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
WOP 2 - 00642
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed
full sheet 22.5 x 30.25 inches
signed, dated and titled on lower right
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint ...
Category
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
WOP 2 - 00643
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed
full sheet 22.5 x 30.25 inches
signed, dated and titled on lower right
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint ...
Category
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
WOP 2 - 00655
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed
full sheet 22.75 x 30.25 inches
signed, dated and titled on lower right
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint...
Category
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Tuscan allegorical figurative drawing pencil on paper, 19th century
Located in Florence, IT
This small study on paper, 18 x 21 cm, depicts a group of nude putti, about 7 of them, in small groups engaged in various activities, of which we can recognize that of the three in t...
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Irina
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Drawing by Jean-Baptiste Valadie
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Engraving, Lithograph
Southern Landscape, Ships, Old Master Drawing, 19th Century, by Von Stengel
Located in Greven, DE
Southern Landscape with View of a Castle and Ships passing by
Pen and brush in brown and black over pencil, brown and grey wash, 17,5 x 22,7cm
Plain black moulding with golden pearl ...
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
View of the Ovo Castle in the Moonlight, a 19th century Neapolitan gouache
Located in PARIS, FR
Neapolitan gouaches appeared in the eighteenth century when tourism in the Naples area was developing: the discoveries of Herculaneum and Pompeii made this city a mandatory stop on the Grand Tour, the journey made by wealthy Europeans to complete their education.
Generally small in size for ease of transport and affordable in price, these gouaches were the ideal travel souvenir that these tourists of the early days were bringing back to capture the idyllic landscapes they had discovered during their journey and to share them with family and friends upon their return at home.
The Bay of Naples and the eruptions of Vesuvius are the favourite themes of these views. Here we have a view of the Ovo Castle, which was rebuilt on the island of Partenope, in the middle of the Bay of Naples and about a hundred metres from the shore by the Normans in the 12th century on antique ruins...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
European Artist - Indonesian Portraits of Mas Marco Kartodikromo, 1890-1932
Located in Amsterdam, NL
European artist (early 20th century)
Two study portraits of Mas MarCo Kartodikromo (1890-1932)
One inscribed Kartodikromo lower right
Framed in ebonized frame with white mount.
Pe...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
“She struggled until she heard him telling her to be quiet.”
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for “Tin Crown” by Rex Beach for Cosmopolitan, published February 1933, page 61.
Battling writer's block, songwriter Bertram Berry relies on the hidden talents of...
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20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Board, Pencil, Watercolor
Swans /// Antique Female Artist Bird Ornithology Animal Landscape Watercolor Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Catherine Board (English, Active Early 19th Century)
Title: "Swans"
*Signed by Board lower right. It is also signed and dated by Board at lower right on verso
Circa: 1820
Med...
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1820s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
French Orientalist Art, Old Master Drawing Elephants, Hunt and Soldiers, Nature
Located in Greven, DE
Guignet was born in Annecy and grew up in the city of Autun. He was a friend of Hippolyte Michaud. He was a rather popular orientalist painter in h...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper
$906 Sale Price
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Tropical Landscape with Palm Trees and Flamingo, German Romantic Art, Nature Art
Located in Greven, DE
Signed Pencil Drawing by Andreas Geist, a German painter of animals and theatre sceneries.
Andreas Geist was born as the son of the painter Joseph Gei...
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Handmade Paper
Disegno italiano, ritratto di signora con cuffia, matita su carta del XIX secolo
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno in questione è molto probabilmente uno studio dal vivo per un ritratto da riportare successivamente in pittura, come si può notare dall'intensità dello sguardo e dall'alta...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - KA-E-RU
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencil 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, Charcoal, Paper
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - Forgiveness
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencil 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 teenager...
Category
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - Gaze up to the Sky
Located in Paris, IDF
Paper, pencil, charcoal on styrene board pasted on matte paper
Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She had an awakening of her talent i...
Category
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Paper, Charcoal
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - See Through Everything
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencils 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 be...
Category
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - Chimi Moryo
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencils & acrylic 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 w...
Category
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Acrylic, Paper
WOP 2 - 00649
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed
full sheet 22.5 x 30.25 inches
signed, dated and titled on lower right
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint ...
Category
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
WOP 2 - 00647
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed
full sheet 22.5 x 30.25 inches
signed, dated and titled on lower right
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint ...
Category
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
WOP 2 - 00653
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed
full sheet 22.5 x 30.25 inches
signed, dated and titled on lower right
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint ...
Category
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Pair of Sea Views, decorative Drawings, Marine Interior, French Coast, Moin
Located in Greven, DE
A Pair of Drawings, Framed
Signed and dated 1855
Chalk in black, brown wash, heightened with white, on paper
each sheet, 46 x 31 cm . Framed.
Two Landscape and Sea View Old Master Drawings, Paris, 18th Century, by Mozin
Charles Louis Mozin (* 12 March 1806 in Paris; † 7 November 1862 in Trouville-sur-Mer) was a French painter. He is the grandfather of the Post-Impressionist Fernand Piet.
The brother of the composer Théodore Mozin was a pupil of Xavier Leprince. He is considered the "discoverer" of Trouville-sur-Mer, which developed into a popular seaside resort at the end of the 19th century. At the age of nineteen, he first came to the fishing village on the coast...
Category
19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
WOP 2 - 00639
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed
signed lower right
Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated wi...
Category
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Oil
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