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Item Ships From: Europe
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By Albert Chubac
Located in PARIS, FR
Colorful work on paper representing a face by Swiss artist Albert Chubac, measuring 97 x 71 cm.
Category
Mid-20th Century Color-Field Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cardboard
Gilbert & George, The World of Gilbert & George - Signed Ink Wash Drawing
By Gilbert & George
Located in Hamburg, DE
Gilbert & George (British, b. 1942 and 1943)
The World of Gilbert & George: The Storyboard, 2001
Medium: Ink wash drawing on paper (and artist’s book)
Dimensions: 20.3 x 29.2 cm (8 x...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Portrait of a Man
By William Dring
Located in London, GB
William Dring
1904-1990
Ink on paper
Image size: 15 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches (38.9 x 28.5cm)
The artwork portrays a man in profile, meticulously rendered in ink on paper. Dring pays close attention to the contours of the skin and hair. The intricate facial details prompt viewers to contemplate themes of identity and expression, while the minimalistic background underscores the figure’s separation from its surroundings.
William Dring
Dring was born with the forenames Dennis William, but was known colloquially as John. He was the brother of the artist James Dring. He married the painter Grace Elizabeth...
Category
20th Century Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
English School early 19th century, Portrait of two children, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
English School early 19th century,
Portrait of two children,
Pencil and light heightenings of white and red gouache
29.5 x 23 cm
In quite good condition : the pape is yellowed by t...
Category
Early 1800s Old Masters Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
The Plain Gangster - Early 20th Century British Illustration by Rex Whistler
Located in London, GB
REX JOHN WHISTLER
(British 1905-1944)
The Plain Gangster
Inscribed with title
Pen, brush and ink
Framed
20 by 16.5 cm., 8 by 10 ½ in.
(frame size 39 b...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Lucien Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950), Les Marionnettes 1910, drawing
By Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola
Located in Paris, FR
Lucien Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950)
Portrait of Marie-Thérèse Piérat in Les Marionnettes, 1910
Pencil on paper,
signed, dated and annotated lower ...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Italian School 18th century, An Ancient soldier in profile, red chalk on paper
Located in Paris, FR
Italian School 18th Century
An Ancient soldier in profile,
red chalk on paper
35 x 23.5 cm
in good condition, traces of folds in the lower right corner
Framed : 46.5 x 35.5 cm
This...
Category
1750s Baroque Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Framed 19th Century Watercolour - Portrait of Prince Albert
Located in Corsham, GB
This elegant oval portrait captures a handsome Prince Albert, seated in profile. The artist has captured the sitter with meticulous detail, delicately rendering the subject's facial ...
Category
19th Century Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
W. H. H - Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour, Lady with the Yellow Neck Scarf
Located in Corsham, GB
This fine British watercolour captures a young lady in a blue dress with a yellow scarf and white cap, holding a wicker basket. The soft, impressionistic brushstrokes create a delica...
Category
Late 19th Century Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Gianni - Framed Italian School 20th Century Watercolour, Portrait of a Man
By Gianni
Located in Corsham, GB
An expressive watercolour portrait of an Italian man, full of personality and fine facial details. Signed by the artist to the lower right. Well presented in an attractive gilt-effec...
Category
20th Century Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Auguste Gardanne (1840-1890) Carriages and horses, War of 1870, double sided
Located in Paris, FR
Auguste Gardanne (circa 1840- circa 1890)
Carriages and horses during the franco-prussian war of 1870
Pencil and watercolor on paper
On the reverse Studies of horses
Pencil and water...
Category
1870s Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Cowgirl
By Henri Fehr
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
20th Century Academic Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Charcoal
$288 Sale Price
47% Off
"In surprise" by Henri Fehr - Drawing 36x27 cm
By Henri Fehr
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
20th Century Academic Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Crayon
$288 Sale Price
47% Off
"Dressing" by Otto Vautier - Pencil on paper 19x12 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Stamp of the workshop of O. Vautier
Dimension of the "passe partout" frame 52.5 x 38 cm
Otto Vautier is a renowned Swiss painter, born in 1...
Category
1910s Academic Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
$280 Sale Price
20% Off
"Volto con Fiore in Testa" by Enzio Wenk, 2020-2021 - Marker on Paper, Portrait
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Face with a flower on the head".
Marker on paper.
This is part of an album.
The price refers to the single drawing.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Denis Auguste Raffet (1804-1860) Studies of characters, drawing and watercolor
By Denis Auguste Marie Raffet
Located in Paris, FR
Denis Auguste Raffet (1804-1860)
Studies of characters
Black pencil and watercolor on paper
18.5 x 25.5 cm
Stamp of the Raffet Estate Sale (1911) on the lower right
In good condition, foxings on the original mount
Framed 34 x 40 cm
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (2 March 1804 – 16 February 1860) was a French illustrator and lithographer. He was a student of Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, and was a retrospective painter of the Empire.
At an early age he was apprenticed to a wood turner, but took up the study of art at evening classes. At the age of 18 he entered the workshop of Cabanel, where he applied his skill to the decoration of china, and where he met Rudor, from whom he received instruction in lithography, in the practice of which he was to rise to fame. He then entered the École des Beaux-Arts, but returned to lithography in 1830 when he produced on stone his famous designs of Lützen, Waterloo, Le bal, La revue, and Les adieux de la garrison, by which his reputation became immediately established.[
Raffet's chief works were his lithographs of the Napoleonic campaigns, from Egypt to Waterloo, vigorous designs inspired by ardent patriotic enthusiasm. In this endeavor he was a contemporary of other French artist-lithographers of Napoleon and the French army including Hippolyte Bellangé, Horace Vernet, and Nicolas Toussaint Charlet. As an illustrator his activity was prodigious, the list of works illustrated by his crayon amounting to about forty-five, among which are Béranger's poems, the History of the Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, the History of Napoleon by de Norvins, the great Walter Scott by Auguste Defauconpret, the French Plutarch and Frédéric Bérat's Songs.
He went to Rome in 1849, and was present at the siege of Rome, which he made the subject of some lithographs, and followed the Italian campaign of 1859, of which he left a record in his Episodes de la campagne d'Italie de 1859. His portraits in pencil...
Category
1850s Romantic Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Monument to Denzil Holles, Dorchester - 1950s drawing by British Artist
By Neville Hickman
Located in London, GB
NEVILLE HICKMAN
(20th Century)
Monument to Denzil Holles, Dorchester
Signed, inscribed and dated: Holles Monument, St Peter’s Church, Dorchester, 16 April 1958.
Chalks heightened ...
Category
1950s Realist Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
J'ai enfoncé Jalouret!
By Paul Gavarni (Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier)
Located in BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, FR
Caractéristique de la production de Gavarni, ce dessin est à rapprocher de plusieurs autres portraits-charges représentant des personnages masculins en pied dans la même posture, deb...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Gustave Riquet (1866-1938) Les Œillets de la vie, 1898 watercolor signed
By Gustave Riquet
Located in Paris, FR
Gustave Riquet (1866-1938)
Les Œillets de la vie, 1898 (Carnations of life)
Signed and dated on the lower right,
The text on the lower left is the following "Cueille dès aujourd'hui les oeillets de la vie" , which can be translated as "Pick today the carnations of life"
watercolor on paper
37.5 x 51.5 cm
In good condition
In a modern frame : 53 x 67 cm
The text clearly gives the meaning of this allegorical portrait...
Category
1890s Symbolist Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Theresa
By Kay Boyce
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Mixed media on paper
Paper size: 14 x 12.25 inches
Framed size: 23.75 x 21.75 inches
Signed lower right
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
$5,468
Portrait. 1961. Watercolor on paper, 29, 5x21 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. 1961. Watercolor on paper, 29,5x21 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she began her studies...
Category
1960s Impressionist Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of Tiziano Vecellio ' Titian '
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
Joseph Arnold Freeman 1729-1799, was an English painter and draftsman. Freeman's middle name has been acquired through knowledge from an elderly now deceased art scholar, this is unr...
Category
Late 18th Century Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
French School 18th Century, Le Mépris et la Haine, form of expression, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School 18th Century,
Le Mépris et la Haine, Contempt and Hate as a form of expression,
Titled on the lower right "Le mépris et la haine N°7"
Black c...
Category
1750s Old Masters Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Pierre Olivier DUBAUT (1886-1968) Head studies of a horseman, signed watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Pierre Olivier DUBAUT (1886-1968)
Head studies of a horseman, Geoffrey Larcher, 1936
Signed lower center
Watercolor, black and red chalks and pencil on paper
22 x 27.5 cm
Titled a...
Category
1930s Art Deco Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Bernard, Self Portrait
Located in London, GB
English School
Bernard, Self Portrait
1950s
Pencil and sepia chalk on paper
Image size: 9 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches (24 x 34.3 cm)
Handmade contemporary frame
This imaginative self-portra...
Category
1950s Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil
Profile of Man - Drawing - 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Man Profile is a drawing in pencil and pen on paper realized in the early 20th century by French unknown artist.
The state of preservation is good with slight foxing.
The artwork ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Blue background Joanna Flatau Contemporary art portrait watercolor woman nude
By Joanna Flatau
Located in Paris, FR
Watercolor on paper
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
Joanna Flatau was born in Varsaw, Poland.
She graduated from Varsaw History of Arts University and from the Fine Arts Vars...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Young Man Reclining (Boris Snezhkovsky)
Located in London, GB
Konstantin Andreevich Somov (Russian 1869-1939), Young Man Reclining (Boris Snezhkovsky), 1931, Sanguine and pastel on paper, signed and dated (twice) (lower right), 32cm x 48cm, (46...
Category
1930s Art Deco Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Chalk, Paper
Untitled Zahra Zeinali Contemporary art portrait Iranian artist drawing black
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Charcoal on paper
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
The feather Zahra Zeinali Contemporary art portrait Iranian artist drawing black
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Charcoal on paper
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Siegfried
By Maxwell Armfield, RWS
Located in London, GB
MAXWELL ARMFIELD, RWS.
(1882-1972)
Siegfried
Signed, inscribed and dated l.c.: MAXWELL ARMFIELD/MDCCCCIV [1904] PARIS;SIEGFRIED/ACT III
Pencil and watercolour
Framed
24 by 16 cm., 9 ½ by 6 ¼ in.
(frame size 42.5 by 34.5 cm., 16 ¾ by 13 ½ in.)
Provenance:
Fine Art Society, London, 1979.
Born at Ringwood, Hampshire, of Quaker parents, his father being a milling engineer, Armfield studied at the Birmingham School of Art under Arthur Gaskin and Joseph Southall who taught him the tempera technique he was to practice for the rest of his life. In September 1902, after visiting Italy at the suggestion of Gaskin, he went to Paris, enrolling at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere and sharing a studio with three other students – Norman Wilkinson (also from Birmingham), Keith Henderson and the sculptor Gaston Lachaise. Returning to London the following year, he embarked on the series of one-man exhibitions that were henceforth to mark his career, showing first at Robert Ross...
Category
Early 1900s Pre-Raphaelite Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Scarlet sunset. Bilateral. Paper, watercolor, 26.5x35 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Scarlet sunset. Bilateral. Paper, watercolor, 26.5x35 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she began he...
Category
1960s Impressionist Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Studies of the Head of a Young Girl by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Drawing
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Studies of the Head of a Young Girl by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Charcoal and colour crayon on paper
26.3 x 20.3 cm (10 ⅜ x 8 inches)
Signed lower right, manzana. Pissarro...
Category
1940s Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Color Pencil
Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875-1932) Study of a sitting bearded man, original drawing
By Jean-Pierre Laurens
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875-1932)
Study of a sitting bearded man
Pencil on paper
24.5 x 20 cm
Stamp of the Jean-Pierre Laurens Estate on the lower left
In quite good condition : glued...
Category
1920s Art Deco Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Winter landscape. 1962. Watercolor on paper, 28x37, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Winter landscape. 1962. Watercolor on paper, 28x37,5 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she began he...
Category
1960s Impressionist Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
We don't know 2022. Paper/mixed media, 29.5x20.9 cm.
Located in Riga, LV
We don't know
2022. Paper/mixed media, 29.5x20.9 cm.
Liga Kalnina
Artist Liga Kalnina(1990) is born in Riga, Latvia.
Her artist interests is mainly realistically based -landscap...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
$171 Sale Price
20% Off
Paul Augustus Mulready (1804-1864) - 1839 Watercolour, Portrait of Grundy Walker
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful watercolour and pencil study depicting Grundy Walker, brother of Richard Walker M.P. of Notting Hill. Signed, dated and inscribed with location. Part of a pair of portra...
Category
Early 19th Century Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Woman in a Bonnet - Early 20th Century British Theatrical Portrait
Located in London, GB
BRITISH SCHOOL
(20th Century)
Woman in a Bonnet
Pastel, unframed, in conservation mount
5 ½ by 3 ¼ in., 14 by 8 cm.
This drawing is one of a group of similar theatrical portrai...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Girolamo Tubino After Raffaello, Sanzio Da Urbino La Velata
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This fine mid-19th-century watercolour by Italian artist Girolamo Tubino (1805-1879) is after ‘La Velata’ (Woman with a Veil) by Raphael (1483-1520),...
Category
1840s Old Masters Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Sketch of a Man in Profile
Located in London, GB
Sketch of a Man in Profile
17th Century French School
Ink on paper
Image Size: 10 1/2 x 7 inches (26.5 x 17.5 cm)
Framed
Provenance
The estate of Joseph McCrindle
Christies Old Masters and British Pictures and Old Master Drawings Sale 12th December 2008
This highly worked picture shows us a man depicted in profile is seen interacting with a scene that extends beyond the boundaries of the paper's composition, the pen strokes intricately portraying the man's face, rendering a detailed, textured complexion. He points his left hand out to something in the distance, with a look of almost alarm.
The artist Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609-64) did a series of oriental head studies.
The exotic headgear that he wears and this type of oriental head studies, had its principal source was of course Rembrandt, who etched many similar heads during the 1630s.
In the seventeenth-century Western European imagination, the turbaned figure represented the epitome of alterity: the Ottoman Turk. Ottoman costume...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Denis Auguste Raffet (1804-1860) Studies of a Tiroler Kaiserjäger, drawing
By Denis Auguste Marie Raffet
Located in Paris, FR
Denis Auguste Raffet (1804-1860)
Studies of a Tiroler Kaiserjäger,
Signed and dated 1849 lower right
Ink on paper
16.5 x 25.5 cm
In a nice period frame : 33 x 42 cm
Raffet had the occasion to draw studies of austrian soldiers as he took part as observer to the first Italian Independance War (1848-1849). It was the the first of many conflicts between the Kingdom of Sardinia , which later became the Kingdom of Italy , and the Austrian Empire.
The Kaiserjäger (imperial hunters) were founded in 1815 by Emperor Franz I. It was a great honor to enter the Kaiserjäger as they were the only ones to be honored with the term "imperial". However, only Tyrolese, Voralbergers and Welschtirolers were allowed.
They wore this characteristic hat as a parade headdress, it was made of matte black, waterproof felt. It consisted of a crown and brim adorned with a circular, green cord, the Jäger emblem and a plume of black rooster feathers. The hat cord was made of sheep's wool, and had a button and an acorn covered with a green wool.
These two studies clearly evoke the interest of the artist for this part of their uniform.
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (2 March 1804 – 16 February 1860) was a French illustrator and lithographer. He was a student of Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, and was a retrospective painter of the Empire.
At an early age he was apprenticed to a wood turner, but took up the study of art at evening classes. At the age of 18 he entered the workshop of Cabanel, where he applied his skill to the decoration of china, and where he met Rudor, from whom he received instruction in lithography, in the practice of which he was to rise to fame. He then entered the École des Beaux-Arts, but returned to lithography in 1830 when he produced on stone his famous designs of Lützen, Waterloo, Le bal, La revue, and Les adieux de la garrison, by which his reputation became immediately established.
Raffet's chief works were his lithographs of the Napoleonic campaigns, from Egypt to Waterloo, vigorous designs inspired by ardent patriotic enthusiasm. In this endeavor he was a contemporary of other French artist-lithographers of Napoleon and the French army including Hippolyte Bellangé, Horace Vernet, and Nicolas Toussaint Charlet. As an illustrator his activity was prodigious, the list of works illustrated by his crayon amounting to about forty-five, among which are Béranger's poems, the History of the Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, the History of Napoleon by de Norvins, the great Walter Scott by Auguste Defauconpret, the French Plutarch and Frédéric Bérat's Songs.
He went to Rome in 1849, and was present at the siege of Rome, which he made the subject of some lithographs, and followed the Italian campaign of 1859, of which he left a record in his Episodes de la campagne d'Italie de 1859. His portraits in pencil...
Category
1840s Romantic Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Self Portrait
By Sándor Bortnyik
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 33cm x 24cm, (66cm x 56cm framed). The work is framed behind UV glass and stepped gilded frame.
Bortnyik was a painter and graphi...
Category
1910s Bauhaus Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Portrait. 1960s. Watercolor on paper, 29x25.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. 1960s. Watercolor on paper, 29x25.5 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she began her studi...
Category
1960s Impressionist Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait. 1960s. Watercolor on paper, 22x20 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. 1960s. Watercolor on paper, 22x20 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she began her studies...
Category
1960s Impressionist Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait. 1960s. Watercolor on paper, 27, 5x20 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. 1960s. Watercolor on paper, 27,5x20 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she began her studi...
Category
1960s Impressionist Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait. 1963, watercolor on paper, 26x18 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. 1963, watercolor on paper, 26x18 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she began her studies a...
Category
1960s Impressionist Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of a Young Man by Victorian artist George Elgar Hicks
By George Elgar Hicks
Located in London, GB
GEORGE ELGAR HICKS
(1824-1914)
Portrait of a Young Gentleman
Signed and dated 1858
Watercolour and bodycolour, oval
30 by 25 cm., 11 ¾ by 9 ¾ in.
(frame size 50 by 41 cm., 19 ¾ b...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Pensive Young Woman
By Maurice Chabas
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Maurice Chabas (Nantes 1862 – Versailles 1947)
Pensive Young Woman
Graphite with white-chalk highlights on blue-grey paper
46 × 32 cm
Unsigned
Provenance
Bruno Delarue Gallery, É...
Category
1890s Impressionist Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Chalk
Caricature of Amintore Fanfani - Drawing by Emilio Giannelli - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Caricature of Amintore Fanfani is a modern artwork realized by the Artist Emilio Giannelli.
Black and white drawing
Hand signed on the lower margin
Includes frame: 34 x 24 cm
Category
1980s Modern Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Davey - Late 19th Century Watercolour, Breton Woman
Located in Corsham, GB
A wonderfully detailed study of a Breton woman dressed in a traditional lace cap. Her red shawl is beautifully painted with intricate detail. Well presented in an ornate gilt-effect ...
Category
Late 19th Century Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Amanda
By William Russell Flint
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Watercolour on paper
Paper size: 16 x 22 inches
Framed size: 30 x 26 inches
Signed lower left
Category
20th Century Impressionist Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$34,543
Portrait of Attilia Marini
Located in Roma, RM
Luigi Serra (Bologna 1846 - 1888), Portrait of Attilia Marini
Mixed media drawing on paper 32 x 26 cm signed, dedicated to Attilia and dated "February 17, 1887" lower right.
Category
Late 19th Century Other Art Style Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Pencil, Color Pencil
Woman sitting and smiling
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Gilded wooden frame with glass pane
46 x 37.5 x 2 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of lady
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Brown wooden frame with glass pane
44.5 x 35.5 x 1.5 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Pencil
Hardrock 2020. Paper/mixed media, 21x14.8 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Hardrock
2020. Paper/mixed media, 21x14.8 cm
Liga Kalnina
Artist Liga Kalnina(1990) is born in Riga, Latvia.
Her artist interests is mainly realistically based -landscapes, arch...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Pen
$171 Sale Price
20% Off
Eiffel Tower with Maurice Chevalier. PARIS .
Located in CANNES, FR
James Rassiat ( 1909 -1998 ) .
" la Tour Eiffel au bras de Maurice Chevalier "
gouache on paper : 38 X 28 cm
Framed : 51 X 41,5 cm
Category
Late 20th Century Art Deco Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Half-length portrait of a Pharisee - In the shadow of betrayal -
Located in Berlin, DE
Hermann Prell (1854 Leipzig - 1922 Dresden-Loschwitz). Half-length portrait of a Pharisee, 1885. Sketch for the right-hand figure in the painting Judas Iscariot, 1886. Pencil drawing heightened with opaque white and black chalk on beige-grey wove paper (papier vélin), 34 x 27.8 cm (visible size), 52 x 45 cm (mount), signed, dated and inscribed "H. PRELL 1885 zu 'Judas'".
Minor browning, collection stamp on the reverse.
- In the shadow of betrayal -
About the artwork
This painting is the sketch for the head of the Pharisee offering the coins to Judas in one of Herrmann Prell's major works, the painting Betrayal of Judas, completed in 1886. The painting belongs to the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and is illustrated in Adolf Rosenberg: Prell, Bielefeld and Leipzig 1901, p. 21 (Fig. 19). It is especially highlighted in Thieme-Becker (vol. 27, p. 376).
Hermann Prell, Betrayal of Judas, 1886
The monumental head, which fills the picture and is distinguished by its ornamented robe, is almost a lost profile, which in the executed painting is justified by the Pharisee's turning towards Judas. Despite the fact that the sitter withdraws from the viewer by turning away, it was necessary to artistically elaborate the motivation for the purchase of one of Christ's disciples, which is why the drawing focuses on the expression of the face, while the 'accessories' are treated in a more summary manner.
In characterising the face, Hermann Prell performs a balancing act: since the Pharisee, despite his destructive actions, is an actor in the history of salvation, the head must show a dignity appropriate to the event, but at the same time the physiognomy must also bear witness to the scheming attitude that led to the betrayal. To solve this dilemma, Prell draws on the traditional depictions of the heads of the apostles, shading the face to indicate the obdurate darkness of the spirit and moving the base of the nose slightly upwards while the mouth falls away, thus giving a physiognomic expression to the motivation of the action. The fatal drama of the betrayal is expressed in the monumentalisation of the head and in the thunderous white highlights that contrast with the darkness of the chalk.
As a study, considered by the artist to be a work in itself, this drawing reveals the pictorial problems and brainstorming of monumental painting.
About the artist
In 1872 Prell, who was one of the most important exponents of monumental painting of his time, began studying painting with Theodor Grosse at the Dresden Academy of Art and continued with Carl Gussow at the Berlin Academy in 1876. Hans von Marées taught him in Rome in 1878. More influential on his work, however, were Arnold Böcklin and Max Klinger, with whom Prell had been friends since his student days and with whom he worked together on several occasions.
Prell's first major work, which established his reputation as a monumental painter, were the frescoes in the banqueting hall of the Architektenhaus in Berlin in 1881/82, commissioned by the state and depicting the different periods of architecture. Prell then went to Italy for two years to study fresco painting. Other major commissions followed. These included monumental frescoes in the town halls of Worms (1884), Hildesheim (1882-92), Gdansk (1895) and Dresden, the staircase of the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts in Breslau (1893/94), the throne room of the German Embassy in Rome (1896-99) and the staircase of the Albertinum in Dresden (1900-1904).
From 1886 Prell taught at the academy of arts in Berlin and in 1892 he was appointed professor at the academy of arts in Dresden. His students included Osmar Schindler and Hans Unger...
Category
1880s Realist Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
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