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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
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...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India 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
Unsigned
Provenance:
Private Collection, France
Note...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Barbara Regina Dietzsch Watercolor Painting of White Primrose, ca. 1730
Located in New York, NY
Barbara Regina Dietzsch, 1706-1783
White Primrose, Japanese Quince, a Beetle, and a Butterfly, ca. 1730
Opaque watercolor painting
inscribed on...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
A pair of portraits in profile (2 works) – English School, 18th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Red crayon on cream laid paper, 3 3/4 x 4 inches (95 x 102 mm) ; 3 3/4 x 3 1/8 inches (95 x 80 mm). Each with scattered early repairs done with non-archival tape on the verso; the sm...
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English School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Crayon, Laid Paper
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...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
George Edwards: 18th Century Engravings of Birds
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Rome, The Countryside- China Ink Drawing by Jan Pieter Verdussen - 1742
Located in Roma, IT
Rome is a beautiful artwork realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1742.
In good condition except for some pencil marks and traces of sealing wax on the back and some diffused foxings.
...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Study for a fresco
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Attributed to Francesco PENNI (1488 – 1528)
Study for a fresco
Pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white on prepared paper
14 x 12 cm
Unsigned
On the mount, handwriting ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
$11,843
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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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Study of a Putto with Attributes of Painting
Located in New York, NY
Circle of François Boucher (1703–1770)
Study of a Putto with Attributes of Painting
Chalk on paper
Not signed
An elegant Rococo drawing depicting a winged putto with a painter’s pal...
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Rococo 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Animal Skin, Paper, Chalk
Italian School, 17th century - Study for the Vision of Saint Anthony
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Italian School, 17th century
Study for the Vision of Saint Anthony
Red chalk on paper
247 x 185 mm
Unsigned
Provenance
Private collection, Paris
Collection of Count Alessandro Mag...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Annunciation Scene
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Pierre-Mathieu Ogier (active between 1676 and 1709)
Annunciation Scene
Engraved copper plate, dated 1691
17.5 x 11.2 cm
Provenance:
Private collection, France
This engraved copper...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Copper
Italian School, 17th Century - Study After The Frescoes Of Bernardino Lanino
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Italian School, 17th century
Study after Bernardino Lanino’s Frescoes in Santa Caterina, Milan
Red chalk on paper
297 x 186 mm
Annotated on the verso: “Vani” (otherwise unsigned)
...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Laid Paper
Studies for the Judgment of Solomon, a double-sided drawing by Simone Cantarini
Located in PARIS, FR
In this double-sided red chalk study, Simone Cantarini offers us a double reflection on the theme of the Judgment of Solomon. This sheet reveals his precise style and his sense of de...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Laid Paper
Seaman in petticoat breeches and slops, smoking a pipe, carrying a carpetbag.
Located in Middletown, NY
English School, 18th century
Pen and black ink with gray wash on cream laid paper, 9 1/4 x 5 inches (238 x132 mm). 1/4 inch repaired loss, top center, to the left of the figure’s h...
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Realist 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Pen
French School 18th century, Interior of a barn, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School 18th century,
Interior of a barn
Black chalk and black ink wash on paper
30.8 x 23.6 cm
Bears a mention " Le Prince" on the back of the sheet (see photograph)
In good ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Ink
Rome, The Countryside - China Ink Drawing by Jan Pieter Verdussen - 1742
Located in Roma, IT
Rome is a beautiful artwork realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1742.
In good condition except for some pencil marks and traces of sealing wax on the back and diffused foxings.
Hand...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
From Renaissance Venice to Barocco Naples, a drawing by Francesco La Marra
Located in PARIS, FR
This vigorous drawing presents a brilliant synthesis between the Venetian tradition of Titian, of which it is a distant echo, and the Neapolitan Baroque of Solimena, which strongly i...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Felt Pen
Old Master Drawing, 17th century, Netherlands, Dutch, Flemish, Mannerist
Located in Eltville am Rhein, DE
Probably Dutch Flemish master, 17th century
Ink on paper / on backing
Inscribed on the upper and lower margins
Size: approx. 23 x 40 cm, plus passe-partout
Viewing and collection...
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Mannerist 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Drawing Ink 16th 17th Flemish DE VOS Religious Martyrdom of James The Great
Located in PARIS, FR
Flemish school from the beginning of the 17th century (Circle of Martin DE VOS) Drawing Pen and wash 38 x 32 cm (58 x 52 cm with the frame) Inscription "Martin de Vos" Excellent cond...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper
$2,366 Sale Price
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French School Of The 18th century, An Ancient Shipyard, Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French school of the 18th century
An ancient shipyard or building site (?)
Ink and ink wash on paper
17.5 x 23 cm
In a modern frame 32 x 37 cm
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
$426 Sale Price
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After John Downman - 1794 Watercolour, Sarah Siddons (née. Kemble)
By John Downman
Located in Corsham, GB
This accomplished watercolours is a fine copy of John Downman's portrait of Sarah Siddons. Painted in the early 19th century, watercolours was a contempo...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mughal School, 17th century Tiger Hunt near the Jahangir Maha, Agra
Located in Middletown, NY
An illuminated page from a book likely in reference to palace life during Emperor Jahangir's reign over the Mughal Empire.
c 1690. Gouache and ink with heightening in gold on light ...
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Rajput 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold
Portrait - Original Ink and Watercolor on Paper - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original Modern artwork realized in the half of the 18th Century in France.
Original watercolor on ivory paper.
The work is surrounded by a colored frame.
The sig...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Landscape with Cattle
By Hendrick V. Tavernier
Located in Chicago, IL
verso: signed and dated "H. Tavernier, 1779"
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Framed 18th Century Pen and Ink Drawings - Designs for Capital
Base Supports
Located in Corsham, GB
Framed 18th-century pen and ink drawings of elaborate capital and base supports, inspired by Ancient Greek architecture and design. Well presented in a fluted gilt-effect frame. Unsi...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
18th Century School, Courtyard of a palazzo, Architectural Capriccio, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
18th Century french School,
Courtyard of a ruined palazzo, An Architectural Capriccio,
Pen and black ink and black ink wash on paper
17 x 12 cm
In good condition
Framed : 32 x 26 c...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
18th Century Watercolour - Court Scene
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed and dated indistinctly under the mount. Presented in a gilt frame and wash-line mount. On paper.
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Le Menuet
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Attributed to Gabriel-Jacques de Saint-Aubin (Paris, 1724 – 1780)
Le Menuet, circa 1765–1770
Red chalk on paper
13 3/8 x 8 1/4 in (34 x 21 cm)
Verso: black chalk and red chalk
Unsi...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Laid Paper
$17,751
Hercules vanquishing a drakaina (half‑woman, half‑serpent)
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Circle of Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727 – Madrid 1804)
Hercules vanquishing a drakaina (half‑woman, half‑serpent) – interpreted either as Echidna or a personified Hydra
c. ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Three studies executed in the Pitti Palace in 1761 by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Located in PARIS, FR
This brilliant study sheet, of which we present here a counterproof, is a souvenir of Fragonard's return journey from Italy. Between April and September 1761, he accompanied the abbot of Saint-Non on his way back to France. Three studies after the masters taken from the Pitti Palace’s gallery in Florence are gathered on this sheet. Although The Ecstasy of Saint Margaret...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
George Edwards, Engravings of Birds, published by Seligmann, 1770.
Located in Richmond, GB
Price is per each framed print.
"Sammlung Verschiedenr Auslandischer und Selener Vogel", Nuremberg 1770-1773. Edited by Johann Michael Seligmann (1749 -1776): engravings with origin...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Preparations for the fireworks display held in Piazza Navona in 1729
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
VERY IMPORTANT DRAWING BY
JACQUES DUMONT called « LE ROMAIN"
(Paris 1701-1781)
Preparations for the fireworks display held in Piazza Navona in Rome on November 30,
1729, for the bi...
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French School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Ink, Pen
George Edwards: 18th Century Engravings of Birds
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Sacra Famiglia - Etching - Late 18th century
Located in Roma, IT
Sacra Famiglia is a print artwork on paper in the late 18th century by an Anonymous Artist.
Etching on paper
Good conditions with slight foxing and age margins
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Etching
L
Annunziata in S. M. - Drawing by Giovanni Fontana - 16th Century
Located in Roma, IT
L'Annunziata in S. M. sopra Minerva is an original old master artwork realized by Giovanni Fontana.
Ivory colored sheet attached on an ivory colored cardboard ( cm 35.8 x 26.7)
Bea...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
$4,349 Sale Price
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Louis-Félix de La Rue (1730-1777) Putti playing around a sculpture, drawing
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...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Garden
s Flowers - Ink and Watercolor Drawing by Jan Pieter Verdussen - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Garden's Flowers is a beautiful artwork realized by Jan Peter Verdussen.
In good condition.
Not signed.
Passepartout included ( 48.8 x 33.8 cm).
The artwork represents a Garden's...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Fauness and Putti
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Nicolas Chaperon (1612–1653/4)
Fauness and Putti
Black chalk, red chalk, wash in red chalk and grey on paper,
195 x 313 mm
Unsigned
Provenance:
Private collection
Expert opinion ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Vue de Macerata et de sa Campagne - drawing by J. P. Verdussen - 1742
Located in Roma, IT
China ink and watercolour on paper.
Some foxing, otherwise very good condition.
Titled and dated.
Includes passepartout.
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Fine English Georgian Portrait of Fashionable Young Lady Biographical Details
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of Mrs Mary Anne Hicks (1769-1852)
English School, late 18th century
pastel on paper, gilt framed behind glass
framed overall size: 16.5 x 14 inches
image size: 10 x 8 inche...
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English School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Fine English Georgian Portrait of Henrietta Danvers Full Biographical Details
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of Mrs Henrietta Danvers (1765-1836)
English School, late 18th century
pastel on paper, gilt framed behind glass
overall framed size: 16 x 14 inches
actual image: 10 x 8 inc...
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English School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Study for a standing man
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Sir Anthony van Dyck
(Antwerp 1599 - 1641 London)
STUDY FOR A PORTRAIT OF A STANDING MAN
Black and white chalk on blue-green paper
25,4 by 13,5 cm
Provenance
Prof. Julius S. Held (...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
$22,400 Sale Price
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Early Naturalistic Wildlife Animal Rendering of a Possible Capuchin Monkey
Located in Houston, TX
Early naturalistic wildlife rendering by the English artist Peter Paillou. The work features a delicately rendered depiction of a possible capuchin monke...
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Naturalistic 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
The Torture of Saint Concordia
By Domenico Piola the Elder
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Circle of Domenico Piola (Genoa 1627 – 1703)
The Torture of Saint Concordia
Black chalk, brown ink and brown wash on two sheets of paper,
40.5 x 42 cm
Unsigned
Provenance:
Estate...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Portrait - Drawing after Baccio del Bianco - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a Pencil Drawing realized by an Italian artist of 17th and early 18th century, after Baccio del Bianco (1604-1656).
Good condition on a yellowed paper included a blue an...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Rome/Tevere - Pencil and Watercolor Drawing - 1741
Located in Roma, IT
Rome is a beautiful artwork realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1741.
In good condition except for some pencil marks and traces of sealing wax on the back and some diffused foxings.
...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Venus
Located in London, GB
Richard Westall, R.A. (1765-1836)
Venus
signed and dated ‘R. Westall 1794’ (lower right)
pencil and watercolour, with white heightening
image 11 ⅞ x 15 ¼ in. (30.2 x 38.7 cm.)
frame 22 ⅛ x 26 in. (56.3 x 66.1 cm.)
Provenance:
Private Collection, UK.
Venus (1794) was produced during a highly creative and defining period of Richard Westall’s career and artistic development, when from 1790-95 the ambitious young artist was sharing a house at 57 Greek Street, Soho, with his friend Sir Thomas Lawrence, the future President of the Royal Academy.
Whilst lodging together, Lawrence became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1791, Westall the following year, and both were elected full-members in 1794 – the year Lawrence was appointed Painter-in-Ordinary to His Majesty King George III. Westall was to become Queen Victoria’s first Drawing Master, before her ascension to the throne.
It was in this very year, 1794 - as the two young artists became Royal Academicians - that the present watercolour was executed, and it is exciting to speculate that Lawrence would have examined and given his thoughts on the work.
Highly comparable to The Wallace Collection’s Nymph and cupids (c.1793, cat. P757), acquired by Francis Seymour-Conway (1777-1842), 3rd Marquess of Hertford, (who hung it in his bedroom), the mid-1790s saw Westall exhibiting and returning to similar subject-matter on a number of occasions. Two works with titles that could be applied to the present picture were exhibited at the Royal Academy, in 1794 (no. 341 Nymph and Cupids) and 1795 (no. 620, A Wood–nymph and Cupids). However, a print after the watercolour, engraved by F. Screen, entitles the piece Venus.
Westall is regarded as a great virtuoso watercolourist, and Venus is evidence of the young artist’s mastery of the medium. Indeed, it is unusual to find a watercolour of comparable age so well preserved, and retaining such vibrancy - the superb condition providing an insight into his exceptional brushwork and use of colour.
Venus languishes luxuriously on her woodland bed, the trunk of a tree resembling a curtain, while three winged putti play beside her, seeming to gesture to someone in the woods. Cupid draws back his bow and aims an arrow of love, perhaps about to pierce the heart of a hunting nobleman, or unsuspecting woodcutter. The striking contrast between the almost luminescent nymph, with the deep, rich, luxuriant forest, gives the glade an alluring sense of mystery – perhaps an allusion to the mysteries of the heart, a pre-occupation with Romanticism, central to the emerging thought of the time. Westall can be classified as one of the great Romantic artists, and even painted Lord Byron’s portrait...
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Romantic 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
$25,251
Johann Weinmann: 18th Century Engravings of Sunflowers, Set of 4, Framed
Located in Richmond, GB
A complete set of four hand-coloured mezzotint engravings of sunflowers from: "Phytanthoza Iconographia", c1739, presented in hand-made, parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frame...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
Fenzoni, Painting AND preparatorial Drawing, John the Baptist, Italy Renaissance
By Ferrau Fenzoni
Located in Greven, DE
The painting and the preparatory drawing are offered together.
Provenance
Private collection, Germany, Trier, c. 1980- 2013
Saint John the Baptist
Brown ink and wash over red chalk on oatmeal paper
31 x 20.5 cm
Inscribed: „Ferrau Fenzonio da Faenza invt. esque … imp. da Fran. Villamena …“.
bears the collector's mark of Henry Scipio Reitlinger (1882-1950; Lugt 2274a) on a tiny label glued to the verso
On the reverse is a partial drawing of a Pieta, pricked for transfer.
Provenance
New York, Doyle, 14. October 2015, No. 6
The painting and the preparatory drawing resemble the composition of an engraving after Ferraù Fenzoni by Francesco Villamena. Drawing, engraving and painting are almost identical, except for minor differences. Even the measurements nearly correspond: painting (32 x 25,5 cm), drawing (30 x 20,5 cm), engraving (31,1 x 23,5 cm).
Dr. Guiseppe Scavizzi confirmed the attribution of the present panting to Fenzoni and he dates it to c. 1590.
The inscription on the drawing reads “Ferrau Fenzonio da Faenza invt. esque. . . imp. da Fran: Villamena . . .”. The engraving’s inscription also lists place and date “Ferra Fensionius inventor/F. Villamoena sculpsit Rome/Aspectu fruitur… antra puer/cum Privilegio… 1613”.
Interestingly, the engraving is not mirrored as it is in most printing processes. Painting, drawing and engraving are not reversed but the same. It is remarkable to note that there are further paintings by Fenzoni which were engraved in the same order and not reverted. They also show strong parallels regarding the compositions and the measurements (see for example “Deposition of Christ” ).
Ferraù Fenzoni was an Italian painter mainly active in Todi. He is also called Il Faenzone after his birthplace (Faenza). He apprenticed in Rome during the papacy of Gregory XIII and contributed to numerous fresco cycles under pope Sixtus V, such as the Loggia della Benedizioni in the Lateran Palace, the frescoes on the walls and vaults of the Scala Santa of the adjacent Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano, and the decoration in the Sistine library. His expressive canvases straddle the styles of Mannerism and Baroque. In 1594, he moved to Todi. A “Last Judgement” by him is housed in the cathedral of Todi. He returned to Faenza in 1599, where he decorated chapels in the cathedral from 1612 to 1616. In 1622, he completed a “Deposition”, now in the local Pinacoteca. In 1640, Fenzoni was named “cavaliere dello speron d’oro” by Cardinal Colonna and, on 25th April 1634, he was nominated vicar and “castellano of Granarolo”.
Fenzoni‘s style is characterized by a mixture of the Mannerism of the Northern Netherlands and the Italian Baroque.
Saint John the Baptist, Old Master, 17th Century, By Fenzoni, Religious Scene, Rome Art...
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Mannerist 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Handmade Paper
Ferrau FenzoniFenzoni, Painting AND preparatorial Drawing, John the Baptist, Italy Renaissance, 1590
$28,402 Sale Price
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Johann Weinmann: c18th Botanical Engravings in Decalcomania Frames, Set of 6
Located in Richmond, GB
A group of mezzotint engravings of flowers from: "Phytanthoza Iconographia", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames.
Johann Weinmann (1683-174...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
18th Century Old Master pencil study of cows by French artist Jean Baptiste Huet
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A rare and charming study of cows by 18th Century French painter, engraver and designer Jean-Baptiste Huet.
The details are:
Jean Baptiste Huet (French, 1745 – 1811)
Study of cows
P...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
A pair of oval drawings for Ovid, Metamophoses
By Charles Joseph Natoire
Located in Fairlawn, OH
A pair of oval drawings for Ovid, Metamophoses
Left: The Triumph of Amphitrite (Book I)
Right: Diana and Actaeon (Book III)
From: Ovid, Metamophoses
These mythological studies are after paintings by Simon Vouet (1590-1649) that decorated the Chateau de Chilly. They were commissioned by the Marquis D'Effiat in 1630-31. The scholarly record documenting the commission are a series of engravings by Michel...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
French school 18th Century, A mytholological scene with a couple, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French school 18th Century,
A mytholological scene with a couple,
Pen and brown ink, brown ink wash on paper
11.5 x 11.5 cm, diameter of the main scene : 10,5 cm
in a modern frame under glass : 33.5 x 33.5 cm
This drawing by a particularly talented 18th-century artist - as yet unidentified - is notable for its mastery of pen and wash...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Study for a Frontispiece, a baroque drawing by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini
By Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini
Located in PARIS, FR
This masterly frontispiece study, executed with a very sure hand, testifies to the survival of the great Baroque taste in 18th century Venice. It could be one of the very last works by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini: the few lines that cross the papal arms evoke those of Benedict XIV, who became pope in 1740, one year before the artist's death.
1. Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini and the European influence of Venetian history painting in the 18th century
Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini was born in Venice in 1675 and trained in the studio of the Milanese painter Paolo Pagani (1655 - 1716). Pagani, who had been living in Venice since 1667, took him to Moravia and Vienna from 1690 to 1696. After a stay in Rome from 1699 to 1701, Pellegrini married Angiola Carriera in 1704, the sister of the great pastelist Rosalba Carriera.
From 1708 onwards, Pellegrini left Venice and began an extensive tour of Europe: he worked in England between 1708 and 1713, where he met great success, particularly at Kimbolton Castle and Castle Howard. He then worked in Germany and the Netherlands, then in Bohemia and Austria, before returning briefly to England in 1719. In 1720 he was in Paris where he decorated the ceilings of the Royal Bank for John Law...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
The Infant Jupiter Nursing from the She-Goat Amaltheia (The Birth of Jupiter)
By Luigi Quaini
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Infant Jupiter Nursing from the She-Goat Amaltheia
(The Birth of Jupiter)
Red chalk and wash on off-white paper, c. 1700
Unsigned
Attribuuted to Quaini by Dwight Miller, the sch...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Set of Twelve 18th Century Engravings of Ducks And Wading Birds
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
19th century view of Raglan Castle by English artist David Hall McKewan
Located in Philadelphia, PA
David Hall McKewan
(English, 1817-1873)
Raglan Castle
Watercolor on paper, 9 x 13 inches (sight)
David Hall McKewan studied watercolor painting under David Cox (the elder) and exhib...
Category
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
18th Century Roman School , A Palazzo with antiques, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
18th Century Roman School
A Palazzo with antiques
Brown ink and pen, brown ink wash on paper
12.5 x 20 cm
Framed : 28,5 x 35.5
This nice drawing represents a genre scene, with a nobleman, priests, a mother and her children...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Attributed to Francesco Casanova (1727-1803), A Mamluk fighting , watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Attributed to Francesco Casanova (1727-1803),
A Mamluk fighting on his horse,
watercolor and ink on paper
35 x 26 cm
Framed 54 x 44 cm (vintage frame, the mount and the back have b...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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