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Item Ships From: Continental Europe
Guitarist Cat - Handsigned Original Ink Drawing
By Laszlo Tibay
Located in Paris, IDF
Laszlo TIBAY
Guitarist Cat
Original India ink and lavish drawing
Handsigned
Bearing the stamp of the artist
On light board 30 x 20cm (c. 11.8 x 7.8 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
2010s Modern Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Dog - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Dog is a Black Marker Drawing and Watercolour realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a little sheet of a notebook.
No Signature.
Reynold Ar...
Category
1970s Modern Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Cat and Dog Playing - Original pencil drawing, 1953
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN
Cat and Dog Playing, 1953
Original pencil drawing
Signed by artist stamp
On paper 24.5 x 19.5 cm (c. 9.6 x 7.6 inch)
Very good condition, m...
Category
1950s Modern Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Charcoal
Bullfighting Scene Gouache on paper
By Roberto Domingo Fallola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Bullfighting Scene
Artist: Roberto Domingo
Technique: Gouache on paper
Dimensions: 7 x 10 in (14 x 17.3 in with frame)
Period: 1930s
Style: Spanish Impressionism with Post-Impressionist influence
Condition: Framed in a classic wooden frame
Theme: Bullfighting scene
Description of the Artwork
"Bullfighting Scene" by Roberto Domingo is a vibrant and dynamic depiction of a typical moment in a bullring. The composition captures the drama and intensity of the moment, with a mounted picador on a striking white horse as the centerpiece, flanked by a matador and assistants preparing for the spectacle. The artwork radiates energy through swift and loose brushstrokes, imbuing the scene with movement and vitality.
Domingo’s style emphasizes visual synthesis, focusing on color and form rather than meticulous detail to convey the atmosphere of the bullfighting arena. Warm tones dominate, with vibrant yellows and reds contrasting against the grays and whites of the horse and costumes, creating a captivating chromatic interplay.
The classic frame adds sobriety and balance to the piece, further highlighting the expressive power of the gouache.
Biography of the Artist
Roberto Domingo Fallola (1883-1956), born in Paris, was a renowned painter and illustrator of Spanish descent. The son of the celebrated bullfighting painter Vicente Domingo, he inherited a passion for bullfights and became one of the leading exponents of bullfighting art...
Category
1930s Impressionist Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$1,003 Sale Price
43% Off
Lion pencil drawing, Italian painter - 21st Century Black and White Animal
By Giorgia Oldano
Located in Milan, IT
Giorgia Oldano is a young italian artist specialized in drawing and wildlife. After photographing her subjects she uses the pictures as first inspiration to construct her own drawing...
Category
2010s Realist Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Frog - Drawing in pencil by Emmanuel Gondouin - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Frog is a drawing in pencil realized in the early 1930s by Emmanuel Gondouin, (Versailles, 1883 - Parigi, 1934)
The artwork is depicted through strong strokes.
Emmanuel Gondouin is a French Cubist...
Category
1930s Modern Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Cat - Drawing by Novella Parigini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Cat is an artwork realized by Novella Parigini in 1970s.
Oil Pastels on Cardboard.
Handsigned in green in the lower right part.
74 x 54 cm.
Very good conditions!
Category
1970s Contemporary Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Dream World（Rabbit）
By Minako Asakura
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & watercolor on paper with wood panel
Minako Asakura is a Japanese artist born in 1973 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. As graphic designer & art director, she was involv...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Paper, Watercolor, Wood Panel
Horses - Drawing by Domenico Purificato - 1952
Located in Roma, IT
Horses is an original drawing realized by Domenico Purificato in 1952.
Black and white pen drawing.
Hand-signed and dated on the lower right.
Th...
Category
1950s Modern Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Study on a Mouse - Drawing by Augusto Monari - 1935
Located in Roma, IT
Study on a Mouse is a Drawing in pencil realized by Augusto Monari in 1935.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1930s Modern Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Bee from the top. Paper, mixed media, 30x21 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Bee from the top
Paper, mixed media, 30x21 cm
Juris Utāns (1959-2022)
was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socially active and political art. Juris Utan...
Category
2010s Realist Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Horses - China Ink Drawing by Yves Brayer - 1954
By Yves Brayer
Located in Roma, IT
"Horses" is an original china ink drawing on ivory-colorated paper realized by Yves Brayer in 1954.
In excellent conditions.
This is an original drawing representing two horses.
...
Category
1950s Modern Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Vultures - Charcoal Drawing by Renato Brozzi - Early 1900
By Renato Brozzi
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful charcoal drawing depicting a flock of vultures taking flight.
Designed by Brozzi, a renewed italian sculptor and engraver, in the first decades of 20th century.
Good condit...
Category
Early 20th Century Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
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 Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Soldier on Horseback - Pencil Drawing - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Soldier on Horseback" is a pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper by Anonymous Artist of 19th Century.
In very good conditions.
Sheet dimensio...
Category
19th Century Modern Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Parrot - Original Pencil on Paper by G. Galantara - Late 19th Century
By Gabriele Galantara
Located in Roma, IT
Parrot is an original drawing in pencil on paper by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937).
In good conditions except for some diffused foxings.
Sheet dimension: 12.5 x 11.5 cm.
This is a...
Category
Late 19th Century Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Feline Sleeping - Original Pencil Drawing by Ernest Rouart - 1890s
By Ernest Rouart
Located in Roma, IT
The Feline is an original pencil drawing on paper realized by Ernest Rouart by the turn of the XX century.
This drawing is hand-signed by the artist in red pen on the lower left. In...
Category
1890s Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Old Master Drawing, Roccoco, 18th Century, German Artist, Animal Drawing
By Johann Martin Metz
Located in Greven, DE
Black chalk, partly washed, on paper, sheet 27.5 x 19.7 cm
Plain gold moulding, 44.8 x 36 cm
The Rhenish still life painter Johann Martin Metz was ...
Category
18th Century Rococo Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
$755 Sale Price
20% Off
Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Flowers
By Minako Asakura
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & watercolor on paper with wood panel
Minako Asakura is a Japanese artist born in 1973 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. As graphic designer & art director, she was involv...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Paper, Watercolor, Wood Panel
Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Flowers
By Minako Asakura
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & watercolor on paper with wood panel
Minako Asakura is a Japanese artist born in 1973 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. As graphic designer & art director, she was involv...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel, Watercolor, Paper
Charles Emile JACQUE (Paris 1813 - 1894) Two sheeps, studies drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Charles Emile JACQUE (Paris 1813 - 1894)
Two sheeps, studies
Black chalk on paper
9 x 17 cm
Framed 33 x 38 cm
Charles Emile Jacque was born in 1...
Category
1860s Realist Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Sunny Moment
By Minako Asakura
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & watercolor on paper with frame
Minako Asakura is a Japanese artist born in 1973 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. As graphic designer & art director, she was involved f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor, Paper
Horse grazing. 1950s. Paper, pastel. 29.5x42.3 cm
By Aleksandra Belcova
Located in Riga, LV
Aleksandra Belcova (1892-1981)
Studied at the Art School in Penza (1912-1917), State Free Art Workshops in Petrograd with N. Altman (1918-1919).
Together with her husband Romans S...
Category
1950s Realist Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Grasshopper. Paper, mixed media, 21x30 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Grasshopper
Paper, mixed media, 21x30 cm
Juris Utāns (1959-2022)
was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socially active and political art. Juris Utans' wo...
Category
2010s Realist Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Inner Flowers
By Minako Asakura
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & watercolor on paper + frame
Minako Asakura is a Japanese artist born in 1973 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. As graphic designer & art director, she was involved for mo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Paper, Watercolor, Wood Panel
$320 Sale Price
20% Off
Sunny Day
Located in Oslo, NO
This bright, light watercolor is painted in one breath. Two cats are lying on a blue background, one of them is lazily squinting at the sun. The work is filled with sunlight and a fe...
Category
2010s Realist Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Old Master Drawing, 17th Century, Italian Art, Peace, Allegory, Love, Dove
Located in Greven, DE
Oak Leaf Peace Wreath with Dove and Serpent
Around 1700
Black chalk on thin, brownish paper
39,8 x 52,7 cm
Inscribed "N" in the centre left
This drawing is probably by an Italian Ar...
Category
17th Century Baroque Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
$377 Sale Price
20% Off
Let's leave the "Mochi" alone - Paint by Alberto Gallerati - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized by Alberto Gallerati (b. 1945) in 1970s.
Hand signed.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Feeding the Kittens - Little cat mother -
Located in Berlin, DE
Ernst Albert Fischer-Cörlin (1853 Körlin - 1932 Persante). Feeding the Kittens, 1893. Pencil on painting cardboard, 38 x 29 cm. Signed and dated by the artist at lower left "E[rnst] A[lbert] Fischer=Cörlin 1893".
- Lightly stained, somewhat dusty and minimally foxed.
- Little cat mother -
About the artwork
Daughter, mother and grandmother gather in the sunlight to feed a litter of kittens. The mother and grandmother hold the lively, playful animals in their arms, while the young girl feeds two of the four kittens with cookies. There is also a small bucket of milk and a bowl of milk. The women and the girl watch as the cute, still blind animals eat.
It is a scene taken from everyday life, but it also has an allegorical dimension, bringing maternal care into the representation. Three generations are represented, with the grandmother and the mother already mothers. They not only offer the kittens to the youngest, but also proudly observe the maternal care that the youngest gives to the kittens. Like the kittens, she will grow up and become a mother herself, so the image is also an allegory of life's ever-new beginnings. In keeping with this, the morning sun shines into the picture from the right. Fischer-Cörlin has masterfully worked out the quality of the light, with its light and dark areas, with the pencil used...
Category
1890s Academic Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cardboard, Carbon Pencil
$359 Sale Price
20% Off
Acrylic and Spray Paint of Paper - Office Series of Works - Lunch Break - Framed
Located in Vilnius, Vilniaus apskr.
Ettoja is one of the most prominent illustrators and street art creators in Lithuania. His work explores themes such as social issues, ecology, environmental protection, and the rela...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Jewel Tree, Rabbit
By Minako Asakura
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic, watercolour, crayon & pencils on marouflaged paper with wooden panel & signed on reverse
Minako Asakura is a Japanese artist born in 1973 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan....
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Wood Panel, Pencil
The King's Camelopard
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Charles Frederick de Brocktorff (1775–1850)
‘Camelopard – a present from the Pacha of Egypt to the King – at Malta on its way to England’
Signed and dated C.F. de Brocktorff. / 1827. lower right, inscribed as titled in the painted margins lower centre. Pencil and watercolour heightened with gold paint and gum arabic on paper, 36.8 x 27.9 cm
A gift so majestic, it made kings blush, and a gift so grand, it would startle Europe into a craze. Pasha Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1805-1848) did it in 1827: he sent to Europe three magical spotted, horned creatures, each with a neck reaching the skies and legs as long as a house is high. One giraffe to King Charles X of France, one to Francis I of Austria and the most fabled one to King George IV of England. A curious sight for Europeans, who had not seen such a beast since the Medici giraffe in 1487.
Few animals created more of a stir in Europe than these royal...
Category
1820s Naturalistic Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Study of fourteen birds
Located in Ottikon, CH
Circle of Alexandre Francois Desportes
Study of fourteen birds (Study of fourteen birds)
28.3 x 43.8 cm
Watercolor, pencil, mixed media on paper
Verso:
Faintly legible monogram i...
Category
17th Century Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Pencil
Georg Philipp I RUGENDAS (1666-1742) - Frederick I of Prussia
By Georg Philipp Rugendas the Elder
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Georg Philipp I RUGENDAS (1666-1742)
Frederick I of Prussia
Red chalk, ink and brown wash on paper
45x42 cm
This drawing has been long considered representative of Charles VI. In r...
Category
Early 1700s Old Masters Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Fancy Forest
By Minako Asakura
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & watercolour on marouflaged paper with wooden panel
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Wood Panel, Watercolor, Acrylic
$9,840 Sale Price
20% Off
Cats - Watercolor on Paper by French Artist Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Chats is a black and white watercolor realized by Anonymous artists in the second half of the XX century.
The artwork depicts silhouettes of sinuous cats also on both sides of the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
American Impressionist Watercolours, Possibly Views Of The Santa Fe Railroad
Located in Cotignac, FR
A pair of early 20th century crayon and watercolour on paper views attributed to American artist Edgar Alwin Payne, both signed A.E.Payne bottom righ...
Category
Early 20th Century Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Watercolor
Chinese Contemporary Art by Qui Shui - Smart Cat
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on paper
Kui Shui is a Chinese artist born in 1970 who lives and works in Shenzhen, China. Over the years, he researched the combination of animal spirit and image spirit to fin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Italian neoclassical 19th century Italian figurative drawing antique frieze on paper
Located in Florence, IT
This drawing (pencil, ink and white lead on brown paper, 23 x 19, 5 cm) extremely accurately depicts an image taken from or inspired by antiquity, specifically an acanthus girale in ...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil, Chalk
Moby Dick 4 original mid century illustrations for Herman Melville's masterpiece
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Norwich, GB
A stunning ensemble of fiour original mid century illustrations for Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" . Whilst sharing the modernist, stylis...
Category
1940s Modern Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - The Land of the Rising Sun
By Minako Asakura
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & watercolour on paper + frame
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Paper, Watercolor, Wood Panel
Horses - Drawing by Gianpaolo Berto - 1973
By Gianpaolo Berto
Located in Roma, IT
Horses is a modern artwork realized by Gian Paolo Berto in 1973.
China ink drawing on paper.
Hand signed and dated by the artist.
Includes frame.
Category
1970s Contemporary Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Noble Hunting Society wild Boar Deer and Dogs, Hunter's Life, 1822, Watercolour
Located in Greven, DE
This Watercolor drawing shows a noble hunting society. The duke (?) on horse and several noble ladies accompanying the soctiety. The duke (?) gestures towards a group of hunters on h...
Category
19th Century Romantic Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$1,228 Sale Price
20% Off
Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Jewel Tree #2
By Minako Asakura
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic, watercolour, crayon & pencils on paper marouflaged on wooden panel
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Wood Panel, Watercolor, Acrylic, Crayon
Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Rabbit
By Minako Asakura
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on paper with frame
Minako Asakura is a Japanese artist born in 1973 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. As graphic designer & art director, she was involved for more than ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Sunset Landscape
By Minako Asakura
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on paper with frame
Minako Asakura is a Japanese artist born in 1973 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. As graphic designer & art director, she was involved for more than ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Paris School Pastel, The Resting Cat, Circle of Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita
Located in Cotignac, FR
French pastel on paper portrait of a sleeping cat by Renée Jullien. The drawing is signed bottom left and presented in a custom wood frame with cut card mount under glass.
A charmin...
Category
Mid-20th Century Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Study of lion - Original Pencil Drawing by Wilhelm Lorenz - 1933
By Wilhelm Lorenz
Located in Roma, IT
Study of lion is a beautiful original drawing on ivory-colored paper realized in 1932 by the German artist Wilhelm Lorenz, also known as Willi Lorenz.
Hand-signed on the lower left...
Category
1930s Modern Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
A Rural Landscape With Cows and Horses, Watercolor by Hilding Linnqvist
Located in Stockholm, SE
This watercolor by Hilding Linnqvist who was a Swedish artist born in 1891 and passed away in 1984.
Linnqvist, known for his association with the Naïvist movement, often described as...
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Animal painting of a 'Tamanuâguacû (Ant-eater)' late 17th/18th century, Brazil
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Follower of Zacharias Wagener (1614-1688)
Tamanuâguasû (Giant Anteater)
On Italian 17th or 18th-century paper, H. 28 x W. 43.5 cm
The present painting is a copy after Wagener’s painting of the anteater, Tamanduá-bandeira, which is illustrated in his “Thier Buch”, with 109 drawings of Brazilian fish, birds and mammals, published in Amsterdam c. 1641, in German.
Zacharias Wagener, or Wagenaer in Dutch, (Dresden 1614 – Amsterdam 1668) was a real adventurer who became Opperhoofd on Deshima and Governor of the Cape of Good Hope in the service of the VOC. During the Thirty-Year War in Germany Wagener tried his luck in Amsterdam where he worked for the map-maker Willem Blaeu. In 1634 he joined the WIC and left for Dutch Brazil where he worked as writer and painter, together with Frans Post...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Gouache
The Cat - Original Pen on Paper by M. P. Lagosse - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Cat is an original drawing in pen on ivory-colored paper, realized by Marie Paulette Lagosse (1921-1996).
Hand-signed on the lower right in pen.
The state of preservation of t...
Category
1970s Modern Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Two Couple of Horses - Original ink and pencil drawing
By André Lhote
Located in Paris, IDF
André LHOTE (1885-1962)
Two couple of horses, c. 1920
Original ink and pencil drawing
On paper 20 x 26 cm (c. 8 x 10.5 inch)
In black wood frame 34 x 40 cm (c. 14 x 16 inch)
Ms. Do...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Color Pencil
Original 70's Hand Painted Textile Design Gouache Yellow & Black Color on Paper
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
Birds design. Sealed on the back with the design studio name and number 98
We offer a small number of these original illustration designs by this design studio based in Alcoy (Spain)...
Category
1970s Modern Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Flight - Collage, Paper, Surrealism, 21st Century, Contemporary Art
By Raluca Arnăutu
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Flight, 2022
collage on paper
35 H x 50 W cm
Signed on reverse
Raluca Arnăutu dreams the world through collages. A collage, dreamlike and surreal, populated by thousands of pieces ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Dog - Drawing - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Dog is a drawing on paper realized by an anonymous artist in the 1950s.
Pen Drawing
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1950s Modern Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Victor Prouve, Hard of cat, charcoal on paper
By Victor Prouve
Located in PARIS, FR
Victor PROUVÉ (1858-1943)
Study of a cat
Charcoal on paper
13,5 × 13 cm
Provenance : Marianne Prouvé-Georges (1905-1994)’s collection, artist’s daughter
Frame : 25,5 × 25,5 cm (high ...
Category
Early 20th Century Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Yellow-Black Monkey - Figurative Ink Ecoline Painting, New Expression
Located in Salzburg, AT
Grażyna Rigall is a painter, illustrator, author of stage designs and music videos. - The artist is interested in the merging of the world of fauna and flora with the world of man, p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Orchids and irises
By Minako Asakura
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on paper with frame
Minako Asakura is a Japanese artist born in 1973 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. As graphic designer & art director, she was involved for more than ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
A dazzling Venetian Regatta Boat Study attributed to Alessandra Mauro
Located in PARIS, FR
This stunning Baroque study depicts a regatta boat, a type of vessel developed in eighteenth-century Venice for the regattas organized by the Serenissima during visits by royalty and princes. We propose to link this drawing to the work of Alessandro Mauro, an artist who specialized in this type of composition, as illustrated by a drawing from him at the Metropolitan Museum.
1. Description of the boat
The greatest decorative fantasy reigns in this preparatory study, which blends mythological and exotic elements with references to ancient Egypt. Our drawing is probably an initial thought, destined to be refined and clarified later in pen and ink (as evidenced by the ink stain in the lower right). A quadriga of seahorses guided by Neptune stands at the stern of the boat, shown well above the waterline (perhaps to outline its empty volume). One of the seahorses is ridden by a newt, while Amphitrite lies at the feet of the sea god.
The center of the boat is occupied by a vast baldachin resting on four atlantes and surmounted by a figure riding an animal (a dragon?). Three figures sit beneath the canopy, one of them on a griffin-shaped seat. This allusion to Egyptian antiquity echoes the winged sun (sometimes a symbol of the god Horus, as in the temple of Edfu in Egypt) that adorns the sides of the promontory on which this baldachin rests.
Another flag-bearer figure crouches at the stern of the boat on a raised seat, on the reverse of which is a crowned mermaid whose arm, extended backwards, rests on a mascaron decorated with a radiant face (Helios?) and whose torso surmounts an elephant's head. The heads of the rowers and their oars are sketched all along the boat, whose sides are embellished with elongated naiads.
2. The Venetian regatta boats
An exhibition held in 2013 at the Ca' Rezzonico (the Venetian eighteenth-century museum) paid tribute to these regatta boats through studies and prints depicting them. The regattas organized by the Serenissima in honor of visiting princes and sovereigns were among the most spectacular ceremonies in Venice. Some important artists of the 18th century contributed to the creation of these extravagant boats which were given exotic names such as bissona, malgarota or peota.
The specialists in this field were Andrea Urbani and the brothers Alessandro and Romualdo Mauro. They were born into a family of theater decorators in Piedmont, but little is known about their detailed biography. Alessandro was the architect of the Dresden opera house and of the St. Samuel Theater in Venice (in collaboration with his brother Romualdo), but also worked as stagehand and set designer in Vienna, Rome and Turin. A drawing produced around 1737 from the Metropolitan Museum (7th photo in the gallery) bears witness to his activity as a regatta boat designer.
This drawing is a much more elaborate version than the one presented here, having been entirely reworked in brown ink. However, a figure at the bow of the boat, executed solely in black chalk, still bears witness to a technique similar to that of our drawing.
It is difficult to know whether the boat depicted in our drawing was a project for an actual boat or whether it remained in the planning stage, but the front of our boat (Neptune and the quadriga of seahorses ridden by a newt) bears several similarities to that of a parade boat depicted in the print published by Michele Marieschi entitled Regatta on the Grand Canal, between the Foscari and Balbi Palaces (last photo in the gallery). This print is dated 1741, which could confirm that our work dates from around 1740.
The area between Neptune and the quadriga that precedes him on this strange paddle-boat appears to be partially submerged, confirming that the waterline of our boat was probably intended to be much lower than the one shown in our drawing.
The Correr Museum’s collection holds one of the most important collection of engravings and drawings devoted to these specifically Venetian Baroque productions. These boats were intended to last the duration of a festival. Today, they are only documented by preparatory drawings or prints that testify to the sumptuousness of their decoration. This taste for regatta boats lasted throughout the Venetian eighteenth century, and the conception of regatta boats also attracted great masters such as Giambattista Tiepolo, Francesco Guardi or Giambattista Piranesi...
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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
It's Hard To Understand - Contemporary Ink Ecoline Painting, New Expression
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Grażyna Rigall is a painter, illustrator, author of stage designs and music videos. - The artist is interested in the merging of the world of fauna and flora with the world of man, p...
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2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
