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Period: Late 19th Century
Interior still life, Beaumont
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 14 x 9 3/4 inches (352 x 248 mm), the full sheet. Titled in pencil in the lower left margin. With a garden landscape in watercolor on the ...
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English School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Schooner beached on the moors at sunset, Nothe Fort in the distance, Dorset.
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on cream wove paper mounted to light weight card stock, 3 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches (94 x 138 mm), the full sheet. In good condition with minor uniform toning.
Sophia Beale was...
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English School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Board, Handmade Paper
Gardens, Exeter
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor with graphite on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches (249 x 185 mm), the full sheet. Titled and dated August 27, 1896 in pencil in the lower right margin. I...
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English School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Board, Graphite
Antique Hand Colored Engraving Signed Very 1850
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3942 Antique gouache and watercolor hand colored engraving on paper set in a period 19th century frame
Signed Very 1850
Image size 10x5.5"
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Two views of the sea, Dorset
Located in Middletown, NY
Two watercolor compositions on one sheet of watercolor paper, 10 x 6 7/8 inches (255 x 175 mm), the full sheet. Signed illegibly and dated in pencil on the lower right corner of the ...
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English School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Ink
Padbury Brook, Oxfordshire
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor and pencil on J Whatman 1884 watermarked cream wove paper, 12 x 9 1/4 inches (305 x 235 mm), the full sheet. Scattered toning and one 2-inch horizontal edge tear in the lo...
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English School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Oscar Lacaze - 1880 Watercolour, Italian Interior Study
Located in Corsham, GB
A detailed watercolour study depicting a finely dressed woman looking into a large standing mirror draped with fine velvet fabric. An artist's palette and easel can be seen in the re...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Woods and Country Manor
Located in Middletown, NY
A bucolic woods landscape with an ivy-covered country manor.
Watercolor and graphite on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 4 7/8 x 7 inches (125 x 178 mm), the full sheet. In very good c...
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English School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
19th Century Italian Miniature Painting The Madonna
Child, Signed original
By J. Canava
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Madonna & Child
by J. Canava, Italian late 19th century
miniature painting on ceramic, framed within velvet inset and frame
image measures 3.2...
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Renaissance Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Wheat stooks, English countryside
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor and pencil on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 11 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches, (298 x 248 mm) the full sheet. In good condition with fresh, detailed brushwork and saturated pigments. ...
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English School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Vue de la Seine - Drawing by Paul-Auguste Godfroy - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on paper realized by Paul-Auguste Godfroy between 1850 and 1875.
Hand signed lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Siiting Man - Drawing By Pierre Georges Jeanniot - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Siiting man is a modern artwork realized by Pierre- Georges Jeanniot in the Late 19th Century
Pencil drawing.
Includes frame: 30.5 x 3 x...
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Modern Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Welton House Garden
Located in Middletown, NY
An superb painting of the formal gardens from a 17th century manor house in Yorkshire.
Watercolor on board, 14 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches (365 x 264 mm), the full sheet. Signed and dated i...
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English School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Board
S. Martin
s, Parkstone, Dorset.
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on card stock, 4 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches (120 x 292 mm), the full sheet. Signed in blue watercolor on the lower right recto, titled in black ink on the verso. Scattered light ...
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English School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Woman - Original Drawing on Paper by H. Somm - Late 19th Century
By Henry Somm
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an Original Pencil Drawing realized by Henry Somm (1844-1907).
Good condition on a cream colored paper, included a grey cardboard passpartout (31.5x25 cm).
Not signed.
Fr...
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Modern Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Félix Ziem (1821-1911) Studies of Landscapes and Seascapes, original Drawing
By Félix Ziem
Located in Paris, FR
Félix Ziem (1821-1911)
Studies of landscapes and seascapes
graphite on paper,
14 x 22 cm
Stamp of the Ziem Estate bottom left
Framed : 25 x 33 cm
A rare exemple of mutiple studies ...
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Romantic Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Cloaked Shepherdess Pre-Raphaelite Arts
Crafts Aesthetics Original Watercolor
By Philip Richard Morris
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Philip Richard Morris.
English ( b.1836 - d.1902 ).
The Cloaked Shepherdess.
Watercolor On Paper.
Signed Lower Left.
Image size 14 inches x 9.3 inches ( 35.5cm x 23.5cm ).
Frame siz...
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Romantic Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Rock formations, Jurassic Coast, Dorset
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 9 3/4 x 11 7/8 inches (246 x 294 mm), the full sheet. In very good condition with minor toning and some scattered light surface soiling. C...
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English School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Beauty
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MAXIMILIENNE GUYON
"BEAUTY"
PASTEL AND WATERCOLOR, SIGNED
FRANCE, C.1895
18 X 10.5 INCHES
FRAMED 27 X 19 INCHES
Maximilienne Guyon was born in Paris...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
The Pipe
s of Pan - British Watercolour by Hubert von Herkomer
Located in London, GB
SIR HUBERT VON HERKOMER, RA, RWS
(1849-1914)
The Pipe’s of Pan
Signed with initials and dated 26/2/74
Watercolour and bodycolour on paper
17 by 22 cm., 6 ¾ by 8 ¾ in.
(frame size ...
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Romantic Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Whilton
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor and pencil on watercolor paper, painted along the top portion of a sheet measuring 9 1/4 x 11 7/8 inches (235 x 302 mm), the full sheet. Titled in pencil in the lower left...
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English School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
One Thousand And One Nights French Orientalism Art Nouveau Decorative Period
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
A. Lesueur
French 19ème siècle
Les Mille Et Une Nuits – One Thousand & One Nights, 1892
Charcoal on paper heightened with white.
Signed & dated 1892 lower right.
Image size 23.6 inc...
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Romantic Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
From St. Martin
s, Parkstone
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely coastal view of Dorset from the bluffs of what is now Parkstone Golf Club.
1895. Ink and wash on wove paper, 7 1/2 x 11 inches (190 x 280 mm), the full sheet. Signed in ink...
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English School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
The Violinist (Antique Ellsworth Woodward Figurative Graphite Sketch Drawing)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Many of you clicking on this are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the turn of the 20th century sparked an arts renaissance in the South, the arts and culture in general having been mostly moribund since the dispiriting defeat experienced in the Civil War. I won't bog you down with lots of detail here since all you have to do is Google his name to bring up a wealth of information about him. He is most famous for his leadership of the arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans, and its famous Newcomb Pottery...
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Romantic Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Edmond Albert Joseph Tyrel de Poix, Landscape With Pub
Signpost
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming 19th-century drawing by British artist Edmond Albert Joseph Tyrel de Poix (1840-1916) depicts a timber-framed public house, figures, horses and a leaning signpost.
De ...
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English School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Edmond Albert Joseph Tyrel de Poix, Landscape With Watermill, Mother
Child
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming 19th-century drawing by British artist Edmond Albert Joseph Tyrel de Poix (1840-1916) depicts a mother and child standing by a mill pond before a rustic watermill.
De Poix was a gentleman artist descended from French nobility...
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English School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour - Gathered by the Duck Pond
Located in Corsham, GB
Rural scene in watercolors. Presented in a gilt-effect frame with card mount. Unsigned. On watercolour paper.
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$244 Sale Price
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Academic Study (Male Nude)
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper, signed by the artist (upper right), and RA visitor L. Alma Tadema, RA., and dated (lower left), 76cm x 57cm, (64cm x 88cm framed).
Olivier studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1881, where this extraordinary display of drafting took place. Olivier exhibited extensively, including the Royal Academy starting in 1883, and the Paris Salon. He exhibited at the Fine Art Society in the 1880s and at the Grafton Galleries in 1908. An official war artist in the Great War, his work is included in the collection of the Imperial War Museum. It is also contained in many regional art galleries. Drawings of the nude, called academic studies...
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Victorian Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Temple of Vesta - Drawing by Roberto Gigli - 1880s
Located in Roma, IT
View of the Temple of Vesta is an orginal modern artwork realized by Roberto Gigli (1846-1922).
Mixed colored ink and watercolor on paper.
The artwor...
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Modern Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
$982 Sale Price
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The Sketch - Drawing by Luigi Galli - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Sketch is an artwork realized by Luigi Galli in the late 19th Century.
Pencil drawing on paper. The artwork has the stamp of the provenance's collection "Amodeo Collection" on t...
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Modern Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
$200 Sale Price
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Study of an Angel by British Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir William Blake Richmond
Located in London, GB
SIR WILLIAM BLAKE RICHMOND, RA
(1842-1921)
Study of an Angel
Pencil on the artist’s writing paper for Beavor Lodge, Hammersmith
Unframed
22.5 by 17 cm., 9 by 6 ¾ in.
(mount size ...
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Pre-Raphaelite Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Patchwork farms, Cornish coast
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 9 3/8 x 11 1/8 inches (238 x 283 mm), the full sheet. In very good condition with scattered small pin-point spots of discoloration on the ...
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English School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Siebe Johannes Ten Cate (1858-1908) A Dune Landscape, pastel signed
Located in Paris, FR
Siebe Johannes ten Cate (1858-1908)
A Dune Landscape
Signed lower right
Pastel on paper
25.5 x 39.5 cm
in good condition, very fresh, traces of pinholes in the upper corners barely...
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Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
“Study for Neobule, 1894” Neoclassical Chalk Drawing British Signed 19th Century
Located in Yardley, PA
“Study for Neobule, 1894” by Sir Edward John Poynter (English, 1836-1919)
This exquisite 1894 study by Sir Edward John Poynter (1836–1919) serves as a preparatory drawing for his pa...
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Aesthetic Movement Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Frank Richards, Newlyn School, English Watercolor of figures on a Cornish beach
Located in Harkstead, GB
A wonderfully fluid watercolour capturing the end of the day on a Cornish beach, most probably Newlyn where Richards was painting from the 1890s onwards.
Frank Richards (1863-1935)
...
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Victorian Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of a Man - Original Pencil Drawing by G.J. Sortais - 1886
By Georges Julien Sortais
Located in Roma, IT
Man Portrait is a beautiful portrait drawn with a sanguine pencil by the French artist Georges Julien Sortais. The state of preservation is very good, except for some stains of funga...
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Modern Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Three Little Cats - China Ink Drawing by L.-E- Lambert - 1890 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful drawing by the painter Eugène-Louis Lambert, famous for his representations of animals.
Lambert was a pupil of Eugène Delacroix, who financed his studies, and of Paul Dela...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Firefight
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"Firefighting" is a dramatic monotone watercolor painting by William Thomas Smedley, depicting the intense efforts of firefighters battling a high-rise building fire. The unique L-shaped composition draws the viewer's eye from the scene of action below to the perilous situation above.
At the base of the painting, firefighters are shown bravely combating the flames, with water hoses...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
View of Constantinople
Located in Middletown, NY
A bright and beautiful Orientalist landscape by a master of the genre.
Watercolor and graphite on cream laid paper, laid down to archival board, 14 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches (374 x 170 m...
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Realist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Figurative Pencil Drawing - Portrait Studies
Located in Houston, TX
A fascinating 19th Century pencil drawing of male and female figures, both in portrait and profile view, wearing headscarves, hats, and glasses. The artist dated the piece in the upp...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Lord Leighton (1830-1896), Studies for Captive Andromache
Located in Oxford, GB
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, P.R.A. (1830-1896)
Studies for Captive Andromache
With the artist studio stamp (Lugt 1741a) (lower left); inscribed 'Andromache' (lower right)
...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
Portrait of Seated Woman Reading Julia Maud De Forest, Late 19th Century
Located in Beachwood, OH
Ora Coltman (American, 1858-1940)
Julia Maud De Forest, 1898
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated upper left
9.25 x 12.75 inches
15 x 18.25 inches, framed
Ora Coltman was born in 18...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
19th Century Italian Miniature Painting Christ Garden of Gethsemane Angels
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Italian School, late 19th century
Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane
miniature painting, framed
framed: 3.5 x 3 inches
image: 2.5 x 2 inches
provenance: private collection, Italy
con...
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Old Masters Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$1,305 Sale Price
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Portrait - Drawing - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a drawing realized by an anonymous artist in 1872.
Pencil drawing on paper.
Hand-signed by the artist, illegible.
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
The artwork is re...
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Modern Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Cesare Maccari (1840-1919) - Fine 1873 Watercolour, Boarding the Gondola
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine late 19th-century watercolour by the artist Cesare Maccari (1840–1919), depicting elegant ladies gathered on the steps of a Venetian canal, poised to board a gondola. Rendered...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Sketchbook Page with Figures and Anatomical Details in Pencil on Paper - Germany
Located in Soquel, CA
Sketchbook Page with Figures and Anatomical Details in Pencil on Paper
Drawings of a man at a desk and other figurative sections by an unknown artist (19th Century). On the left sid...
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Realist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
$680 Sale Price
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View of the Forum Romanum - Watercolor by Giuseppe Costantini - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
View of the Forum Romanum is an original modern artwork realized by the Italian painter Giuseppe Costantini (Nola, 1843 - Naples, 1893) in the seco...
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Modern Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Watercolor
Woman - Original Drawing on Paper by A..E Viollet-Le-Duc - Mid 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an Original Pencil Drawing realized by Adolphe Etienne Viollet-Le-Duc (1817-1878).
Good condition on a white paper included a green cardboard passpartout (48x34 cm).
No Si...
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Modern Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Girl with the Golden Curls
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Girl with the Golden Curls
Watercolor, c. 1895
Unsigned
Provenance: Davis Galleries, New York (see photo of label on reverse)
Condition: Mounted to support by the artist
...
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American Impressionist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
“Bedouin Encampment at Sunset”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful orientalist original gouache by the well known French artist, Paul B. Pascal. Circa 1885. Signed lower right. Condition is excellent. The scene is of a Bedouin encampment at sunset. Newly professionally matted and framed in antique style frame. Under glass. Overall measurements are 11 by 13 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida estate.
Paul B. Pascal (1839–1905) was a French
landscape painter. He did landscape paintings of the Middle East and the Mediterranean coast with gouache. After he emigrated to the United States in 1893, he did paintings of the American wilderness...
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Academic Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$1,200 Sale Price
31% Off
Symbolist Portrait of a Woman in an Interior,
Before the Mirror
Located in Cotignac, FR
Art Nouveau coloured drawing of a young lady beauty before a mirror by Edmon Aman-Jean. The work is signed in pencil bottom left and presented in a plain wood frame with mount, under glass.
A very charming early 20th century drawing capturing a young beauty admiring herself in front of a dressing mirror. n the background a fine interior with a louis XVI commode...
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Symbolist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Pencil, Color Pencil
"Moss Rose" Emily Cole, Early American Female Artist, Light Pink Flower, Floral
Located in New York, NY
Emily Cole
Moss Rose, circa 1890
Watercolor on paper
Sight 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches
Provenance
The artist
Edith Cole Silberstein, the artist's granddaughter, by descent
Dr. Clark S. Mar...
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Academic Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Figures - Drawing by Luigi Galli - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an original artwork realized by Luigi Galli in the late 19th Century.
Pencil drawing on paper.
Good conditions but aged.
Luigi Galli (Milan 1822 - Rome 1900) was an ita...
Category
Modern Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
$250 Sale Price
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Young Lady Seated
, Royal Academy London, PAFA, Queen Victoria, King Edward VII
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper left, 'C. J. Turrell' for Charles James Turrell (British-American, 1845-1932) and dated 1876.
Framed dimensions: 12 x 1 x 10 inches
Charles James Turrell was one of the...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
Arthur McArthur (1827-1892) - Late 19th Century Watercolour, Busy Harbour Scene
Located in Corsham, GB
This atmospheric maritime scene by the artist Arthur McArthur (1827-1892) depicts a bustling harbour. The composition skilfully balances the foreground activity of boats and figures ...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Young Girl Studying at the Table - Original Signed Pencil Drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950)
Young Girl Studying at the Table
Original grey and blue pencil drawing
Signed bottom right
Stamp of the Estate auct...
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Realist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
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...
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Realist Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
The Girl - Pencil Drawing - Late 19th century.
Located in Roma, IT
The Girl is a drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized by an Anonymous artist in the late 19th century.
Pencil Drawing.
In good condition, aged margins.
The artwork is represented...
Category
Modern Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
$316 Sale Price
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Fantaisies Aquatiques
Located in PARIS, FR
Jules Habert Dys (1850-1930)
Aquatic fantasies
Around 1885
Watercolor and ink on paper, heightened with "gold" gouache
27 x 20 cm
Signed lower left J. Habert-Dys
Bibliography: Decor...
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Art Nouveau Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Rare 19th Century Watercolor and Platinotype -- Coming Home
By Edward Lamson Henry
Located in Soquel, CA
Rare 19th Century Watercolor and Platinotype -- Coming Home
Wonderful and rare 19th Century watercolor and platinotype (Watercolor over Platinum photograph) attributed to Edward Lamson Henry...
Category
Hudson River School Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Platinum
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