Ilminster
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine late 19th century watercolours depicting a small herd of cattle cooling off in the wetlands of Ilminster. The painting is signed to the lower right-hand corner. Well presented...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
19th century watercolor landscape Italian building architectural scene signed
By Gabrielli Carelli
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Italian Piazza" is an original watercolor painting attributed to Gabrielli Carelli, an Italian artist. This piece is from the Rothschild Collection...
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Old Masters Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Trinity College Great Gate Cambridge - Richard Henry Wright watercolour c. 1900
By Richard Henry Wright
Located in London, GB
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Realist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of Dr. Auguste Soins
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait of Dr. Auguste Soins
Black chalk on paper, c. 1883
Signed with the artist’s estate stamp, Lugt 1305a lower right (see photo)
Note: This possibly is the preliminary drawing f...
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Post-Impressionist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Self-portrait - Homo nudus -
Located in Berlin, DE
Bruno Paul (1874 Seifhennersdorf - 1968 Berlin). Self-portrait, c. 1895. Pencil on paper, mounted on cardboard, 53.5 x 35 cm, signed 'Paul' at upper left.
- Homo nudus -
About the artwork
In a mirrored situation, Bruno Paul looks at himself in the picture. While his body, which is the size of the format, is shown in profile parallel to the picture, he turns his head into the picture in order to become aware of himself there, whereby the lighter use...
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Realist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
$3,321 Sale Price
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Pensive Young Woman
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Maurice Chabas (Nantes 1862 – Versailles 1947)
Pensive Young Woman
Graphite with white-chalk highlights on blue-grey paper
46 × 32 cm
Unsigned
Provenance
Bruno Delarue Gallery, É...
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Impressionist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Chalk
Framed English School Late 19th Century Watercolour - Edgbaston Pool
Located in Corsham, GB
An intricate watercolour painting of fields near Edgbaston Pool with rural folk to the foreground. A male figure can be seen holding a sharp scythe, while the female balances a large...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
W. H. H - Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour, Lady with the Yellow Neck Scarf
Located in Corsham, GB
This fine British watercolour captures a young lady in a blue dress with a yellow scarf and white cap, holding a wicker basket. The soft, impressionistic brushstrokes create a delica...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Frederick Hines (fl.1875-1928) - Framed Watercolour, The Cottage Well
Located in Corsham, GB
A very fine English School watercolour depicting a mother and daughter fetching water from a well. Pink hollyhocks grow tall to the left of the scene, while a rambling apple tree shr...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Pair of Antique Tropical Watercolor Paintings
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Rare pair of 19th Century watercolors on paper painted in tropical settings both signed MWW 87 and presented in wood frames under glass.
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Victorian Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Seduisante"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Itzchak Tarkay (1935 -2012)
"Seduisante"
2002
Mixed media watercolor on Paper - signed lower right.
COA provided.
Sheet Size 12"H x 12"W
Frame Size 25"H x 24.5"W x1.5" D ....
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Mixed Media, Watercolor
"Femme Nui"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Itzchak Tarkay (1935 -2012)
"Femme Nue"
2002
Mixed media watercolor on Paper - signed lower right. COA provided.
Sheet Size 16"H x 12"W
Frame Size 27.5 "H x 23.75"W x 1.25" ...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Mixed Media
Hildenborough, Sevenoaks, Kent - British Watercolour by Adolphe Ragon
Located in London, GB
ADOLPHE RAGON
(1847-1924)
On the Road from Hildenborough to Sevenoaks, Kent
Signed in pencil l.r., inscribed with title l.l.
Watercolour over traces of pencil
Unframed, in conserva...
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Realist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Post-Impressionist drawing of a man drinking
Located in New York, NY
The passepartout contains the following legend 'Jean-François Raffaëlli - Paris 1889 - E. Universelle - 1885'.
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Post-Impressionist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
$2,400 Sale Price
20% Off
"Enjoying the Afternoon"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Itzchak Tarkay (1935 -2012)
"Enjoying the Afternoon"
2002,
Mixed media watercolor on Paper - signed lower right. COA provided.
Sheet Size 12"H x 12"W
Frame Size 24 "H x 2...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Mixed Media, Watercolor
"Desaccord"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Itzchak Tarkay (1935 -2012)
"Desaccord"
2002
Mixed media watercolor on Paper - signed lower right. COA provided.
Sheet Size 16"H x 12"W
Frame Size 31"H x 27"W x1.5" D . ...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Mixed Media, Watercolor
"The Coffee Shop"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Itzchak Tarkay (1935 -2012)
"The Coffee Shop"
2002
Mixed media watercolor on Paper - signed lower right. COA provided.
Sheet Size 9"H x 7"W . Frame Size 24.5"H x 22.5"W x1.5"...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Primordium Vitae - Late 19th Cent Scottish Celtic Revival Symbolist watercolour
By Robert Traill Rose
Located in London, GB
ROBERT TRAILL ROSE
(1863-1942)
Primordium Vitae
Signed with monogram; signed, inscribed with title and the artist’s address and dated 1899 on a labe...
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Symbolist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Auguste Gardanne (1840-1890) Carriages and horses, War of 1870, double sided
Located in Paris, FR
Auguste Gardanne (circa 1840- circa 1890)
Carriages and horses during the franco-prussian war of 1870
Pencil and watercolor on paper
On the reverse Studies of horses
Pencil and water...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Farm House
Located in Houston, TX
Nineteenth century French watercolor painting of farm house, circa 1890.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold borde...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Watering Hole Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Beautifully detailed 19th century French drawing of cattle being lead to watering hole, circa 1895. Signed lower right.
Original artwork on paper disp...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Lionel Durieu - The Lily and the Rose - Belgian Arts & Crafts watercolour
Located in London, GB
LIONEL DURIEU
(Born 1865)
The Tournay of the Lily and the Rose
Signed and dated 1898
Watercolour and gold and silver paint on vellum
Framed
19 by 31 cm., 7 ½ by 12 ¼ in.
(frame ...
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Pre-Raphaelite Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
Gustave Riquet (1866-1938) Les Œillets de la vie, 1898 watercolor signed
Located in Paris, FR
Gustave Riquet (1866-1938)
Les Œillets de la vie, 1898 (Carnations of life)
Signed and dated on the lower right,
The text on the lower left is the following "Cueille dès aujourd'hui les oeillets de la vie" , which can be translated as "Pick today the carnations of life"
watercolor on paper
37.5 x 51.5 cm
In good condition
In a modern frame : 53 x 67 cm
The text clearly gives the meaning of this allegorical portrait...
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Symbolist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$1,162 Sale Price
20% Off
1883 Watercolour Tom Tower Christ Church Oxford "W H Hill" College University
Located in London, GB
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Realist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Gotthardt Kuehl Rathausplatz Bremen Pastel
Located in Astoria, NY
Gotthardt Johann Kuehl (German, 1850-1915), "Rathausplatz, Bremen", Pastel on Paper, signed and titled lower left, wood frame. Image: 19" H x 18" W; frame: 24.5" H x 23.5" W. Provena...
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Impressionist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Colorful Watercolor Portrait of Seated Female in White Shirt and Striped Hat
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful watercolor portrait of seated female in a white shirt and striped hat by Mexican artist, Nadine Mayes. Signed by the artist in the bottom right ...
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Abstract Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pen
The Boatman - Drawing - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Boatman is a drawing realized by an anonymous in the late 19th century.
Pencil on paper.
Good condition.
Beautiful drawing with soft pencil strokes.
Category
Modern Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Paysage de la Méditerranée - aquarelle, 39x28cm., encadré
By Emmanuel Costa
Located in Nice, FR
Aquarelle par Emmanuel Costa (1833-1921)
Encadré: 41x55 cm
Emmanuel Louis Costa naît à Menton, de Charles et de Hyacinthe Costa le 25 décembre 1833. Il semblerait que son père, scul...
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Impressionist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
19th Century British School Still Life Watercolour of Holly and a Cherry
Located in London, GB
BRITISH SCHOOL
(19th Century)
Still Life of Cherry and Holly Leaf
Watercolour and bodycolour
Unframed, in mount only
10.5 by 7.5 cm., 4 ¼ by 3 in.
(mount size 25 by 21 cm., 6 by 8...
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Realist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Group of Eight Exotic Fruit.
Located in London, GB
[CHINESE SCHOOL].
Group of Eight Exotic Fruit.
19th century, c.1880.
Group of eight watercolour and gouache pith papers of Exotic Fruits, edged in turquoise silk ribbon and laid ...
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Naturalistic Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Gustave Fraipont (1849-1923) A peasant girl with her flock of Turkeys, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Gustave Fraipont (1849-1923)
A Peasant girl with her flock of Turkeys,
Ink and heightenings of blue watercolor on paper
23 x 15 cm
Signed on the lower left and titled on lower righ...
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Realist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
Florentine Garden
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Ricciardo Meacci (Italian, 1856 - 1938)
Signed: R. Meacci (Lower, Left)
" Florentine Garden "
Watercolor on Paper
7 1/2" x 15 1/4"
Housed in a 3" Frame
Overall Size: 19 5/8" x ...
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Renaissance Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
English Graphite Portrait Sketch of Female Nude, Kneeling
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English Graphite Sketch of a Female Nude, Kneeling
by Henry George Moon (British 1857-1905)
on off white artists paper, unframed
measurements: sheet 18.75 x 12 inches
provenance: f...
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Impressionist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Maternité, XIX c. - watercolor, 17x12 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
Beautiful watercolor by Alcide Teophile ROBAUDI, french painter and illustrator. Born in 1850 in Nice and dead in 1928 in Paris.
Framed. Take also a look at the other watercolors of ...
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Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
John Fulleylove Trinity College Great Court, Cambridge 1890 watercolour
Located in London, GB
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Victorian Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Half-length portrait of a Pharisee - In the shadow of betrayal -
Located in Berlin, DE
Hermann Prell (1854 Leipzig - 1922 Dresden-Loschwitz). Half-length portrait of a Pharisee, 1885. Sketch for the right-hand figure in the painting Judas Iscariot, 1886. Pencil drawing heightened with opaque white and black chalk on beige-grey wove paper (papier vélin), 34 x 27.8 cm (visible size), 52 x 45 cm (mount), signed, dated and inscribed "H. PRELL 1885 zu 'Judas'".
Minor browning, collection stamp on the reverse.
- In the shadow of betrayal -
About the artwork
This painting is the sketch for the head of the Pharisee offering the coins to Judas in one of Herrmann Prell's major works, the painting Betrayal of Judas, completed in 1886. The painting belongs to the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and is illustrated in Adolf Rosenberg: Prell, Bielefeld and Leipzig 1901, p. 21 (Fig. 19). It is especially highlighted in Thieme-Becker (vol. 27, p. 376).
Hermann Prell, Betrayal of Judas, 1886
The monumental head, which fills the picture and is distinguished by its ornamented robe, is almost a lost profile, which in the executed painting is justified by the Pharisee's turning towards Judas. Despite the fact that the sitter withdraws from the viewer by turning away, it was necessary to artistically elaborate the motivation for the purchase of one of Christ's disciples, which is why the drawing focuses on the expression of the face, while the 'accessories' are treated in a more summary manner.
In characterising the face, Hermann Prell performs a balancing act: since the Pharisee, despite his destructive actions, is an actor in the history of salvation, the head must show a dignity appropriate to the event, but at the same time the physiognomy must also bear witness to the scheming attitude that led to the betrayal. To solve this dilemma, Prell draws on the traditional depictions of the heads of the apostles, shading the face to indicate the obdurate darkness of the spirit and moving the base of the nose slightly upwards while the mouth falls away, thus giving a physiognomic expression to the motivation of the action. The fatal drama of the betrayal is expressed in the monumentalisation of the head and in the thunderous white highlights that contrast with the darkness of the chalk.
As a study, considered by the artist to be a work in itself, this drawing reveals the pictorial problems and brainstorming of monumental painting.
About the artist
In 1872 Prell, who was one of the most important exponents of monumental painting of his time, began studying painting with Theodor Grosse at the Dresden Academy of Art and continued with Carl Gussow at the Berlin Academy in 1876. Hans von Marées taught him in Rome in 1878. More influential on his work, however, were Arnold Böcklin and Max Klinger, with whom Prell had been friends since his student days and with whom he worked together on several occasions.
Prell's first major work, which established his reputation as a monumental painter, were the frescoes in the banqueting hall of the Architektenhaus in Berlin in 1881/82, commissioned by the state and depicting the different periods of architecture. Prell then went to Italy for two years to study fresco painting. Other major commissions followed. These included monumental frescoes in the town halls of Worms (1884), Hildesheim (1882-92), Gdansk (1895) and Dresden, the staircase of the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts in Breslau (1893/94), the throne room of the German Embassy in Rome (1896-99) and the staircase of the Albertinum in Dresden (1900-1904).
From 1886 Prell taught at the academy of arts in Berlin and in 1892 he was appointed professor at the academy of arts in Dresden. His students included Osmar Schindler and Hans Unger...
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Realist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
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Attributed to Eugene Deully (1866-1933) A sitting woman, study, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Attributed to Eugene Deully (1866-1933)
A sitting woman, study,
Pencil and heightenings of white gouache on blue grey paper;
23 x 14.5 cm
Framed (damag...
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French School Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
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Coastal landscape, 1882
Located in PARIS, FR
Frank Charles Peyraud (1858-1948)
Coastal landscape, 1882
Charcoal and shading on paper
Signed "C. Peyraud", dated "82" and dedicated "à l'ami Baradat" ? lower right
29.5 x 56 cm
Slightly oiled
A French-born artist born in Switzerland in 1858, Frank Charles Peyraud showed an early interest in drawing and painting. He grew up in a rural environment before studying architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, encouraged by his father. In 1877, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1881, Frank Peyraud...
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Post-Impressionist Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
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