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Item Ships From: Paris
Original 1932 aquarelle titled Le Candidat et les Électeurs by F. Robbe
Located in PARIS, FR
A whimsical and pointed piece of political satire, this original 1932 aquarelle titled Le Candidat et les Électeurs ("The Candidate and the Voters") by F. Robbe transforms the political stage into a witty animal allegory.
Drawn in expressive black ink and watercolor wash, the scene depicts a parrot—perched high, wearing a top hat, and clutching a rolled-up speech—addressing an eager flock of birds below. With beaks open wide, the ‘electors’ appear to hang on every word of the charismatic, if cartoonish, orator. It's a visual metaphor brimming with irony, capturing the timeless performance of politics: showmanship, repetition, and the crowd’s fervor.
Signed “F. Robbe, 32”, this work encapsulates the interwar period’s sharp sense of humor and skepticism toward authority. Its monochrome palette only enhances the theatrical drama and expressive character design, reminiscent of 19th-century French caricature artists like Daumier or Grandville, yet rendered in a distinctly 20th-century modernist spirit.
Measuring small in size but large in statement, this is a rare surviving piece of illustrated political commentary. Whether you're drawn to its historical charm, anthropomorphic cleverness, or satirical tone, this little gem remains a delightful reflection on democratic rituals—and their absurdities.
A unique acquisition for collectors of early 20th-century illustration, political art, or vintage French ephemera...
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1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Cave Of Vicovaro near Tivoli
Located in PARIS, FR
Peter Birmann
Basel 1758 - 1844
The Vicovaro grotto
Gouache on blue paper
29 x 47cm
Provenance: Kasimir Hagen, Cologne, his stamp (Lugt 4795) on verso
Exhibition: Europaïsche ...
Category
Late 18th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Gouache
$2,690 Sale Price
25% Off
Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Where Time Turns Into Light
By Minako Asakura
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic
watercolor on paper mounted on wood panel
Minako Asakura is a Japanese artist born in 1973 who lives
works in Tokyo, Japan. As graphic designer
art dire...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Panel
Dreaming Nude - Hand Signed Original Pastel Drawing
By Gaston Coppens
Located in Paris, IDF
Gaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002)
Dreaming Nude
Original pastel drawing
Hand signed (with the monogram)
Stamp of the artist on the back
On wove paper 40 x 33 cm (c 15.7 x 12.9 inch)
Exc...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Charcoal
"La sentinelle de Thérèse", c. 1914-1918, drawing and gouache, signed
By René Georges Hermann-Paul
Located in PARIS, FR
"La sentinelle de Thérèse" (The Sentinel of Therese), two soldiers discussing, bears a handwritten note at the bottom "if you feel like sneezing, you will go under the window of the ...
Category
1910s French School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Carbon Pencil
Woman and Taurus - Lajos Szalay, 20th Century, Figurative drawing
By Lajos Szalay
Located in Paris, FR
Ink on paper
Signed lower right by the artist
Unique work
Framed
This work was executed by the Hungarian artist circa 1970.
Pablo Picasso said about Lajos Szalay : "He is the best ...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Ink
Watercolor Belgian Orientalist Artist ROMBERG Marocco Fantasia Horseman 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Maurice Romberg de Vaucorbeil
Schaerbeek, 1862 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1943
"Avant la Fantasia"
Watercolor
16.5 x 14.5 cm (26.5 x 19.5 cm with frame)
Titled and signed lower right "Befo...
Category
Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Watercolor
Did you say weird ? Zahra Zeinali Contemporary drawing clown animal circus art
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Charcoal on paper
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Pauline and Severus (Illustration for the Part II, Scene II of Polyeucte)
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert MAIGNAN
(Beaumont-sur-Sarthe, 1845 – Saint-Prix, 1908)
Pauline and Severus (Illustration for the Part II, Scene II of Polyeucte)
Ink, grey wash on paper
Signed lower left
51 x 35 cm
Exhibition: French Watercolour Society, 11th exhibition, Galerie Georges Petit, 8, rue de Sèze, Paris. Catalogue number: 125
This classic drawing but tinted with symbolism is an excellent example of the talents of illustrator of Albert Maignan, a facet of his art that he developed significantly from 1883.
It is one of five watercolours in “black ivory” created by Maignan to illustrate the Polyeucte from Cornelius, a book specially published by Mame Editions (for which Maignan worked a lot) for the Universal Exhibition of 1889. These watercolours were exhibited in 1889 at the famous Galerie Georges Petit (which hosted the 11th exhibition of the French Water Color Society) under No. 124/125/126/127/128 (Maignan exposed another illustrative drawing for “Boileau” under No. 129).
Each drawing illustrating an episode of all five acts of the tragedy.
Our work represents the moment when Pauline (daughter of Felix, Roman senator and governor of the province of Armenia) regains his former suitor Severus (a noble Roman general) and explains that she is now married to Polyeucte (a lord of Armenia) and she can see him again. The scene is set in a garden with a small temple of Vesta, where Pauline has filed an offering; the Pauline confidante named Stratonice, stands at his side, while Severus was accompanied by his servant Fabian. The drawing is captioned by Pauline words to Severus: “Yes I love Severus, and not doing as an excuse”
The book was printed in 800 copies, containing compositions from Maignan etched by Emile Boivin...
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Late 19th Century French School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Ink, Paper
Watercolor View Street Tunis French Realist Early 20th
Located in PARIS, FR
Alfred BRUNET-DEBAINES
Le Havre, 1845 – Hyères, 1939
Sidi El Bechir Street in Tunis in 1902
Watercolor and gouache
30 x 23 cm (46 x 39.5 cm with frame)
Signed lower right "A. Brunet ...
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Early 1900s French School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Watercolor
Conspiracy Zahra Zeinali Contemporary drawing black and white art animal rabbit
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Charcoal on paper
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Léa LAFUGIE (1890-1972), gouache of a Burmese dancer
Located in Paris, FR
Léa Lafugie is a painter who has travelled extensively throughout Asia. She is renowned for her portraits. She studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, then at the Ecole de...
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1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Three Sailboats At Anchor, View Of Holland, oil on canvas, signed lower right
Located in PARIS, FR
Edmond Marie Petitjean was a French painter and illustrator born on July 5, 1844, in Neufchâteau (Vosges) and died on August 7, 1925, in Paris.
Biography
A painter of landscapes and...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Oil
N’Guyen PHAN LONG, pair of drawings on paper
Located in Paris, FR
- Price for both.
- Signed at the bottom right.
- Vietnam, 1946.
Dimensions
H : 33 cm L : 31 cm
H : 12.9 in W : 12.2 in
Category
1940s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor
Manner of Vermeer : Young Girl with a Bowl - Original Charcoals Drawing
By Gustave Poetzsch
Located in Paris, IDF
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950)
Manner of Vermeer : Young Girl with a Bowl
Original charcoals and pencil drawing
Stamp of the Estate auction sale on the back
On grey tinted vellum 32 ...
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Early 20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Portrait of an Ottoman Dignitary, a drawing by Giuseppe Nogari (ca. 1760)
Located in PARIS, FR
We would like to thank Mrs. Bozena Anna Kowalczyk for confirming the attribution of this drawing to Giuseppe Nogari in a study (available in Italian) from which we have taken our ins...
Category
1760s Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Chalk, Laid Paper
Big sky, clouds over the Seine River French Impressionist landscape painting
By Gaston Prunier
Located in Norwich, GB
A stunning sky and cloud study by Gaston Prunier. Originally from Le Havre, the sea port where the Seine empties into the English Channel, Prunier was c...
Category
1890s French School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Charcoal, Chalk
Tattoed character Geneviève Seillé Contemporary art outsider art drawing colour
By Geneviève Seillé
Located in Paris, FR
Mixed media drawing on paper
Dated and signed on the back
In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object o...
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2010s Outsider Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Moby Dick 4 original mid century illustrations for Herman Melville
s masterpiece
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Norwich, GB
A stunning ensemble of fiour original mid century illustrations for Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" . Whilst sharing the modernist, stylis...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Georgian Contemporary Art by Tamar Darchiashvili - Untitled 11
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencil on paper
Tamar Darchiashvili is a Georgian artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1996 she graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Faculty ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Allegory of Chastity, a drawing attributed to G. Porta with great provenance
Located in PARIS, FR
This magnificent drawing from the Venetian Renaissance intrigues us in many ways. It depicts an allegorical composition whose meaning partly escapes us: a veiled figure seated on a stone bench (which we have identified as Chastity), seems to be turning away from a woman's bust beside her, below which are two rabbits, a traditional allegory of fertility, but also sometimes of lust.
This drawing, executed on blue paper, undoubtedly belongs to the Venetian Renaissance. The inscriptions on the back of the old mounting board indicate the various attributions considered by its last owner, the British painter and art historian Sir Lawrence Gowing. We have retained the attribution to Giuseppe Porta proposed by art historian John Arthur Gere as the most relevant.
We were incredibly fortunate to find a hexagonal frame of a very similar format for this drawing, the upper corners of which were formerly cut (irregularly). This 17th-century Dutch frame comes from an aristocratic collection in Lombardy, and creates a kind of fascinating chase around this Venetian drawing...
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16th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Chalk
Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Luminous Bloom
By Minako Asakura
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic
watercolor on paper mounted on wood panel
Minako Asakura is a Japanese artist born in 1973 who lives
works in Tokyo, Japan. As graphic designer
art dire...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Panel
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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1740s Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Ink
Portrait of Condottière
Located in PARIS, FR
Attributed to Léon COGNIET
Paris 1794 -1880
Portrait of Condottière
Pen and brown ink
10,5 x 8cm
30 x 25cm
framed
Period frame
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Pen, Ink
$816 Sale Price
43% Off
The Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, near Rome
Located in PARIS, FR
Jean-François Joseph LECOINTE
Paris 1783 - Versailles 1858
The Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, near Rome
Watercolor and brown ink
Signed and dated "Lecointe 1833" lower left
56 x 44 cm s...
Category
1830s French School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Watercolor
French Pastel Landscape Brittany Finistère GROSSIN Salon Late 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Paul GROSSIN
Gambais (Seine-et-Oise), 1857 - 1912
Rocks near the Pointe de Primel-Trégastel (Finistère)
Pastel on canvas
65 cm x 100 cm (91 x 116 cm with frame)
Signed lower left "Gr...
Category
1890s Symbolist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Pastel
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Black Flower 8
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Ink
French Abstract Contemporary Art by Daniel Cayo - Untitled No.22
By Daniel Cayo
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on paper, framed
15 x 20 cm - 24 x 30 cm with white mat passe-partout
Unique copy
Signed on the front
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Drawing 435
By Sumit Mehndiratta
Located in Paris, IDF
Indian ink and acrylic paint, marker on archival paper
Shipped in a tube
Sumit Mehndiratta is an Indian artist born in 1986 who lives & works in New Delhi, India. He has pursued Ma...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Jules Boilly (1796-1874) Portrait Of A Man, Black chalk
Located in PARIS, FR
Julien Leopold BOILLY
Paris 1796-1874
Portrait of a man
First third of the 19th century
Pierre noire
Signed on the right
23,5 x 17 cm
38 x 29 cm framed
Small stains
Category
Early 19th Century French School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Laid Paper
$509 Sale Price
29% Off
Italian Contemporary Art by Fred Borghesi - Silent Shout 2
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor on paper
Fred Borghesi is an Italian artist born in 1987 who lives and works in London, UK. He is above all a multidisciplinary artist, constantly switching between mediu...
Category
2010s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Panorama of Paris with the Institut de France and the Pont des Arts
Located in Paris, IDF
Marcel Georges Prud’homme
(Paris, 1877 – ?, 1955)
Panorama of Paris with the Institut de France and the Pont des Arts
Ink and wash on paper
Signed and dated lower right
18 x 26 cm ...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Ink
German Contemporary Art by Fabia Kleinpeter - Mermaid Hair
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
View of the Ovo Castle in the Moonlight, a 19th century Neapolitan gouache
Located in PARIS, FR
Neapolitan gouaches appeared in the eighteenth century when tourism in the Naples area was developing: the discoveries of Herculaneum and Pompeii made this city a mandatory stop on the Grand Tour, the journey made by wealthy Europeans to complete their education.
Generally small in size for ease of transport and affordable in price, these gouaches were the ideal travel souvenir that these tourists of the early days were bringing back to capture the idyllic landscapes they had discovered during their journey and to share them with family and friends upon their return at home.
The Bay of Naples and the eruptions of Vesuvius are the favourite themes of these views. Here we have a view of the Ovo Castle, which was rebuilt on the island of Partenope, in the middle of the Bay of Naples and about a hundred metres from the shore by the Normans in the 12th century on antique ruins...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Woman Looking at the Window - Original painting, Handsigned
By Jules Cavailles
Located in Paris, IDF
Jules CAVAILLES
Woman Looking at the Window (c. 1965)
Original gouache and oil painting on paper
Signed bottom right
On heavy paper 26 x 17 cm (c. 10 x 7 inch)
Authenticated with th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Oil, Gouache
View of an Antique City, a wash landscape by Jan de Bisschop (1628 - 1671)
Located in PARIS, FR
The attribution to Jan de Bisschop has been confirmed by the RKD with the following comment: "We base this attribution on the dark washes, the subject represented and the monogram".
...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Ink, Pen
Study for the Spring (preparatory to the Four Seasons) by René-Marie Castaing
Located in PARIS, FR
René-Paris Castaing, winner of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1924, left a large body of work, both sacred and secular. Many churches in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in South-West France still bear witness to the diversity of his talent. In 1942, he began a major decoration project for the Château de Diusse, in the north-east of the county, including an allegory of the four seasons. The vigorous pastel we are presenting here is a study for Spring, depicted as Flore undressing. This commission was a veritable swan song for the artist, who died a year later at the age of 47.
1. René-Marie Castaing, the great inter-war painter in Pau
René-Marie Castaing was born in Pau on December 16th 1896. His father, Joseph Castaing, was also a painter: he was the official portraitist of Pau's high society, which was particularly cosmopolitan at the end of the century, when many rich foreigners spent the winter in Pau, taking advantage of the mild weather to enjoy an outdoor lifestyle punctuated by hunting, horse ridings and golf.
René-Marie Castaing was admitted to the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in April 1920 and entered the studio of Paul-Albert Laurens (1870-1934). In 1924, he was awarded the First Grand Prix de Rome for Painting, which earned him a stay at the Villa Médicis for more than three years. He then returned to Pau in 1928, where he lived until his death.
Castaing's work is marked by the academic tradition, in which drawing plays as important a role as painting. Although his drawings are often sketches that help to set up large painted compositions, they stand as independent artworks in which the artist fully expresses the vivacity of his talent.
Castaing was a fervent Christian and religious painting played an essential part in his work, as shown by the decorations he created for the churches of Bizanos, Borce, Bidache and Salies-de-Béarn. The painter also created several secular decorations, such as that for the dining room of the Villa Saint-Basil's in Pau in 1935, and the Hunting at the Albret’s time commissioned in 1940 by the Prefecture of Pau. The décor created in 1942-1943 for the Château de Diusse, a mansion located north-east of Pau, was his last large-scale décor, as the painter died shortly after its completion on December 8th 1943.
2. Description of the drawing
Our pastel depicts an eminently secular theme: Spring is embodied by Flore, crouching on the ground with one knee touching the ground. She reveals her ample bosom by removing her shirt, her arms raised above her shoulders to undress.
Given Castaing's classical training at the Beaux-Arts and the influence of ancient statuary...
Category
1940s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Pastel
Young Man with a Sword, a Fist on his Hip, a drawing by Cornelis Saftleven
Located in PARIS, FR
Black chalk and white highlights on paper (originally washed in blue)
Monogrammed and dated 1630 on the right
This drawing, executed in black chalk and enhanced with white brushwor...
Category
1630s Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Georgian Contemporary Art by Nino Devdariani - King of the Forest
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media, acrylic and ink on paper
Nino Devdariani is a Georgian artist born in 1970 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. Her inspiration is the perception of positive and ne...
Category
2010s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Blue Eyes Boy - Original Signed Charcoals Drawing
By Gustave Poetzsch
Located in Paris, IDF
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950)
Blue Eyes Boy
Original charcoals drawing
Signed bottom right
on linen paper 37 x 31 cm (c. 15 x 12 in)
Stamp of the Estate auction sale on the back
Ve...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Charcoal
German Contemporary Art by Fabia Kleinpeter - Loch Ness
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
French Watercolor Academic 19th GHESQUIER Portrait young Italian woman Roma 1880
Located in PARIS, FR
Désiré Auguste GHESQUIER
Lille, 1861 – Lille, 1934
Portrait of an Italian Woman from the Back
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right "D. Ghesquier"
39.5 x 27 cm (43.5 x 30.5 cm with ...
Category
1880s Academic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Watercolor
Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Jewel Rain
By Minako Asakura
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic
watercolor on paper mounted on wood panel
Minako Asakura is a Japanese artist born in 1973 who lives
works in Tokyo, Japan. As graphic designer
art dire...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Panel
Georgian Contemporary Art by Nino Devdariani - Someone Else in Eyes
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media, acrylic and ink on paper
Nino Devdariani is a Georgian artist born in 1970 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. Her inspiration is the perception of positive and ne...
Category
2010s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Study for « Paysage de Fribourg » - 1943 a drawing by Balthus (1908 - 2001)
By Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola)
Located in PARIS, FR
Provenance: Frédérique Tison, Château de Chassy (Burgundy-Franche Comté - France)
Bibliography: J. Clair, V. Monnier Balthus, catalogue raisonné of the complete works, Gallimard, Pa...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Flowers
By Minako Asakura
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic
watercolor on paper mounted on wood panel
Minako Asakura is a Japanese artist born in 1973 who lives
works in Tokyo, Japan. As graphic designer
art direct...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Panel
Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - Dinner Time 1
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Ilia Balavadze is a Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1993, he studied the painting at the Tbilisi State Academy of Ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Georgian Contemporary Art by Nino Devdariani - The Fish
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media, acrylic and ink on paper
Nino Devdariani is a Georgian artist born in 1970 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. Her inspiration is the perception of positive and ne...
Category
2010s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - Dinner Time 3
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Ilia Balavadze is a Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1993, he studied the painting at the Tbilisi State Academy of Ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Blooming Pulse
By Minako Asakura
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic
watercolor on paper mounted on wood panel
Minako Asakura is a Japanese artist born in 1973 who lives
works in Tokyo, Japan. As graphic designer
art direct...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Panel
Circa 1980 Original work by Yvon Taillandier entitled Sénéquier
By Yvon Taillandier
Located in PARIS, FR
Original work by Yvon Taillandier entitled Sénéquier Thé Patisserie. In imagination a small aviator Taillandier - Landais sees Paul Signac and Félix Fénéon meeting at the terrace of ...
Category
1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Paper
A dazzling Venetian Regatta Boat Study attributed to Alessandra Mauro
Located in PARIS, FR
This stunning Baroque study depicts a regatta boat, a type of vessel developed in eighteenth-century Venice for the regattas organized by the Serenissima during visits by royalty and princes. We propose to link this drawing to the work of Alessandro Mauro, an artist who specialized in this type of composition, as illustrated by a drawing from him at the Metropolitan Museum.
1. Description of the boat
The greatest decorative fantasy reigns in this preparatory study, which blends mythological and exotic elements with references to ancient Egypt. Our drawing is probably an initial thought, destined to be refined and clarified later in pen and ink (as evidenced by the ink stain in the lower right). A quadriga of seahorses guided by Neptune stands at the stern of the boat, shown well above the waterline (perhaps to outline its empty volume). One of the seahorses is ridden by a newt, while Amphitrite lies at the feet of the sea god.
The center of the boat is occupied by a vast baldachin resting on four atlantes and surmounted by a figure riding an animal (a dragon?). Three figures sit beneath the canopy, one of them on a griffin-shaped seat. This allusion to Egyptian antiquity echoes the winged sun (sometimes a symbol of the god Horus, as in the temple of Edfu in Egypt) that adorns the sides of the promontory on which this baldachin rests.
Another flag-bearer figure crouches at the stern of the boat on a raised seat, on the reverse of which is a crowned mermaid whose arm, extended backwards, rests on a mascaron decorated with a radiant face (Helios?) and whose torso surmounts an elephant's head. The heads of the rowers and their oars are sketched all along the boat, whose sides are embellished with elongated naiads.
2. The Venetian regatta boats
An exhibition held in 2013 at the Ca' Rezzonico (the Venetian eighteenth-century museum) paid tribute to these regatta boats through studies and prints depicting them. The regattas organized by the Serenissima in honor of visiting princes and sovereigns were among the most spectacular ceremonies in Venice. Some important artists of the 18th century contributed to the creation of these extravagant boats which were given exotic names such as bissona, malgarota or peota.
The specialists in this field were Andrea Urbani and the brothers Alessandro and Romualdo Mauro. They were born into a family of theater decorators in Piedmont, but little is known about their detailed biography. Alessandro was the architect of the Dresden opera house and of the St. Samuel Theater in Venice (in collaboration with his brother Romualdo), but also worked as stagehand and set designer in Vienna, Rome and Turin. A drawing produced around 1737 from the Metropolitan Museum (7th photo in the gallery) bears witness to his activity as a regatta boat designer.
This drawing is a much more elaborate version than the one presented here, having been entirely reworked in brown ink. However, a figure at the bow of the boat, executed solely in black chalk, still bears witness to a technique similar to that of our drawing.
It is difficult to know whether the boat depicted in our drawing was a project for an actual boat or whether it remained in the planning stage, but the front of our boat (Neptune and the quadriga of seahorses ridden by a newt) bears several similarities to that of a parade boat depicted in the print published by Michele Marieschi entitled Regatta on the Grand Canal, between the Foscari and Balbi Palaces (last photo in the gallery). This print is dated 1741, which could confirm that our work dates from around 1740.
The area between Neptune and the quadriga that precedes him on this strange paddle-boat appears to be partially submerged, confirming that the waterline of our boat was probably intended to be much lower than the one shown in our drawing.
The Correr Museum’s collection holds one of the most important collection of engravings and drawings devoted to these specifically Venetian Baroque productions. These boats were intended to last the duration of a festival. Today, they are only documented by preparatory drawings or prints that testify to the sumptuousness of their decoration. This taste for regatta boats lasted throughout the Venetian eighteenth century, and the conception of regatta boats also attracted great masters such as Giambattista Tiepolo, Francesco Guardi or Giambattista Piranesi...
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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
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Chalk
Study of a Fate at mid-body, a red chalk attributed to Giovanni da San Giovanni
Located in PARIS, FR
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1. Giovanni da San Giovanni, the painter of contradiction
We take here the title of the monography dedicated to the artist by Anna Banti in 1977, which remains the reference book for this artist. The son of a notary, Giovanni Mannozzi, known as Giovanni da San Giovanni, abandoned his studies to go to Florence at the age of sixteen, where he entered the studio of Matteo Rosselli (1578 - 1650) around 1609 and enrolled in the Academy of Drawing Arts in 1612. Around 1615 he produced his first known works, mainly frescoes for the city's tabernacles. He became famous in Florence for his originality, combining an obsessive application to the study of drawing and the reading of poetry and history with a disheveled appearance. Between 1619 and 1620 he decorated the facade of the Antella Palace in Piazza Santa Croce, a decoration that still partly survives today.
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17th Century Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
Chalk
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Located in Paris, IDF
Laszlo TIBAY
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Original India ink and lavish drawing
Handsigned
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Located in Paris, FR
Charles Jouas (1866-1942)
A Suburban landscape,
color pencil on paper
24.5 x 38.5 cm
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Located in Paris, IDF
Paul KLEE (after)
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Lithograph and stencil (Jacomet process)
Printed signature in the plate
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Lithograph
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Located in Paris, IDF
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Paper, Ink, Pencil
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Located in Paris, IDF
Pencil, acrylic
ink on paper,
Tamar Darchiashvili is a Georgian artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1996 she graduated from the Tbilisi State Acade...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings in Paris
Materials
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Georgian Contemporary Art by Tamar Darchiashvili - Disharmony 1
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on paper,
Tamar Darchiashvili is a Georgian artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1996 she graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Faculty of...
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