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Item Ships From: France
Studies of the Galli Statue and of an Ignudo
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Florentine School, early 16th century
Studies of the Galli Statue and of an Ignudo
Pen and brown ink on laid paper
19.1 × 13 cm
Executed c. 1510–1520
Unsigned
This remarkable doub...
Category
16th Century Old Masters France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Robert Louis Raymond DUFLOS (1898–1929), "Nude by the Mirror"
By Robert Louis Raymond Duflos
Located in Paris, FR
Robert Duflos was an exceptionally precocious painter whose work primarily consisted of highly accomplished pastels and nudes. His artistic production is concentrated within a single...
Category
1920s Art Deco France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Berthomme Saint-André, The Nap, Watercolor, 1925
By Louis Berthomme Saint-Andre
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Watercolor by Louis Berthommé Saint-André, France, circa 1925
This exquisite watercolor by Louis Berthommé Saint-André, dating from around 1925, exemplifies the artist's mastery in ...
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1920s Post-Impressionist France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Seated Woman Holding a Staff
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Taddeo Zuccaro (Urbino 1529 – 1566 Rome) and Workshop (?)
Seated Woman Holding a Staff
Pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white, traces of red chalk on laid paper
37 x 27...
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16th Century Old Masters France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Academy Drawing of a Man
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Constance-Marie Charpentier (1767–1849)
Academy Drawing of a Man
Black and white chalk on paper
56 x 43 cm
Provenance:
Private collection
Constance-Marie Charpentier, a student of Jacques-Louis David, distinguished herself in late 18th- and early 19th-century Paris as a highly skilled portraitist. Despite the obstacles faced by female artists of her time, Charpentier gained recognition and was even awarded a gold medal at the 1814 Salon—a rare and significant honor. This work, a male nude academy...
Category
19th Century Old Masters France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Chalk
French Vintage portrait of a nude by Antoine Calbet - pastel signed
By Antoine Calbet
Located in PARIS, FR
Mint condition, vivid colors.
Free US CONTINENTAL shipping, incl Europe and Asia.
Antoine Calbet: A Master of Academic Realism in the Third Republic
A Distinguished Journey
Antoine...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
"Boating on the Morin River"
By André Dunoyer de Segonzac
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Pen, ink, watercolor and wash on paper by André Dunoyer de Segonzac, France, 1922-1924. Boating on the Morin River. Measurements : with frame: 52.5x65x2 cm - 20.7x25.6x0.8 inches / w...
Category
1920s Realist France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Italian School, late 16th century - Head of a Man and Écorché Studies of Arms
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Italian School, late 16th century
Head of a Man and Écorché Studies of Arms
Red chalk on laid paper,
21 x 11 cm
Provenance:
Collection of Michael Jaffé CBE (1923–1997), English art historian and Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Private collection, France
This drawing, attributed to the Italian School of the late 16th century, demonstrates the influence of Michelangelo’s approach to anatomy and expression. The sheet combines two distinct studies: an anatomical rendering of arms in the écorché technique, focusing on the musculature and skeletal details, and a head of a man, drawn with careful attention to light and shadow. The use of red chalk lends the work warmth and immediacy, qualities often associated with Renaissance studies of the human form.
The écorché studies reflect the Renaissance fascination with anatomy as both an artistic and scientific pursuit. The detailed depiction of the musculature suggests the artist’s interest in understanding the mechanics of the body, a practice heavily influenced by Michelangelo’s drawings...
Category
16th Century Old Masters France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Posing Nudes - Charcoal Drawing by George-Henri Tribout - 1950
By Georges-Henri Tribout
Located in Roma, IT
Posing Nudes is a drawing realized by an Anonymous artist in the 1950s.
Charcoal on paper.
Good Conditions.
The artworks are represented through strong deft strokes and nudes whil...
Category
1950s Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Roman School (circa 1590–1620) - Study Of An Executioner
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Roman School (circa 1590–1620)
Study of a Male Executioner
Black chalk on laid paper,
275 x 199 mm
Unsigned
Formerly Giancarlo Sestieri Collection
This dynamic figure study, exe...
Category
16th Century Old Masters France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Laid Paper
Nude - Pen on Ivory Paper by Fausto Ghia - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in pen on ivory paper realized by Fausto Ghia.
Hand-signed on the lower left with dedication.
The state of preservation is very good.
Included a Passep...
Category
1950s Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Soft Rock : Sleeping Model on Red Background - Original Handsigned Painting
By Claude Gaveau
Located in Paris, IDF
Claude GAVEAU
Soft Rock : Sleeping Model on Red Background
Original gouache painting
Handsigned in ink
On thick paper 50 x 65 cm (c. 19.6 x 25.5 inch)
Very good condition
Category
Late 20th Century Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Seated Woman
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Created at the height of the Munka (“Work”) circle’s activity, Seated Woman marks a critical moment in Ernő Schubert’s artistic trajectory—from the immediacy of expressionism to the ...
Category
1920s France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Magazine Paper
Nude of Woman - Charcoal Drawing by Gio Colucci - 20th Century
By Gio Colucci
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Of Woman is a charcoal drawing on brown paper. Unsigned. Good conditions except for some folds and some rips on the corners.
Prolific and eclectic, the Italian Gio Colucci (Florence, 1892 – Paris, 1974), also known in France as Geo Colucci, was a painter, engraver, illustrator, ceramist, and sculptor. From 1921, he exhibited his engravings in various salons. He worked with French publishers specialized in the illustrated books of high bibliophilia, and delivered series of remarkable prints for texts by Barbey d'Aurevilly, Pierre Loti, Guy Maupassant...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Study of a Seated Satyr, Seen from Behind
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Domenico Maria Canuti (1625–1684)
Study of a Seated Satyr, Seen from Behind
Red chalk on laid paper with watermark
39 × 26 cm
Unsigned
Provenance:
Private Collection, France
Note...
Category
Late 17th Century Old Masters France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Leaning Nude Man (recto); Kneeling Man, Hands Tied Behind His Back (verso)
By Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Il Guercino)
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
GIOVANNI FRANCESCO BARBIERI, known as GUERCINO
(1591-1666)
Leaning Nude Man (recto); Kneeling Man, Hands Tied Behind His Back (verso)
Black chalk heightened with white on light blu...
Category
1620s Old Masters France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
Lovers - Charcoal Drawing - 1950 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Lovers is an original drawing in mixed media on ivory paper realized in 1940 ca. by an Anonymous artist of the XX century.
In very good conditions.
The artwork represents embracing...
Category
1940s France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
" Debardeur bleu " . Marrakech . Nude Male Erotic
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in CANNES, FR
Yves Saint Laurent ( 1936-2008 )
" Débardeur bleu " circa 1973 . from le Prince de Babylone
color pencil , Felt-Tip pen , colored pencil and graphite on paper .
27 X 21 cm . NUDE & UNIQUE .. Marrakech .
private collection FRANCE .
" Yves Saint Laurent led a revolution in women's fashion in the 60's "
born in Oran , Algeria , in 1936 , Saint Laurent was a keenly intelligent child ,
he fell in love with fashion at an early age ...
By his late teens , Saint Laurent was in Paris and a rising star of couture. after the sudden death of hid mentor Christian Dior in 1957, he became the head the illustrious fashion housesat the age of just 21 .
It was, after all , the golden era of YéYé Pop , his clothes became the uniform joyful bohemian dissent .
"Yves Saint Laurent and Andy Warhol "
In 1970 Andy Warhol came to Paris to film" L'amour " his transgressive travel movie featuring , somewhat surprisingly Karl Lagerfeld as a German aristocrat .
Warhol spend much of hid time with Yves ...
In 1961 , Saint Laurent founded his own label , bringing an insouciant elegance to his clean , minimal designs .the designs were playful and witty and Saint Laurent paid hommage to his artistic heroes
Piet Mondrian and Tom Wesselman ...
" Saint Laurent and Marrakech "
In 1966 the designer travelled to Morocco with his lover and business partner Pierre Bergé .it was the beginning of fascination with the city of Marrakech that lasted for the rest of Saint Laurent's life .
At the center of Marrakech scene was the American oil heir John Paul...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Poses en Mouvements, by Grégoire Mathias — Fluid Study of the Moving Figure
Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR
Poses en Mouvements
Pen and Sepia Ink on paper
50 × 32.5 cm
Signed lower left
In this dynamic ink composition, Grégoire Mathias captures the human figure in a state of fluid motion...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Nudes - Drawing by Mino Maccari - mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
China ink drawing realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th Century.
On recto and verso.
Not signed.
Very good condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
French Neo classical school, Allegory of Time, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Neo classical school, France, end of the 18th Century
Allegory of Time,
Pen and black ink on paper, gray ink wash
30.5 x 19 cm
irregularly shaped
In g...
Category
1790s Old Masters France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Reclining female nudes with an umbrella
By Henri Lebasque
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
HENRI LEBASQUE
(Champigné 1865 - 1937 Le Cannet)
Reclining female nudes with an umbrella
Pencil, stumping and heightened with watercolor
27 x 24 cm
Stamp lower right « H. Lebasque ...
Category
19th Century Art Nouveau France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
$3,615 Sale Price
30% Off
Nude of Woman - Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is a contemporary artwork realized by an italian artist in the mid-20th Century.
Mixed colored watercolor.
Signature and dedication on the lower left margin.
Include...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Female Nude, Pastel and Chalk Study for a Sculpture
Located in Cotignac, FR
A chalk and crayon study for a scuplture by French female artist Marie-Josèphe Bourron. Presented in modern frame with mount under glass. Though not signed the drawing was acquired d...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Crayon, Pastel
Rose - Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pencil, ink and watercolor on paper realized by an unknown artist in the early 20th Century.
Good condition.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Ink
Study of Feet and a Figure Sketch
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Attributed to Jacob JORDAENS (Antwerp 1593–1678)
Study of Feet and a Figure Sketch
Red and black chalk on laid paper
25.9 × 18.4 cm (10¼ × 7¼ in.)
Unsigned
Minor losses, folds, an...
Category
17th Century Old Masters France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
"Woman on blue sheets" (contemporary watercolor painting of a naked woman)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This artwork "Woman on blue sheets" presents a compelling and evocative depiction of a naked woman on blue sheets, characterized by its fluid and expressive use of watercolor. This ...
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Woman Figure - Original Ink and Pastel on Paper - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Woman Figure" is an original erotic ink and watercolor drawing on ivory-colored paper, glued on white paper, realized by Anonymous Artist of the XX Century.
In excellent condition...
Category
20th Century France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Ink
'Odalisque', French Watercolour of a Female Nude.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th Century watercolour on paper of a naked female figure before an open window. Signed bottom right but as yet not deciphered. Presented in carved, white painted wood frame.
...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
"Woman sleeping on couch" (impressionist colorful mixed media painting on paper)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This painting depicting a woman on the couch id dedicated to "Women" series which is a special one since it is all about my strong deep personal transformation as an artist. This tra...
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
Studies of Juliet - Original signed charcoals drawing
By Gaston Coppens
Located in Paris, IDF
Gaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002)
Studies of Juliet
Original charcoal drawing
Signed in the bottom right
Stamp of the artist on the back
On drawing paper 52 x 43 cm (c 21 x 17 inch)
Ex...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
$297 Sale Price
28% Off
Nude - Drawing by Paul Emile Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an ink drawing realized by Paul Emile Colin in the Early-20th Century.
Ink and watercolor.
Good condition.
Hand monogrammed.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
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 Contemporary France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Ink
Nude - Charcoal Drawing by S. Goldberg - Mid 20th Century
By Simon Goldberg
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original charcoal drawing on paper realized by Simon Goldberg (1913-1985). Hand-signed on the lower right.
The state of preservation is very good.
Sheet dimension:25 x 3...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Figure - Original Watercolor on Paper by Cazanove - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original drawing in watercolor on paper, realized by Raymond Cazanove in 1922.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
In good conditions, with aged margins.
Sheet dimension:...
Category
1920s Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Nude Woman - Pencil on Paper by André Meaux-Saint-Marc - Early 20th Century
By André Meaux Saint-Marc
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Woman is an original pencil drawing realized by André Meaux Saint-Marc (1885 - 1941) .
Pencil drawing on brown paper in very good conditions.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Reclined Nude from the Back - Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Reclined Nude from the Back is a drawing realized in the Early 20th Century.
Charcoal on paper.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Nude of Woman - Original Drawing attr. to Paul Grain - Mid 20th Century
By Paul Garin
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is an Original China Ink Drawing attributed to Paul Garin and realized in the mid-20th century.
Good condition on a brown paper.
No Signature.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Nude - Drawing by Robert Fontene - Mid-20th Century
By Robert Fontené
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a drawing realized by Robert Fontené in the Mid-20th Century.
China ink on paper.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized through deft expressive strokes.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Study of a Seated Woman and Body Part in profile by Georges Gôbo - Early 1900
By Georges Gobo
Located in Roma, IT
Study of a seated woman and body part in profile is an original sanguine drawing on sheet, realized at the beginning of the 20th Century by the artist Georges Gôbo (Saint Francisco, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Academy Study of a Seated Male Figure Seen from the Back
By Charles Joseph Natoire
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Attributed to Charles-Joseph NATOIRE (Nîmes 1700 – 1777 Gandolfo)
Academy Study of a Seated Male Figure Seen from the Back
(Youthful study executed around the 1720s–1730s, likely du...
Category
1720s Old Masters France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Nude of Dancing Nymph - Original Pencil Drawing by Nan Borazzo - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Dancing Nymph is an original drawing in black and color pencil on ivory paper, made by Nan Borazzo (1905 -?), An artist active during the 20th ce...
Category
1930s Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Nude from the Back - Pencil Drawing - Mid-20th Century
By Paul Garin
Located in Roma, IT
Nude from the back is a pencil drawing attributed to Paul Grain and realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Included a Passepartout: 41 x 51 cm.
The artwork represents a nude wom...
Category
1950s Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Nude - Pencil Drawing by Flor-David - Mid 20th Century
By Flor David
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original Drawing in pencil on creamy-colored paper attributed to Flor-David, and realized in the Mid 20th century.
Good conditions.
The artwork is represented posing nud...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Naked Woman Lying Back - Original Watercolor by Anna Bass - Early 20th Century
By Anna Bass
Located in Roma, IT
Naked woman lying back is an original painted with original watercolor realized by Anna Bass (Strasbourg 1876 - Paris 1961) in the First Half of 20th Century.
The artwork represent...
Category
Early 20th Century France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777) Putti playing around a sculpture, drawing
By Louis-Félix Delarue
Located in Paris, FR
Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777)
Putti playing around a sculpture, a mythological scene
Pen and brown ink on paper
15.4 x 31 cm
In good condition
The ancient mount has has a smal...
Category
1770s Old Masters France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
G. A. Rochegrosse (1859-1938) Studies of men, original drawing
By Georges Antoine Rochegrosse
Located in Paris, FR
Georges Antoine Rochegrosse (1859-1938)
Studies of men,
Pencil on paper
23 x 41.5 cm
Signed lower right
In good condition
In a modern mount 41 x 52.5 cm
Provenance: Estate of the...
Category
1910s Symbolist France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
The Dance - Drawing - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
The Dance is a pencil drawing realized in 1920 and attributed to Augusto Monari.
Good condition, no signature.
Mounted on a grey cardboard passpartout ( 23.5x18.5).
Category
1920s Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Female nude, 1956, ink on paper
By Marcel Gromaire
Located in PARIS, FR
Marcel GROMAIRE (1892-1971)
Female nude, 1956
Black ink on paper
Signed and dated upper left
Dimensions of the work : 25 x 32,5 cm
frame : 40 x 50 cm
Born in 1892 in the Nord region...
Category
1950s French School France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, India Ink
$1,427 Sale Price
25% Off
Study of a Fate at mid-body, a red chalk attributed to Giovanni da San Giovanni
Located in PARIS, FR
This spectacular red chalk drawing depicts an elderly woman, her eyes bulging, her hand stretched out towards the sky. This disturbing character, who seems close to dementia, and the elongation of her arm with its Mannerist overtones, plunge us into the Florentine artistic milieu of the first half of the 17th century. The proximity of this drawing to some characters in the fresco in the Pitti Palace representing The Muses, Poets and Philosophers chased from Parnassus, the last masterpiece of Giovanni da San Giovanni, leads us to propose an attribution to this artist and a dating of around 1635-1636.
1. Giovanni da San Giovanni, the painter of contradiction
We take here the title of the monography dedicated to the artist by Anna Banti in 1977, which remains the reference book for this artist. The son of a notary, Giovanni Mannozzi, known as Giovanni da San Giovanni, abandoned his studies to go to Florence at the age of sixteen, where he entered the studio of Matteo Rosselli (1578 - 1650) around 1609 and enrolled in the Academy of Drawing Arts in 1612. Around 1615 he produced his first known works, mainly frescoes for the city's tabernacles. He became famous in Florence for his originality, combining an obsessive application to the study of drawing and the reading of poetry and history with a disheveled appearance. Between 1619 and 1620 he decorated the facade of the Antella Palace in Piazza Santa Croce, a decoration that still partly survives today.
The death of Cosimo II in 1621 put an end to the Florentine building activity and Giovanni da San Giovanni left for Rome to find other sponsors with the painter Francesco Furini...
Category
17th Century Old Masters France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Marcel GROMAIRE (1892-1971), female nude
By Marcel Gromaire
Located in Paris, FR
Marcel Gromaire (1892 – 1971) was a French painter. He painted many works on social subjects and is often associated with Social Realism, but Gromaire can be said to have created an ...
Category
1950s French School France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Hand Fan Project With The Goddess Diana The Huntress floating in the clouds
By François Flameng
Located in PARIS, FR
François FLAMENG
Paris 1856 - 1923
Diana the Huntress floating in the clouds, fan project
1893
Watercolor and gouache on wove paper
Signed and dated lower right
25 x 70 cm sheet (le...
Category
1890s French School France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Femme nue - encre sur papier, 43x31 cm., encadré
By Marcel Gromaire
Located in Nice, FR
Encre de Marcel Gromaire, signé en bas a gauche. Encadré 58x47 cm.
Marcel Gromaire (né le 24 juillet 1892 à Noyelles-sur-Sambre et mort le 11 avril 1971 à Paris) est un peintre, gra...
Category
1960s Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Three drawings by François Boucher in a mounting by Jean-Baptiste Glomy
By François Boucher
Located in PARIS, FR
We would like to thank Juliette Parmentier-Courreau of the Custodia Foundation for her welcome and support during the consultation of Glomy’s Journal des Ouvrages.
This spectacularly large "feuille de desseins ajustés" commissioned by François Boucher from Jean-Baptiste Glomy is emblematic of the painter's art and mastery of rocaille. It is also fully representative of the taste of this period in the field of decorative arts. The largest of these three drawings, placed at the bottom of the composition, is particularly interesting: dating from around 1756, it constitutes a modello (apparently unpublished) for the frontispiece of the "Catalogue des tableaux de Monsieur de Julienne"), preserved in the Morgan Library in New York.
1. François Boucher, the master of French rocaille
The extraordinary career of Francois Boucher was unmatched by his contemporaries in versatility, consistency and output. For many, particularly the writers and collectors who led the revival of interest in the French rococo during the last century, his sensuous beauties and plump cupids represent the French eighteenth century at its most typical. His facility with the brush, even when betraying the occasional superficiality of his art, enabled him to master every aspect of painting – history and mythology, portraiture, landscape, ordinary life and, as part of larger compositions, even still life. He had been trained as an engraver, and the skills of a draftsman, which he imbued in the studio of Jean-Francois Cars (1661 – 1738), stood him in good stead throughout his career; his delightful drawings are one of the most sought-after aspects of his oeuvre.
As a student of Francois Lemoyne (1688 - 1737), he mastered the art of composition. The four years he spent in Italy, from 1727-1731, educated him in the works of the masters, classics and history, that his modest upbringing had denied him.
On his return to Paris in 1734, he gained full membership of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture with his splendid Rinaldo and Armida (Paris, Musée du Louvre). Although, throughout his career, he occasionally painted subjects taken from the Bible, and would always have considered himself first as a history painter, his own repertoire of heroines, seductresses, flirtatious peasant girls and erotic beauties was better suited to a lighter, more decorative subject matter. His mastery of technique and composition enabled him to move from large scale tapestry...
Category
1750s Old Masters France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Ink
Model Getting Up - Original signed charcoals drawing
By Gaston Coppens
Located in Paris, IDF
Gaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002)
Model Getting Up
Original charcoal drawing
Signed in the bottom right
On drawing paper 52 x 43 cm (c 21 x 17 inch)
Excellent condition
Gaston Coppens ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
$297 Sale Price
28% Off
Couple - Original Mixed Media - 1940 ca
Located in Roma, IT
Couple is an original drawing in mixed media realized in 1940 ca. by an unknown artist of the 20 Century.
Very good conditions.
The artwork represents a hugging lover expressed th...
Category
1940s Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Antoine Calbet, Femme nue de dos, aquarelle
By Antoine Calbet
Located in BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, FR
Antoine Calbet présente ses œuvres, principalement des portraits et scènes de genre, aux Salons de la Société des artistes français à partir de 1881 et ...
Category
Early 20th Century Symbolist France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Dreaming Nude - Hand Signed Original Pastel Drawing
By Gaston Coppens
Located in Paris, IDF
Gaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002)
Dreaming Nude
Original pastel drawing
Hand signed (with the monogram)
Stamp of the artist on the back
On wove paper 40 x 33 cm (c 15.7 x 12.9 inch)
Exc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Study for "Getting up" – 1955, a preparatory drawing by Balthus (1908 -2001)
By Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola)
Located in PARIS, FR
In 1955, as he was residing at the Château de Chassy in the Morvan for two years, Balthus created a large painting entitled "Getting up". Balthus was inspired for this painting by t...
Category
1950s Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Nude Woman from the Back - Original Handsigned Pastel Drawing
By Claude Gaveau
Located in Paris, IDF
Claude GAVEAU
Nude Woman from the Back
Original pastel drawing
Handsigned in pencil
Countersigned on the back
On paper 52 x 38.5 cm (c. 20.4 x 14.9 inch)
Very good condition
Category
Late 20th Century Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
