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“Sur la Plage, a Bernival”
By Pierre Auguste Renoir
Located in Southampton, NY
Renoir often spent summers at Berneval, on the coast in Normandy, near Dieppe, where he quickly sketched
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1890s Impressionist Antique Sketch

Materials

Etching, Archival Paper, Drypoint

PARIS, by Mortimer and Dorothy MENPES – 1909, illustrated
Located in Middletown, NY
illustrator who traveled widely and lived in England from his 20s. In 1880, during a sketching tour in
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Early 20th Century English Antique Sketch

Materials

Gold Leaf

Striking Goncalo Alves Albuera Wood Writing Table Attributed to Gillows
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Sketch Book of June 1825 (plate 274). She also writes ‘the most intriguing thing about is piece is the
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1820s English Antique Sketch

Materials

Brass

Morning in the Tropics
By Frederic Edwin Church
Located in Milwaukee, WI
widely in search of romantic subjects, visiting South America in 1853 and 1857. Sketches of the
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Antique Sketch

Materials

Oil, Canvas

The Holy Tree of Metereah, Egypt: Original 19th C. Lithograph by D. Roberts
By David Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
Robert’s sketches and watercolors. This publication was highly acclaimed and very popular for its esthetic
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1840s Realist Antique Sketch

Materials

Lithograph

Sketchbook I
By Artur Markowicz
Located in London, GB
is stamped with the collection stamp "A.Marcowicz. Ex coll Mr K". The sketches are unsigned. The
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1910s Antique Sketch

Materials

Color Pencil

Sketchbook II
By Artur Markowicz
Located in London, GB
stamped with the collection stamp "A.Marcowicz. Ex coll Mr K". The sketches are unsigned. The outside
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1910s Antique Sketch

Materials

Color Pencil

La Chasseur a l Arc - Fauvist Still Life Study Gouache by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
documentation and making preliminary sketches for a gigantic composition that measured no less than 33 by 197
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1920s Fauvist Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Getting Ready for the Show, Circus Scene w/ Clown
By Carl Frederick Gaertner
Located in Beachwood, OH
Cod. From the mid 1940s until his death, he also produced paintings based on sketches made during
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Early 20th Century Antique Sketch

Materials

Oil

Derain profile face. original pencil drawing painting
By André Derain
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
, Derain opted for classical drawing, which is why he carefully followed Camille Corot's sketches, and also
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1920s Fauvist Antique Sketch

Materials

Pencil

Antique French Impressionist Oil Woodland Avenue Trees Dappled Sunlight Path
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Avenue of Trees French Impressionist, late 19th century oil on board, unframed further sketch
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Late 19th Century French School Antique Sketch

Materials

Oil

Studies of Goat Heads and Figures, Cairo (c. 1871)
Located in Stockholm, SE
. In one sketch, a goat faces forward, its distinctive long ears and gentle features carefully rendered
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1870s Realist Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

German Lithograph of the Schleswig War Crossing at the Schlei Near Arnis, 1864
Located in Langweer, NL
sketches, c.1864
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1860s Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper

Large Tribal Geometric Heriz Serapi 19th Century NW Persian Bakshaish Rug Carpet
Located in New York, NY
without the aid of paper patterns or sketches. The occasional weft wedges and areas of irregular knotting
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1870s Persian Bakshaish Antique Sketch

Materials

Wool

Derain Small Head in Pencil. original drawing painting
By André Derain
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
, Derain opted for classical drawing, which is why he carefully followed Camille Corot's sketches, and also
Category

1920s Fauvist Antique Sketch

Materials

Pencil

Putorius Pseudo Phalangium (The Pole-Cat) (Skunk) /// Mark Catesby Animal Art
By Mark Catesby
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
sketching and collecting specimens of native plants and animals. Skunks are North and South American
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1770s Old Masters Antique Sketch

Materials

Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Etching, Intaglio

French Expressionist Original Colored Drawing Painting Seated Nude Young Woman
By Jules Pascin
Located in Portland, OR
An important French Expressionist original colored sketch painting of a young nude female by Jules
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1920s Expressionist Antique Sketch

Materials

Pencil, Color Pencil, Paper

Projet de Tissus - Fauvist Still Life Study Gouache by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
documentation and making preliminary sketches for a gigantic composition that measured no less than 33 by 197
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1920s Fauvist Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper, Gouache

"The Meadow" Charlotte Buell Coman, Female Artist, Tonalist, American Landscape
By Charlotte Buell Coman
Located in New York, NY
sketched on trips to rural parts of France and Holland. She was influenced by the French Barbizon painters
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Early 1900s Tonalist Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Ô Hussard ! Tes pièges Sont Connus - Lithograph by Auguste Raffet - 1830s
Located in Roma, IT
. Verso with faint pencil sketch of a similar cart scene.  
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1830s Modern Antique Sketch

Materials

Lithograph

A first thought for Nicolas Loir s Adoration of the Shepherds at the Louvre
Located in PARIS, FR
shepherd kneeling on the right. We take up the argument developed by Catherine Sterling that this sketch
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Antique Sketch

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Swiss Nocturne Landscape - British artist 20s watercolour landscape Switzerland
By Albert Goodwin
Located in Hagley, England
numerous sketches that he later developed into paintings. This painting is entitled Altdorf lower left and
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1910s Impressionist Antique Sketch

Materials

Watercolor

Mount Tabor
By David Roberts
Located in London, GB
-49. This lithograph is based on a sketch made by Roberts made on the 19th of April 1839 when en
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1840s Realist Antique Sketch

Materials

Laid Paper, Lithograph

Portrait of an unknown sitter thought to be American
By Alphonse Legros
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
for Legros as his drawings are sometimes unfinished or reduced to a sketch, this is a completed study
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Early 20th Century Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Wilhelm Marstrand Ludvig Holberg’s “The Happy Shipwreck” Oil on Canvas, 95 x 135
By Wilhelm Marstrand
Located in Lejre, DK
from the present example. Nivaagaard also holds a preparatory sketch for the scene, showing both
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1870s Danish Antique Sketch

Materials

Canvas

French Hussar with Horse 1795, Napoleonic Era Military Uniform Print, 1843
Located in Langweer, NL
background, faintly sketched cavalry formations suggest movement and campaign life, reinforcing the military
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1840s French Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper

Sophia Katherine Charleton (1789-1844) - Watercolour, Anemone and Rose
Located in Corsham, GB
, as well as several other small flowers. Faint preliminary sketches are visible in areas where the
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Early 19th Century Antique Sketch

Materials

Watercolor

Pair of William IV Satinwood Bedside or Deception Tables
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
about 1790, and the survival of a high proportion of the Gillows Archives, including estimate sketch
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1840s English William IV Antique Sketch

Materials

Satinwood

The Red Cross Knight Slaying the Dragon
By George Richmond
Located in London, GB
- according to Richmond, he trailed behind the Duke of York for a mile in order to sketch him for his father
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19th Century Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper, Oil

Woodland Scene Chapelfields, Norwich - British Old Master oil painting aft Crome
By George Vincent
Located in Hagley, England
sketching and painting trips, influencing each other's artistic styles in the process. Vincent, Crome
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1820s Old Masters Antique Sketch

Materials

Oil

Gentlemen s Players Club Pen Ink Drawing by Orson B. Lowell (SIGNED LL)
By Orson Byron Lowell
Located in Bristol, CT
Original pen & ink c1920s sketch of a classic gentlemen's private club interior scene, perhaps the
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1910s Other Art Style Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper, Ink, Pen

Croquis pour les Enfants - Lithograph by Auguste Raffet - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
containing multiple sketches (croquis). The images show humoorous and lively scene: children playing, stret
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19th Century Modern Antique Sketch

Materials

Lithograph

Croquis pour les Enfants - Lithograph by Auguste Raffet - 1829
Located in Roma, IT
containing multiple sketches (croquis). The images show humoorous and lively scene: children playing, stret
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1820s Modern Antique Sketch

Materials

Lithograph

Croquis pour les Enfants - Lithograph by Auguste Raffet - 1829
Located in Roma, IT
containing multiple sketches (croquis). The images show humoorous and lively scene: children playing, stret
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1820s Modern Antique Sketch

Materials

Lithograph

Rare Judaica Drawing Sephardic Rabbi Gentleman, Palestine
By Arieh Merzer
Located in Surfside, FL
and was sent to a labor camp. Later, he arrived in Geneva, where an album of sketches of his works was
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Early 20th Century Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper, Ink

French 18th century drawing of The Study of a Resting Soldier
By Jean-Antoine Watteau
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
, after Jean-Antoine Watteau. This charming sanguine sketch or blood red chalk drawing is matted and set
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18th Century French Antique Sketch

Materials

Giltwood

Painting of Farmyard Scene with chickens, Oil on Canvas, Signed L.J. Cruise
Located in Downingtown, PA
of New York. A member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club and the Bucks County Academy of Fine Arts
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Early 20th Century American American Classical Antique Sketch

Materials

Canvas

Florida Indians, Couple in Traditional Dress – Mallet America Engraving, 1683
Located in Langweer, NL
*Description de l’Univers*. The figures are portrayed standing in a lightly sketched landscape, the man holding
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1680s French Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper

Vermont Hillside Farm
By James Hope
Located in Milford, NH
sketched many battle scenes, which he later converted to large paintings that he exhibited throughout the
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Antique Sketch

Materials

Canvas, Oil

19th Century Graphite Drawing - Young Satyr Playing the Flute
Located in Corsham, GB
with an animal skin. This iconographic type is found in numerous exemplars; however, this sketch most
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19th Century Antique Sketch

Materials

Graphite

17th Century by Pietro della Vecchia Old man in a coat trimmed with fur
Located in Milano, Lombardia
signed Expertise by Anna Orlando, art historian Bozzetti, modelletti, sketches: dalla collezione di
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17th Century Old Masters Antique Sketch

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pair of corner armchairs by Ernesto Basile
By Ernesto Basile
Located in NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, FR
," providing it with numerous architectonic sketches, facade elements, and geometrical shapes that explain the
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Early 1900s Italian Art Nouveau Antique Sketch

Materials

Walnut

Étude Pour Une Chasse au Lion, Romantic Drawing, Mid-19th Century
By Eugène Delacroix
Located in New York, NY
school Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts. This sketch of a lion is well indicative of his loose, Romantic
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Antique Sketch

Materials

Pencil, Paper

Wild Geese Oil Painting, American Impressionist, Early 20th Century
By Edwin Willard Deming
Located in New York, NY
with the Winnebago people. When he was a teenager, he traveled in Oklahoma, and sketched indigenous
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Sketch

Materials

Oil, Board

Artillerie à Cheval, Imperial Guard Cavalry, Napoleonic Military Print 1843
Located in Langweer, NL
is rendered with careful attention to musculature and stance. In the background, faintly sketched
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1840s French Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper

"Residence At Terrell" Date 1881 TEXAS CATTLE SCENE GRANDFATHER TEXAS ART
By Frank Reaugh
Located in San Antonio, TX
made measurements from family livestock. He supplemented his scientific studies with sketches made
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1880s Impressionist Antique Sketch

Materials

Pastel

"Arch Of Septimius, Rome" Large etching and aquatint.
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
applied in a casual, haphazard manner. Kasimir would first create a sketch usually in pastel, he then
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Early 20th Century Realist Antique Sketch

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Boston Yacht Club - 1869 - Hudson River School Landscape by Winkworth Allan Gay
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
, he met Benjamin Champney, also from New England, and went on sketching trips together in much of
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1860s Hudson River School Antique Sketch

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A rare group of three early 20th Century Kelvin-engined motor boat Models, presu
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
feet, being available. By the time that the firm placed an advert in The Sketch in 1921, that range
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Early 20th Century Scottish Antique Sketch

Materials

Brass

Allegory Sculpture Trémolières Paint 18th Century Oil on canvas Old master
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
trade (a marble slab with a sketched bas-relief, a ruler and a compass), scantily clad in silk with her
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18th Century Old Masters Antique Sketch

Materials

Oil

Cypresses, Villa D Este, Tivoli, Early 20th Century English Watercolour
By Ernest Arthur Rowe
Located in London, GB
, he joined the London Sketch Club where he met Arthur Rackham and Beatrice Parsons, among others
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1910s Victorian Antique Sketch

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

Fine Regency Mahogany Chamber Writing Table
By Gillows of Lancaster London
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
Estimate Sketch Books. Also the overall quality in construction is absolutely second to none and there is
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sketch

Materials

Mahogany

View of a Dutch Harbour, possibly imaginary
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
produced during his confinement. He produced a notable series titled Sketches to Illustrate the Passions
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Mid-19th Century Antique Sketch

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Ink

Artist s Studio Thomas Paint 17/18th Century Oil on canvas Old master Flemisch
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
, reminiscent of those in the Uffizi Gallery), drawings and sketches scattered haphazardly around the room
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18th Century Old Masters Antique Sketch

Materials

Oil

Grinzing, Snow Scene, Austria, large color etching
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
applied in a casual, haphazard manner. Kasimir would first create a sketch usually in pastel, he then
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Early 20th Century Realist Antique Sketch

Materials

Etching

Impressionist Oil on Paper: Man Crossing a Stream, Late 19th Century
Located in Stockholm, SE
. Arborelius applies the paint with a visible spontaneity, suggestive of an alla prima plein-air sketch
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Antique Sketch

Materials

Oil, Board, Laid Paper

"A View from Highland Inn, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania" Charlotte Buell Coman
By Charlotte Buell Coman
Located in New York, NY
sketched on trips to rural parts of France and Holland. She was influenced by the French Barbizon painters
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1910s American Impressionist Antique Sketch

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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You are likely to find exactly the antique sketch you’re looking for on 1stDibs, as there is a broad range for sale. There are many Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary versions of these works for sale. Finding the perfect antique sketch may mean sifting through those created during different time periods — you can find an early version that dates to the 18th Century and a newer variation that were made as recently as the 20th Century. Adding an antique sketch to a room that is mostly decorated in warm neutral tones can yield a welcome change — find a piece on 1stDibs that incorporates elements of gray, beige, brown, white and more. There have been many interesting antique sketch examples over the years, but those made by Henry George Moon, Gustav Klimt, Emile Cagniart, Gabriele Galantara and Jean Dreyfus-Stern are often thought to be among the most thought-provoking. Frequently made by artists working in pencil, paint and oil paint, these artworks are unique and have attracted attention over the years.

How Much is a Antique Sketch?

The average selling price for an antique sketch we offer is $739, while they’re typically $42 on the low end and $232,869 for the highest priced.