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French Watercolor

1833

Playful one-of-a-kind pencil sketch of various 18th century figures going about their daily activities, circa 1850. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold bo...

Spirited pencil and watercolor sketch of a performing clown, circa 1940. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival plastic sleeve and Certifica...

Wonderful 19th century French drawing of building by water, titled "Composition", 1864. Dated lower left. Original artwork on paper dis...

Mesmerizing one-of-a-kind watercolor of an old town French street scene by artist Alphonse Soumers, circa 1920. Original one-of-a-kind vintage work of art on paper displayed on a w...

C. 20th Century - Watercolor Drawing of a Man " Parandello Play " Signed Lower Rightside

Denis Auguste Raffet (1804-1860) Studies of characters Black pencil and watercolor on paper 18.5 x 25.5 cm Stamp of the Raffet Estate Sale (1911) on the lower right In good condition, foxings on the original mount Framed 34 x 40 cm Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (2 March 1804 – 16 February 1860) was a French illustrator and lithographer. He was a student of Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, and was a retrospective painter of the Empire. At an early age he was apprenticed to a wood turner, but took up the study of art at evening classes. At the age of 18 he entered the workshop of Cabanel, where he applied his skill to the decoration of china, and where he met Rudor, from whom he received instruction in lithography, in the practice of which he was to rise to fame. He then entered the École des Beaux-Arts, but returned to lithography in 1830 when he produced on stone his famous designs of Lützen, Waterloo, Le bal, La revue, and Les adieux de la garrison, by which his reputation became immediately established.[ Raffet's chief works were his lithographs of the Napoleonic campaigns, from Egypt to Waterloo, vigorous designs inspired by ardent patriotic enthusiasm. In this endeavor he was a contemporary of other French artist-lithographers of Napoleon and the French army including Hippolyte Bellangé, Horace Vernet, and Nicolas Toussaint Charlet. As an illustrator his activity was prodigious, the list of works illustrated by his crayon amounting to about forty-five, among which are Béranger's poems, the History of the Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, the History of Napoleon by de Norvins, the great Walter Scott by Auguste Defauconpret, the French Plutarch and Frédéric Bérat's Songs. He went to Rome in 1849, and was present at the siege of Rome, which he made the subject of some lithographs, and followed the Italian campaign of 1859, of which he left a record in his Episodes de la campagne d'Italie de 1859. His portraits in pencil...

"Portrait of Zazon" is a drawing in watercolor on paper, realized by Jean Delpech (1916-1988). The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. Sheet dimension: 24.8 x 12.6 c...

Watercolour on ivory colored paper, 1820 c.a.. Hand titled and signed. Representing brigand. Very good conditions. Very beautiful and good quality watercolour both for the drawing a...