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Antique Italian School Late 17th - Early 18th "Cherubs (A)" Pen drawing of Putti
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Cherubs" (A)
Pen and Ink drawing of Putto
Italian School
Late 17th early 18th century.
Pen and ink on paper
6 ½ x 17 ½ (22 ½ x 11 ½) inches
Antique scenes of putto and a faun cele...
Category
Late 17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Portrait of William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, Early 17th Century Portrait
Located in London, GB
earliest inventory of paintings, made in 1630 at their home Brooke House in Holborn, London, describes five
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Flemish Old Master, Study of Donkey Carriage, 17th Century, Sanguine Drawing
Located in Greven, DE
This drawing shows several studies of a donkey with a carriage. Its style is close to Flemish 17th century artists. On the passepartout one reads "Mathias Scheyer/ Jacob Weyer", both...
Category
17th Century Baroque Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Handmade Paper
$856 Sale Price
20% Off
Knight Shape - Original Pastel Drawing by French Master Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Knight Shape is a pastel drawing realized by an Anonymous artist in the First Half 20th Century.
The artwork represents a male portrait of a knight. Not signed.
Good conditions.
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Water Seller - Original Ink and Watercolor by Anonymous Neapolitan Master - 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Water Seller is an original watercolor on paper, realized by Anonymous artist in the XIX century.
Good conditions except for some folds.
Original title printed on lower center: Ve...
Category
19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Food Seller - Original Ink and Watercolor by Anonymous Neapolitan Master - 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Naples - Food Seller is an original watercolor artwork realized in the XIX century by an anonymous artist.
Good conditions except for yellowing of the paper and some shading. On th...
Category
19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
The Butcher - Original Ink and Watercolor by Anonymous Neapolitan Master - 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Naples - The Butcher is an original watercolor artwork realized in the XIX century by an anonymous artist.
Good conditions except for yellowing of the paper and some shading. On the...
Category
19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Study for a Decoration - Watercolor on Paper by French Master Early 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Study for a Decoration is an original modern artwork realized in the first decades of the XX Century by a French artist.
Original colored watercolor on paper.
On the back of the a...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Still Life with Fishes and Oysters - Oil on Canvas - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Neapolitan School Master.
Impressive in size as well as for its vivid representation of fishes and oysters
Category
17th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Studies and notes - Ink and Pencil on Paper y Anonymous Master - Early 1800
Located in Roma, IT
This beautiful artwork is a piece of paper with studies and notes. On one side, eleven subjects are drawn in ink, among which La Pietà in different poses, a female figure, and a prof...
Category
Early 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
8 Original Nude Pen, Pencil and China Ink Drawings by French Master 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Women is a series of eight original drawings in pen and pencil on paper, some of which double sided, realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century, some of them with a sketc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Still life
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Black wooden frame
37 x 45 x 3 cm
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,035
Still Life with Flowers in a Vase
Located in Atlanta, GA
Painted in the style of the 17th century Dutch painter Alexander Andrienssen, this painting is of a
Category
18th Century and Earlier Old Masters Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
18th-century French school Study of a man seen from behind, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
18th-century French school
Study of a man seen from behind,
Charcoal and white chalk on brown paper
46 x 29 cm
Framed under glass : 60 x 43 cm
This beautiful study of a naked man...
Category
1760s Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Chalk
Virgin on a Winged Cart - Ink and Watercolor - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Virgin on a Winged Cart is a brown-ink drawing with watercolor interventions on paper made by an anonymous artist of the Neoclassical school (Second half of 18th century).
Not signed...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Grimace - China Ink and Watercolor Drawing - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
an anonymous artist of the late 18th century.
A precious old master's original drawing, representing
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
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...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Italian School, 16th Century, Study of figures
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Italian School, 16th Century
Studies of Figures
Pen and ink on paper,
23 × 24 cm
Unsigned
A finely executed sheet presenting vigorous figure studies, drawn with assured pen strok...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
European Pastoral Scene on Vellum. Probably Eighteenth Century
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Unknown
(European, probably Eighteenth Century)
Shepherds and Peasants in a Landscape
Ink
Category
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Vellum
Studies of the Galli Statue and of an Ignudo
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Florentine School, early 16th century
Studies of the Galli Statue and of an Ignudo
Pen and brown ink on laid paper
19.1 × 13 cm
Executed c. 1510–1520
Unsigned
This remarkable doub...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Early 19th Century, Portrait of a young man wearing glasses, gouache
Located in Paris, FR
Early 19th Century,
Portrait of a young man wearing glasses,
gouache on paper
13 x 10.5 cm oval view
In a vintage frame : 41.5 x 39 cm, accidents and lacks in the gilding but but...
Category
1820s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
French school 18th Century, A mytholological scene with a couple, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
notable for its mastery of pen and wash. It has all the elegance of the French masters of the period, with
Category
1760s Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Italian School, late 16th century - Head of a Man and Écorché Studies of Arms
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Italian School, late 16th century
Head of a Man and Écorché Studies of Arms
Red chalk on laid paper,
21 x 11 cm
Provenance:
Collection of Michael Jaffé CBE (1923–1997), English a...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Early 19th century French School, Portrait of a man in profile, oval drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Early 19th century French School,
Portrait of a young man in profile
charcoal on cut paper applied to pink tinted paper
Oval 58 x 47 cm (overall size) the portrait itself 41.5 x 28...
Category
Early 1800s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Follower Jacques-Louis David Neoclassical Red Chalck French Paper
Located in Roma, IT
Important period red chalck watercolor pencil drawing with neoclassical subject.
Depicting the Atilius Regulus departing for Carthage.
Atilius Regulus was a Roman statesman taken pri...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Member of the Military Band - Drawing - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
the XIX century by an Italian Master.
Hand-signed on the right side of the artwork.
In very good
Category
19th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
French School, early 19th century - Battle Scene between Greeks and Ottomans
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
French School, early 19th century
Battle Scene between Greeks and Ottomans, circa 1820–1830
Pencil and brown wash on paper,
30 × 46 cm
Unsigned
Provenance:
Former collection of P...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Crayon
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)
...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Laid Paper
Roman School (circa 1590–1620) - Study Of An Executioner
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Roman School (circa 1590–1620)
Study of a Male Executioner
Black chalk on laid paper,
275 x 199 mm
Unsigned
Formerly Giancarlo Sestieri Collection
This dynamic figure study, exe...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Laid Paper
18th Century School, Courtyard of a palazzo, Architectural Capriccio, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
fantastic architecture, otherwise known as Capriccio, which also inspired fields other than painting and
Category
1780s Old Masters Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
French School 18th Century, L
étonnement, form of expression, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School 18th Century,
L'étonnement, Astonishment as a form of expression,
Titled on the lower right "L'étonnement N°9"
Black chalk on paper
43 x 29 cm
In good condition, a sta...
Category
1750s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
French School 18th Century, Le Rire, Laughter as a form of expression, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School 18th Century,
Le Rire, Laughter as a form of expression,
Titled on the lower right "Le rire N°12"
Black chalk on paper
43 x 29 cm
In quite good condition, stains vsibl...
Category
1750s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
French School 18th Century, Le Mépris et la Haine, form of expression, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School 18th Century,
Le Mépris et la Haine, Contempt and Hate as a form of expression,
Titled on the lower right "Le mépris et la haine N°7"
Black chalk on paper
43 x 29 cm
I...
Category
1750s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Female figure with Child and Dog - Charcoal Drawing
Located in Roma, IT
Female figure with child and dog is a sublime original drawing (red chalk drawing on laid paper) by an exponent of the French School of the XVIII century.
In very good conditions, ex...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
English School early 19th century, Portrait of two children, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
English School early 19th century,
Portrait of two children,
Pencil and light heightenings of white and red gouache
29.5 x 23 cm
In quite good condition : the pape is yellowed by t...
Category
Early 1800s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Saint Jerome in the Desert, Prague school sanguine drawing
Located in New York, NY
Saint Jerome in the Desert Prague school sanguine drawing.
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
French School, Academic Study (Male Nude)
Located in London, GB
non-reflective UV glass.
Drawings and paintings of the nude were central to academic art training in
Category
19th Century Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
François Boitard (1670-1715) Abraham and the Three Angels, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
François Boitard (1670-1715)
Abraham and the Three Angels,
Signed lower left "F Boitard (...) fecit (...)"
28 x 44 cm
Pen and ink on yellow prepared paper
In good condition
Framed 47...
Category
Early 1700s Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
France 18th Century, Pastorale (Arcadian Landscape), original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
France 18th Century,
Pastorale (Arcadian Landscape)
Black chalk and heightenings of white gouache on blue-grey paper
19 x 31 cm
Framed : 34.5 x 46.5 cm
The atmosphere and the subje...
Category
1760s Old Masters Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
$1,013 Sale Price
20% Off
France 18th Century, The Surprised Lovers, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
France circa 1770
Two lovers surprised in bed
Black chalk on paper
13 x 17 cm
Modern frame : 34 x 38 cm
This drawing had been attributed to Gabriel de Saint Aubin (1724-1780). It's...
Category
1760s Old Masters Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
$932 Sale Price
20% Off
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
Category
1780s Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
$428 Sale Price
25% Off
Baptism of Christ - Ink Drawing by Anonymous XIX Century
Located in Roma, IT
Baptism of Christ is a beautiful original drawing (pen and ink on paper) by an anonymous of the Neoclassical school of the beginning of the 19th century.
A wonderful religious scene ...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Allegoric scene with the Tiber
Located in Roma, IT
Allegoric scene with the Tiber river is a fine original drawing (black chalk on laid and watermarked paper at the center) by an exponent of the Neoclassical school of the nineteenth ...
Category
20th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
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 n...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
French School 18th century, Interior of a barn, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
rediscovery of the Dutch masters of the 17th century. Artists of the time renewed their sources of inspiration
Category
1750s Old Masters Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Ink
Mythological Subject - Charcoal and Ink Drawing
Located in Roma, IT
Mythological subject is a precious original drawing (black chalk, brush, and watercolor ink on ivory colored paper). Unsigned.
Inscription: "Disegnato dal P. e Scotti ricavato da que...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Charcoal
Ancient Persian Miniature - Original China Ink and Watercolour - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Persian Miniature is an original China Ink and Watercolour realized by an artist of 19th Century.
Good condition for a little brown paper.
Stamp of the "Pugliese Collezione...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
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 good condition, some foxings
In a...
Category
1790s Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
18th C Italian Classical Grand Tour Ancient City Old Ruins
Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: The Italian City
Artist/ School: English/ Italian School, late 18th century; a Grand Tour work.
Medium: pencil drawing.
Size: 6.75 x 9.75 inches
Provenance: from a priva...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
$659 Sale Price
20% Off
In a Gothic Church
Located in Roma, IT
In a Gothic Church is a beautiful original drawing (China ink and watercolor on paper). Hand-signed "Stothard" in brown ink on the lower left margin outside of the image.
Very sweet ...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor
Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew - Drawing - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew is a precious original drawing (black and red chalk, pen and China ink on laid paper, laid down on canvas) realized by a member of the Italian School o...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor
Folio from Communion of Saints, Reading from the Book of St. Matthew.
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Readings from the "Communion of Saints": folio from an Italian Missal
Pigment on vellum
Mid 17th century
Provenance:
Otto F. Ege (1888-1951)
Phillip Duechnes Bookseller, New York, c....
Category
15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Vellum
Interior of a House - Ink and Watercolor Drawing
Located in Roma, IT
Interior of a house is a fine original drawing (China ink and watercolor on paper). Unsigned. This artwork could be attributed to Thomas Stothard.
In spite of the small dimensions, ...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Female Nudes - Charcoal, Ink and Watercolor Drawing
Located in Roma, IT
Female Nudes is a fine original drawing (China ink and watercolor on paper). Unsigned. This artwork could be attributed to Thomas Stothard.
Although the small dimensions, the drawing...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor
Mercurio / Mercury
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely, early drawing of the Roman god Mercury.
Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper, with a partial crown and shield watermark, 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches (184x 123 mm) (matrix). In go...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper
Pompeian Styles Wall Painting With Cupids - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pompeian Styles Wall Painting With Cupids from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Flight into Egypt - 17th Century, Old Master, Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Arles, FR
The Flight into Egypt
1620 Flemish Baroque Old Master Oil Painting on Copper
The Flight into Egypt
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1620s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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