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Item Ships From: Continental Europe
Episode of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, a cantonment of soldiers, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School 19th Century
Episode of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, a cantonment of soldiers during the siege of Paris
Pen and brown ink on paper
15 x 23 cm
Annotated on the lower...
Category
1870s Realist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Teaching Drawing to Children - Drawing by Alexandre Lagrant - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Teaching Drawing to Children is a drawing artwork realized by Alexandre Lagrant in the early 20th Century.
Pencil and ink drawing on paper.
The state of preservation is good with s...
Category
1930s Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Summer in Holland – 25-07-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Summer in Holland – 25-07-18 In the dead of summer it is so hot here in The Hague I had double vision. That is why I serve two women for the price of one. Graphite pencil dra...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
French School late 19th century, A woman in a deckchair, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School late 19th century,
A woman in a deckchair,
pencil on paper
21 x 31.5 cm
In a modern frame : 36 x 47 cm
This is a very sensitive and interesting drawing.
Typical of Im...
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1890s Realist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Portrait of a Child -Drawing by G.C. Vuillier - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a Child is an Artwork realized by the French Artist Gaston Charles Vuillier.
Gouache on paper.
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Oudaen - 26-11-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Oudaen - 26-11-18 Last year I was at Oudaen, a city castle at Utrecht, Netherlands which now is a crowdy hotspot for party people. I was dining near the window in the corner with ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Spring. 2006. acrylic on canvas, 76x65 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The artist captured the refreshing beauty of spring flowers after cold grey winter. By applying big and bright strokes, she makes a viewer feel the light radiating from the canvas, a...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,687 Sale Price
20% Off
Golden Purple - 07-02-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Half in Limbo This pastel drawing 'Golden Purple - 25-02-21' is based on a previous graphite pencil drawing 'Roundism - 14-09-19'. The latter I always liked because of its abstract ...
Category
2010s Cubist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Education - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Green oil pastel on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1960s.
Hand signed lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
1960s Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Pacific Ocean Currents, Handmade Cyanotype Seascape in Blue, Waves Landscape
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
"Pacific Ocean Currents" is a handmade cyanotype print of rough water texture resembling Pacific Ocean swell.
Details:
+ ...
Category
2010s Realist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Emulsion, Engraving, Etching
Fabrizio Ravanelli - Celebrating the Football Goal in the UEFA Final 1995-96
Located in Firenze, IT
Fabrizio Ravanelli - Celebrating the Opening Goal in the UEFA Champions League Final 1995-1996
Technique: Charcoal on paper, Signed and dated ’96
Author: Marco Silombria (Savona, 19...
Category
1990s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pencil, Carbon Pencil
The Carolingian Chapel – 30-06-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
The Carolingian Chapel – 30-06-18 When I was visiting the Bastei, a new museum at the base of the Valkhof at Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands, my eye caught the Sint-Nicolaaska...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Julia – 19-11-19, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Julia – 19-11-19 Saturday 16th Novembern2019 I had Julia Gómes Avilés over as a model again. I wanted to express her dancing skills by a dynamic pose in which she holds her fo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Bettie Page – 17-02-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Bettie Page – 17-02-18 Another attempt to capture the essence of American pin-up and model Bettie Page. I liked the refence picture letting her bodyscape and hair melt into the ne...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Satin – 11-07-21, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Art Graf Debutant Of late I am exploring textures of fabrics like satin, silk and all other shining objects such as gold and silver. Two months ago I made the first one, depicting...
Category
2010s Cubist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
An archeological memory of Bettie Page – 13-11-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pen
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
An archeological memory of Bettie Page – 13-11-18 The reference picture I used was slightly different from the one I used for ‘The revelation of Bettie Page (2018)’. I kept ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
DEEP NIGHT
By Daria Kusto
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original artwork by Daria Kusto.
Ink , markers on Paper.
The magic flow reality...
Shipping from Spain, safely and promptly.
Category
2010s Pop Art Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Veere – 04-04-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Veere – 04-04-19 Last weekend I was walking through Veere at Zeeland, Netherlands, a little pittoresque town. I returned to my car when I saw the sign ‘city wall tour’ and I...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Beaches in Cap Skiring No.2 by Calo Carratalá - Pencil, Senegal, trees, river
By Calo Carratalá
Located in Paris, FR
Beaches in Cap Skiring No.2 is a unique oil pencil on cardboard, glued on wooden frame drawing by contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, dimensions are 80 × 139 × 4 cm (31.5 × 54.7 × 1....
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Cardboard, Pencil
Roundism – 29-11-17, Drawing, Pastels on Pastel Sandpaper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 29-11-17 Based on a earlier roundism graphite pencil drawing I made this pastel adding the realm of colours. I wanted the woman appear in a kind of midsummernight’...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Bernard BOUTET DE MONVEL (1881 - 1949), "Portrait of Miss Lise Brissaud"
Located in Paris, FR
Bernard Boutet de Monvel was a French painter, sculptor, engraver, fashion illustrator and interior decorator. Although first known for his etchings, he earned notability for his pai...
Category
1920s Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Venus Lamenting - 13-01-23, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Just Another Artistic Motif This graphite pencil drawing ˜Venus Lamenting “ 13-01-23 is a special one. It is an indictment of prudishness. My second to last one ˜Roundism “ 30-12-22 apparently shook up a bunch of people. Comments varied from great to ˜yet another tit pic. There also were prudes from various countries who scorned me for the subject nudity anyway. Throughout the years I became used to these reactions somehow. I also take into account the fact people from each and any nation are present on social media nowadays. With this variety comes a whole set of different opinions and views of life. I cherish them all. That is, as long as they cherish my opinion back. If they dont, then this art statement is for all those who lack the word reciprocity in their dictionary. Climbing the Barricades Personally I think the nude can be as much an artistic motif as any other. In fact I dont complain in the least about a world of other motifs. One could like to depict golden retrievers, red roses and other darling, save and sound themes. I see them on a daily basis on Instagram and Facebook among others. I probably wouldnt have made a big fuss because of contempt shown in the past. Thats what an artist is all about. I even like to provoke with my nudes a bit. A bit of sexiness but not too much. Just to be able to deny the presence of too much of it by underligning artistic aspects as well. Hmm, a bit of risque here an there. I love it! Why climb the barricades once again? Heres why. ArtKitchen In a dutch paper, called ˜NRC there was this item on Jeannette Dekeukeleires. She is the gallery owner of ArtKitchen in Amsterdam, known for its stimulating and provocative art...
Category
2010s Art Deco Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Roundism - 10-09-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism - 10-09-19 I saw this great vintage picture of a nude on the roof top of an open van and I liked the styled planes it already showed: the squares in the open door, some r...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Flirtatious Women - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Flirtatious Women is a Pen Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s.
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
Good condition.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 19...
Category
1960s Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
The Magician - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Magician is a pen Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Voorlinden - 05-04-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Voorlinden - 05-04-20 In these exceptional days of viral mayhem no one expected at the beginning of this year all of a sudden a first beautiful warm day in Spring arrived in The N...
Category
2010s Impressionist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Figurative Drawing on Paper - Los 15 - Pastel Colors - Mexican artist - Graphite
Located in Vilnius, Vilniaus apskr.
Work is framed with Plexiglass.
Signed on the right bottom corner of the drawing.
Amilcar's drawings from the series of "Utopia by Tolina" inspired by the imagination of the artist...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Springtime - Drawing By Pierre Georges Jeanniot - 1905
By Pierre Georges Jeanniot
Located in Roma, IT
Springtime is an Ink and Watercolor realized by Pierre Georges Jeanniot in 1905, for the magazine "Rire".
Good condition on a yllowed paper.
Stamp signed on the lower riht corner.
...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Attributed to Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) La famille heureuse, watercolor
By Eugene Deveria
Located in Paris, FR
Attribuetd to Eugène Devéria (1805-1865)
La Famille heureuse (The Happy Family)
Watercolor on paper
23 x 18 cm
In quite good condition : a small tear i...
Category
1840s Romantic Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
André Eugène Costilhes (1865-1940) A young woman sewing, drawing
By André Eugène Costilhes
Located in Paris, FR
André Eugène Costilhes (1865-1940)
A young woman sewing
bears the stamp of the studio of André Eugène Costilhes in the lower right-hand corner
pencil on paper
30.5 x 20 cm
In quit...
Category
Early 1900s Symbolist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Golden Cubism - 21-02-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Real Cubism This pastel Golden Cubism – 21-02-21 is the first real cubist drawing in my Golden series. After my last pastel drawing Lakshmi – 16-02-21 I realized I only made pastels in my Roundism style. The last one in that style was ‘Golden Lilac – 07-02-21’. What if I would return to the initial form of cubism I employed back in 2014. Besides that, once in a while my preference is to put the stress on angular forms rather than round ones. Variety is the spice of life...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Veere - 04-04-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Veere - 04-04-19 Last weekend I was walking through Veere at Zeeland, Netherlands, a little pittoresque town. I returned to my car when I saw the sign 'city wall tour' and I decid...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Reclining female nudes with an umbrella
By Henri Lebasque
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
HENRI LEBASQUE
(Champigné 1865 - 1937 Le Cannet)
Reclining female nudes with an umbrella
Pencil, stumping and heightened with watercolor on paper
27 x 24 cm
Stamped signature lowe...
Category
19th Century Art Nouveau Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Paper
$3,647 Sale Price
29% Off
Bowlers - Original Drawing by Angelo Griscelli - Mid-20th Century
By Angelo Griscelli
Located in Roma, IT
Bowlers is an original drawing in pencil China Ink on paper realized by Angelo Griscelli (1893 - 1970)
The state of preservation is good except for some foldings.
Hand-signed on th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Ink
The Hermaphrodite - Original Ink and Watercolor by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Hermaphrodite is an original modern artwork realized in the half of the 20th Century by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989).
Original ink and watercolor o...
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1950s Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Period Framed Italian Portrait by Tito Corbella
By Tito Corbella
Located in Roma, IT
1930s painting by the important Italian artist Tito Corbella
Beautiful and rare work by the important Italian artist of the first half of the 20th century Tito Corbella. It depicts w...
Category
1930s Art Nouveau Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Villa Ravà - Sketch for a Library - Drawing by Marcello Piacentini - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Villa Ravà, Biblioteca (Library)
Architectural drawing, china ink on paper
monogrammed lower right in pencil: M.P.
Titled upper left: Villa Ravà – Biblioteca
A finely detailed arch...
Category
1920s Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Neo Deco – 26-01-23, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
What Name It Bears … This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 26-01-23’ counterparts my previous one ‘Roundism – 20-01-23’. The reference picture is from the same mo...
Category
2010s Art Deco Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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 Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Crayon
Gladiolus 2
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Gladiolus 2" captures the passionate spirit of blooming gladiolus. Fiery reds and glowing yellows express movement and vitality. The artist's bold, impressionistic strokes blend the...
Category
2010s Expressionist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper
The nude portal - 03-07-19, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
The nude portal - 03-07-19 As you may have noticed by now I am keen on vortices. They show an endless sequence of swirls, almost like a singularity. Some say they lead the way to ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Roundism – 04-02-22, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Once Again Once in a while I get that itchy feeling again that makes me want to turn to roundism. The last one by that title I made half a year ago. In between lie an odd couple...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Golden Green 08 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Golden Green 08 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on Hahnemühle paper - Unframed
Emma Godebska is a French abstract artist living in Nimes, France.
Her use of natural pigments, reflectiv...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Untitled - Contemporary Expressive Abstract Painting, Conceptual Art
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork is signed (see last photo) and will be shipped rolled in a tube.
Urszula Wilk – artist statment:
I have always been interested in the idea of infiniteness of a painting...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Back Cover of l
Asino - Artwork by Gabriele Galantara - 1909
By Gabriele Galantara
Located in Roma, IT
Back Cover of l'Asino is an original artwork by Gabriele Galantara (November 11, 1909).
This is the cover of the donkey magazine realized in China ink and watercolour, in good condi...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
The Pope and the Prison - China Ink by Gabriele Galantara - 1910
By Gabriele Galantara
Located in Roma, IT
The prison is an original drawing in China ink and white lead on creamy cardboard realized by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937).
In good conditions.
This artwotk presents on the back...
Category
1910s Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Lucien Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950), Les Marionnettes 1910, drawing
By Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola
Located in Paris, FR
Lucien Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950)
Portrait of Marie-Thérèse Piérat in Les Marionnettes, 1910
Pencil on paper,
signed, dated and annotated lower ...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Olympia – 22-03-19, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Olympia – 22-03-19 Before last Tuesday’s model session I thought of a great pose I instructed to my model. It showed great triangular forms while her body would form one big t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Flowers - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is a Color Marker Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
No signature.
Reynold Arnould was born in Le Havr...
Category
1970s Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
German Contemporary Art by Fabia Kleinpeter - Dragon Bird
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on Cartridge paper
Fabia Kleinpeter, a German self-taught multidisciplinary artist born in 2000 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She began her artistic journey in 20...
Category
2010s Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Study of a Man, Old Master Drawing, Figure, Roman Study, Lombard
Located in Greven, DE
Old Master Drawing by the Circle of Lambert Lombard. Drawing/ Study of a Man in Renaissance Style, later signed "F. Floris".
Study of a Man
Lombard li...
Category
16th Century Renaissance Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper
$2,879 Sale Price
20% Off
Surrealist composition of José Gerson n°1 - Drawing 67x46 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
1970s Surrealist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
$240 Sale Price
20% Off
Bettie Page - 19-05-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Bettie Page - 19-05-18 I found this great early picture of a young Bettie Page posing before her pin-up days of fame. Like all previous reference pictures this one shows great li...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Art Deco Nude - 16-09-22, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
After Two Interludes Graphite pencil drawing ‘Art Deco Nude – 16-09-22’ follows after two impressionist interludes. Park Hoog Oostduin – 14-09-22. I made because I was qui...
Category
2010s Cubist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Roundism (Tribute to Anita Ekberg) – 22-06-23, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
A Second Tribute This graphite pencil drawing ‘Roundism (Tribute to Anita Ekberg) – 22-06-23’ is not my first homage to her. Some years ago I made a first one. People must h...
Category
2010s Cubist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Nude - Drawing by Georges Gobo - Early 20th Century
By Georges Gobo
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a Pastel Drawing realized by Georges Gobo (1876-1958).
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner.
Georges Gobo or Georges Gob...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Three drawings by François Boucher in a mounting by Jean-Baptiste Glomy
By François Boucher
Located in PARIS, FR
We would like to thank Juliette Parmentier-Courreau of the Custodia Foundation for her welcome and support during the consultation of Glomy’s Journal des Ouvrages.
This spectacularly large "feuille de desseins ajustés" commissioned by François Boucher from Jean-Baptiste Glomy is emblematic of the painter's art and mastery of rocaille. It is also fully representative of the taste of this period in the field of decorative arts. The largest of these three drawings, placed at the bottom of the composition, is particularly interesting: dating from around 1756, it constitutes a modello (apparently unpublished) for the frontispiece of the "Catalogue des tableaux de Monsieur de Julienne"), preserved in the Morgan Library in New York.
1. François Boucher, the master of French rocaille
The extraordinary career of Francois Boucher was unmatched by his contemporaries in versatility, consistency and output. For many, particularly the writers and collectors who led the revival of interest in the French rococo during the last century, his sensuous beauties and plump cupids represent the French eighteenth century at its most typical. His facility with the brush, even when betraying the occasional superficiality of his art, enabled him to master every aspect of painting – history and mythology, portraiture, landscape, ordinary life and, as part of larger compositions, even still life. He had been trained as an engraver, and the skills of a draftsman, which he imbued in the studio of Jean-Francois Cars (1661 – 1738), stood him in good stead throughout his career; his delightful drawings are one of the most sought-after aspects of his oeuvre.
As a student of Francois Lemoyne (1688 - 1737), he mastered the art of composition. The four years he spent in Italy, from 1727-1731, educated him in the works of the masters, classics and history, that his modest upbringing had denied him.
On his return to Paris in 1734, he gained full membership of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture with his splendid Rinaldo and Armida (Paris, Musée du Louvre). Although, throughout his career, he occasionally painted subjects taken from the Bible, and would always have considered himself first as a history painter, his own repertoire of heroines, seductresses, flirtatious peasant girls and erotic beauties was better suited to a lighter, more decorative subject matter. His mastery of technique and composition enabled him to move from large scale tapestry...
Category
1750s Old Masters Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Ink
M336 (Abstract Drawing)
By Jesús Perea
Located in London, GB
M336 (Abstract Drawing)
Digital creation, printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag de 308 gr - Unframed.
Fluctuating between illustration and expressionism, connecting the geometric and bi...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Digital
The sheik of Araby - 15-10-17, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
The sheik of Araby - 15-10-17 I always love this jazz song and when listening to jazz doing my nudes in my apartment I made the connection all of a sudden, as I often do between v...
Category
2010s Surrealist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Nieuwe Veenmolen - 19-10-17, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Nieuwe Veenmolen - 19-10-17 A drawing of the 'Nieuwe Veenmolen' (MIll 'Nieuwe Veen') at The Hague, a place around the corner from where I live. I liked to depict the plants on the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
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This Tempting Wayne Thiebaud Watercolor Is the Perfect Summer Treat
Although he also produced pensive portraits and idyllic landscapes, the artist’s best-known images are of ice cream, cakes and other colorful sweets.
In This Surreal Painting, the Pink Foot of Patriarchy Squashes a Pumpkin Worshipped by Women
In ‘Gourd,’ Isabel Rock creates a mythic scene that looks fresh and contemporary but feels as old as Eden.
Mid-Century Americans Didn’t Know Antonio Petruccelli’s Name, but They Sure Knew His Art
The New York artist created covers for the nation’s most illustrious magazines. Now, the originals are on display as fine art.
Cecilia Vicuña Merges Politics, Science and Spirituality in Her Poetic Art
The Chilean creator, who has been living in exile in New York for decades, is having a major moment, receiving the biggest exhibitions, commissions and awards an artist could dream of.
Who Are the Most Popular Artists on 1stDibs?
Learn the stories of some of the world's most recognizable artworks and their makers.
Shantell Martin Finds Wonder in Sharing the Creative Process
The visual artist completed a new work in front of a crowd at the 1stdibs Gallery.