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Medium: Watercolor
Hélène of Septeuil (enfant au perroquet) (child with a parakeet).
By Mary Cassatt
Located in Storrs, CT
Hélène of Septeuil (enfant au perroquet) (child with a parakeet). c. 1889-1890. Drypoint. Breeskin, 134.v. 9 3/8 x 6 1/4 (sheet 15 3/4 x 9 7/8). A rich impression with burr and plate...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Drypoint
$12,000 Sale Price
52% Off
Tomano Monote (Cupcake Boy)
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Alejandro Colunga is a renowned Mexican artist born in 1948 in Guadalajara, Jalisco. He is part of the Nueva Mexicanidad movement and is celebrated for his surrealist and fantastical...
Category
1990s Surrealist Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching, Gouache, Aquatint
Plucking a Branch from a Neighbor's Plum Tree
Located in Middletown, NY
A mischievous tableau with sexual overtones.
Tokyo: Shuei-Sha, 1768.
Woodblock print in colors printed on laid mulberry paper, 10 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches (273 x 200 mm), full margins. I...
Category
Mid-18th Century Edo Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Watercolor, Woodcut
"Townwoman Dressed For Housework" from "Costumes of Morocco", Gouache on Paper
Located in Detroit, MI
"Citadine en Tenue de Ménagère" translated to "Townwoman Dressed For Housework" is plate number 9 in Jean Besancenot's stunning portraits and depictions of the people of Morocco from...
Category
1940s Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Gouache
A Chinese Watchman, from The Costume of China, by G.H. Mason, engr. John Dadley
Located in Middletown, NY
London: 1799. Copperplate stipple engraving with hand coloring in watercolor, 17 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches (445 x 260 mm) (sheet), full margins. In very good condition with some minor, lig...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving
Mu-Tamagawa
Located in Middletown, NY
Woodcut in ink with embossing and hand-coloring in watercolor on laid Japon paper, 16 x 10 inches (406 x 253 mm), ōban tate-e, full margins. Scattered handling wear and toning, other...
Category
Late 19th Century Edo Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Woodcut
Hand Coloured 18th Century Copper engraving from "Small Riding School" No 32
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 18th century hand coloured copper plate engraving of an equestrian subject by Johann Elias Ridinger. Initial signed 'in the plate' bottom right. Presented in a fine gilt wood fra...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Pilgrimage to Enoshima
Located in Middletown, NY
Tokyo: Matsuki Heikichi, 1893
Woodcut in ink with embossing and hand-coloring in watercolor on handmade mulberry paper, 14 1/2 x 9 7/8 inches (368 x 251 mm), ōban tate-e, full margi...
Category
Late 19th Century Edo Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Watercolor, Woodcut
Don-Key – English School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
A rare, extensively hand-colored impression of this charming British satirical image.
London: 1830.
Lithograph with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 12 1/4 x 9 5/1...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Lithograph
A Peep at a Peer _ or the Guildford High Mettled Racer
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with extensive hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper laid down to archival cardstock, 9 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches ( 235 x 342 mm), margins trimmed inside the platemark. C...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Watercolor, Etching
Walking Sticks and Round-A-Bouts. For the Year 1801
Located in Middletown, NY
An excellent example of Rowlandson's visual commentary on the challenges of changing fashion for those with a less than ideal physique.
Rowlandson, Thomas (after George Murgatroyd W...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Engraving, Watercolor
'The Protestants Champion!!' (... Duke of Sussex, Son of King George III)
Located in Middletown, NY
This portrait of King George the III's son was published in the same year that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premiered in London.
'The Protestants Champion!!' (Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Watercolor, Engraving, Etching
DUMBO
By Banksy
Located in Aventura, FL
Screen print & hand-finished watercolor on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Pest Control included.
Banksy’s Dumbo is an extremely rare Ban...
Category
2010s Street Art Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen, Watercolor
$595,000
Loups de Mer (shrimpers)
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: L'Estampe Moderne, 1897.
Color wood engraving on light-weight, cream-colored imitation vellum, 13 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (342 x 252 mm), full margins. With the L'Estampe Moderne ...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Watercolor, Woodcut
The Sunday Before Confirmation; Parson: What did your godfathers & godmothers...
Located in Middletown, NY
English School, 19th century
The Sunday Before Confirmation; Parson: What did your godfathers & godmothers then for you? Boy: Nothing sir, rot'em for I never had none.
London: Thoma...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Lithograph
To Calais – after an illustration by Captain Frederick Marryat
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Thomas McLean, 1835.
Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper. 6 1/4 x 8 3/8 inches (157 x 210 mm), full margins. Initialed in the plate by Cruikshank, a...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching, Watercolor
The Actors Nakajima Wadaemon as Bōdara Chōzaemon and Nakamura Konozō as Gon of t
Located in Middletown, NY
Two minor villains from "Medley of Tales of Revenge" square off, as performed at the Kiri theatre, Tokyo, in May of 1794.
Toyko: Tsutaya Juzaburo, 1794.
Woodblock (nishiki-e) with ...
Category
Late 18th Century Edo Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Woodcut
"Personaje" 1991 Signed Original Silkscreen & Watercolor Proof 16x12in Cubism
Located in Miami, FL
"Juan Sebastian Barbera (Mexico, 1964)
'Personaje', 1991
Silkscreen and Watercolor on paper Velin Arches 300 g.
15.8 x 11.9 in. (40 x 30 cm.)
ID...
Category
1990s Contemporary Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Screen, Watercolor
"Woman of the Aït MGuild" from "Costumes of Morocco", Gouache on Paper
Located in Detroit, MI
"Femme Des Aït MGuild" translated to "Woman of the Aït MGuild" is plate number 19 in Jean Besancenot's stunning portraits and depictions of the people ...
Category
1940s Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Bob Marley, Happy Birthday, Mr. Brainwash, Limited Edition, Large Format
Located in Draper, UT
Mr. Brainwash Bob Marley’s 74th Birthday Limited Edition Screen Print with Watercolor from 2019.
Iconic, beloved artist, Bob Marley is a pioneer and legend of Reggae music. "One Lov...
Category
2010s Street Art Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Spray Paint, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Stencil
$5,138 Sale Price
24% Off
"City Notable" from "Costumes of Morocco", Gouache on Paper
Located in Detroit, MI
"Notable Citadine" translated to "City Notable" is plate number 2 in Jean Besancenot's stunning portraits and depictions of the people of Morocco from ...
Category
1940s Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Woman of Tiznit Wearing the Amendil", from "Costumes of Morocco"
Located in Detroit, MI
"Femme de Tiznit Portant L'Amendil" translated to "Woman of Tiznit Wearing the Amendil" is plate number 47 in Jean Besancenot's stunning portraits and ...
Category
1940s Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Happy People in Pink - Lithograph (Maeght)
By Paul Klee
Located in Paris, IDF
Paul KLEE (1879 - 1940)
Happy character
Color photolithograph after a painting
Signed in the plate
On vellum 83 x 60 cm (c. 32 x 24 in)
Excellent condition
Category
Early 20th Century Surrealist Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Hand-coloured Print of weeping mythical sculpture angels in Walnut Frame
Located in London, GB
Hand-coloured tableau of a weeping spirit and her guardians, immobilised in marble. A disjointed narrative looking at recovery and protection, the angels shield the spirit with tender embraces and cry for her when alone.
Taken from The Sialia Marbles, a series of portraits containing ephemeral human sculptures taken between 2016-19. Together these works act as tales contained in a fictional sculpture hall, in direct reaction to Andre Malraux’s 1947 Le Musee Imaginaire (Museum Without Walls).
During the beginning of the 'Museum Age' in the 18th century , writer Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe discussed mythical...
Category
18th Century Victorian Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Cotton, Walnut, Paint, Photographic Film, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, ...
$2,349 Sale Price
35% Off
Hand coloured framed print of semi nude sculpture like marble statue of female
Located in London, GB
Katie Eleanor, "Cleansing a Shrike (Blackbird’s Birdbath)", 2018
Handcoloured portrait of a bird-like spirit, immobilised in marble, cleansing in a sprin...
Category
2010s Romantic Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Glass, Oak, Paint, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Hand Coloured 18th Century Copper engraving from "Small Riding School" No 26
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 18th century hand coloured copper plate engraving of an equestrian subject by Johann Elias Ridinger. Initial signed 'in the plate' bottom right. Presented in a fine gilt wood fra...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Fortune Hunting
Located in Middletown, NY
A richly hand-colored image with a counterstrike on the verso.
London: Hannah Humphrey, 1804.
Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on buff wove paper, 10 1/4 x 15 inches (260 x...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching, Watercolor
Three (3) images from Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji (Fuji sanjūrokkei)
Located in Middletown, NY
Tokyo: Kawaji, 1830.
Three (3) woodblock prints (nishiki-e) in color on handmade mulberry paper, each 2 5/8 x 3 3/8 inches (67 x 82 mm), the full sheet, margins slightly trimmed. Ea...
Category
Early 19th Century Edo Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Woodcut
Portrait of a girl writing on a slate.
By Oszkar Glatz
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with extensive hand coloring in watercolor on white wove paper, 13 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches (347 x 271 mm); sheet 24 x 17 inches (608 x 430 mm), full margins. In good condition wi...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
Buborékfújók; Blowing Bubbles
By Oszkar Glatz
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with extensive hand coloring in watercolor on white wove paper, 13 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches (347 x 271 mm); sheet 24 x 17 inches (608 x 430 mm), full margins. In good condition wi...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
The Punishments of China, 8 plates
Located in Middletown, NY
A collection of gruesome 19th century images illustrating the barbarism of the Qing penal code.
London: William Miller, 1801.
Six (6) stipple point engravings with hand coloring in...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Watercolor, Engraving
El Mercado de Pátzcuaro II
Located in Palm Springs, CA
El Mercado de Pátzcuaro II captures a glimpse of daily life in the highland town of Pátzcuaro, Michoacán. The scene shows three Indigenous figures, rendered with bold lines and earthy tones, standing amid the bustle of the market. Two men in traditional white cotton clothing and wide-brimmed straw hats stand in conversation, their woven baskets and bundles suggesting they are either arriving to sell goods or preparing to return home with their purchases. Beside them, a woman cloaked in a dark rebozo gazes outward, her expression reflective and steady, grounding the composition with a quiet dignity. The strong woodcut textures emphasize folds of fabric, rough straw, and woven fiber, reminding the viewer of the handmade traditions that sustain the culture.
The marketplace of Pátzcuaro has long been a hub of commerce and cultural exchange, and Oñate’s print conveys both the social energy and the rooted traditions of this setting. The figures are depicted not as anonymous passersby but as individuals whose posture, clothing, and belongings tell stories of community, resilience, and labor. The muted yet warm palette, accented with yellows and reds, suggests early morning light spilling across the plaza’s cobblestones, while the abstracted background blocks provide rhythm and structure without distracting from the human presence.
Francisco Rodríguez Oñate (1940–2019) was a distinguished Mexican post-war and contemporary artist whose career extended over several decades throughout Mexico, the United States, and Latin America. Born in Michoacán, he received his education at the Escuela Popular de Bellas Artes at the University of Michoacán, where he studied under esteemed artists such as Alfredo Zalce, Roberto Martínez, and Javier Arévalo...
Category
1990s Contemporary Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
Two Hand Coloured 18th Century Engravings from "Small Riding School" No 26 & 32
Located in Cotignac, FR
Two Mid 18th century hand coloured copper plate engravings of equestrian subjects by Johann Elias Ridinger. Initial signed 'in the plate' bottom right. Presented in fine gilt wood fr...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Courtiers under a wisteria draped pine tree
Located in Middletown, NY
Tokyo: Yokoyama Ryohachi, 1892
Woodcut in ink with embossing and hand-coloring in watercolor on handmade mulberry paper, 14 1/2 x 9 7/8 inches (368 x 251 mm), ōban tate-e, the full ...
Category
Late 19th Century Edo Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Woodcut
Country Christening – English School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Thomas McLean, 1825.
Aquatint with engraving and handcoloring in watercolor on wove paper, 8 7/8 x 10 3/4 inches (225 x 272 mm), wide margins. Light handling wear and four s...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving, Aquatint
A tailor fitting exotic and historical costumes.
Located in Middletown, NY
A charming scene of men and women in various dress, perhaps a theater company costume fitting.
English School, 19th century (circle of Cruikshank), circa 1860.
Watercolor and pencil...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Pencil
A Promenade to a Rout on a fair Evening
By Isaac Cruikshank
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Allen & West, 1797.
Engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 8 1/8 x 10 5/8 inches (213 x 270 mm), wide margins. Scattered toning, mat tone, and dog-e...
Category
Late 18th Century English School Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving
Sarah Whitehead; The Bank Nun, or the Lady in Black – English School, 19th Cent.
Located in Middletown, NY
A well-colored Victorian portrait of the woman whose ghost is known to haunt the Bank of England and Threadneedle Street.
Lithograph with hand-coloring in watercolor, 9 x 6 1/2 inch...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Lithograph
Le Retour de Paris /The Niece presented to her Relatives by Her French Governess
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Thomas McLean, 1835.
Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches (120 x 165 mm), full margins. Printed by Thomas McLean. Light, small c...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching, Watercolor
A Chinese Nobleman, from The Costume of China, by G.H. Mason, engr. John Dadley
Located in Middletown, NY
London: 1799. Copperplate stipple engraving with hand coloring in watercolor, 17 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches (445 x 260 mm) (sheet), full margins. In very good condition with some minor, lig...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving
Dandies-of-1817, from Monstrosities
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Thomas McLean, 1818. Third Edition. Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, (published August 1st, 1835), 9 1/2 x 13 3/4 in...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
Waiting room at the Admiralty (*no Misnomer)
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Thomas McLean, 1820. Second Edition. Etching with handcoloring in watercolor on cream wove paper (published 1835), 8 3/8 x 11 1/2 inches (210 x 29 0mm), full margins. Second...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching, Watercolor
Mr. B. Promoted to Lieutenant and first putting on his uniform.
Located in Middletown, NY
From, The Progress of a Midshipman, Exemplified in the Career of Master Blockhead 1860 (plate 7)
Etching with handcoloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 8 3/8 x 11 1/2 inches (2...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
Portrait of Albert Einstein with Multi-Colored Wires
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of Albert Einstein, a color collotype print, watercolor with electric wires, by Lilya Vorobey (American, 20th Century). Signed and dated "L. Vorobey '89" lower right. On mat...
Category
1980s American Modern Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Wire
$700 Sale Price
20% Off
Meeting in the cathedral. Mixed media drawing, Black and white, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
ZOFIA ANNA MISIAK
Zofia Anna Misiak is a contemporary painter from an artistic family. Her parents are Janina Żylińska and Stanisław Misiak. Zofia Anna Misiak graduated from the Acad...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Union - Whom --- Has Join'd, Let No Man put Asunder!
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream laid paper. 6 3/4 X 9 5/8 inches (170 x 244 mm), margins trimmed, image intact. Rubbing in the lower left image area obscuring the publishing information (which reads Published by Mm. Darchery, St. James Street March 11, 1783), scattered light foxing, corner loss, top left corner, well outside of image area. "SMP" collector's stamp in red ink on the verso (not in Lugt), and the name "Renier" and the initials "AR" in black ink on the verso. Colors are extremely fresh. Impressions of this work may be found in the permanent collection of the British Museum, and the Yale Center for British Art.
Ex-Collection of Anne & Ferdinand Gabriel (F.G.) Renier, reknowned for their inspriational collection of children's books and works on paper, now housed in the Victoria & Albert Museum.
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The devil officiates at the wedding of Tory Lord North, and Charles James Fox, the Whig statesman whose career spanned almost four decades in Parliament. The satirical scene is the signing of the Fox-North coalition, which was a short-lived partnership the two formed while combining forces in the House of Commons to oust then Prime Minister William Petty, Earl of Shelburne. Fox had fallen out of favor with the Irish born Shelburne, also a Whig, whose ministry remained in power just long enough to see the American War of Independence...
Category
Late 18th Century English School Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
Another country. Mixed media drawing, Black and white, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
ZOFIA ANNA MISIAK
Zofia Anna Misiak is a contemporary painter from an artistic family. Her parents are Janina Żylińska and Stanisław Misiak. Zofia Anna Misiak graduated from the Acad...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
Portrait in Yellow - Lithograph and Stencil
By Paul Klee
Located in Paris, IDF
Paul KLEE (after)
Portrait of a Yellow
Lithograph and stencil (Jacomet process), on canson paper
Printed signature in the plate
50 x 38.2 cm (19.6 x 14.9 in)
INFORMATION : This lit...
Category
Early 20th Century Surrealist Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Portrait
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is a piece of my private collection from artists of the 20th Century. It is original, signed by artist and numbered 217/220. It is vibrant in color and in very good...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Plate Glass, Oil, Lithograph, Watercolor
$500 Sale Price
23% Off
"Jewish Woman of the Tafilelt" from "Costumes of Morocco", Gouache on Paper
Located in Detroit, MI
"Juive du Tafilelt" translated to "Jewish Woman of the Tafilelt" is plate number 55 in Jean Besancenot's stunning portraits and depictions of the peopl...
Category
1940s Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Sleeping man. Paper, etching, watercolor, 19x13 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Sleeping man. Paper, etching, watercolor, 19x13 cm
Juris Putrāms graphics artists, works in book and advertising graphics, poster art, creates installations, organizes campaigns, de...
Category
1990s Surrealist Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Watercolor
$450 Sale Price
20% Off
J.E. Hat
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Woman with red hair in a hat with feather, in green, black and white, Monotype ev edition 5/6 with hand coloring and mixed media work. Kim Frohsin spent 12 years working on monotype ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Gouache, Mixed Media, Monotype
Children: black and white drawing of Christmas holiday winter scene
Located in New York, NY
Image 12.5 x 19 in. / 32 x 48 cm
Paper 28 x 38 in. / 72 x 98 cm
Lithograph on smooth, handmade white paper, with pale yellow watercolor border. Edition 30: this impression 22/30...
Category
1980s Contemporary Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Watercolor
View from below - Contemporary Gouache Painting, Abstraction
Located in Warsaw, PL
JACEK SOWICKI (born in 1948)
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and graduated from the Academy Of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1973. In 1984-89 he run the graphics atelier at...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Gouache, Cardboard
"Jewish Bride of Fez" from "Costumes of Morocco", Gouache on Paper
Located in Detroit, MI
"Mariée Juive de Fès" translated to "Jewish Bride of Fez" is plate number 52 in Jean Besancenot's stunning portraits and depictions of the people of Morocco from his series "Costumes du Maroc" ("Costumes of Morocco). The woman depicted here is a young Jewish woman dressed for her wedding. She is dressed in traditional fashion for a Jewish wedding for the community in Morocco, a community with a long history in the region, especially the city of Fez, the second largest city in Morocco and known as the "Mecca of the West" for its contributions to religion and learning. For this reason and its northern proximity, Fez was a prominent destination for Jews fleeing Spain. Jewish history in Morocco is long, dating back to the 1st century, their numbers later increased by the Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492 by the Alhambra Decree.
Jean Besancenot's sixty plate reproduced and handcolored gouache on paper study on the diversity of Morocco's cultures is a work of stunning historical importance in tracing the rich and vibrant diversity of North Africa. Besancenot spent the 1930s traveling around Morocco, undertaking an awe-inspiring study of its peoples and rendered in vivid and precise detail the way they traditionally lived and dressed. Many of those outfits and cultural expressions are gone now, with Besancenot's watercolored drawings of them some of the only ways that people can now visit the past. The original manuscript of "Costumes du Maroc" is kept in the Royal Collection in Rabat, with only 310 copies of it produced. These prints are fresh from the folio and have been newly museum framed under conservator glass; unframed the image of the print is 12.75 x 7.75 inches. The tissue guards that bear the caption of the plate have been framed in the verso with the title visible behind clear plastic.
Jean Besancenot, real name Jean Girard, was a photographer, painter, designer, and ethnologist who was born in 1902 in Estrées-Saint-Denis. His work straddles the crossroads of art and ethnography as he was primarily interested in the costumes and ornaments of Morocco in the first half of the 20th century. He arrived for the first time in Morocco in 1934, a country he traveled through until 1939. There he produced a very rich ethnographic documentation on the traditional costumes and adornments of the different Moroccan ethnic groups. His work, composed of photographs, films, drawings and paintings, testifies to the aestheticism of Moroccan cultural heritage that was still marked by little Western influence.
His book "Costumes du Maroc" was published in 1942 at the end of his first trip and presents 60 documented plates of Moroccan costumes...
Category
1940s Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"E" Albert Einstein, Modern Portrait
Located in Soquel, CA
Albert Einstein "E", a color collotype print, watercolor modern portrait by Lilya Vorobey (American, 20th C). Titled "E" lower left, signed and dated "L. Vorobey '89" lower right. On...
Category
1980s American Modern Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Color, Etching
$700 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi in front of the Sea - Gouache - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi in front of the Sea" is an original mixed media (pencil, white lead) and gouache drawing on ivory-colorated cardboard by Anonymous Artist of XIX Century, perhaps Alessandro Sani...
Category
19th Century Modern Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Gouache
"A L E" Albert Einstein Portrait #9
Located in Soquel, CA
Albert Einstein portrait, "A L E", a color collotype print, watercolor by Lilya Vorobey (American, 20th C). Unsigned. From a collection of her works. On mat board. Image, 9.75"H x 7....
Category
1980s American Modern Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Color, Etching
$639 Sale Price
20% Off
"Formal Dress Called <Of The Maghzen>", from "Costumes of Morocco"
Located in Detroit, MI
"Costume du D'Apparat dit du Maghzen" translated to "Formal Dress Called " is plate number 14 in Jean Besancenot's stunning portraits and depictions of...
Category
1940s Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Gouache
The Pleaded - Original B/w Etching after Théodore Géricault - 1866
Located in Roma, IT
The Pleaded is an original artwork realized by after Théodore Géricault in 1866
Black and white etching. Printed by: François Nys
The artwork repr...
Category
1860s Modern Watercolor Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
Watercolor portrait prints for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Watercolor portrait prints available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Lilya Vorobey, George Cruikshank, Zeng Jianyong, and Banksy. Frequently made by artists working in the Modern, Contemporary, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Watercolor portrait prints, so small editions measuring 0.02 inches across are also available Prices for portrait prints 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 $1 and tops out at $2,500,000, while the average work can sell for $776.