Antique Sketch

Gorgeous Sketch for the curtain of the opera “Lohengrin” by Richard Wagner, a work attributed to the renowned Fauvist artist Agustín Carrera (1878-1952).

It was drawn by William Harvey from a sketch by J. Jackson and engraved by Thomas Abiel Prior, and the plate is lettered "Newcastle, from the South West".

Where previously Grose had been able to spend his summers visiting and sketching ancient sites, he was now obliged to attend his regiment in various training camps.

Notes: Likely the preparatory oil sketch for the larger version, sold Bonhams Fine Paintings sale, 7th December 2010, Lot 18 The Royal Review, Edinburgh, 1905 By Robert Gemmell Hutc...

., 11" x 9-3/16", limited to 1100 numbered signed copies this being copy #473, with an original ink sketch of the mock turtle and gryphon signed with monogram and dated 1927, illustr...

Unsigned, see the last photo for reference to the original sketch. Dimensions: 35.5" Height: X 27" Wide X 11" Depth Germany, 1900 20ct40601

Emile Reiber (1826-1893), who worked at Christofle as chief draughtsman, also made sketches for Deck. His fame won by long works is imposed at the Universal Exhibitions in which he p...

The Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia ordered a series of sketches to be used in their landscape painting classes and the Brera Academy in Milan requested two large canvases.

Where previously Grose had been able to spend his summers visiting and sketching ancient sites, he was now obliged to attend his regiment in various training camps.

& Metzger, R., (1989), Vincent van Gogh, Cologne. p. 22 (illustrated) Hulsker, J., (1996), The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, J.M. Meulenhoff

Extra info about the artwork : Title: ” sketch study ” Médium: oil on canvas Signature: not signed Provenance: private collection Paris Dimensions canvas: 24 cm x 32 cm Dimen...

A quiet coastal town emerges delicately along the horizon, its church tower and clustered buildings softly sketched against an expansive sky and still water.

For the latter, he frequently worked from sketches made during visits to London Zoo. Wardle worked successfully in oils, watercolours and pastels.

LACMA, for example, catalogues Kuniyoshi’s Sketch of Demons Amusing the King of Hell explicitly as a “preparatory sketch for woodblock print; ink on paper.”

Brabazon was also greatly admired by the eminent critic John Ruskin who saw him as the natural heir to JMW Turner, the two went on a sketching tour of France in 1880. Brabazon's wo...

She was even able to attend rehearsals in Paris for "Le Spectre de la Rose," an experience that resulted in a beautiful series of sketches. Several of these sketches depict Nijinsky ...

Leliman's album of architectural sketches, 1865 to 1866. The plate is titled in the designer's own lettering 'Dorps-Spoorwegstation' (village railway station), and J.

N. Godefroy's unbuilt sketch design for a new town hall at Breukelen, with elevations, a section and three plans, an uncoloured lithograph from J.

Antique Dutch architectural print of A. N. Godefroy's sketch design for a stable, coach house and storage building at Mijnsheerenland, a lithograph from J.

Antique Dutch architectural print of J. H. Leliman's sketch design for a fireproof dwelling for four married labourers, with its iron floor and roof construction, an uncoloured litho...

Figures and surroundings seem to merge into one another, giving the painting a spontaneous and almost sketch-like quality. The loosely defined forms and deliberately abbreviated fig...

His visits to Naples, Pompeii, and Paestum in 1838 and 1839 proved particularly influential: alongside ancient frescoes and architecture, Hansen carefully studied and sketched excava...

It belongs to the single North African figure studies that Ussi worked up into finished cabinet pictures in the years following his travels to Egypt and Morocco, drawing on the sketc...

Biography : Antoine-Louis Barye (1796-1875) was a French sculptor, known for his animal sculptures. His sketch practice done in the wild, according to the animals of the Jardin des P...

In very good condition with a small sketch of a Dutch heraldic shield and sash on the verso.

The Old Pond French Impressionist, early 20th century, unsigned (most likely a working preparatory sketch) oil on board, unframed board: 13 x 16 inches Provenance: private collection...

Bond travelled extensively on sketching expeditions around Britain, including Cornwall, Norfolk and Wales, and also visited the Low Countries.

A pointer pointing a pheasant by Antoine-Louis BARYE (1796-1875) A rare bronze with nuanced reddish brown patina Signed on the base " Barye " Exceptional cast by the Barye's own wor...

It is likely there were sketches which formed the basis for this etching, and the others which are related to it). 8 3/4 x 15 inches (plate), 10 5/8 x 16 1/2 inches (sheet) In very ...

As such, Sherrin was instead apprenticed to Peter Moore, a draper in Canterbury, while using any spare moment to sketch. It’s reported that he’d rise at 4am and complete a painting b...

Furthermore, he connects the male nude on the right with the numerous sketches of acrobats the artist made at the Cirque Médrano: the athletic figure with a proud and somewhat impati...

Often the backs of these sketches are covered with notations, in English and German.

The arms are flexed, the hands in front of the body, hidden from view, while the head turns to the right to appear in profile. In the sketch on the reverse, the face is clearly descr...

A rare pair of original First World War pencil sketches by the distinguished French artist, engraver and later banknote and postage stamp designer Henri-Lucien Cheffer, executed in F...

The other two pages develop a sequence of child figures in flight, conceived as angels: from more schematic sketches, devoid of detail, to progressively more defined versions with ha...

The drawing possesses the quiet elegance characteristic of nineteenth-century expedition sketches, intended to record places before the widespread use of photography.

An important French Expressionist original colored sketch/painting of a young nude female by Jules Pascin (1885-1930).

The lamp's design is based off an excavated lamp Schlick sketched during his time in the preservation and restoration of remains at Pompeii.

He was also a member of the Liver Sketching Club.

He was commissioned by King George III to make "many humorous sketches and caricatures" for him. In 1792 he was made court painter to Hanover.

This present work is a rare preparatory oil sketch for one of his greatest works, Guarding the Palace, 1888 (Sothebys, Paris, October 30, 2018, lot 24).

Sir George Staunton prepared the official report, 'An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China', which included charts and views based o...

He would start with a number of sketches and then develop the work in his studio. Claude Monet admired his flower paintings and Van Gogh, in a letter to his brother Theo, alluded to ...

In 1858, he was accompanied by fellow arist Carl Haag - the two often sketched together, particularly in Cairo. In 1870, Goodall stayed in Saqqara and focused specifically on sketchi...

.* Related works: - Painting, 64 x 53 cm, commissioned from Blondel by Louis-Philippe in 1840 and held since then at the Palace of Versailles - Painting, 30 x 20 cm, in the collecti...

Distinct biographical sketches may be found in Christopher Wood’s The Dictionary of Victorian Painters.

During the summer of 1876, Jackson went on a sketch­­­­­­ing trip with Keith to the high country of the Sierra Nevada at Donner Lake and Soda Springs.

Princeton University Art Museum dates its example ca. 1645–50 and describes the scene as a Campagna landscape informed by sketches Both brought back from Italy, rather than a securel...

The reverse of the sheet contains an additional study of trees, providing further insight into Thunman’s working method. Such verso sketches are particularly appealing in works on pa...

The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, for example, preserves a work by Valtat whose reverse bears a sketch of a nude marked with the monogram “L.V.”

Rather than being a rapidly executed sketch, the figure has been extensively developed through layered charcoal, with subtle transitions from light to dark used to define the muscula...

He developed his own technique for producing his ideas: Argy-Rousseau first modeled his sketched idea in plaster, which was then covered with wax.

It is perhaps worth note that the members of the Philadelphia Sketch Club, however, voted against the expulsion.

The handling throughout retains the light touch of Wyld's first training as a watercolourist, the figures and animals sketched with an economy that recalls his friend and mentor Hora...

Size: 30 inches tall by 36 inches wide (painting) 33.5 inches tall by 39.5 inches wide (frame) Exhibited: (probably) "Sketches of Indians and Southwestern Landscapes", New Mexico Mu...

This contrast between the highly finished face and the sketch-like treatment of the surrounding areas is characteristic of a study rather than a fully resolved independent composition.

The artist signed this sketch and dated it on 20 June 1929, just a few months before his own death by drowning in the River Seine.

He developed his own technique for producing his ideas: Argy-Rousseau first modeled his sketched idea in plaster, which was then covered with wax.

In his spare time he wandered the streets of Dublin in the early 1900s, sketching the working people and characters of the streets.

Given its nearly 100 years, it is notable for its state of preservation after having been removed from a sketch pad of the artist's. Please enjoy the photos accompanying this listing.