1870s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

French School of the 19th Century Scenes of the parisian life, three drawings each one signed with the initials LV Pencil on paper Sizes of the drawings : 4.8 x 8 cm 4 x 6.5 cm 4....

Signed on bottom right by Eugène Lacoste, the design of the Opera of Giuseppe Verdi. This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created ove...

Maternity is a beautiful original drawing, composed by 4 original China ink scenes, of which the last is watercolored, realized by the French artist Eugéne Morin (1833-1875). Each s...

Vivid early 19th century French watercolor painting of mill house water wheel , 1876. Signed and dated lower left. Original artwork on paper displayed o...

Auguste Gardanne (circa 1840- circa 1890) Soldiers at rest during the franco-prussian war of 1870 Watercolor on paper On the reverse Study of a battlefield (?) Pencil on paper Mark o...

Drawing made in pencil on paper measuring 15 x 19 cm by artist Alberto Pasini (Busseto 1826 - Cavoretto 1899) depicting a female face datable to around 1870. The work bears the sign...

ALBERT JOSEPH MOORE, ARWS (1841-1893) Study for Battledore & Shuttlecock Signed with anthemion Chalk on brown paper 27 by 13 cm., 10 ½ by 5 in. (frame size 49 by 34.5 cm., 19 ¼ b...

John Faulkner (Irish, c. 1830-1888, active United States c. 1870-80) Farm Scene with Figures, c. 1870 Watercolor on paper, 20 x 28 inches (sight) FRAMED: 31 1/4 x 39 1/4 inches Sign...

GEORGE HOWARD, 9th EARL OF CARLISLE (1843-1911) George Howard with Family and Friends in Fancy Dress, Christmas 1879 Inscribed with initials of sitters and dated u.l.: GH. ERH. MHH...

Gaston BETHUNE Paris 1856 - 1897 Little Gypsy Girl with Accordion Watercolor Signed, dated 1878, and located Menton (Azur coast) in the lower right corner 30 x 20.5 cm shee...

Geroges-Grançois Guiaud Paris 1840 - 1887 The clock tower and the Conciergerie in Paris Around 1870 Watercolor Signed lower left 54 x 34 cm sheet 66 x 47 cm frame Frame from the Nap...

Clément Auguste Andrieux (Paris 1829 – Samois-sur-Seine 1880) The Open-Air Painter Graphite on paper H. 16.5 cm; W. 24.5 cm visible Sale stamp lower right Provenance: Studio sale, 1...

John Francis Murphy (1853 - 1921) Saratoga, 1876 Graphite on paper Sight 8 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches Titled and dated to lower right Provenance: Babcock Galleries, New York Spanierman Gallery, New York In his lifetime, John Francis Murphy (1853-1921) was known as “the American Corot.” He was renowned for his small, intimate views of nature, especially barren fields and farms, bare trees, and lonely marshland. More than a century later, the power of Murphy’s landscapes has not waned. One contemporary critic wrote, “It was Murphy’s unique accomplishment to achieve an absolute realism without a loss of that mystic, indefinable quality which transfigures realism.” John Francis Murphy was born at Oswego, NY in 1853 but his family moved to Chicago in 1868 where he worked painting theater sets. Murphy was basically a self-taught artist; his only formal training was a few weeks of instruction at the Chicago Academy of Design. In 1875, Murphy moved from Chicago to New York, eventually rooming with the painters Dennis Bunker and Bruce Crane above a bakery shop. Murphy’s early work was typical of the Hudson River school but he soon fell under the sway of the loose brushwork and moody style of French Barbizon painting...

Venice is an original artwork realized in the 1870s by Friedrich Paul Nerly (1842-1919). Watercolor. Hand signed on the lower right margin. Includes a beautiful gilded frame.

The cityscape of Ardenza, Livorno is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized in 1870 by an Anonymous artist of the 19th century. Titled and dated at the top center. The st...

"Italian Piazza" is an original watercolor painting attributed to Gabrielli Carelli, an Italian artist. This piece is from the Rothschild Collection...

"Portrait of Baron Mayer de Rothschild, Rothschild Collection" by Oscar Gustave Rejlander is done in ink wash on paper. It is framed and matted. The portrait is a bust of Baron Mayer de Rothschild of the Rothschild banking dynasty, who lived 1813-1874. Art size: 11 3/4" x 8 3/4" Frame size: 20" x 17" "Rejlander, Oscar Gustav (1813-75), Swedish-born photographer, active in England and often known as ‘the father of art photography’, having pioneered practices such as combination printing and promoted photography's capacity to tackle subjects conventionally associated with painting. After studying lithography and painting in Rome, Rejlander arrived in England in the early 1840s and settled in Wolverhampton. A day's instruction with Nicolaas Henneman was apparently his only training before he turned to photography in 1853. Throughout his professional career, Rejlander combined studio portrait work and other commissions with particular artistic projects, importing ideas and inspiration from such sources as Flemish and late Renaissance art, 18th-century English narrative works, or contemporary cartoons from papers like Punch. His famous moral allegory The Two Ways of Life (1857) combines sophisticated combination printing with elaborately staged photographs. Although widely condemned as indecent—in Scotland only the ‘virtuous’ side of the picture could be shown—it was bought by Queen Victoria for Prince Albert. Rejlander vigorously defended photography's narrative capability, emphasizing artifice as a way to truth and creative expression, and works like Hard Times and The Dream (both 1860) convey unconscious states hauntingly and in a precociously modern way. In 1862 he left Wolverhampton for a London studio, where judiciously placed windows enabled him to create subtle lighting effects for portraiture. Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alfred...

Female Figure with Long Dress is an original modern artwork realized in the first half of the 19th Century. Original Black China Ink on paper. Passepartout is included (total dime...

Monsignor Tevere is an original artwork realized in 1871 by Antonio Manganaro. Original colored lithograph. Good conditions, except for the yellowed paper due to the time. This be...

The Visitant is an original artwork realized in 1872 by Désiré Cheneuve. Original watercolor signed by Désiré Cheneuve(Belgian school of the 19th century) on the lower margin. Au...

Le canot is a beautiful original charcoal drawing on paper by the French artist Gaston Bruelle / XIX-XX century). Original Title: "Le Canot avec paysage des Proses" Title and date ...

Repubblica Romana is a beautiful historical manuscript embellished by meticulous decorations concerning the Roman republic: the wolf with the twins, a Roman view on the Imperial Foru...

Housed in a period gold leaf frame. Inscribed lower left, "Market Place Tanta Egypt". Signed and dated 1874. This watercolor depicts an Arab Marketplace (Souk) in Tanta, Egypt. William Paton Burton was born 1828, in Madras, India and died December 1883, in Aberdeen, Scotland. William Paton Burton was an architect, painter and watercolourist. His father was an officer in the Indian Army. Burton first studied with David Bryce...

Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (1848–1934) Portrait of Henri Rochefort ready for a duel, Pencil on paper Signed and titled lower left 28 x 21 cm In good condition : the left and right borders irregularly cut In a modern cardboard mount : 45.5 x 35 cm The subject of this drawing is, in a way, almost as interesting as the artist who portrayed him in this duel pose. As a reminder, Henri Rochefort, whose full name was Victor Henri de Rochefort-Luçay, was born in Paris on January 31, 1831, and died in Aix-les-Bains on July 1, 1913. He was a French journalist, playwright, and politician. A great polemicist in the pages of his newspapers (La Lanterne, La Marseillaise, L'Intransigeant), he defended radical, even extremist political views (anticlerical, nationalist, pro-Commune, Boulangist, socialist, and anti-Dreyfusard), which earned him the nickname “the man of twenty duels and thirty trials” and convictions, notably to the prison in Nouméa, from which he managed to escape in 1874, a unique feat.. Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (1848–1934) was a Swiss-French Impressionist painter, designer, watercolorist, and engraver who was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and died in France. His work often depicts the modern life in Paris. He started out pursuing a military career, as an infantry officer (1866–1881). He was a lieutenant with the Twenty-third Infantry from 1868 to 1870. He fought in the Franco-Prussian War, was wounded at Rezonville, and was awarded the Légion d'Honneur. He subsequently served with the Ninety-fourth Infantry and the Seventy-third Infantry. At the time he left the army he held the rank of major, with the Chasseurs à Pieds. He never ceased drawing. He was known for the first time in 1872 at the art exhibition Salon de Paris, where he presented a watercolor painting called Intérieur de forêt. The next year he presented the painting Le Vernan à Nass-sous-Sainte-Anne. From then on he was a regular contributor to the Salon de Paris, where he presented new works with views of Toulouse, Paris, Troyes, the edges of the Seine, and some portraits. In 1881, after the army offered him the rank of commandant, he resigned to devote himself exclusively to painting. He took up residence in Paris. His works from this period represent mainly scenes of military life that allowed him to forge a reputation. Jeanniot established himself permanently in 1882 and obtained his first award the following year (medal third class of the Salon de Paris) with his les Flanqueurs (1883, Musée du Luxembourg). In 1886, La ligne de feu, souvenirs de la bataille de Rezonville, remembering the Battle of Mars-La-Tour (Museum of Pau), assured his notoriety. From then on, he started to show a certain artistic independence. He then mostly portrayed Parisian women during the "Belle Epoque", women in bathing suits...

SOLD UNFRAMED Paysan Centenaire, Soldat de l'Armée du Général Kosenisko by Franciszek Tepa (1829-1889) Watercolour 26.3 x 30 cm (10 ⅜ x 11 ¾ inches) Initialed and dated lower left, ...

SOLD UNFRAMED Jeune Montagnarde des Environs de Truskaniva by Franciszek Tepa (1829-1889) Watercolour 26 x 20.5 cm (10 ¼ x 8 ⅛ inches) Signed and dated lower left, Franciszek Tepa ...

SOLD UNFRAMED Montagnard des Environs de Szczaronica by Franciszek Tepa (1829-1889) Watercolour 26.3 x 20 cm (10 ⅜ x 7 ⅞ inches) Signed and dated lower right, F. Tepa 1873 Artist ...

Pair (Two) of pencil drawings of children playing outside by Charles Serret, 19th century, circa 1870. Both are signed “C. Serret” Each comprising of three or four young different ag...