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Artist: Unknown
'Nymph with a Centaur', French School, Academic, Greek Mythological Grisaille
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An exceptionally fine, brush and wash, mythological figural study showing a centaur interrupting the playing of his pan pipes to cast a speculative eye towards a dancing nymph. Datin...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Illustration Board
Cottage in the Countryside - Drawing - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Cottage in the countryside is an original artwork realized by a French artist of the Mid-20th century.
Pencil and charcoal drawing on paper. Includes a green cardboard frame.
Good...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Portrait of a Baby
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Violet Oakley (1896-1961).
Portrait of a Baby, ca. 1930.
Conte crayon and pencil on laid paper, sheet measuring 11 x 14 inches.
Framed measurement: 13.5 x 16.5 inches.
Signed low...
Category
1930s Realist Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Laid Paper
French School Of The 18th century, An Ancient Shipyard, Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French school of the 18th century
An ancient shipyard or building site (?)
Ink and ink wash on paper
17.5 x 23 cm
In a modern frame 32 x 37 cm
Category
1780s Old Masters Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
$431 Sale Price
25% Off
English School, 19th Century, Victorian rustic scene, Thatched cottage
Located in Harkstead, GB
A delightful rustic scene from the Victorian period with figures chatting outside a thatched cottage
English School, mid 19th Century
Figures conversing by a cottage and stream
Wat...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$239 Sale Price
30% Off
Flowers - Drawing - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is an artwork realized by an unknown in the early mid-20th Century.
Ink, pastel and watercolor on cardboard.
11 x 10 cm ; 30 x 29 cm.
Good condition!
Category
1960s Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
W. Bolt - Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour, Ships Off a Choppy Coastline
Located in Corsham, GB
Fine late 19th-century nautical watercolour. Ships off a choppy coastline. The buoy has been inscribed 'Shambles', and the watercolour has been heightened with white. Well presented ...
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Condor - Original Pencil Drawing - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Condor is an original contemporary artwork realized by a French artist in the middle of the XX Century.
Original drawing pencil on cardboard.
A signature is present on the low...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Disegno figurativo fiammingo ad acquerello del XVIII secolo, scena di genere
Located in Florence, IT
Sullo sfondo di un paesaggio dai tratti centro-settentrionali europei-in cui si riconoscono una cappella e il profilo di una città dagli alti pinnacoli-si svolge una scena di svago, ...
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18th Century Other Art Style Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
The Poetry - Vintage Offset Print on Paper - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Poetry is a vintage offset print h on paper, realized by unknown artist in the early 20th Century.
In this artwork there is a poetry "il s'eteignit humblement, sans un bruit, so...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Offset
18th Century Watercolour - Jacob and the Pharaoh
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour interpretation of chapter forty-seven verse seven of Genesis where Joseph presents his father Jacob to the Pharaoh. The artist captures the religious figures o...
Category
Early 18th Century Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$354 Sale Price
20% Off
Rousselet, Portrait of an officer, 1915, wax crayon on paper
Located in Paris, FR
Rousselet, French School early 20th century
Portrait of an officier, 1915
Wax crayon on paper
signed "E Rousselet" and dated 1915 lower right
51.5 x 31.5 cm
In quite good condition, ...
Category
1910s Symbolist Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wax Crayon
$317 Sale Price
29% Off
France circa 1820, Portrait of a gentleman, black chalk and pastel drawing
Located in Paris, FR
France circa 1820
Portrait of a gentleman
Black chalk and pastel on paper
12 x 10 cm
In its original mount, modern oak frame : 25 x 22.5 cm
Category
1820s Romantic Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Chalk
$570 Sale Price
30% Off
Female Portrait - Drawing - 1965
Located in Roma, IT
Female Portrait is a modern artwork realized in 1965.
Mixed colored drawing on paper.
Signature and date on the lower margin.
Category
1960s Contemporary Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Castel View on a Lake - Oil Paint - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Castel view on a lake is a modern artwork realized in the late 19th by a Dutch Artist.
Mixed colored oil painting.
Includes a gilded frame: 66.5 x 40 x 80 cm
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
Death and Other Figures-Original Charcoal Drawing by Unknown French Master 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Death and other figures is a beautiful drawing, probably a group of studies, made by an anonymous artist, realized around the mid-XX century. The state of preservation is good even t...
Category
20th Century Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Portrait of Woman - Pastel Drawing - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Woman is an original drawing in colored pastel by an Anonymous Artist of the XX century.
A pastel drawing on paper skilfully depicted a portrait of a woman, expression o...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Figure - Drawing in Ink - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an Ink drawing on paper. realized in the mid-20th Century.
Mint Conditions with diffused foxings..
The artwork id depicted through soft strokes in a well-balanced composi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Christ Crucifixion - Original Pencil - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Christ Crucifixion is an original drawing on paper in pencil mounted on greyish cardboard Passepartout: 28.9 x 19 cm, realized by an anonymous Italian artist of the Early 20th Centu...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Leslie F. Everett - 1914 Watercolour, The Joust
Located in Corsham, GB
This scene depicts two knights caught in a violent joust, with one striking other in the face with their lance. The artist captures the knights in a mix of watercolour and black indian...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$487 Sale Price
20% Off
Nola Armstrong - 20th Century Pastel, Indecision
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed. Presented in a light wooden frame. Title inscribed on the label verso. On paper.
Category
20th Century Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
$285 Sale Price
20% Off
La Femme Muse /// Allegorical Symbolism Romantic Old Masters European Drawing
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Unknown (Likely French, 18th Century)
Title: "La Femme Muse"
*No signature found
Circa: 1780
Medium: Original Pastel Drawing on heavy laid paper
Frami...
Category
1780s Old Masters Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Laid Paper
$1,200 Sale Price
78% Off
Sailing Ship in the Harbour - Watercolor - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Sailing Ship in the Harbour is an original watercolor and pencil realized by a French artist of 20th Century (1929).
The artwork is in good conditions, hand-signed by the artist on ...
Category
1920s Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Artists and their muses
Located in London, GB
Playboy School, 20th Century
Artists and their muses: Titian and Violante; Sir Peter Lely and Nell Gwyn; Francois Boucher and Louise O’Murphy; Hogarth, Nell...
Category
1980s Romantic Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
$5,755
The Great Duel 18th Century
Located in Wiscasett, ME
A truly rare and remarkable scene of hundreds of swordsmen meeting in a towns square. The circle is closed around the two in the duel, each of whom have drawn blood. German school 18...
Category
1750s Folk Art Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Figures - Ink on Paper after G.H. de Beaumont - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an original modern drawing in pen on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the early XX century after Gustave Henri de Beaumont (1851-1922).
...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Early 19th Century Graphite Drawing - A Moment to Rest
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful early 19th century graphite piece depicting a mother and child taking a moment to rest and quench their thirst. To the little girl's feet is a cat, vying for attention. ...
Category
Early 19th Century Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Two Chinese Paintings of Woman with Cats in a Common Frame
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Intriguing pair of modern Chinese paintings executed with gouache on paper in a distinctive colorful naive Asian style depicting women with cat...
Category
20th Century Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Portrait of Woman - Pencil Drawing - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Woman is a drawing in pencil on paper by an Anonymous Artist of the XX century.
Sheet dimension: 32 x 24.5 cm
The state of preservation is good and aged
Hand-signed o...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Sketch - Drawing in Pencil - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch is an original drawing in Pencil, on creamy-colored paper realized b in the early 20th Century.
Good conditions except for cutaways on the right margin.
The artwork is depic...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
French school 19th century, An italian bandit, 1864, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
French school 19th century,
An italian bandit, 1864,
watercolor on paper
On the reverse of the sheet (now under the back of the frame) an annotation, "Rome 1864"
25,5 x 21.5 cm (v...
Category
1860s Romantic Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$824 Sale Price
20% Off
Framed 20th Century Watercolour, Boats in a British Harbour
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine watercolour painting depicting sailing boats moored in a British harbour at low tide. Well-presented in a large gilt-effect frame with double card mount. Unsigned. On watercol...
Category
20th Century Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$412 Sale Price
20% Off
The Concert - Ink and Tempera on paper - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The concert is a modern artwork realized in 19th century.
Ink and tempera on paper.
Includes frame.
Good conditions.
Category
19th Century Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Ink
$383 Sale Price
20% Off
Woman - Drawing on Paper - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original drawing, realized by Anonymous artists of the XVIII century.
The state of preservation of the artwork is good, but with extensive foxing.
The artwork represent...
Category
18th Century Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Trees - Original Drawing in Pencil and Charcoal - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Trees is an original drawing in pencil and charcoal, realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century.
The state of preservation of the artwork is very good and aged with some fold...
Category
20th Century Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Artemis with the Harp - Original Pen Drawing - Early 20th Century.
Located in Roma, IT
Artemis with the Harp is an original drawing in pen on paper applied on a brown paper Passepartout realized by an anonymous artist in the early 20th Century.
...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Cart with Oxen - Original Pencil and Watercolor on Paper - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cart with Oxen is an original modern artwork realized in the half of the early 20th Century.
Original mixed media artwork: tempera, watercolor, china ink and pencil on cardboard.
V...
Category
20th Century Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Tempera, Pencil
Early 20th Century Watercolour - The Shipyard
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Presented in a gilt frame. On paper.
Category
20th Century Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$239 Sale Price
20% Off
Sketches of a Car - Original Drawing by Unknown - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sketches of a Car is an Original Pencil Drawing realized by an Unknown artist in mid-20th century.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
No signature.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
$269 Sale Price
25% Off
Figures - Original Watercolor on Paper - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an original artwork realized by a French artist in the 1920s.
Original watercolor on cardboard.
The signature of the artist is present on the lower right corner in penc...
Category
1920s Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Standing Men - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Standing Men is an original Drawing in pencil on ivory-colored paper realized by an anonymous artist in the early 20th century.
Good conditions.
The artwork is represented men ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
The Seated Woman - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Seated Woman is an original Drawing on ivory-colored paper realized by an anonymous artist in the early 20th century.
Good conditions.
The artwork is represented a seated woman...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
French School 19th century, Set of nine humoristic drawings, pencil on paper
Located in Paris, FR
France, 19th century
Set of nine humoristic drawings, various subjects in the same mount
Black pencil, for some of them with highlights of white gouache
various dimensions : 6 x 5.5 ...
Category
1850s Romantic Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
$381 Sale Price
25% Off
18th Century Roman School , A Palazzo with antiques, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
18th Century Roman School
A Palazzo with antiques
Brown ink and pen, brown ink wash on paper
12.5 x 20 cm
Framed : 28,5 x 35.5
This nice drawing represents a genre scene, with a nobleman, priests, a mother and her children...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
$606 Sale Price
25% Off
Porcelain Vase - China Ink and Watercolor - 1890s
Located in Roma, IT
Porcelain Vase, 1890s is a china ink and watercolor drawing on ivory-colorated paper by Anonymous French Artist of the late 19th Century.
In excellent conditions: As good as new.
N...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Figure - Original Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original Drawing in pencil on creamy-colored paper realized by An anonymous artist in the Mid 20th century.
Good conditions.
The artwork is represented posing nude thr...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Portrait - Pen on Paper - 1950
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a drawing in pen on ivory paper realized in 1950 by Anonymous Artist of the XX century.
In very good condition, except for the yellowish part of the paper along the marg...
Category
1950s Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Bird - Original Pen Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bird is an original drawing in pen realized by a French Anonymous artist of the Mid-20th Century, the state of preservation of the artwork is good except for some foxing along the margins.
Hand-signed on the lower left, illegible.
The artwork represents the study of bird...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Chinese Erotic Album Leaf, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Despite its explicit content, this intimate scene conveys a sense of tenderness and romantic love characteristic of Chinese erotic art. Known as “sp...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Porcelain Lamp - Original Watercolor and Ink drawing - 1880s
Located in Roma, IT
"Porcelain Lamp" is an original watercolor and ink drawing on ivory-colored paper realized in 1880ca. by Anonymous french Artist of 19th Century.
In very good conditions.
The artw...
Category
1880s Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Cityscape with Statue - Original Drawing - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cityscape with Statue is an original artwork, mixed media on cardboard. Is not signed and dated but we can attribute the period middle 20th Century.
The artist want to define a e...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
1940s Seated Nude Figure Study
Located in Soquel, CA
Nude figure study of a seated female model by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Circa 1940. Unsigned. Unframed. Image size: 25"H x 19"W.
Category
1940s American Impressionist Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Woman Figure - Original Ink and Pastel on Paper - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Woman Figure" is an original erotic ink and colored pastels drawing on ivory-colored paper, glued on white paper, realized by Anonymous Artist of the XX Century.
In excellent cond...
Category
20th Century Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Ink
Christ - Original Pen and Pencil Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Christ is an original drawing on paper in pen and pencil mounted on blueish Passepartout, realized by an anonymous Italian artist of the Early 20th Cen...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Pencil
Literature - Pencil Drawing on Paper by Unknown French Artist - Early 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Literature is an original artwork realized by a French artist in the XX Century.
Original drawing on paper.
Very good conditions.
Very interesting artwork representing several s...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Portrait of Christ - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Christ is an original artwork realized by the Unknown Artist in the early 20th century.
Original colored pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper, glued on colored cardboa...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Pastel
$251 Sale Price
40% Off
French Romantic School, View of a roman atrium, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French Romantic school circa 1850
An antique Roman Atrium
signed lower right (illegible)
Ink, Ink wash and white gouache heightenings
20 x 13 cm
Framed : 35.5 x 27 cm
The signatu...
Category
1850s Romantic Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
$939 Sale Price
20% Off
Demons - Original China Ink - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Demons is an original drawing in china Ink by an anonymous artist in the mid-20th Century.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes in a well-balanced com...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Landscape with Men and Horses - Original China Ink and Watercolor - Early 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape with men and horses is a beautiful ink and pencil drawing. Due to the concerned subject matter and the typology of the image, it is assumed th...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Figures - Original Pen on Paper - 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an original drawing in pen on paper realized by an artist of the XX century.
The state of preservation of the artwork is good and aged with signs of the time.
Sheet dime...
Category
20th Century Unknown Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
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