Modern Figurative Prints
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Map of Casablanca - Etching by G. Braun and F. Hogenberg - 16th Century
Located in Roma, IT
This Map of Casablanca is an original etching realized by George Braun and Franz Hogenberg as part of the famous "Civitates Orbis Terrarum".
The “Civitates Orbis Terrarum” (Atlas o...
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16th Century Modern Figurative Prints
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Etching
View of Mechelen - Original Etching by G. Braun and F. Hogenberg - 16th Century
Located in Roma, IT
This Mechelen is an original etching realized by George Braun and Franz Hogenberg, as part of the famous "Civitates Orbis Terrarum".
The “Civitates Orbis Terrarum” (Atlas of Cities ...
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16th Century Modern Figurative Prints
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Etching
Map of Wittemberg and Frankfurt- by G. Braun and F. Hogenberg - 16th Century
Located in Roma, IT
This Map of Wittemberg and Frankfurt (ancient names: Wittenburga - Francfordiensis) is an original etching realized by George Braun and Franz Hogenberg as part of the famous Atlas "C...
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16th Century Modern Figurative Prints
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Etching
Pianta dei Giardini di S. Maria - Roma - Etching - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pianta dei Giardini di S.Maria - Roma is an original drawing in etching technique on ivory-colored paper, realized by Anonymous Artist of the 17th Century...
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17th Century Modern Figurative Prints
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Etching
Man on Horseback - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Man on Horseback" is an original print in etching technique on ivory-colored cardboard , by Anonymous Artist of the XVIII Century.
In excellent condi...
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18th Century Modern Figurative Prints
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Etching
Toute Sorte le Têtes - Etching by Ferdinand Landerer - Late 18th century
Located in Roma, IT
Toute Sorte le Têtes is an original etching artwork realized by the austrian engraver Ferdinand Landerer (1730-1795), "from Character Heads, after Martin Johann Schmidt".
The state ...
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Late 18th Century Modern Figurative Prints
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Etching
Shepherds - Set of 2 Etchings - 1760 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Shepherd has included two pieces of original etching artworks on the top and lower of the sheet with the same subject, realized by an Anonymous artist in the XVIII century, 1760 ca.
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Late 18th Century Modern Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Game of the Head - Etching by L. Bacheley - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Game of the Head is an original modern artwork realized by the artist Louis Bacheley.
Original Etching on ivory paper. On the lower central margin the following writtens are imp...
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Late 18th Century Modern Figurative Prints
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Etching
Old British Empire Map - Ancient Map by Karl Spruner - 1760 ca.
By Karl Spruner von Merz
Located in Roma, IT
Old British Empire Map is an artwork realized around 1760 by Karl Spruner.
Original hand-colored print.
Good conditions except for yellowing of pa...
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1760s Modern Figurative Prints
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Etching
Tiber river with Cornucopia, Romulus and Remus and the Wolf - Etching 1704
By Claude Randon
Located in Roma, IT
Tevere col Cornucopia e Lupa (Tiber river with Cornucopia, Romulus and Remus and the Wolf) is a wonderful original burin on laid and watermarked pape...
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Early 1700s Modern Figurative Prints
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Etching
Salle Des Festins De Versailles - Original Etching Late 18° Century
Located in Roma, IT
Chateau De Choisy View is an original print realized by Anonymous artist at the end of XVIII century (about 1760).
Titled below "Vue du Chateau de Choisy le Roy du côté du jardin"....
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Late 18th Century Modern Figurative Prints
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Etching
Chateau De Choisy - Original Etching 18° Century
Located in Roma, IT
Chateau De Choisy View is an original print realized by Anonymous artist at the end of XVIII century (about 1760).
Titled below "Vue du Chateau de Choisy le Roy du côté du jardin"....
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18th Century Modern Figurative Prints
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Etching
Vue de Tivoli - From Le Journal des Dames et des Modes - 1797
Located in Roma, IT
Vue de Tivoli is an original watercolored etching realized in 1799, as the plate n.159, or the illustration for the Journal des Dames et des Modes...
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1790s Modern Figurative Prints
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Etching
Le Revolution Française - Etching by I.S. Helman
By Isidor Stanislas Helman
Located in Roma, IT
La Révolution française is a superb etching realized by Isidor Stanislas Helman, after an original drawing by Monnet.
This original print represents a public event of the third year of the French Revolution, with a very spectacular and theatrical perspective.
Dealing with the Journée du 21 Janvier 1793, our plate represents the death of Louis Capet sur Place de la Révolution, designed by Monnet.
In excellent conditions, including a passepartout, cm 37 x 52.7.
Isidore Stanislas Helman (Lille, 1743 - Paris, 1806 or 1809)
Isidore Stanislas Helman was a French engraver, pupil of the Lille Academy of Fine Arts, under the guidance of Louis-Jean Guéret and Louis-Joseph Watteau. He moved to Paris, where he completed his training under Jacques-Philippe Lebas. He etched plates whose images were taken from paintings by many artists, including Nicolas Lavreince, Pierre Antoine Baudouin, Jean Duplessis-Bertaux, Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, and Hubert Robert.
Isidore Stanislas Helman has made engravings for Les Conquêtes de l'empereur de la Chine (1783-1785) and for the Principal journées de la Révolution, by paintings by Charles...
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Late 18th Century Modern Figurative Prints
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Etching
La Devineresse - Original Etching by J-L Vauzelle - End of 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
La Devineresse is an original artwork realized by Jean-Lubin Vauzelle in the second half of the XVIII century.
Original etching on paper. Passepartout included (39 x 28.5 cm). Sign...
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Late 18th Century Modern Figurative Prints
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Etching
Antonio Canova - Etching by G.E. Morghen - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 19.3 x 17.5 cm.
Antonio Canova is a beautiful black and white etching on paper, realized between 1770-1810 by the Italian old master, Giovanni Elia Morghen (1721-1789), after a painting by Pellegrini, as the inscriptions on plate report.
Title on plate on the lower margin at the center.
This original print represents Antonio Canova the Italian sculptor and painter, the greatest exponent of Neoclassicism in sculpture and for this reason called "the new Phidias", in the official portrait reserved to the great personalities. Realized with full mastery of the technique, this old master's print is in excellent condition, as good as new.
Absolutely to collect!
Giovanni Elia Morghen (Florence, 1721)
Giovanni Elia Morghen came from a family of engravers in Florence. According to the testimony of Raphael, the most illustrious member of the family, his grandfather was originally from Montpellier and, after marrying a Genoese woman, he moved to Florence, where he opened a lace shop. Both their sons, Giovanni Elia and Filippo, specialized in chalcographic art: Giovanni was predominantly a draftsman, whilst Filippo mastered the art of carving.
In Florence, Giovanni Elia Morghen was a pupil of Giovan Domenico Ferretti, and he probably also worked at the workshop of Carlo Bartolomeo Gregori. Indeed, he, with the other artists of the school, made 26 of the engravings present in the second Florentine edition (1766) of the Salon paintings at the palace of Florence. He then moved to Naples with his brother. From 1756, he began participating in the creation of the tables of the Antiquities of Herculaneum, a work of several volumes published in Naples with various interruptions in the late nineteenth century. In 1767, he published six tables with representations of the temples of Paestum, taken from drawings by Antonio Joli...
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Late 18th Century Modern Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Hague - Le Fameux Vivier de la Haye - Etching by French Master 1700
Located in Roma, IT
The Hague - Le fameux Vivier de la Haye is an original print realized on peep-leaf in the 18th Century.
A beautiful watercolored etching (on copper plaque) sold at the time by Daumi...
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Late 18th Century Modern Figurative Prints
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Etching
Le Grand prêtre Coresus - Etching by J- Danzel - Late 18th Century
By Jérôme Danzel
Located in Roma, IT
Le Grand prêtre Coresus is an artwork realized by Jérôme Danzel in the second half of the XVIII Century.
Burin after Fragonard's artwork "Coresus et ...
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Late 18th Century Modern Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Patriarch - Original Lithograph on Paper - Late 18th Century
By Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen
Located in Roma, IT
The Patriarch is an original artwork realized by Charles Eisen in the second half of the XVIII Century. Original lithograph on paper.
Signed on plate o...
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Late 18th Century Modern Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
The King and the Queen - Etching after Domeniquin (Domenichino) by G. Audran
Located in Roma, IT
The King and the Queen is an original artwork realized by Gérard Audran in the second half of the XVII century. Original etching on paper. Signed on the lower right corner.
Etching ...
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Late 17th Century Modern Figurative Prints
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Etching
Old Church - Original Etching by F.E. Weirotter - Half of 1700
Located in Roma, IT
Old Church is an original artwork realized by Franz Edmund Weirotter in the first half of the XVIII Century.
Original Etching on paper. Passepartout included (cm 37 x 55).
Signed...
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Mid-18th Century Modern Figurative Prints
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Etching
Young Reader - Etching - 1670 ca
Located in Roma, IT
Young Reader is an Etching print realized by an anonymous artist in 1670s ca.
The artwork is in good conditions with aged margins and diffused foxing.
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1670s Modern Figurative Prints
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Etching
Spring Picture - Woodcut by Katsukawa Schuncho - Mid-18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Spring Picture is an original modern artwork attributed Katsukawa Schuncho (1726 – 1793) and realized in the mid-18th Century.
Erotic depiction probably from the series "Koshuko zu...
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1750s Modern Figurative Prints
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Paper, Woodcut
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