Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
ROMANTIC STYLE
In emphasizing emotion and imagination, romantic art shifted away from the restraint of classicism and neoclassicism that had dominated art in Europe since the Renaissance. Romanticism achieved its greatest popularity in art, literature, music and philosophy between 1780 and 1830, although its expression of individual experiences ranging from awe to passion informed culture in the decades after.
Landscape painting was especially popular during the romantic period, as were nature studies of wild animals and fantasies of exotic lands. Romanticism varied across Europe as it reacted to the rise of industrialization, a more personal relationship with faith that was distanced from the church and the rationalist thinking of the Enlightenment.
British painters such as John Constable and J.M.W. Turner responded dramatically to the light and atmosphere of the natural world, while William Blake conveyed humanity’s connection to the divine in his visionary art. In Germany, the late-18th-century Sturm und Drang, or Storm and Drive, movement, with its probing of the unconscious, inspired a sense of mystery in work by romantic artists such as Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge. In France, where the French Revolution had turned tradition upside down, Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix used lush brushwork to paint monumental canvases with tumultuous scenes of nature and history.
The romantic movement and its subject matter were a significant influence on the Pre-Raphaelites, Symbolists and the American painters of the Hudson River School, as well as on other cultural movements in the 19th and 20th centuries that saw artists build on this perspective in which art was guided by emotion rather than reason.
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Style: Romantic
Romantic Landscape of Scandinavian Enchanted Forest, Large Lake Print Cyanotype
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
Lovely scene of a hidden pond in a Scandinavian forest.
Details:
+ Title: Scandinavian Enchanted Forest
+ Year: 2024
+ ...
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2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, C Print, Co...
Siren. Original Contemporary.Watercolor Painting.Fairy.Mythical.LP Cover-esque
By Liz Wall
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Liz Wall.
Welsh ( XX - XXI ).
Siren.
Watercolor and Ink.
Signed and Dated 2011 Lower Right.
Image size 11.4 inches x 18.9 inches ( 29cm x 48cm ).
Frame size 25.6 inches x 26.8 inch...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
French romantic school Drawing black chalk and goiache HORTIN steam boat 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Charles HORTIN (Attributed to)
(XIX)
Black chalk and white gouache
Signed lower right
12 x 16 cm
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
French romantic school PETIT Paris view architecture Saint Denis 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Antoine-Baptiste PETIT
Paris, 1800 – Versailles, 1864
Watercolor
18 x 27 cm
Antoine-Baptiste Petit was a decorative painter and teacher of perspective.
He produced views of Paris in...
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1830s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Disegno figurativo del romanticismo fiorentino matita su carta del XIX secolo
By Giuseppe Bezzuoli
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno, sebbene non firmato, proviene dalla collezione degli eredi di Giuseppe Bezzuoli, come riconoscibile dallo stemma ovale Macciò Parri che si trova in basso a sinistra, ed è...
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1820s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Chalk
French Romantic school, Portrait of a young soldier, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French Romantic school, circa 1830
Portrait of a young soldier,
pencil on paper
Framed under glass : 38 x 30 cm
It's a vintage frame, probablly original but I had the back redone
T...
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1830s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
The Citadel, Cairo, The Great Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha. American Orientalist
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Edwin Lord Weeks.
American ( b.1849 - d.1903 ).
In the Citadel, Cairo, before The Great Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha
Watercolor. Monogram Lower Right.
Image size 8.3 inches x 5.3 in...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Frédéric Millet (1786-1859) Portrait of a gentleman, 1849 watercolor signed
Located in Paris, FR
Frédéric Millet (1786-1859)
Portrait of a gentleman, 1849
signed and dated lower right
Watercolor on paper
36 x 27,5 cm
framed : 44 x 35 cm
Frédéric Millet is rightly renowned fo...
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1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Orpheus - Late 20th Century British watercolour by Robert O'Rorke
Located in London, GB
ROBERT O’RORKE
(Born 1945)
Orpheus
Signed and dated l.r.: Rbt O’Rorke ’93; signed, dated 1993 and inscribed The Dance No.3 on a label attached to the backboard
Watercolour on grey ...
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1990s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
George H Hay, Spinning Wool, Watercolour
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This late 19th-century watercolour by Scottish artist George H Hay RSA (1831-1912) depicts four young ladies, wearing outfits synonymous with the 1820s, spinning wool within a simple...
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1890s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
French School 19th Century, Portrait of a young soldier, dated 1830, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School 19th Century,
Portrait of a young soldier, dated 1830,
Pencil and heightenings of white and red
26 x 19.7 cm oval view
examined outside the frame, in good condition
I...
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1830s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Historical figurative drawing of 19th century Italian Romanticism
Located in Florence, IT
The subject illustrated here is one of the moments that mark the centuries-long history of Genoa's glorious Maritime Republic, when the ashes of St. John the Baptist, one of the city...
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1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pen, Pencil
French school 19th century, Court scene in front of a palace, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
French school 19th century,
Court scene in front of a palace
watercolor on paper
16.4 x 13.3 cm
In good condition, some foxings
Framed : 30 x 26.5 cm
This enigmatic yet charming s...
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1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
English School, circa 1800 Georgian watercolor, The Sailor's return
Located in Harkstead, GB
A delightful rustic scene dating to circa 1800 with the sailor returning to his thankful wife and the domestic idyll of his country cottage. The harbour with sailing ships ferrying c...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Laid Paper, Watercolor
The Cloaked Shepherdess. Pre-Raphaelite. Arts and Crafts Aesthetics. Victorian.
By Philip Richard Morris
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Philip Richard Morris.
English ( b.1836 - d.1902 ).
The Cloaked Shepherdess.
Watercolor. Signed.
Image size 14 inches x 9.3 inches ( 35.5cm x 23.5cm ).
Frame size 26.3 inches x 20.3...
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Late 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Rural Landscape With Cows and Horses, Watercolor by Hilding Linnqvist
Located in Stockholm, SE
This watercolor by Hilding Linnqvist who was a Swedish artist born in 1891 and passed away in 1984.
Linnqvist, known for his association with the Naïvist movement, often described as...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
19th Century British drawing of a tiger, cubs and child attributed to Landseer
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Attributed to Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (British, 1802-1873)
Rather too free
Pencil and watercolour on paper
Inscribed ‘Rather too free’ (lower middle), stamped with a Collector’s mark (W WEST….) lower middle. With a fragment of a much older label on the reverse. Inscribed ‘Edward Landseer...
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Pencil
Hand-Me-Downs - Street Children - Waif - Cockney Gutter Imps.
Located in Miami, FL
19th Century Street Art - British children's book author and illustrator Edith Farmiloe depicts a waif-like girl - Cockney Gutter Imp - who is disheveled. The artist draws her i...
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Early 1900s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
German School 19th Century, Portrait of a boy, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
German School 19th Century,
Portrait of a boy,
pencil on paper
25.7 x 16 cm (view)
Framed : 41.8 x 31.5 cm
The style and execution are v...
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1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Seated Female Nude (two studies)
By Pierre Saint-Ange Poterlet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Recling Female Nude
Charcoal on tan paper
Signed: Poterlet bottom center (see photo)
Provenance:
Alfred Barrion, Lugt 76 lower right recto (see photo)
Eric G. Carlson, 1985
Very good...
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Napoleon at the Head of His Grande Armée, His Generals and the Prussian Hussars
Located in Cotignac, FR
Pencil, chalk and watercolour depiction of Napoleon at the head of his generals by French artist Jean Ducel. The work is signed bottom right.
A bold and graphic depiction of Napoleo...
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Late 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Chalk, Crayon, Cardboard, Pencil
19th Century Danish Drawing and Watercolour Study of a Tree at Indelluket
By Thorald Læssøe
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 19th Century watercolour drawing and watercolour study of a tree by noted Danish artist Thorald Læssøe. The work is monogram signed bottom left and there is an annotation in the ...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Paper
Les Mille et Une Nuits. French Orientalism School of the Late 19th Century. 1892
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
A. Lesueur
French 19ème siècle
Les Mille et Une Nuits – One Thousand and One Nights, 1892
Charcoal on paper heightened with white.
Signed & dated 1892 lower right.
Image size 23.6 i...
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Late 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Egyptian Buffalo and Farmers. Camel Rider. Egypt.American Orientalist.Watercolor
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Edwin Lord Weeks.
American ( b.1849 - d.1903 ).
Egyptian Buffalo and Farmers. Egypt.
Watercolor. Monogram Lower Right.
Image size 5.1 inches x 8.3 inches ( 13cm x 21cm ).
Frame size...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
La Port De Cannes, 1930. Vieux Port, French Riviera. Côte d'Azur. Paul Delvaux.
By Paul Delvaux
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Paul Delvaux.
Belgian ( b.1897 - d.1994 ).
La Belle Anna, La Port De Cannes, 1930
Watercolor, Bodycolor & Pastel on Woven Paper.
Signed & dated 1930 lower left.
Image size 15.7 inch...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
James Ward The Fisherman's Family
By James Ward
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Precious Watercolor attributed to James WARD (1769-1859) - England, 1830-1840. The Fisherman' S Family. Measurements : View : 20"x14.6" (51x37 cm), With frame : 26.6"x21.5" (67.5x54....
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1830s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Stonehenge at Sunset', Royal Academy, RSBA, Benezit, Wiltshire, Druid, Celtic
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'R. Gallon' for Robert Gallon (English, 1845-1925) and painted circa 1880.
This well-listed landscape and seascape painter maintained a studio in St John's Wood, ...
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Late 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Watercolor
Disegno italiano, ritratto di signora con cuffia, matita su carta del XIX secolo
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno in questione è molto probabilmente uno studio dal vivo per un ritratto da riportare successivamente in pittura, come si può notare dall'intensità dello sguardo e dall'alta...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Watercolor Interpretation of the The Raft of the Medusa After Théodore Géricault
Located in Cotignac, FR
Watercolour on paper interpretation of the Raft of the Medusa by English artist Derek Carruthers. The work is signed and titled to the back of the paper.
A vivid and engaging interp...
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Late 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
19th Century Architectural Danish Drawing & Watercolour of Frederiksborg Castle
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 19th Century watercolour drawing of Frederiksborg Castle by noted Danish artist Thorald Læssøe. The work is monogram signed to the back of the paper where there is another drawin...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor, Paper
Landscape with cattle in watercolor
Located in DEVENTER, NL
This beautifully excecuted landscape with cattle in watercolor was made by Abraham Hendrik Winter (1800-1861). Winter was born in Utrecht (the Netherlands) in 1800 and was a teacher ...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Jules-Eugène Lenepveu (1819-1898) Portrait of a man in profile, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Jules-Eugène Lenepveu (1819-1898)
Portrait of a man in profile
signed on the lower right
Pencil and heightenings of white gouache on paper
19.5 x 13 cm
Framed : 29 x 22.7 cm
Jules-Eugène Lenepveu is of course particularly well known for his large-scale paintings, such as the one on the ceiling of the Paris Opera, but his work here is much more delicate and intimate. We recognise the artist's mastery of talent, but the play of textures, with its highlights of white that enliven and illuminate the model's face, is also very subtle.
There's a particularly charming sense of life and impression of light.
Jules-Eugène Lenepveu was born in Angers on 12 December 1819, on the site of the street that now bears his name, into a family of small shopkeepers. The painter showed a deep attachment to his family throughout his life through his correspondence and the many portraits of his relatives.
He entered the drawing school in Angers in 1833, where he was a pupil of Jean-Michel Mercier. There he rubbed shoulders with the sculptor Ferdinand Taluet. He arrived in Paris in 1837 and entered the Beaux-Arts, where he was officially admitted to François-Édouard Picot's studio in 1838. He exhibited his work "L'Idylle" at the Salon of 1843 and, that same year, left for his first visit to Italy. He was awarded the Second Prix de Rome in 1843 for "Cincinnatus recevant les députés du Sénat" (Cincinnatus receiving the deputies of the Senate), then the First Prize in 1847 for "La Mort de Vitellius" (The Death of Vitellius).
A resident at the Villa Médicis from 1848, he was surrounded by painters Alexandre Cabanel, Léon Benouville, Gustave Boulanger, Félix Barrias...
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1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Edward Lear, Extensive Greek Italian Landscape, Antique Ruins, Campagna di Roma
By Edward Lear
Located in Greven, DE
Most accounts of the artistic achievements of Edward Lear (1812–1888) take as their starting point the notion that he is better known as the writer of nonsense verse than as a topographical draughtsman and painter. His art is then considered largely in isolation, as the extraordinary creation of a fascinatingly eccentric Victorian. However, Lear's art is outstanding.
Although Lear suffered from epilepsy, asthma, poor eyesight, and chronic depression, he was an inveterate traveler and an indefatigable sketcher, documenting a lifetime of journeys throughout the Mediterranean and India.
During his two-month tour to Athens, mainland Greece and the island of Euboea, Edward Lear made almost 150 landscape drawings and kept a diary of his experiences and impressions. Many years later, Lear’s travelling companion, Charles Church...
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Study for Republic Standing
By Pierre-Roch Vigneron
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study for “Republic Standing”
Graphite on calque tracking paper, c. 1848
Signed lower right corner: Vigneron
Provenance:
Shepherd Gallery, New York
...
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1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Edward Lear, Extensive Greek or Roman Landscape, Temple, Ruins, British Art
By Edward Lear
Located in Greven, DE
Most accounts of the artistic achievements of Edward Lear (1812–1888) take as their starting point the notion that he is better known as the writer of nonsense verse than as a topographical draughtsman and painter. His art is then considered largely in isolation, as the extraordinary creation of a fascinatingly eccentric Victorian. However, Lear's art is outstanding.
Although Lear suffered from epilepsy, asthma, poor eyesight, and chronic depression, he was an inveterate traveler and an indefatigable sketcher, documenting a lifetime of journeys throughout the Mediterranean and India.
During his two-month tour to Athens, mainland Greece and the island of Euboea, Edward Lear made almost 150 landscape drawings and kept a diary of his experiences and impressions. Many years later, Lear’s travelling companion, Charles Church...
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Louis DAVID (1798-1849) Le Moulin La Butte aux Cailles, Paris, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Louis-Alphonse DAVID (1798-1849)
Le Moulin de la Butte aux Cailles, Paris, (The Mill at la Butte aux Cailles)
signed lower left
Pencil and white chalk on paper
22,5 x 36 cm
Framed : 40,5 x 55 cm
Louis-Alphonse David is known for a relatively small body of work, including portraits and large compositions. In any case, in this work he shows a remarkable mastery of drawing, with particularly suggestive and subtle plays of light and shadow.
The Butte aux Cailles, now part of the 13th arrondissement of Paris, was a hill covered in meadows, vineyards and woods, built with several windmills and overlooking the river Bièvre. It was named after Pierre Caille...
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1830s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pencil, Chalk
French Romantic school, Portrait of a young man, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French Romantic school, circa 1840
Portrait of a young man,
charcoal on paper
22.5 x 17 cm
In good condition, however, there is a restoration of the paper in the upper right-hand qu...
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1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Honey, I cry to, 2017, (Série I CRY TO)
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Matheus is greatly influenced by the city he now calls home -- New York has long been the epicenter of fashion, hip hop, and street art, where he feels his interest in contemporary a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink
Jules Noel (1810-1881) Landscape with a manor and a traveler, signed drawing
By Jules Noel
Located in Paris, FR
Jules Noel (1810-1881)
Landscape with a manor and a traveler
Signed lower left
Pencil on paper
27.5 x 44.5 cm
Framed under glass : 43 x 59.5 cm
This drawing shows more particularly...
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1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Jules Noel (1810-1881) Landscape with a fisherman, signed drawing
By Jules Noel
Located in Paris, FR
Jules Noel (1810-1881)
Landscape with a fisherman,
Signed lower right
Pencil on paper
27.8 x 44 cm
Framed under glass : 43 x 59.5 cm
We find in this drawing everything that makes...
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1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pencil
Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude
Monotype in colors, 1936
Signed, dated, and inscribed in pencil (see photo)
Annotated: "Orig. Monotype," dated Munchen 8 Sept. 1936"
Condition: Excellent
Image/plate size: 12 7/8 x 10 5/8 inches
Sheet size: 20 1/2 x 16 5/8 inches
Provenance: Frederick Baker, Inc., Chicago
Hans Hermann...
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1930s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Monotype
Alexandre Bida (1813-1895) A Young Woman in profile, Signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Alexandre Bida (1813-1895)
A Young Woman in Profile
Signed with the monogram lower right
Pencil on grey-blue paper
17.7 x 11.5 cm
Framed : 36.5 x 27 cm
This drawing shows Bida's tec...
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1880s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pencil
"Angel of Light"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
Dear art lover,
This spiritual artwork called "Angel of Light" has a special meaning for me. When there is period of crises or any hard challenges we should face in our life, we can...
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2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Oil Pastel
Blue Door, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Mexican doorway in the vibrant residential community of Mirasol in Riberas del Pilar, Jalisco. :: Painting :: Romanticism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authent...
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2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Francois Grenier de Saint Martin (1793-1867) Lady on the beach, 1829, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Francois Grenier de Saint Martin (1793-1867)
A Young Lady on the beach, 1829,
signed and dated on the lower left
watercolor on paper
17 x 19.5 cm
F...
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1820s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Nature Piece with Cloud Play
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Leo Primavesi (1871 Cologne - after 1937 ): Nature piece with trees and cloud play, 20th century, Watercolor
Technique: Watercolor on Paper
Inscription: signed at the bottom: "Leo ...
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20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper
Trajan Wallis (1794-1892): Hand study of crossed hands
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Trajan Wallis (1794 Florence - 1892 ): Hand study of crossed hands, 19th century, Pencil
Technique: Pencil on Paper
Date: 19th century
Description: Watermark: Coat of arms with i...
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Pine trees on a slope
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Leo Primavesi (1871 Cologne - after 1937 ): Pine trees on a slope, c. 1890, Pencil
Technique: Pencil on Paper
Date: c. 1890
Keywords: Landscape, Nature, Hill, Slope, Trees, nature...
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Charles Darwin in the Beagle’s Tender, Coastal Patagonia, Argentina 19th cent wc
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
PROVENANCE: Christie’s South Kensington, England, June 10, 1986; Maynards Auction, Vancouver, Canada, December 6, 1994.
This 19th cent wc depicts Charles Darwin in the Beagle’s Tender, Coastal Patagonia, Argentina.
The son of an English mother and the Austrian Consul General in London, Conrad Martens pursued a career in painting following his father’s death in 1816. From the age of sixteen he studied under landscape watercolourist Copley Fielding, absorbing the traditions of the English watercolour school and Joshua Reynolds’ theories on painting. In 1833 Martens joined the HMS Beagle on a scientific survey expedition at Montevideo, South America, as ship’s artist, replacing the ailing Augustus Earle. He befriended the ship’s naturalist, Charles Darwin, whose empirical observation of landscape forms and climatic conditions would influence Martens’ practice.
Martens left the Beagle in Valparaiso in 1834 and travelled to Australia via New Zealand and Tahiti, settling in Sydney in 1835 and setting up a studio in Pitt Street. Patronised by the colonial elite, he fulfilled many commissions for watercolours of the local landscape and Sydney Harbour, including Elizabeth Bay c1838, which features the grand neoclassical edifice of Elizabeth Bay House, built for the former colonial secretary...
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1830s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Trajan Wallis (1794-1892): Garment Study as Costume Drapery
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Trajan Wallis (1794 Florence - 1892 ): Garment Study as Costume Drapery, 19th century, Charcoal
Technique: White heightened Charcoal on Paper
Date: 19th century
Description: Wate...
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper
Trajan Wallis (1794-1892): Hand study with book
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Trajan Wallis (1794 Florence - 1892 ): Hand study with book, c. 1820, Pencil
Technique: Pencil on Paper
Date: c. 1820
Description: Watermark: "P. e. C."
Provenance: From the est...
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper
Ancient Ruins in Italy
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Leo Primavesi (1871 Cologne - after 1937 ): Ancient Ruins in Italy, c. 1895, Indian ink
Technique: Indian ink on Paper
Date: c. 1895
Verso: character sketch
Keywords: Italy, Rome...
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper
Heartfelt pleading Neapolitan
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Leo Primavesi (1871 Cologne - after 1937 ): Heartfelt pleading Neapolitan, 1896, Pen drawing
Technique: Pen drawing on Paper
Inscription: monogrammed and dated in the centre left: ...
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper
Trajan Wallis (1794-1892): Study of a robe on a female figure in back view
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Trajan Wallis (1794 Florence - 1892 ): Study of a robe on a female figure in back view, 19th century, Pencil
Technique: White heightened Pencil on Paper
Date: 19th century
Description: Watermark: Shield of arms with initials "AGC
Provenance: From the estate of the artist.
Verso: numbered: 26""
Keywords: Back view, female garment, drapery, academy study, garment study, antique garment...
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper
Italian landscape with fortified town
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
George Augustus Wallis (1761 Merton (London) - 1847 Florence): Italian landscape with fortified town, 19th century, Pencil
Technique: Pencil on Paper
Date: 19th century
Descriptio...
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper
Violin player studying music
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Leo Primavesi (1871 Cologne - after 1937 ): The blue hour Violin players studying music, 1899, Watercolor
Technique: Watercolor on Paper
Inscription: Lower right monogrammed: "LF"....
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper
Villa on Capri
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Leo Primavesi (1871 Cologne - after 1937 ): Villa on Capri, c. 1895, Pencil
Technique: Pencil on Paper
Inscription: Monogrammed and inscribed lower left: "LP. Capri."
Date: c. 189...
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Cypresses of Michelangelo, Rome
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Leo Primavesi (1871 Cologne - after 1937 ): The Cypresses of Michelangelo in Rome, 1895, Pencil
Technique: Pencil on Paper
Inscription: Inscribed and dated by the artist himself: "...
Category
19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
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