Antique Sketch

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).

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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.

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.

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

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...

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 backs of many of his sketches are often filled with handwritten notes in German or English, recording observations and ideas he developed while creating the sketches.

The artwork has been newly framed and glazed. Although this sketch is unsigned, our gallery holds virtually the entire remaining collection of Dulac's sketches and memorabilia and th...

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...

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.”

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

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.

Following the death of her first husband, John Ross, it is said that in the summer of 1776, George Washington and two members of the Continental Congress visited her upholstery shop....

Sunlit woodland scene of the nude young boy, in excellent condition, probably a sketch or preliminary study toward a larger work typical of Tuke's style.

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

The octagonal columns on these tables relates to a design for a card table in Thomas King’s Cabinet Maker’s Sketch Book of 1835 but the more ornate base suggests that these tables ar...

Unlike a great many of his contemporaries, Pritchett spent time working in Venice whilst on a sketching tour of Europe in 1828. Every other biography of Pritchett you will have ever ...

Frail health and recurring illnesses often kept him from attending school regularly, and he filled his notebooks with sketches of buildings and landscapes while recovering at home.

There is a graphite and brownish ink sketch of a robed classical figure amongst ruins on the verso.

He traveled to Italy in 1856, accompanying Albert Bierstadt, Emanuel Leutze, and Worthington Whittredge on a sketching trip from the Rhine to the Roman Campagna.

While serving an apprenticeship aboard a trading ship, he began to sketch the scenes he saw during his voyages through the Mediterranean and Baltic seas.

A series of Dulac's sketches may be acquired from our gallery on this platform to create a set to enhance a corridor or stairway of your home or workplace.

Unsigned but authenticated (the watercolour preparatory sketch was sold by Bonhams for £3500 in 2014). Usnigned Provenance: Frost & Reed, London Measurements: 28" x 21" framed approx

Two closely related designs are recorded in the Gillows Estimate Sketch Books, dated March 1790 and July 1793, further supporting the attribution.

Because of their access to the tools, they were able to illegally draw expressionist sketches of life in the overcrowded ghetto. Together with Leo Haas, Otto Ungar [cs; de], and Ferd...

A quintessential example of the Picturesque tradition, popular among both professional artists and "gentleman sketchers" of the Georgian and Victorian eras. c1840.

The work thus lies on the border between a sketch and a fully realized painting. This deliberately unfinished quality lends it a special freshness and allows us to appreciate Garrido...

Comprising Scenes and Sketches In Every Rank of Society, Being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious.

A detailed charcoal and chalk sketch of Chateau Gaillard, Normandie. Signed, titled and dated (1854) to the lower margin.

Concertino is a graceful sketch in pencil realized by the French painter, illustrator, designer, and cartoonist Auguste Jean Baptiste Roubille.

Rare, original hand colored etching (Aquatint) from the Poetical Sketches of Scarborough titled “A Tro to Scarbro’”.

The sheet is double sided, with the reverse bearing traces of charcoal or graphite sketching. Such reuse of paper was common among nineteenth century artists and students and reflect...

The reverse of the same card is headed: “SKETCH OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN’S LIFE.” Rather than being a separate newspaper clipping, the lengthy biographical text is printed directly on ...

The drawing comes from his sketch book or 'carnet de voyage'. Acquired directly from the artist's estate sale in 1926 and in the same family collection ever since.

This manner of allowing the figure to emerge directly from the painted surface places the sketch within the most experimental current of British Romantic painting around 1830.

Passpartout included cm 25.5x38 The artwork represents a sketch of a group of people in an indoor set. Frédéric-Anatole Houbron was (1851- 1908).

Cover for "L'Asino" is an original artwork by Gabriele Galantara. This the original sketch for the cover of "L'Asino" (Donkey Magazine) and is realized in China ink, tempera and wate...

Faint graphite underdrawing survives at the top of the sheet, where a further leaf was sketched but never painted, confirming the work as an original drawing rather than a hand-color...

Unlike a great many of his contemporaries, Pritchett spent time working in Venice whilst on a sketching tour of Europe in 1828. For an in-depth look at the life and work of Edward Pr...

With a red ink stamp on lower margin with the monogram "V." and "Vente Giraud" This superb original drawing is composed of five different sketches, each one with an artistic and aut...

Likely conceived as a preparatory study or highly finished sketch, the work reflects the enduring fascination with classical antiquity that characterized Academic painting during the...

The brushwork is direct and confident, with visible texture throughout the painted surface that lends the work a fresh, sketch-like quality while remaining carefully balanced.

After Reffo’s death, Guglielmino inherited his master’s studio, where not only his own works but also drawings, preparatory sketches and cartoons by Enrico Reffo and other members of...