Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
ROMANTIC STYLE
In emphasizing emotion and imagination, romantic art shifted away from the restraint of classicism and neoclassicism that had dominated art in Europe since the Renaissance. Romanticism achieved its greatest popularity in art, literature, music and philosophy between 1780 and 1830, although its expression of individual experiences ranging from awe to passion informed culture in the decades after.
Landscape painting was especially popular during the romantic period, as were nature studies of wild animals and fantasies of exotic lands. Romanticism varied across Europe as it reacted to the rise of industrialization, a more personal relationship with faith that was distanced from the church and the rationalist thinking of the Enlightenment.
British painters such as John Constable and J.M.W. Turner responded dramatically to the light and atmosphere of the natural world, while William Blake conveyed humanity’s connection to the divine in his visionary art. In Germany, the late-18th-century Sturm und Drang, or Storm and Drive, movement, with its probing of the unconscious, inspired a sense of mystery in work by romantic artists such as Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge. In France, where the French Revolution had turned tradition upside down, Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix used lush brushwork to paint monumental canvases with tumultuous scenes of nature and history.
The romantic movement and its subject matter were a significant influence on the Pre-Raphaelites, Symbolists and the American painters of the Hudson River School, as well as on other cultural movements in the 19th and 20th centuries that saw artists build on this perspective in which art was guided by emotion rather than reason.
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Style: Romantic
Alexandre Bida (1813-1895) A Young Woman in profile, Signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Alexandre Bida (1813-1895)
A Young Woman in Profile
Signed with the monogram lower right
Pencil on grey-blue paper
17.7 x 11.5 cm
Framed : 36.5 x 27 cm
This drawing shows Bida's tec...
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1880s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Venus
Located in London, GB
Richard Westall, R.A. (1765-1836)
Venus
signed and dated ‘R. Westall 1794’ (lower right)
pencil and watercolour, with white heightening
image 11 ⅞ x 15 ¼ in. (30.2 x 38.7 cm.)
frame 22 ⅛ x 26 in. (56.3 x 66.1 cm.)
Provenance:
Private Collection, UK.
Venus (1794) was produced during a highly creative and defining period of Richard Westall’s career and artistic development, when from 1790-95 the ambitious young artist was sharing a house at 57 Greek Street, Soho, with his friend Sir Thomas Lawrence, the future President of the Royal Academy.
Whilst lodging together, Lawrence became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1791, Westall the following year, and both were elected full-members in 1794 – the year Lawrence was appointed Painter-in-Ordinary to His Majesty King George III. Westall was to become Queen Victoria’s first Drawing Master, before her ascension to the throne.
It was in this very year, 1794 - as the two young artists became Royal Academicians - that the present watercolour was executed, and it is exciting to speculate that Lawrence would have examined and given his thoughts on the work.
Highly comparable to The Wallace Collection’s Nymph and cupids (c.1793, cat. P757), acquired by Francis Seymour-Conway (1777-1842), 3rd Marquess of Hertford, (who hung it in his bedroom), the mid-1790s saw Westall exhibiting and returning to similar subject-matter on a number of occasions. Two works with titles that could be applied to the present picture were exhibited at the Royal Academy, in 1794 (no. 341 Nymph and Cupids) and 1795 (no. 620, A Wood–nymph and Cupids). However, a print after the watercolour, engraved by F. Screen, entitles the piece Venus.
Westall is regarded as a great virtuoso watercolourist, and Venus is evidence of the young artist’s mastery of the medium. Indeed, it is unusual to find a watercolour of comparable age so well preserved, and retaining such vibrancy - the superb condition providing an insight into his exceptional brushwork and use of colour.
Venus languishes luxuriously on her woodland bed, the trunk of a tree resembling a curtain, while three winged putti play beside her, seeming to gesture to someone in the woods. Cupid draws back his bow and aims an arrow of love, perhaps about to pierce the heart of a hunting nobleman, or unsuspecting woodcutter. The striking contrast between the almost luminescent nymph, with the deep, rich, luxuriant forest, gives the glade an alluring sense of mystery – perhaps an allusion to the mysteries of the heart, a pre-occupation with Romanticism, central to the emerging thought of the time. Westall can be classified as one of the great Romantic artists, and even painted Lord Byron’s portrait...
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1790s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
$25,523
Artists and their muses
Located in London, GB
Playboy School, 20th Century
Artists and their muses: Titian and Violante; Sir Peter Lely and Nell Gwyn; Francois Boucher and Louise O’Murphy; Hogarth, Nell...
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1980s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
$5,794
19th Century Romantic school, A Pavilion in a garden, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Romantic School, circa 1860
A pavilion in a garden , an animated view
Pen and black ink, black ink wash on paper
19.5 x 26.5 cm
In good condition, slightly undulating.
Framed : 39 x ...
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1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
French Romantic School, View of Arriccia, 1828, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French Romantic School beginning of the 19th Century
View of Arriccia, 1828
located and dated, "Arriccia 1828" on the lower right
Pencil on paper
23 x ...
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1820s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Untitled (Musician with clarinet)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Musician with clarinet)
Watercolor on paper, c. 1844
Created on J Whatman Turkey Mill Watermarked paper
Signed lower left: Gavarni (see photo)
Condition: very fresh colors
...
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1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Romantic Couple In Wartime Paris on Rainy Parisian Night
Located in Miami, FL
The technique and subject matter work well together in this loosely but masterfully rendered World War 1 romantic illustration of a Soldier and a Parisian woman. Even though this wo...
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1930s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Cobb's Creek (Large Signed Original Watercolor, c. 1905, Penns. Academy)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sorry for the reflections on the glass - I did not want to disassemble the ornate antique gold frame in order to photograph the art. At any rate - this is a beautifully accomplished turn-of-the-century watercolor by the American painter Frank English...
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Early 1900s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
French romantic school Drawing black chalk and goiache HORTIN steam boat 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Charles HORTIN (Attributed to)
(XIX)
Black chalk and white gouache
Signed lower right
12 x 16 cm
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
French school of the nineteenth century, LW (?) Harbor scene, drawing signed
Located in Paris, FR
French school of the nineteenth century, LW (?)
Harbor scene, animation around a skiff
Pencil on paper Signed LW (?) Bottom right
15 x 21 cm
Framed : 27 x 34.5 cm
This very fine ...
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1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Achille Devéria (1800-1857) Allez au diable, la fille est à moi Original Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Achille Devéria (1800-1857)
"Allez au diable, la femme est à moi" (Go to hell, This woman is mine)
pencil on paper
annotated on the upper border "Alle...
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1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Auguste Mayer (1805-1890) A seascape with a boat, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Auguste Mayer (1803-1890
A seascape with a boat
signed with the initials on the lower left
Pencil and heightenings of white gouache on paper
17.5 x 26 cm...
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1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Carbon Pencil
Portrait of a Louis XIV Period Gentleman, Drawing by Vivian Rydgren
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Vivian Rydgren
Title: Portrait of a Gentleman
Year: 1948
Medium: Color pencil and pastel on paper, signed and dated l.r.
Paper Size: 23 x 15.5 inches
Framed: 37.5 x 29.5 inches
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1940s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Color Pencil
Charon's Ferry - Early 19th Century Scottish Romantic watercolour by David Scott
By David Scott
Located in London, GB
DAVID SCOTT, RSA
(British 1806-1849)
Charon’s Ferry
Signed with initials and indistinctly inscribed l.l.
Watercolour
Unframed, in mount only
29 by 40.5 cm., 11 ½ by 16 in.
(mount size 40.5 by 55.5 cm., 16 by 22 in.)
Provenance:
William Bell Scott, London;
Mrs Balton;
Private collection.
David Scott was born in Edinburgh. He studied art under his father, the engraver, Robert Scott. He exhibited his first picture oil painting, Hopes of Early Genius Dispelled by Death in 1828, becoming a regular exhibitor at the Royal Scottish Academy. In 1832 he visited Italy. He specialised in large canvases of historical or symbolist subjects, being much influence by William Blake. From the mid 1830s he became absorbed in a series of designs and illustration for Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner, Bunyan’s Pilgrim...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Conrad Martens, Charles Darwin in the Beagle’s Tender, Patagonia, Argentina wc
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
PROVENANCE: Christie’s South Kensington, England, June 10, 1986; Maynards Auction, Vancouver, Canada, December 6, 1994.
This 19th cent wc depicts Charles Darwin in the Beagle’s Tender, Coastal Patagonia, Argentina.
The son of an English mother and the Austrian Consul General in London, Conrad Martens pursued a career in painting following his father’s death in 1816. From the age of sixteen he studied under landscape watercolourist Copley Fielding, absorbing the traditions of the English watercolour school and Joshua Reynolds’ theories on painting. In 1833 Martens joined the HMS Beagle on a scientific survey expedition at Montevideo, South America, as ship’s artist, replacing the ailing Augustus Earle. He befriended the ship’s naturalist, Charles Darwin, whose empirical observation of landscape forms and climatic conditions would influence Martens’ practice.
Martens left the Beagle in Valparaiso in 1834 and travelled to Australia via New Zealand and Tahiti, settling in Sydney in 1835 and setting up a studio in Pitt Street. Patronised by the colonial elite, he fulfilled many commissions for watercolours of the local landscape and Sydney Harbour, including Elizabeth Bay c1838, which features the grand neoclassical edifice of Elizabeth Bay House, built for the former colonial secretary...
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1830s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
J'ai enfoncé Jalouret!
Located in BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, FR
Caractéristique de la production de Gavarni, ce dessin est à rapprocher de plusieurs autres portraits-charges représentant des personnages masculins en pied dans la même posture, deb...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Jules Noel (1810-1881) Landscape with a manor and a traveler, signed drawing
By Jules Noel
Located in Paris, FR
Jules Noel (1810-1881)
Landscape with a manor and a traveler
Signed lower left
Pencil on paper
27.5 x 44.5 cm
Framed under glass : 43 x 59.5 cm
This drawing shows more particularly...
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1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
The Pipe's of Pan - British Watercolour by Hubert von Herkomer
Located in London, GB
SIR HUBERT VON HERKOMER, RA, RWS
(1849-1914)
The Pipe’s of Pan
Signed with initials and dated 26/2/74
Watercolour and bodycolour on paper
17 by 22 cm., 6 ¾ by 8 ¾ in.
(frame size ...
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1870s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Charles Emile Jacque (Paris 1813 - 1894) Dog in a doghouse, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Charles Emile Jacque (1813-1894)
Dog in a doghouse
Monogrammed "C. J. "lower right
Pencil on paper
17 x 13 cm
Mark of the Collection of Doctor Albert Finot "AF" (Lugt 3627) lower lef...
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1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Achille Devéria (1800-1857) A young woman seen in profile, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Achille Devéria (1800-1857)
A young woman seen in profile
Black Chalk on paper
with cut edges
Bears the stamp of the Achille Deveria Estate Sale of 1...
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1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
French School 19th century, Set of nine humoristic drawings, pencil on paper
Located in Paris, FR
France, 19th century
Set of nine humoristic drawings, various subjects in the same mount
Black pencil, for some of them with highlights of white gouache
various dimensions : 6 x 5.5 ...
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1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
French School 19th century, Le Lavoir (The washing place), watercolor on paper,
Located in Paris, FR
French School, first half of the 19th century
Le Lavoir (The washing place)
Watercolor and pencil heightened with white gouache
Bears a monogramm R P B on the lower left
21.5 x 33.5 cm
Collector mark of Maurice Gobin on the back (Lugt L.1124a)
In quite good condition: doubled on the back, a repaired tear on the upper border
In a modern cardboard...
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1820s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Seated Young Lady (by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance") - Antique Drawing
Located in New Orleans, LA
Many of you clicking on this pen-and-ink of a pretty Edwardian-era lady are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the...
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1890s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - Peony
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencils on paper mounted on panel
Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She had an awakening of her talent in pencil drawing as a teenage...
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2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (1848–1934), Henri Rochefort for a duel, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (1848–1934)
Portrait of Henri Rochefort ready for a duel,
Pencil on paper
Signed and titled lower left
28 x 21 cm
In good condition : the left and right borders irregularly cut
In a modern cardboard mount : 45.5 x 35 cm
Henri Rochefort, whose complete name was Victor Henri de Rochefort-Luçay , was born in Paris on January 31 , 1831, he died in Aix-les-Bains on 1 st July 1913. He was a french journalist , playwright and politician A great polemicist in the pages of his newspapers ( La Lanterne , La Marseillaise , L'Intransigeant), he defended radical and even extremist political options (anticlerical , nationalist , favorable to the Commune , Boulangist , socialist and anti-Dreyfusard ) which earned him the nickname of "The man with twenty duels and thirty trials », And convictions, in particular in the prison of Noumea from which, unique fact, he managed to escape in 1874.
Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (1848–1934) was a Swiss-French Impressionist painter, designer, watercolorist, and engraver who was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and died in France. His work often depicts the modern life in Paris.
He started out pursuing a military career, as an infantry officer (1866–1881). He was a lieutenant with the Twenty-third Infantry from 1868 to 1870. He fought in the Franco-Prussian War, was wounded at Rezonville, and was awarded the Légion d'Honneur. He subsequently served with the Ninety-fourth Infantry and the Seventy-third Infantry. At the time he left the army he held the rank of major, with the Chasseurs à Pieds.
He never ceased drawing. He was known for the first time in 1872 at the art exhibition Salon de Paris, where he presented a watercolor painting called Intérieur de forêt. The next year he presented the painting Le Vernan à Nass-sous-Sainte-Anne. From then on he was a regular contributor to the Salon de Paris, where he presented new works with views of Toulouse, Paris, Troyes, the edges of the Seine, and some portraits.
In 1881, after the army offered him the rank of commandant, he resigned to devote himself exclusively to painting. He took up residence in Paris. His works from this period represent mainly scenes of military life that allowed him to forge a reputation. Jeanniot established himself permanently in 1882 and obtained his first award the following year (medal third class of the Salon de Paris) with his les Flanqueurs (1883, Musée du Luxembourg). In 1886, La ligne de feu, souvenirs de la bataille de Rezonville, remembering the Battle of Mars-La-Tour (Museum of Pau), assured his notoriety.
From then on, he started to show a certain artistic independence. He then mostly portrayed Parisian women during the "Belle Epoque", women in bathing suits...
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1870s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
French Romantic School, Le Baiser (The Kiss) Study, charcoal and Ink drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French Romantic School circa 1830
"Le Baiser"
The Kiss, A hunter and a girl flirting, study of the girl in the upper register
pencil, pen and black ink
19.5 x 13 cm (view)
Framed ...
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1830s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - Ova
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencil on paper
Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She had an awakening of her talent in pencil drawing as a teenager. It was the beau...
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2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Paper
19th Century french school, Villefranche-sur Mer, the harbour, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
French School circa 1850
Villefranche sur mer, the Harbour
Watercolor on paper
16 x 24 cm
In good condition
Framed 29 x 38 cm
This very fine wat...
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1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Louis Gallait (1810-1887) Portrait of a Gentleman, watercolor and gouache
By Louis Gallait
Located in Paris, FR
Louis Gallait (1810-1887)
Portrait of a Gentleman,
Watercolor and gouache on paper, square white lines,
24 x 16 cm
Stamp of the Louis Gallait Estate on the mount on the lower righ...
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1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor
Claud Lovat Fraser - 1918 British Fan Shaped watercolour - Fete Galante
Located in London, GB
CLAUD LOVAT FRASER
(1890-1921)
Fete Galante – Fan Design
Signed and dated l.r.: C. LOVAT FRASER FECIT MAR 1918
Watercolour and pencil, shaped
Framed
20 by 37.5 cm., 8 by 14 ¾ in.
...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Attributed to Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) La famille heureuse, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Attribuetd to Eugène Devéria (1805-1865)
La Famille heureuse (The Happy Family)
Watercolor on paper
23 x 18 cm
In quite good condition : a small tear i...
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1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Twentieth Century Figurative Semi Nude Model Conte Crayon Drawing
Located in ludlow, GB
Twentieth Century Figurative Semi Nude of Model Conte Crayon Drawing.
One of the most important British Painters of the Twentieth Century, Will...
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20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Conté
Romantic school, Woman and Infant with guards, watercolor signed dated 1847
Located in Paris, FR
Romantic school, mid 19th century
Antique Scene, Woman and Infant surrounded by guards
watercolor, pen and black ink and heightenings of white gouache on...
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1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Historical figurative drawing of 19th century Italian Romanticism
Located in Florence, IT
The subject illustrated here is one of the moments that mark the centuries-long history of Genoa's glorious Maritime Republic, when the ashes of St. John the Baptist, one of the city...
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1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pen, Pencil
Pierre-Adolphe Huas (1838-1900) Young Neapolitan, 1867, pastel signed and dated
Located in Paris, FR
Pierre-Adolphe Huas (1838-1900)
Young Neapolitan, 1867,
signed and dated upper left
50.5 x 39.5 cm
Pastel on paper transferred to canvas
In good condition, but a small restoration ...
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1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel
Bouquet Bearer bright colors blue dress yellow wall pastel women fashion flowers
Located in Brooklyn, NY
soft pastel on toned archival sanded paper signed and dated bottom left this work is part on an ongoing series bt the artist depicting women with floral bouquets
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2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - Ephemeral
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencil on paper
Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She had an awakening of her talent in pencil drawing as a teenager. It was the beau...
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2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Victorian English Watercolour, Historical Scene (King Lear?) by Cattermole
By George Cattermole
Located in Firenze, IT
Victorian English Watercolour, Romantic Historical Scene (King Lear?) by Cattermole
Watercolour on paper 29 × 22 cm (without frame), 35 × 43 cm (with frame)
Gilt frame from the mi...
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Paul Sandby Munn RWS, Mallevy, Merioneth, North Wales, Watercolour
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 19th-century watercolour by British artist Paul Sandby Munn RWS (1773-1845) depicts a riverside view at Mallevy in North Wales.
Amid a hasty world where technology consumes our waking hours, few of us find the time to consider the subtle beauties of quiet watercolours. Yet, during the late 18th century, when Munn began producing his skillfully-rendered views, this style of drawing was considered an act of rebellion. Indeed, to such an extent that, together with several associates, Munn contributed to one of the most vital artistic circles in British history - the “Brothers” sketching club.
Held every Saturday, the sketching club sought to raise the status of landscape watercolours from their lowly position as mere copies of nature. Fellow artists such as John Varley, Thomas Girtin and John Sell Cotman...
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1830s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Trompe l'oeil New York street with aerial perspective, pastel-colored buildings
Located in Carballo, ES
Ventura A. Pérez (1992) is one of the most seductive artists on the contemporary Spanish scene. After earning a doctorate in contemporary art from the University of Vigo, he moved to...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Theatre Scene, Opera, Old Master Drawing, Griselidis, Mallet, French Art
Located in Greven, DE
Unknown Artist, French School 18th Century, Circle of Mallet? Scene taken from the Decamerone.
Old Master Drawing
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18th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Cardboard
$1,431 Sale Price
20% Off
Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) The Children of the painter Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Eugène Devéria (1805-1865)
The children of the painter
Portrait in an oval, study for a portrait
Black pencil on paper
23 x 19 cm
Stamp of the worksh...
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1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Evening Calm by the Northern River
Located in Stockholm, SE
ink on paper
signed OSC. LYCKE
unframed 24 x 34 cm (9.4 x 13.4 in)
framed 33.5 x 43.5 cm (13.2 x 17.1 in)
Provenance:
Acquired directly from Katarina Gunnarsson, who inherited the ...
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1910s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Circle of Angelika Kauffmann, Venus and Amor, Arrow and Spindle, Oval Drawing
Located in Greven, DE
Fine drawing in pencil, oval format. Circle of Angelika Kauffmann.
The subject is not clear. It is Amor with his arrows and perhaps Venus with a sp...
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18th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Handmade Paper
$1,145 Sale Price
20% Off
Hand-Me-Downs - Street Children - Waif - Cockney Gutter Imps.
Located in Miami, FL
19th Century Street Art - British children's book author and illustrator Edith Farmiloe depicts a waif-like girl - Cockney Gutter Imp - who is disheveled. The artist draws her i...
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Early 1900s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pen, Ink
Portrait of a Young Officer, Thomas Lawrence, Irish Volunteers
By Sir Thomas Lawrence
Located in London, GB
Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA
1769-1830
Portrait of a Young Officer
Pastel with touches of black chalk on paper
Signed and inscribed on an old label verso: "Be pleased to keep away / from the Damp & from dust / T Lawrence AE 13. / 1783."
Wash mount and gilt frame
Provenance
W.E. Spooner;
Anonymous sale, Phillips London, 17 April 2000 lot 196
Sothebys, Old Master & Early British Paintings, 14 April 2011 • London Lot 246
Old label verso describes how this was drawn in 1783 at the age of 14!
This is a portrait of an officer from the Irish Volunteers. The Irish Volunteers was a part-time military force raised by local initiative in Ireland in 1778. Their original purpose was to guard against invasion and to preserve law and order at a time when British soldiers were withdrawn from Ireland to fight abroad during the American Revolutionary War.
As a young boy Thomas Lawrence lived with his parents who ran a coaching inn near Bath. Clearly talented from this young age, he drew the passing travellers who stopped at the inn and this soldier may have been one such sitter. Lawrence was only 13 years old when he drew this work. To capitalise upon their son's talents, the family later moved to Bath and sent Lawrence to London in 1787 where he entered the Royal Academy schools at the earliest possible age. Works from such an early period of Lawrence's creativity are rarely to be found today.
This rare early portrait drawn in Bath shows the level of technical skill that Lawrence had reached at 14 years old. His use of colour and tone to depict flesh and all the subtle variations in the texture and pigmentation of his sitter’s face, powdered hair and clothes show how Lawrence conceived pastel as a form of painting and partly explains how he could have made the smooth transition to oil painting so soon afterwards.
When he arrived in Bath from Devizes in 1780, eleven-year-old Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) was promoted as a natural-born genius like his Renaissance predecessor Raphael. The local press announced the arrival of the boy wonder and his ‘Striking Sketches’, inviting the ‘Nobility and Gentry’ to sit for their portraits.
Thomas Lawrence was a prodigious portraitist from the age of just eight, when he began to draw his first portraits in pencil...
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1780s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Sarah Bernhardt in Profile – Drawing by August Hagborg
Located in Stockholm, SE
Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt – Drawing by August Hagborg
This finely rendered pencil drawing, executed with grey and black wash and measuring 35 × 33.1 cm, is signed “Hagborg.” It is...
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1880s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
1930s French Barbizon School Watercolour, Village and Bridge by a River, Dinard
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Barbizon School watercolour on paper view of a French village and stone bridge by a river by Henri Clamen. The painting is dated, 1939, and titled, 'Dinard' to the back of the...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
Glory hole between two buildings, Vriesendorp surrealism, blue and green
Located in Carballo, ES
Ventura A. Pérez (1992) is one of the most seductive artists on the contemporary Spanish scene. After earning a doctorate in contemporary art from the University of Vigo, he moved to...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Oil, Wood Panel
fish tank, blue color study, surreal skyscraper, oil painting, Vriesendorp
Located in Carballo, ES
Ventura A. Pérez (1992) is one of the most seductive artists on the contemporary Spanish scene. After earning a doctorate in contemporary art from the University of Vigo, he moved to...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Statue of Liberty kissing a duck in a movie theater, purple lighting
Located in Carballo, ES
Ventura A. Pérez (1992) is one of the most seductive artists on the contemporary Spanish scene. After earning a doctorate in contemporary art from the University of Vigo, he moved to...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Mountainous Riverlandscape with resting Wanderers, German, Aquatint, old master
Located in Greven, DE
German or Swiss School, probably Circle of Christoph Nathe (1753-1808)), around 1800; beautiful old master drawing/ aquatint, inscribed "P 50/ 1871 gekauf...
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Handmade Paper
Inscription Rock, New Mexico – Southwest Light in Gouache by Carl Oscar Borg
Located in Stockholm, SE
Carl Oscar Borg (1879-1947) Swedish/American
Inscription Rock, New Mexico
gouache on card
signed CARL OSCAR BORG.
unframed: 12 x 17.5 cm (4 3/4 x 6 7/8 in)
framed: 22 x 27 cm (8 5/...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Gouache
Crows, Brush, Watercolour on Paper, Set of 14 works by Indian Artist "In Stock"
By Dipen Bose
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Dipen Bose
Brush & Watercolour on paper
7.5 x 5 inches, 1961-64 (each)
Paintings on both sides of the paper.
Extraordinary and Unique.
(Set of 7 Reversible Works) - Recto - Verso
(F...
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1960s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
La Port De Cannes French Riviera Côte d'Azur Original Framed Watercolor Painting
By Paul Delvaux
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Paul Delvaux.
Belgian ( b.1897 - d.1994 ).
La Belle Anna, La Port De Cannes, 1930.
Watercolor, Bodycolor & Pastel On Woven Paper.
Signed & Dated 1930 Lower Left.
Image size 15.7 inc...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
View of Ariccia, a preparatory drawing by Achille Bénouville (1815 - 1891)
Located in PARIS, FR
This very modern drawing presents a view of Ariccia, a small town 25 kilometres south-east of Rome. The Palazzo Chigi (in which the film-maker Luchino Visconti would film a large part of The Leopard a century later) and the adjoining church are seen from the bottom of the ravine that surrounds the town. This drawing is a moving testimony to the attraction of the city for artists of the Romantic period, who established in Ariccia a vivid artists' colony.
1. Achille Bénouville...
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1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Gouache, Pencil
20th Century Watercolour Painting - At the Fish Market
Located in London, GB
William LEE-HANKEY (1869-1952, British)
At the Fish Market
1904
pencil, watercolor, bodycolor w/gum arabic
20 x 20 inches, inc. frame
Provenance: The Swan Gallery...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape
Located in Roma, IT
Drawing on paper, XIX century.
Provenance: Nino Costa’s successors. Liberio Merolli, Rome. Private Collection.
This fascinating drawing was realized by Nino Costa, an Italian landsca...
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper
"Funchal, Madeira Franciscans Convent" Antique Drawing on Paper Watkinson
Located in Soquel, CA
"Funchal, Madeira Franciscans Convent" Antique Drawing on Paper Watkinson
Delicate and detailed drawing of Funchal, Madeira by Hartford, Connecticut artist Edward Watkins Wells (181...
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1830s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Laid Paper, Pencil
French romantic school PETIT Paris view architecture Saint Denis 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Antoine-Baptiste PETIT
Paris, 1800 – Versailles, 1864
Watercolor
18 x 27 cm
Antoine-Baptiste Petit was a decorative painter and teacher of perspective.
He produced views of Paris in...
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1830s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Romantic drawings and watercolor paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Romantic drawings and watercolor paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add drawings and watercolor paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Leo Primavesi, Dipen Bose, Ellsworth Woodward, and George Augustus Wallis. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Romantic drawings and watercolor paintings, so small editions measuring 3.59 inches across are also available. Prices for drawings and watercolor paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $178 and tops out at $68,131, while the average work sells for $1,025.