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Item Ships From: France
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 ...
Category
19th Century Old Masters France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Chalk
Art Nouveau : Nude with Crystal Ball - Original Watercolor and Gouache, Signed
By George Barbier
Located in Paris, IDF
Georges BARBIER
Art Nouveau : Nude with Crystal Ball
Original India Ink, Watercolor and Gouache painting
Signed in the bottom middle
On paper 32 x 50 cm (c. 13 x 20 in)
Presented i...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
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
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
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 ...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Nude from behind - Presumed portrait of Lina Cavalieri
By Giovanni Boldini
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Giovanni BOLDINI
(Ferrara 1842 - Paris 1931)
Nude from behind, presumed portrait of Lina Cavalieri (1874-1944)
Graphite paper
H. 280 mm; L. 255 mm
Signed lower right, and dated 1901
...
Category
Early 1900s French School France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
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
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
Berthomme Saint-André, Before Bathing, 1926
By Louis Berthomme Saint-Andre
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Watercolor by Louis BERTHOMME SAINT-ANDRE, France, 1926. Befor bathing. With frame: 74x63.5 cm - 29.1x25 inches ; without frame, just the watercolor: 50x36 cm - 19.7x14.2 inches. Si...
Category
1920s Art Deco France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Pierre COMBET-DESCOMBES (1885-1966), Female Nude from behind, 1928, Charcoal
Located in PARIS, FR
Pierre COMBET-DESCOMBES (1885-1966)
Female Nude from behind, 1928
Charcoal on paper
Signed with the stamp lower right
Dated "26 sept 28" and annotated lower left
Size of the work : 4...
Category
1920s France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
"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
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
French Vintage portrait of 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
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
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
Study after Farnese Hercules
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Study after the Farnese Hercules
Giovan Ambrogio Figino (1548-1608)
Black chalk on blue-prepared paper 33 x 23 cm
Provenance: Tajan, Drouot Paris, 23 November 2001, lot 11; Private ...
Category
16th Century Renaissance France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Marcel Vertès (1895-1961) A Music hall artist, signed drawing
By Marcel Vertès
Located in Paris, FR
Marcel Vertès (1895-1961)
A Music hall artist,
signed lower right and dedicated "à monsieur Pierre Guastalla bien sympathiquement son confrère Vertès" lower left
Pencil on paper
20.8 x 13.8 cm
framed : 30.5 x 24.5 cm
This little drawing is very characteristic of the lively style of Marcel Vertès, but also of his inspiration.
You can see the artist's nervous line, immediately evocative of the figure he is portraying. This is clearly an artist preparing for a performance, and there is obviously an ambiguity in this androgynous figure, even though it is recognisable as a man. Vertès's pencilwork serves this subject admirably. He was particularly inspired by the world of shows and music halls, which he dealt with throughout his career.
The drawing is dedicated to another artist, Pierre Guastalla (1891-1968), whose world was different but whose affinities with Marcel Vertès are obvious, since he also devoted a great deal of time to engraving between the wars.
Emmanuel Marcel Vertès, born Vértes Marcell in Újpest (Hungary) on 10 August 1895 and died in Paris 16th arrondissement on 31 October 1961, was a Hungarian-born French painter, engraver, illustrator and costume and film designer.
After studying with Ferenczy at the Beaux-Arts in Budapest, Marcel Vertès produced political posters during the First World War. Going into exile at the end of the hostilities, like his comrades Mihály Bíró and Róbert Berény, he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris. He made a name for himself in France in the mid-1920s, particularly for his lithographs and illustrations. He published L'heure exquise, a series of erotic engravings...
Category
1930s Art Deco France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
'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
" 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
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
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
Fauvist Lying Nude - Original charcoals drawing, Signed
By Gaston Coppens
Located in Paris, IDF
Gaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002)
Fauvist Lying Nude
Original charcoal drawing
Stamp signature
Stamp of the artist on the back
On wove paper 48 x 36 cm (c 18 x 14 inches)
Excellent con...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
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
Figures - Original Pencil and Oil Pastel on Paper by O. Roche - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an original modern drawing in pencil and pastels on paper realized by O.Roche in 1938
Sheet dimension: 25 x 32
good conditions except for a cutaway at the top margin tha...
Category
1930s Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Oil Pastel
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
Woman Figure - Original Pencil Drawing by Paul Baudry - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman Figure is an original pencil drawing artwork on paper realized by Paul Baudry.
Good condition and aged.
The artwork represents a beautiful figure ...
Category
19th Century France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Nudes - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Nudes is a Watercolor Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1950s.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good condition.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was an I...
Category
1950s Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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
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
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 Woman - Drawing by Jean Chapin- 1950s
By Jean Chapin
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Woman is a watercolor and ink drawing realized by Jean Chapin in the 1950s.
Signature stamp on the yellowed paper.
Good condition, except for folding on the margins and small ...
Category
1950s 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
Attributed to Eugene Deully (1866-1933) A woman, study, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Attributed to Eugene Deully (1866-1933)
A woman , study,
Pencil and heightenings of white gouache on blue grey paper in two parts, the left part added
...
Category
1890s French School France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
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 - Original Pen Drawing by Angelo Sabbatani - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in pen on paper realized by Italian artist Angelo Sabbatani in 1965 ca, hand-signed in pen on the lower-right.
In good condition with some foxes and stai...
Category
1960s Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Naked Female - Original Pencil Drawing by Tibor Gertler - Mid-20th Century
By Tibor Gertler
Located in Roma, IT
Naked Female is an original pencil drawing realized by Tibor Gertler.
In very good conditions, mounted on a white cardboard passpartout (40x60).
Hand-s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Woman - Original Drawing in Watercolor and China Ink - 1996
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original drawing in watercolor and China ink, realized in 1996 by an Anonymous artist of the XX century, Hand-signed and dated on the lower right, the firm is not readabl...
Category
1990s Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777) A Mythological scene, drawing
By Louis-Félix Delarue
Located in Paris, FR
Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777)
A Mythological scene
Pen and black ink on paper
Bears an old inscription with the name of the artist on the lower left bo...
Category
1770s Old Masters France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
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
Provenance:
Private Collection, France
Note:
A large ...
Category
Late 17th Century Old Masters France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Nudes - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1934 ca.
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Pencil and pastel drawing realized by Mino Maccari, on recto and verso of the sheet, in 1934 ca.
Hand signed.
Very good condition.
Category
1930s Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Pastel
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 jusqu’en 1940, ainsi qu’aux ex...
Category
Early 20th Century Symbolist France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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
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
Forgotten Joanna Flatau Contemporary art watercolor woman nude portrait ink
By Joanna Flatau
Located in Paris, FR
Watercolor and ink 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 A...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
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
Female Nude, Chalk Drawing
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Female nude.
Chalk drawing, framed and under glass.
Good condition.
Drawing (visible): 41 x 24.5 cm
Frame: 57.5 x 41 cm
Category
20th Century France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Female Nude, Chalk Drawing, Galerie Lambert Rouland
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Female nude.
Chalk drawing, framed and under glass.
Label of Galerie Lambert Rouland, rue de la Boétie, Paris VIIIe, on back of frame.
Drawing (visible): 41 x 24.5 cm
Frame: ...
Category
20th Century France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Couple - Original Drawing in Watercolor - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Couple is an original drawing in watercolor realized by an Anonymous french artist of the XX century.
Very good conditions.
The artworks represent a couple embracing each other thr...
Category
20th Century Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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.)
Minor losses, folds, and slight s...
Category
17th Century Old Masters France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
"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
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
Provenance
Bruno Delarue Gallery, Étretat
Pri...
Category
1890s Impressionist France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pencil
Nu Debout
By Marcel Gromaire
Located in Paris, FR
Marcel Gromaire,
1892-1971, French
"Nu Debout", 1951
Ink on paper,
Signed and dated lower right
GROMAIRE Marcel: Born July 24, 1892 in Noyelles-sur-Sambre (North), died April 11,...
Category
1950s Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Laid Paper
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
Nude Woman - Pencil on Paper by André Meaux-Saint-Marc - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Woman is an original pencil drawing realized by André Meaux-Saint-Marc (1885 - 1941).
Pencil on brown paper in very good conditions.
Hand-signed on the lower left.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Standing Nude - Original handsigned tall painting on panel
By Antoniucci Volti
Located in Paris, IDF
Antoniucci VOLTI
Standing Nude
Original tall painting in sanguine on wood panel
Handsigned bottom right
Titled on the back
On wood panel 116 x 89 cm (c. 46 x 36 inch)
Very good con...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Ink
Frieze of antique figures, a drawing by the sculptor Antoine-Denis Chaudet
Located in PARIS, FR
Faithful to the neo-classical taste, sculptor Antoine-Denis Chaudet presents us with a frieze of antique figures executed in gray wash over pencil strokes, which is likely inspired b...
Category
Early 1800s Old Masters France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Ink
Nude of Lying Girl - Original Mixed Media by Jean-Raymond Delpech - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Lying Girl is an original artwork realized by Jean-Raymond Delpech (Hanoi, 1916 – 1988) in 1940s.
Good conditions. This painting was made with tempera and watercolor.
The w...
Category
1940s Modern France - Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor, Mixed Media
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
