18th Century and Earlier Interior Drawings and Watercolors

An intense scene of an incident in the legendary history of Rome. Italian School 18th century, circa 1700. Ink and wash in brown and grayish black ink on cream laid paper, 12 1/8 x...

Pierre Etienne Moitte studied in Paris under Jacques-Firmin Beauvarlet and Pierre-François Beaumont (1719–1769). In 1771, he was accepted (agréé)...

The Galli Bibiena Dynasty and European Courts. The Galli Bibiena family, renowned Italian artists and scenographers, served the most distinguished European courts, including those ...

18th Century Italian School, An Architectural Capriccio, Pen and black ink and brown ink wash on paper 17 x 18,5 cm Framed : 27 x 29 cm The 18th century was truly the golden age o...

Italian painter (17th century) - Male nude. 34 x 24 cm without frame, 42 x 32 cm with frame. Sanguine, charcoal and white pencil drawing on paper, in...

Superb quality 18th century Italian Old Master ink drawing and wash depicting this ancient family heraldic crest design - with coronet and heraldic shie...

French School end of the 18th century A young maid asleep Red chalk on paper 25 x 33 cm No frame In quite good condition, doubled , stains on the l...

Provenance: Princely Collection Isenberg-Birstein, Germany (according to the inscription on the mount: “son altesse le prince Ysemburg-Birstein,” not in Lugt) John Boyd Thacher (1847-1909), New York (according to an inscription on the mount, not in Lugt) Private Collection, California This impressive drawing is a new addition to the oeuvre of Jean-Michel Moreau...

Francesco Trevisani (Capodistria 1656 – 1746 Rome) Interior with a Man and a Woman Seated at a Table in Conversation Inscribed, lower center, Trevisano, and lower right, 18 Pen, black ink and wash on paper 7 ⅞ x 6 ⅞ inches (20 x 17.5 cm) Provenance: Sir Robert Ludwig Mond (1867-1938), London (Lugt 2813a) Robert L. and Bertina Suida Manning, New York, until 1996 Private Collection, USA Literature: Tancred Borenius assisted by Rudolf Wittkower, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings by the Old Masters, formed by Sir Robert Mond, London, 1937, p. 63, no. 258. The subject of this attractive drawing is intriguing and elusive. A man and a woman are seated at an elegant, baroque table, rapt in conversation. The bearded man leans forward, gesturing with his right hand, perhaps inquiring, perhaps pleading. The woman raises her left arm and points off to the right, apparently answering his query. Both figures are classically robed and enlivened through the careful articulation of the flowing garments that they wear. Light and shadow play across the protagonists, the heavy curtain above, and the architectural elements behind them, convincingly defining the space in which this drama takes place. The discussion between the two seems at once specific and universal—which brings us no closer to considering whether the subject might be literary, mythological, or religious. If the theme of the drawing remains unknown, its authorship has been long established. Early inscriptions on the drawing and its mount give its author as Francesco Trevisani, an attribution confirmed by Tancred Borenius and Rudolf Wittkower. The artist first trained in Venice under Antonio Zanchi then with Joseph Heintz...

One of the leading lights of the Neapolitan Baroque, Luca Giordano gained international acclaim during his lifetime. He travelled widely throughout Europ...

This beautiful copperplate engraving on paper engraved by Giovanni Ottaviani (Rome 1735-1808) after the designs of the painter Gaetano Savorelli and of the architect Pietro Camporesi , is hand-finished with watercolor and gouache painting and date back to Neoclassical period with a formal sense of the Renaissance style. This engraving is the plate VIII of the original 16th century frescoes painted by Raffaello on the main storey of Pope’s private apartments in Vatican. In 1518 Pope Leo X commissioned Raphael for a master work that remains unparalleled in artistic decorative and architectural history: to decorate with frescoes the walls, ceilings, vaulted arcade(loggia), arches and doors of his private apartments of the Vatican. The idea of creating a work divided into three parts that reproduced, in "imperial" sheets engraved and colored with the watercolor, the complete series of all the original painted decorations of the Vatican Loggias...

An amazing collection of 18th century gouache and chalk/charcoal draawings by this well known French artist. Each has been framed and matted in the most amazing frames which set the ...