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Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - Untitled 3
Located in Paris, IDF
Gouache on paper
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...
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2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Georgian Contemporary Art by Eter Merkviladze - Flamingos
Located in Paris, IDF
Gouache on a watercolor paper
Eter Merkviladze is a Georgian female artist born in 1999 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She was graduated from Robert Schuman European Schoo...
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2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Study for a Hunting Scene, a red chalk sketch attributed to Karel du Jardin
Located in PARIS, FR
We would like to thank Carolina Trupiano Kowalczyk for suggesting this attribution to Karel du Jardin after direct examination of the artwork. Her study of the drawing (in Italian), ...
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1650s Old Masters Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Ink, Laid Paper
Louis Tinayre (1861-1942) An encampment of journalists, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Louis Tinayre (1861-1942)
An encampment of journalists in Chambéry,
signed and titled lower left "Campement de journalistes à Chambéry"
Ink on paper
In quite good condition, a a visible vertical fold in the centre, some stains and foxings
21 x 29 cm
Framed : 33.7 x 45.5 cm
Louis Tinayre's background and adventurous life obviously inform this humorous and detailed scene. He demonstrates a remarkable sense of observation, capturing this scene of extraordinary life like a journalistic illustrator.
A contributor, to whom I'd like to express my sincere thanks, sheds important light on the nature of this scene.
It appears that this drawing is the draft for an illustration published in “Le Monde illustré” of August 4, 1888 (page 77), to accompany the article “Épilogue du voyage présidentiel” (Epilogue to the presidential trip) - president Sadi Carnot- en Savoie et en Dauphiné (p. 74), which ends with: “As a picturesque note, we enclose an improvised journalists' dormitory in Chambéry, where our colleagues deeply regretted the comfort of the special train”.
As a quasi-ethnographic observer, Tinayre's interest lies in the journalists' camp, which he turns into a tender, comical scene. We understand him better when we know that he may have been similarly fascinated by the territories of Madagascar, the North Pole or the Far West that he painted and drew.
Louis Tinayre was born on 14 March 1861 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. His mother, Victoire Tinayre, was a teacher and a member of the International Workers' Association.
Louis was the son of a Communard couple. His father, Jean Joseph, known as Jules Tinayre (Issoire 1821 - Paris 1871) was shot during the Bloody Week. His mother, Victoire Tinayre, fled with her children. Louis was the first to be sent to Hungary, and the rest of the family (including his brother Julien) joined him there later. He studied Fine Arts at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest.
Returning to Paris in 1880 (after the amnesty), Louis Tinayre assiduously frequented Le Chat noir, where he met the positivists and Adèle Jacomet (Buenos Aires 1867-1946), whom he married in 1888.
He became an animal painter and press illustrator and was sent by Le Monde Illustré to cover the second expedition to Madagascar (then under French protectorate) in 1895.
He stayed there, fascinated, for six months and produced numerous drawings and photographs. Back in France, he created eight 5 x 4 meters dioramas presented at the National and Colonial Exhibition in Rouen in 1896.
He returned to Madagascar in 1898 to prepare the creation of a giant panorama representing the surrender of Antananarivo in 1895. The Malagasy pavilion at the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris allowed him to admire the dioramas (on the ground floor) and the panorama (on the first floor).
On his second trip, Tinayre took a Lumière cinematograph with him to document the daily life of the Malagasy people, no doubt to facilitate the design of the vast panorama. These short films were donated to the Cinémathèque française in 2009 by his grandson, Alain Tinayre.
One of the admirers of Tinayre's drawings, watercolours, paintings and photographs at the Universal Exhibition was Prince Albert I of Monaco: from 1901 onwards, Tinayre accompanied him on his hunts, painting scenes in North Africa, Russia, the Far West (Wyoming) and the North Pole. Tinayre, the official painter of the Prince's scientific expeditions, left his name to a glacier.
Together with the painter Alexandre Jean-Baptiste Brun, he painted the four murals in the large amphitheatre of the Oceanographic Institute in Paris. Louis Tinayre painted the figures while Alexandre Brun...
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1890s Realist Paris - 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 nobleman, priests, a mother and her children...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Paul Gavarni (1804-1866) La Soubrette (The handmaid), watercolor
By Paul Gavarni (Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier)
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Gavarni (1804-1866)
La Soubrette (The handmaid),
pencil, watercolor and heightenings of gouache on paper
Signed lower right (faded)
20 x 15 cm
In quite good condition, lightly sunstroke and yellowed
Framed 28.5 x 23 cm
Paul Gavarni was the nom de plume of Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier (13 January 1804 – 24 November 1866), a French illustrator, born in Paris.
The story is told that he took his name from Gavarnie in Luz-Saint-Sauveur where he had taken a journey into the Pyrenees.
He was a very famous illustrator, friend of Felix Nadar...
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1850s Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Jules Cheret (1836-1932) Three studies of women, original signed drawing
By Jules Chéret
Located in Paris, FR
Jules Cheret (1836-1932)
Three studies of women
charcoal on paper
signed on the bottom left
39 x 24.5 cm
This drawing of studies was part of the artist's workshop as so it bears the...
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1910s Art Nouveau Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Theodore Blake Wirgman (1848-1925) Portrait of Ernest Albert Waterlow, drawing
By Theodore Blake Wirgman
Located in Paris, FR
Theodore Blake Wirgman (1848-1925)
Portrait of Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow RA, (1850-1919)
pen and black ink on paper,
inscribed with the name of the sitter on the verso of the sheet, now not visible under the framing
15 x 12 cm
In a modern frame 34.5 x 30 cm
Theodore Blake Wirgman (29 April 1848 – 16 January 1925) was an English painter and etcher who moved to London, studied at the Royal Academy schools, became a painter of history and genre subjects, and worked as a portrait artist for The Graphic. A number of these portraits are held at the National Portrait Gallery. Theodore Blake Wirgman was born in Belgium and died in London.
He worked from a studio at 24 Dawson Place, Notting Hill, London, and joined The Arts Club in 1892.
Wirgman was part of a group of avant-garde young artists who emulated Edward Burne-Jones and Simeon Solomon...
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1880s Academic Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Isidore Pils (1813-1875) An Orientalist scene, signed watercolor
By Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils
Located in Paris, FR
Isidore Pils (1813-1875)
An Orientalist scene
Signed lower left
Pencil and heightenings of watercolor on paper
15 x 24 cm
In a modern mount 40.5 x 53 cm
We know that Isidore Pils spent two years in Algeria starting in 1863, so this depiction of a festive scene could quite likely date from that period. It is very free in its execution, but at the same time very evocative.
Isidore-Alexandre-Augustin Pils (1815–1875) was a French academic painter of religious and military subjects.
Pils was born in Paris as the son of a soldier François Pils. At the age of twelve, he studied with Guillaume Guillon-Lethière for four years.
In 1831 he became a student at the École des Beaux-Arts and studied under François-Édouard Picot.
He competed for the Prix de Rome, which he won in 1838 for a history painting, St. Peter Healing a Lame Man at the Door of the Temple.
Although in poor health, Pils then spent the customary three years at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici, which then had Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres as its director. While in Italy he visited Naples, Venice, and Florence.
Pils's earlier paintings have religious themes. In 1849 he completed his most famous work, Rouget de L'Isle Singing La Marseillaise, which now resides at the Musée historique de Strasbourg. After experiences travelling with French troops through the Crimea, his themes took on military and nationalistic subjects. He later produced many military scenes during the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.
Pils was appointed professor of painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1863 but left the same year for two years in Algeria. In 1868 he was elected to seat #14 of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Among his students were Adrien Moreau...
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1870s Academic Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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...
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1870s Realist Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
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 Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Male figure and silhouette sketches
By André Derain
Located in PARIS, FR
Double-sided work in good condition, dispersal of the Knaublich succession, Loiseau-Shmitz, 23/03/2002. Stamp "Atelier Derain" at bottom right. Exhibitions: Talismans VI, galerie Her...
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1940s French School Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
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...
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Early 1900s Symbolist Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
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...
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1840s Romantic Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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 ...
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1910s Art Nouveau Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
French Contemporary Art by Francine Ledieu - Une Rue d’Assise
Located in Paris, IDF
Gouache on paper
Francine Ledieu is French artist born in 1931 who lives and works in Paris, France. In the 50s, she was a student of Maurice Rocher who specialized in Sacred art. I...
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1960s Abstract Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
French Contemporary Art by Francine Ledieu - Paris Rue Rameau
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on cardboard
Francine Ledieu is French artist born in 1931 who lives and works in Paris, France. In the 50s, she was a student of Maurice Rocher who specialized in Sacred art. I...
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1960s Abstract Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
French Contemporary Art by Francine Ledieu - Rue Rameau Paris
Located in Paris, IDF
Crayon on paper
Francine Ledieu is French artist born in 1931 who lives and works in Paris, France. In the 50s, she was a student of Maurice Rocher who specialized in Sacred art. In...
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1960s Abstract Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Watercolor Belgian Orientalist Painting Marocco Horsemen Horse 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Maurice Romberg de Vaucorbeil
Schaerbeek, 1862 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1943
The Rest of the Riders
Watercolor
12.5 x 19 cm (21 x 26 cm with frame)
Signed lower right "MR"
Very good cond...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
French Contemporary Art by Emeline Piot - CINQC
Located in Paris, IDF
Staedtler pencil & acrylic on canvas
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2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Canvas, Acrylic
A Study for the Angel of Saint-Severin church in Paris, by Paul Flandrin
Located in PARIS, FR
After the restoration of the Saint-John chapel’s frescoes at the Saint-Severin church in Paris in 2022, the drawing presented here is a moving testimony to their creative process. It...
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1840s Old Masters Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Hand Fan Project With The Goddess Diana The Huntress floating in the clouds
By François Flameng
Located in PARIS, FR
François FLAMENG
Paris 1856 - 1923
Diana the Huntress floating in the clouds, fan project
1893
Watercolor and gouache on wove paper
Signed and dated lower right
25 x 70 cm sheet (le...
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1890s French School Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
"The opium smoker", Léa Lafugie (1890-1972)
Located in Paris, FR
Léa Lafugie (1890–1972) was a painter who traveled extensively across Asia. She was renowned for her portraits. She studied at the School of Decorative Arts, followed by the École de...
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1920s Modern Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait Of Louis Valayer, Mayor Of Avignon
Located in PARIS, FR
Delphin Enjolras (1865 - 1945)
Portrait Of Louis Valayer, Mayor Of Avignon From 1910 To 1919
Pastel on paper
Signed and dated top right : D. Enjolras 1899
Framed
Friend of the ...
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1890s Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920) Brighton, the Beach, 1889, watercolor signed and dated
By Paul Lecomte
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920)
Brighton, the beach 1889
signed located and dated lower left "Brighton juin 89"
watercolor on paper
18.5 x 27.5 cm (view)
framed 41 x 49.5 cm
Paul Lecomt...
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1880s Impressionist Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Georgian Contemporary Art by Nina Narimanishvili - I Found the Flower
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink & pencil on paper
Nina Narimanishvili is a Georgian artist born in 1999 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. Nina has been painting since childhood and over time her interes...
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2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Chinese Contemporary Art by Wu You - Half Memory Half Expectation
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink & colour on paper - The artwork comes with COA
Framed 171 x 51 x 4 cm
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2010s Abstract Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Armenian Contemporary Art by Kamsar Ohanyan - Under the Snow
By Kamsar Ohanyan
Located in Paris, IDF
White pen on grey paper
Size without passe-partout: 23 x 17 cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Romantic landscape, View of an imaginary palace by the water, Pastel, Signed
Located in PARIS, FR
Camille ROQUEPLAN
Mallemort 1803 - 1855 Paris
Romantic landscape, View of an imaginary palace on the banks of a river
Pastel on strong paper
Signed lower left
26.5 x 38 cm
38 x...
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1830s Romantic Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Couple - Lajos Szalay, 20th Century, Figurative drawing
By Lajos Szalay
Located in Paris, FR
Ink on paper
Unique work
Signed lower left by the artist
This work was executed by the Hungarian artist circa 1970.
Pablo Picasso said about Lajos Szalay : "He is the best designer...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Large Drawing, Study Of Dancers
Located in PARIS, FR
Henri ROYER
Nancy 1869 - 1938 Paris
Study of dancers
Sanguine pastel and charcoal on cream white paper
Circa 1900-1910
Unsigned
47 x 62.5 cm sheet
67 x 83 cm cm frame
Provenance: Es...
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Early 20th Century French School Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal, Pastel, Mixed Media
Judith and Salome, a pair of oil paintings on canvas by Francesco Conti
Located in PARIS, FR
This widely referenced pair of paintings is one of Francesco Conti’s most successful productions. Francesco Conti is one of the finest painters of 18th-century Florence. In the shimmering colors typical of his best work, he represents two opposite characters from the Bible: the virtuous Judith, whose courage saves her people by cutting off the head of the invader Holofernes, and the depraved Salome, who under the influence of her mother becomes responsible for the beheading of the prophet John the Baptist.
The artist's talent lies in his ability to treat these two macabre subjects with a light touch, presenting us with two attractive women who seem to twirl with glee amidst the severed heads...
1. Francesco Conti, the “Florentine Tiepolo”
Francesco Conti is a major painter of the Florentine school of the 18th century; he can even probably be considered, along with Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (1692-1768), as one of the two main painters of the second quarter of the Florentine 18th century.
Born in Florence in 1682, Francesco Conti began his apprenticeship in the workshop of Simone Pignoni (1611 - 1698), a disciple of Francesco Furini; he was also influenced by the Venetian Sebastiano Ricci. A protégé of Marquis Riccardi, he accompanied him to Rome between 1699 and 1705, where he frequented Carlo Maratta's studio. He settled permanently in Florence in 1705.
Painted exclusively on canvas, the majority of his work consists of religious subjects, altarpieces or private devotional works. It is likely that Conti himself was a devout churchgoer, as evidenced by his affiliation, in the third decade of the eighteenth century, to the Society of the Disciples of Saint-John-the-Baptist, and his entry, at the end of his life, into the fraternity of the Venerable Society of the Holy Trinity.
In Florence, Conti worked for the Grand Duchy's major patrons, including the last Medici - in particular Giangastone and Annamaria Luisa, Electress Palatine - and confirmed his role as a reference painter under the Lorraine Regency, as master of the Public Drawing School, which was closely linked to the institute responsible for the manufacture of semi-precious stone mosaics, then located in the Uffizi complex.
Matteo Marangoni, an art critic of the early 20th century, praised his "brushwork full of elegance and true spirit of the 18th century", pointing out that Conti was "probably one of the best colorists" of the Florentine school of his time. These two characteristics led the art historian Paolo dal Poggetto to nickname him the "Florentine Tiepolo".
2. Judith and Salome, two biblical characters opposing each other
These two paintings form a pair presenting two biblical episodes, which have in common the depiction of a "heroine" carrying the severed head of a man.
While the Salome episode might at first appear to be an echo of the Old Testament story of Judith, each character is the exact opposite of the other. Judith, whose story is told in the Book of Judith, is a beautiful young widow from Bethulia who, accompanied by her maid, went into the camp of the invading Assyrians and won the confidence of Holofernes, the general commanding the enemy army. Invited to a great feast on the fourth evening, she took advantage of Holofernes' drunkenness to cut off his head. “She went up to the bedpost near Holofernes’ head, and took down his sword that hung there. She came close to his bed, took hold of the hair of his head, and said, “Give me strength today, O Lord God of Israel!” Then she struck his neck twice with all her might, and cut off his head. Next she rolled his body off the bed and pulled down the canopy from the posts. Soon afterward she went out and gave Holofernes’ head to her maid, who placed it in her food bag...
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1710s Old Masters Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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...
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2010s Contemporary Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Panel
"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 ...
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1910s French School Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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 Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
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 Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
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 Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
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 Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
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...
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1760s Old Masters Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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 Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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...
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1940s Modern Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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 ...
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2010s Abstract Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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 Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Panel
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 Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
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 Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
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 ...
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Early 20th Century French School Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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 Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
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 Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
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 Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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 Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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 Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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 Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
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 Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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 Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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 Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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 Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Panel
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...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Study of a Fate at mid-body, a red chalk attributed to Giovanni da San Giovanni
Located in PARIS, FR
This spectacular red chalk drawing depicts an elderly woman, her eyes bulging, her hand stretched out towards the sky. This disturbing character, who seems close to dementia, and the elongation of her arm with its Mannerist overtones, plunge us into the Florentine artistic milieu of the first half of the 17th century. The proximity of this drawing to some characters in the fresco in the Pitti Palace representing The Muses, Poets and Philosophers chased from Parnassus, the last masterpiece of Giovanni da San Giovanni, leads us to propose an attribution to this artist and a dating of around 1635-1636.
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.
The death of Cosimo II in 1621 put an end to the Florentine building activity and Giovanni da San Giovanni left for Rome to find other sponsors with the painter Francesco Furini...
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17th Century Old Masters Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Charles Jouas (1866-1942) A Suburban landscape, color pencil drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Charles Jouas (1866-1942)
A Suburban landscape,
color pencil on paper
24.5 x 38.5 cm
Bears the stamp of Ullmann collection (Lugt 3533) and a mention handwritten "offert par madame ...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Georgian Contemporary Art by Tamar Darchiashvili - Untitled 8
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink & 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, F...
Category
2010s Abstract Paris - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
