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Model Dressing
By Béla Czóbel
Located in Chicago, IL
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist
Exhibited:
Homage to Béla Czóbel: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings,R. S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago, 1990: no. 56 and reprodu...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Nu, mains dans ses cheveux (Nude, Hands in Her Hair)
By Marcel Gromaire
Located in Chicago, IL
Signed and dated, upper right
Provenance:
Atelier of the artist
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Autoportrait avec chèvre (Self Portrait with Goat)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Chicago, IL
Signed Chagall/Marc in blue watercolor (lower right); inscribed in pencil (right margin); inscribed by another hand épreuve rehaussée (left margin)
The authenticity of this work has...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Rue dans la banlieu de Paris (Street scene on the outskirts of Paris)
By Roger Lersy
Located in Chicago, IL
This exuberantly-painted Parisian street scene is typical of Lersy's colorful and energetic style. His work combines mid-century Modern abstraction with subjects beloved by the Impre...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Great Draughtsman Sitting (Self-Portrait)
By Jacques Villon
Located in Chicago, IL
This etching is signed and numbered by the artist and was printed in an edition of 50. The references for this work are: Auberty & Perussaux 266 and Ginestet & Pouillon E. 385 II/II...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Still Life with Pitcher (Nature morte au pichet)
By Duilio Barnabe
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting is signed and dated by Barnabè in the lower right. Barnabè's still-lives of simple everyday objects such as water pitchers, coffee cups, vases and bowls are painted in ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vedute di Roma (3rd state) (Frontispiece of series, with Statue of Minerva)
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Chicago, IL
Views of Rome (Vedute di Roma): Frontispiece for the whole series, with Statue of Minerva.
A fine impression of the rare 3rd state (of seven) of this m...
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Young Girl in Pink
By Béla Czóbel
Located in Chicago, IL
Béla Czóbel, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, R. S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago, 1996: no. 60 and reproduced on page 95 of catalogue.
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Young Girl
By Béla Czóbel
Located in Chicago, IL
A wonderful example of Czobel’s most expressive drawing.
Signed, lower right
Category
1930s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Maisons dans l'Allier
By Louis Neillot
Located in Chicago, IL
Signed lower right and dedicated: "a Madame Bertram amicalement"
Madame Bertram is the wife of Abel Bertram (1871-1954), a post-impressionist artist who with his wife were close frie...
Category
20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape with Cattle
By Hendrick V. Tavernier
Located in Chicago, IL
verso: signed and dated "H. Tavernier, 1779"
Category
18th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Column of Marcus Aurelius
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Chicago, IL
A fine impression with the address of the artist (Autore, Strada Felice) and the price (Paoli 2 1/2) as well as Hind Watermark no.3 (Fleur-de-lys-in-a-Double-Circle), all correspondi...
Category
Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
The Little Wooden Bridge
By Anthonie Waterloo
Located in Chicago, IL
A fine and rare 2nd State impression, before the address of Ottens
Category
17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
The Hermitage
By Anthonie Waterloo
Located in Chicago, IL
2nd State of three States
Category
17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
The Great Landscapes III
By Anthonie Waterloo
Located in Chicago, IL
3rd State
Watermark: Gekrontes Wappen. Similar to: Paschal Lamb on Shield, Ash & Fletcher no 29 B’a, dating this sheet to about 1651.
Category
Mid-17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
River Scene with Village and Church
By Hans Bol
Located in Chicago, IL
A very fine, well contrasted impression of the 1st State, before the addition of the number, present when the work later was included in Bol’s River Series.
Category
16th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Kermess
By Hans Bol
Located in Chicago, IL
2nd State
Watermark: Hand with Cuff and Flower (close to Briquet 11467)
Category
16th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Sounding the Hunt in the Morning
By Hans Bol
Located in Chicago, IL
2nd state
Watermark: Hand with Cuff and Flower (close to Briquet 11467)
Category
16th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
September
By Hans Bol
Located in Chicago, IL
engraving and etching by A. Collaert after Hans Bol
Watermark: Letter P (Briquet 8718, Grevenbroich 1572)
Category
16th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
February, from the Months of the Year
By Crispin De Passe
Located in Chicago, IL
engraving after Maarten de Vos (1532-1603)
Category
17th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Winter Landscape with a View of Zuylen Castle
Located in Chicago, IL
A fine 1st State impression before the addition of Vischer’s address.
etching with engraving after David Vinckboons (Malines 1576-1629 Amsterdam)
Category
17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
The Birth of Christ - With the Praying Shepherds
Located in Chicago, IL
A fine impression. With the address of P. Giffart. Mauperche produced over fifty engravings.
Category
17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Figures in a Landscape
By Gabriel Perelle
Located in Chicago, IL
A very fine impression
Category
17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Figures in a Landscape
By Gabriel Perelle
Located in Chicago, IL
A very fine impression
Category
17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Landscape with a Maiden and her Dog
By Adriaen van der Cabel
Located in Chicago, IL
A very fine impression
Category
Mid-17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Shepherd Leading his Herd
Located in Chicago, IL
A very fine impression
Category
Mid-17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Landscape with Barge
Located in Chicago, IL
signed in plate
Category
18th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Landscape with Marching Soldiers
By Jan van Huchtenburg
Located in Chicago, IL
Etching from the Six Landscapes
Category
18th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Italian Banquet
By Jacques-Philippe Le Bas
Located in Chicago, IL
A very good impression of the published state of this work after Nicholas Lancret (1690-1743), painter of “Fetes Galantes.” Mercure de France announce...
Category
18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Landscape with an Oaktree alongside a River, a Shepard Playing a Flute
By Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the Elder
Located in Chicago, IL
a very fine impression
Category
19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Hedickhuyfen
Located in Chicago, IL
from the series of eight views of Provincial Holland and Ultrecht
Category
17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
The Old Tower as a Lighthouse
By Jan Van de Velde
Located in Chicago, IL
a very fine impression
Category
17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Ferry in Front of the Stone Bridge
By Jan Van de Velde
Located in Chicago, IL
a very fine impression
Category
17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Landscape
By Albert Meyeringh
Located in Chicago, IL
signed in plate
Category
18th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Boats in a Harbor
By Duilio Barnabe
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting is signed and dated by Barnabè on the lower right.
In 1959, French art critic Michel Concil-Lacoste, in the newspaper Le Monde, expressed his views on Barnabè: "Barnab...
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Madonna and Child and Saint with Two Angels
Located in Chicago, IL
This confidently executed drawing is a study related to Maratta’s painting La Vergine appare a S.Stanislao Kotska 1687 in the second chapel to the right, in the church of S. Andrea a...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
The Triumph of Constantine the Great
Located in Chicago, IL
Inscribed on the verso: EE 27/10
Category
16th Century Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Ink, Pen
St. Jerome in the Desert
Located in Chicago, IL
Engraving by Joannes and Lucas van Doetecum (Deventer active by 1551 - circa 1569 Haarlem) in the manner of Peter Bruegel the Elder
Category
16th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
Venus and the Rose (2nd State)
By Giorgio Mantovano Ghisi
Located in Chicago, IL
Engraving after Luca Penni
Category
16th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Christ and His Disciples Harvesting on the Sabbath
Located in Chicago, IL
Engraving after David Vinckboons (Malines 1576-1629 Amsterdam), executed by Jan van Londerseel (Antwerp c. 1570-1624/25 Rotterdam)
Category
17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Landscape with the Prophets Ahias and Jerobeam
Located in Chicago, IL
Engraving after David Vinckboons (Malines 1576-1629 Amsterdam), executed by James Van Londerseel (Antwerp c. 1570 - 1624/25 Rotterdam)
Category
17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Landscape with Pair on Wooden Bridge
By Nicolaes de Bruyn
Located in Chicago, IL
Engraving after Egidius Coninxloo (c. 1581 - 1619), executed by Nicolaes De Bruyn (Antwerp 1571 - 1652 Amsterdam)
Unidentified watermark
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Tobias and the Angel
By Hendrik Goudt
Located in Chicago, IL
References:
Bartsch, Dutuit and Hollstein 2
Category
17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Landscape with Roman Ruins
By (After) Peter Paul Rubens
Located in Chicago, IL
Engraving after Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - 1640 Antwerp), executed by Schelte Adams Bolswert (Bolsward c. 1586 -1659 Antwerp).
Bolswert was one of the major printmakers in the ...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Great Landscapes II, (4th State)
By Anthonie Waterloo
Located in Chicago, IL
Watermark:
Schellenkappe (Foolscap) Similar to Churchill no. 340
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
The Great Landscapes VI (2nd State)
By Anthonie Waterloo
Located in Chicago, IL
Watermark:
Wappen von Amsterdam mit Nebenmarke
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Mercury and Argus (2nd State)
Located in Chicago, IL
References:
Blum 38 II/IV
Robert-Dumesnil 17 I/III
Russell 49 II/IV
Mannocci 42 IIb/III
Category
17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Les Plaisirs du Bal [before 1st State] (The Pleasures of the Ball)
By (After) Jean-Antoine Watteau
Located in Chicago, IL
Les Plaisirs du Bal (before 1st State), 1730
The Pleasures of the Ball
Pure etching only by Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin II (born Paris 1698)
495 x 640 mm.; 19 3/8 x 25 1/8 inches
...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
![Les Plaisirs du Bal [before 1st State] (The Pleasures of the Ball)](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_3653/1523031811466/Watteau_after_The_Pleasures_of_the_Ball_master.jpg?width=240 "jean bal")
Allegorical Figure, Holding a Ball
By Giorgio Mantovano Ghisi
Located in Chicago, IL
Provenance:
Edouard Schultze (Lugt 906)
References:
Bartsch 34
Boorsch & Lewis 38
Notes:
A fine impression of this engraving. Boorsch and Lewis state that this work dates from “the mid-1560s” and suggest that it was after a work by Giulio Romano...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Cord
By Michael Ayrton
Located in Chicago, IL
Edition of 12
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
New York
By Roger Lersy
Located in Chicago, IL
This watercolor of New York City bursting with energy in the 1960s is typical of Lersy's colorful and exuberant style. His work combines mid-century Modern abstraction with subjects...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor
Vue d'un Village (View of a Village)
By Marcel Gromaire
Located in Chicago, IL
Provenance:
Directly from the atelier of the artist
Notes:
This is an excellent example of a depiction of a French countryside village, with an emphasis in simplicity.
Category
20th Century Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Nu assis, penché à droite (Nude sitting, leaning to the right)
By Marcel Gromaire
Located in Chicago, IL
Signed and dated, lower right
Provenance:
Atelier of the artist
Category
1960s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Plage Normande (Normandy Beach)
By Marcel Gromaire
Located in Chicago, IL
Studio stamp of Gromaire, lower center
Provenance:
Atelier of the artist
Notes:
A typical Normandy beach scene, perhaps near Deauville or Trouville.
Category
1920s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Abres à Noyelles (Trees in Noyelles)
By Marcel Gromaire
Located in Chicago, IL
Studio stamp of Gromaire, lower left
Provenance:
Atelier of the artist
Notes:
Noyelles, where this drawing was created, is a small town in the Somme department of Northern France ...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Études de Personnages (Figure Studies)
By Marcel Gromaire
Located in Chicago, IL
Provenance:
Atelier of the artist
Notes:
Studio stamp on the verso of this important, early work by Gromaire.
Over the years there has been an ever-widening interest in the work o...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Young Girl in Green
By Béla Czóbel
Located in Chicago, IL
In a letter written to Czóbel after he had become quite ill in 1975, famous Portuguese painter Vieira da Silva writes:
“My very dear Czóbel, We em...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman in a Red Dress
By Béla Czóbel
Located in Chicago, IL
In an article published in Le Figaro (Paris, March 19, 1964), Raymond Cogniat comments on Czóbel’s unique artistic style. He writes:
“...Czóbel, who arrived Paris in the first years...
Category
1940s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Large Village Fair
By Cornelis Dusart
Located in Chicago, IL
The Large Village Fair, 1685
Etching
268 x 377 mm.; 10 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches
Watermark:
Arms of Amsterdam
Provenance:
H. Freiherr von und zu Aufsess (Lugt 2749)
M. Menge (Lugt 1893a).
References:
Hollstein 16
Notes:
A fine, early impression (before spots on the sky) of one of Dusart’s most powerful and fanciful works.
Concerning the provenances of this etching:
Hans von und zu Aufsess (1801-1872) was a great book lover and also a major collector of Old Master prints. He was one of the founders, in 1852, of the Germanisches Museum in Nürnberg and was that museum’s director until 1862. Mas Menge (died in 1945) was a famous violinist and also a major collector of Old Master prints and drawings.
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Singers
By Adriaen van Ostade
Located in Chicago, IL
The Singers (4th State), 1667
Etching printed with tone
240 x 190 mm.; 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches
Provenance:
W. Benoni White (Lugt 2592)
Karl Herweg (not in Lugt)
References:
Godefroy 19 IV/VII
Hollstein 19 IV/VII
Pelletier, Georgia Museum of Art, 1994: nos. 46 and 47
Notes:
A very fine impression of the rare 4th state (of seven) of this major Van Ostade.
Godefroy illustrates differences between this 4th state and the following 5th state. In the latter state, there are several “escaped lines”, going obliquely from left to right, directly above the central post. These lines are not visible in the 4th state.
Ostade was one of the most important of the printmakers within the Rembrandt circle. His prints, avoiding religious subjects, depicted beggars, peasants and artisans. Combining great artistic sensitivity with thorough mastery of the medium of etching, Ostade etchings present a unique artistic panorama of life in seventeenth-century Holland.
Pelletier (S. William Pelletier, Adrian Van Ostade...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
