Animated view of the ruins of the Forum of Nerva in Rome - (Parte del Foro di Nerva)Artist: Victor-Jean Nicolle (1754–1826)Technique: Pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paperDimensions: 154x203 mmS[...]
Jean-Baptiste COSTE1746-1819, FrenchImaginary architecture, perspective studyDrawing, ink and ink wash on paperThe drawing is glued on an old mount with the annotation "Coste"On the back, an annotatio[...]
Venetian School, late 18th century
Hercules Vanquishing a Drakaina
Pen and dark‑brown ink with grey wash on laid paper
23.5 × 18.5 cm (oval)
Provenance
Private collection, France
In this small c[...]
Beautiful 18th century red chalk drawing, two heads of young boys, facing right, curly hair blowing in the wind, smiling. Beautiful freshness of expression, firm line, without repentance. France. 18th[...]
Charcoal, pencil and pastel drawing, after François Boucher, 18th century, presented in its Louis XVI period gilded and pearl-carved wooden frame and behind its antique glass.
John Raphael SMITH (Derby 1752 - Doncaster 1812)Self-portrait as a hunter with his dog (1785)Black chalk, stump and red chalk on grey prepared paper39 x 26 cm (sheet) - 67 x 51.5 cm (frame)Light scrat[...]
Lovely little pen drawing certainly representing an Italian landscape, made in the 18th century. The drawing is not signed, but its very precise style, deeply inspired by the masters of the 17th centu[...]
Giuseppe Bernardino BISON (Palmanova 1762 - Milan 1844)Travelers crossing a capriccio of ruinsPen and brown ink, brown wash over pencil sketch12.8 x 18 cm - 28 x 33 cmSigned lower rightPentimento in t[...]
Wash drawing from the French school at the end of the 18th century, "the cenotaph of Tibull", inscription in Latin, presented in a gilded wooden frame.
Ferdinand von Kobell (1740–1799)
Figures by a River at the Edge of a Wood
Black chalk, stump and white chalk highlights,
19 x 28.8 cm
Signed and dated lower right: 1777
Provenance:
Former Beurde[...]
Beautiful pen and watercolor drawing representing a statue of Venus or Diana surrounded by a procession of young girls and young men dressed in Antique style, in a pretty classical landscape with temp[...]
Claude-Louis DESRAIS 1746- Paris -1816 The Unlucky Gambler Ink over pencil line 14.8 x 24.2 cm This satirical composition presents an unlucky gambler in the center, in an expressive pose reflecting hi[...]
French school of the 18th century, student of Joseph-Marie VIEN Academy: A seated man wearing a turban and handling a bow (Paris?) Black chalk 39.5 x 53 cm - 55.5 x 70 cm Small stains, accidents, undu[...]
Red chalk drawing from the 18th century French school "architectural madness", presented in a wooden frame carved with pearls and water flowers and gilded, from the Louis XVI period.
Female Profile Red Chalk Drawing 18th CenturyVery beautiful red chalk framed under glass We note some folds and small wear 20th century frameDimensions of the drawing alone: 40 x 35 cm Dimensions incl[...]
Pretty sheet, to be connected to the previous drawing, blue paper, black chalk drawing, with white gouache highlights. The young woman is seated on steps, her left hand delicately placed on her breast[...]
Large drawing on blue paper, a young woman dressed in antique style, a strange hat on her head. Very fine face, pensive expression, left ear drawn very delicately, as well as the nose and the eye, the[...]
Beautiful academy of a nude man, in profile, turned to the left, seated, both arms folded behind his head. A quality study, the model's musculature is well described, the proportions very well rendere[...]
Very pretty ink drawing representing a small family returning from the market. Very fine lines! Artist to be defined, unsigned. Format 46x30 cm with frame and 35x20 cm without. In very good condition.
Drawing representing a shipwreck scene near a coast, large and beautiful drawing, well composed with many quality details, lighthouse, monuments to Antiquity, many characters, This pretty and classic [...]
Charles-Nicolas Cochin (Paris 1715 – 1790 Paris)
Portrait of the Harpsichord Maker Joseph Treyer
Signed and dated ‘C.N. Cochin f. delin. 1782’
Graphite, brown ink framing lines, diameter 75[...]
Set of three washes representing views of cities probably in Tuscany around Florence. These washes are probably from a travel diary kept during the "Grand Tour" that young men of the time did in order[...]
François BOUCHER (1703-1770) The young girl in front of a rustic house preceded by an external staircase pencil on paper, 22.2 x 16.9 cm Signed lower left Provenance: - Henry Oppenheimer (1859-1932), [...]
French School, Caryatid by Jean Goujon at the Palais du Louvre, Red chalk on paper, 18th centuryInteresting red chalk drawing on paper representing one of the caryatids of the tribune called "des Cari[...]
Very beautiful decorative study sheet with motifs in vogue in the 18th century with scrolls and garlands of flowers, vase and mythological and fantastic characters on laid paper. A few light stains on[...]
Beautiful pen and brown ink drawing, late 18th or early 19th century, animated maritime landscape. Pretty perspective, with characters dressed in antique style chatting, boat, sketched landscape, a ha[...]
Original drawing slightly polychrome in pencil and ink handwritten inscription "drawn by Miss Martreuil dedicated to Juliette Moutautd her student" France end of the 18th century original and period f[...]
Framed neoclassical drawing depicting a scene animated by characters, inspired by ancient Greek or Roman settings
Framed watercoloured drawing in the style of Andrea Appiani (1754-1817)
Born into [...]
"The Sacrifice of Iphigenia"
Neoclassical drawing from the end of the 18th century
Ink wash and white gouache highlights over pencil strokes on brown prepared paper.
Probably French school, unsigne[...]
Pair of drawings on laid paper, from the late 18th century, depicting children at their occupations.
At the end of the 18th century, childhood was refocused on social life; Jean-Jacques Rousseau was [...]
Very beautiful animated scene of an Italian street in brown ink and brown wash from the end of the 18th century attributed to Louis-Nicolas de LESPINASSE (1734-1808) or to Claude THIENON (1772-1846), [...]
Very beautiful scene from the end of the 18th century, very early 19th century with different putti playing, picking bunches of fruit, pressing them, harvesting them or dancing in front of a nymph who[...]
Beautiful drawing representing an animated view of Italy, view of the three fountains twelve miles from Rome near Ostia, it is an ink wash and pencil by Jean Baptiste Antoine Tierce 1737 1794 French p[...]
Nice portrait of a young man, seen in profile, bust, tie draped high, white, gray frock coat. Natural hair. Ring earring. Pastel and black stone. Louis 16 style gilded wood frame, late 19th century, g[...]
French School XVIII / XIX century
Portrait in uniform of a commissioner or other official
ink and watercolor on paper
handwritten inscription at the bottom M. Brunet Tregaudin ?
On view: 8.5 x 6 c[...]
Pencil drawing on laid paper depicting two helmeted Roman soldiers each holding a lance. One is standing, the second is sitting at his feet.
Light stains.
In a 19th century gilded wooden frame.
Dim[...]
Beautiful pen study, representing Apollo enthroned among the muses. This is a work from the end of the 18th century, part of the neoclassical movement that reigns in Europe. Some original stains, othe[...]
Very beautiful drawing representing the temple of the Sibyl in Tivoli near Rome in Italy. Signature at the bottom right to decipher, modern frame. Total dimensions: H 58 x W 70 cm Dimensions at sight:[...]
Rare original drawing by Jean-Baptiste Greuze representing two slender Puttis, made in black pencil and red chalk. Work signed lower left and of perfect academicism in the taste of the second half of [...]
18th century drawing, black pencil on paper, study of flowers. dated 1792 and monogrammed RB Louis XVI style frame (accident to the glass and the frame, see last photo) a second drawing framed in the [...]
Drawing, black pencil on paper, study of flowers. Monogrammed RB and dated 1792, Louis XVI style gilded frame, dimensions drawing 23cm by 19cm, frame 36cm by 31cm
Nice pencil drawing representing a couple of shepherds crossing paths on a bridge while they accompany oxen (which curiously resemble Roman oxen) to pasture. In the background, a typically French chur[...]
Amusing 18th century drawing, executed in black chalk and highlighted with white, representing a young servant from behind, bent over his legs, leaning or slapping his thighs, probably surprised by wh[...]
GIUSEPPE BOSSI
(1777-1815)
Studies of seated figures
Pen and ink on paper
18 x 14 cm
Provenance:
Private collection, France
(Currently on view during our pop-up exhibition from November 2[...]
Rare and beautiful fine Neo-classical drawing from the end of the 18th century presented in a pretty Louis XVI frame in pearly gilded wood, remarkable for its dexterity and finesse. It is with a confi[...]
Old and authentic drawing representing an English equestrian caricature signed Henry Bunbury towards the end of the 18th century. Good condition, slight stains. Dimensions on sight and without frame: [...]
Attributed to Jean-Baptiste HILAIRE (Audun-le-Tiche 1751 - Paris 1828)
Procession celebrating a young Turkish prince (Project for a wood panel or illustration?)
Pen and black ink, brown and grey was[...]
Naked and hairless Hercules wearing the leonteus, is charmed by two young women.
This is probably a study for a vase decoration - the decorator's monogram is visible at the bottom left.
Pen and goua[...]
A beautiful 18th-century pastoral drawing, ink wash and pen on laid paper.
* To be attributed without a doubt to Jean-Baptiste Leprince (1734-1781).
This drawing comes from the former collection of[...]
Philippe-Jacques DE LOUTHERBOURG (Strasbourg 1740 - Chiswick 1812)
Hunter smoking a pipe
Black stone and stump
9 x 8.2 cm out of frame
Signed lower left
In a restoration period frame and old glas[...]
French school of the late eighteenth century
Two studies of ram skulls
Black stone and white chalk on blue paper
47,5 x 35,7 cm
Minor brown spots and accidents
A picturesque and highly decorat[...]
FRENCH school of the 18th century Young girl and cupid at the jewelry chest Sanguine on laid paper.21 x 16 cm.Period wooden frame carved with foliage gilded with gold leaf 31 x 25.5 cm.
Beautiful, very decorative drawing, by the same hand as the previous one. Countryside scene, illustrated with a cart pulled by two horses. Beautiful luminosity, V-shaped composition, a ruined castle s[...]
Another ink sketch, made by Leprince during his travels in Europe and Russia. Turkish, Russian, French costumes. 'Characteristic drawings of Leprince who always brought back this kind of sheets from h[...]
Presented in a gilded stuccoed wooden palmette frame from the beginning of the 19th century, this superb "Sanguine" in perfect condition on beautiful vat paper attributed to DEBUCOURT (1755-1832) Fren[...]
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