Laura Jordan Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

French Impressionist watercolour on paper view of children in an idyllic country scene by Henri Clamen. Signed bottom right. Acquired from the atelier of the artist with other signed works. Pencil annotation top right and to the back of the paper. A charming view of two children waiting in the shade of a beautiful summers day by the side of a country lane. An archway through to a farmyard and a farmhouse beyond. Dappled light through the overhead leaves and branches. In the lane to the left a hay wain...

From London with Love is a drawing series by Shizico Yi, composed of en plein air studies that capture quiet, private moments between the artist and the city—drawn in beloved corners...

French Impressionist watercolour on paper view of a colourful village, spanning a river and mountain landscape by Henri Clamen. The painting is unsigned but was acquired from the art...

From London with Love is an intimate drawing series by Shizico Yi, composed of en plein air studies capturing quiet, private moments between the artist and the city of London. Drawn ...

From London with Love is an intimate drawing series by Shizico Yi, composed of en plein air studies capturing quiet, private moments between the artist and the city of London. Drawn ...

From London with Love is a drawing series by Shizico Yi, composed of en plein air studies capturing quiet and private moment between the artist and the city in corners of London. Shi...

We would like to thank Madame Beck-Saiello for confirming the autograph nature of this drawing after an in-person examination. It was probably during an excursion in the countryside near Avignon that Claude-Joseph Vernet executed this drawing, enhanced with pen and brown ink, depicting a mansion on a hilltop overlooking a small village with geometric shapes. 1. Joseph Vernet, a painter influenced by Italy Claude-Joseph Vernet was born in Avignon in 1714, the son of Antoine Vernet (1689-1753), an artisan painter of architectural decorations, coach panels, and the like. He moved to the studio of Philippe Sauvan (1697-1792), a leading history painter in Avignon, and then worked with Jacques Viali (active 1681-1745), a decorative, landscape, and marine painter in Aix-en-Provence. Vernet's first recorded paintings were decorative overdoors executed in 1731 in the Aix townhouse of the marquise de Simiane. In 1734, Joseph de Seytres, marquis de Caumont, a leading amateur in Avignon, sponsored Vernet to make a study trip to Italy to complete his artistic education and to draw antiquities for his patron. As Avignon was a papal territory in Vernet's day, he also had a number of useful introductions among influential churchmen when he arrived in Rome. Vernet was soon at home in the French community there, and he was encouraged by Nicolas Vleughels (1668-1737), director of the Académie de France in Rome, even though the young painter had no official affiliation with the royal institution. He likely entered the studio of the French marine painter Adrien Manglard...

From London with Love is a drawing series by Shizico Yi, composed of en plein air studies capturing quiet and private moment between the artist and the city in corners of London. Shi...

No Dutch draughtsman ever captured the atmosphere of the rural countryside of Holland with the same atmospheric and engaging simplicity that Van Goyen achieved in drawings such as this. Indeed, his landscapes were seminal in the development of the genre. The present sketch conveys a striking sense of movement within the natural landscape, conveyed by the deftly applied strokes of chalk, from which the artist’s hand can be sensed. The composition is characteristic of his work, with the low horizon affording significance to the broad sky and the soaring birds within. This feeling of windswept motion powerfully evokes the expansive Dutch farmland with which he was evidently preoccupied. 1. Jan van Goyen...

French Impressionist watercolour on paper view of a collection of rooftops by Henri Clamen. The painting is 'located' bottom right and ...

This framed 22" x 29" ink and watercolor painting by an Unknown artist explores an abstracted landscape depicting a boat dock near a barn. In a neutral palette of browns, grays, and...

French Barbizon School watercolour on paper view of a French village and stone bridge by a river by Henri Clamen. The painting is dated, 1939, and titled, 'Dinard' to the back of the...