Baroque Drawings

A rare and architecturally presented suite of twelve 17th century French engravings from the celebrated series Les Festes du Mois, engraved by Leonard Gaultier, one of the most accom...

Set of Four Hand-Colored Engravings by Johannes Kip after Leonard Knyff, from Nouveau Theatre de la Grande Bretagne, circa 1707-1725. Important and distinguished highly decorative, ...

Painting, Sanguine on Paper by Jean Robert Ango (1710-1773), XVIIIth Century. Sanguine, drawing on paper of a notable man of the town, framed from the XVIIIth century by Jean Robert...

Sanguine on Paper by Jean Robert Ango (1710-1773), XVIIIth Century. Sanguine, drawing of a woman with her child on framed paper from the 18th century by Jean Robert Ango . Drawing:...

Francisco José DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828) The mob cutting the legs of a bull with spears, half-moons, banderillas and other weapons Plate...

Small red chalk drawing of an Italian city view. Framed behind glass. Image size 9.5 x 10 cm. Signed lower right: Damiano Ambrosioni.

A fine chiaroscuro drawing of a Bearded Venetian Man gazing downward Possibly by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta or his ambit Early 18th century; Venice, Italy Charcoal with white lead heightening on prepared blue paper Approximate size: 29.5 x 22 cm The present drawing, of superb execution and carefully articulated expressiveness, features the head of an elderly bearded man gazing downward. While his cap suggests a man of middle-class stature, his contemplative gaze embodies a sense of dignity and the wisdom that comes with age. The man is pensive, contemplative, beguiled by his own meditations. The portrait emerges from the negative space of the sheet, with the protagonist’s beard dissipating into the void of prepared rich blue paper—the Venetian carta azzurra—and rendered in black charcoal with white heightening, offering a tonal depth that emphasizes the dimensional relationship between the sheet itself and its portrait. The sketch is highly finished, made with great efficacy, and perhaps copies some detail of a finished work: perhaps a painting made by the artist himself, or one derived from another artist’s work. The verso appears to feature a white chalk counterproof of the Penitent Magdalene and an inscription along its margin offers an old attribution to Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. While the suggestion of Tiepolo is likely incorrect, a more befitting suggestion could be Tiepolo’s contemporary, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta who frequently executed and sold drawings...

Giovanni Volpato, Pilaster Decoration in the Vatican large-format depiction of a lavishly decorated and painted pilaster in the loggias of the Vatican, copperplate engraving on two s...

A good size Italian Baroque style red chalk drawing of a winged angel, possibly Saint Michael the Archangel. The angel is shown in Roman ga...

Florentine or Flemish school 17th century study of the Medici Lion by Flaminio Vacca. Measures: Sheet 31.7 x 48.8 cm. (12.5 x 19.2 in.) Frame...

Drawing study of the head of a young man. Red chalk on paper. With collector's mark at bottom, surmounted by a crown. In an 18th Century Spanish frame...

Set of four finely framed and matted engravings of English men on their horses. Each signed and titled set in very decorative custom frames.

Set of four finely framed and matted engravings. Finely color plates. Each signed and dated. GRAPHIC SHEET, J. V. D. Aveelen, St. Holmia.

18th century Italian School head study of two young boys, alternatively two putti or cherubs, red chalk on laid paper, indistinctly signed SSE(?), framed.

Drawing from the Joseph Ignace François Parrocel period XVII "Christ and the Samaritan" size of the drawing preparatory work for one of the paintings in ...