Artistic Interpretations of Figures

Prints and woodcuts depicting historical and allegorical figures in dynamic poses, exploring themes of warfare, morality, and drama.

Zodiac sign Waterman, Henri van der Stok, 1880 - 1946 print A man stands for the starry sky and pours water from a water bag. Netherlands paper Aquarius (zodiacal sign of January)

Roman rider on horseback, Johannes Josephus Aarts, 1881 - 1934 print A rider with cloak, sword and Roman helmet on a horse, possibly the holy Martinus. Next to him a standing and a sitting man, both half naked. paper warfare; military affairs (+ cavalry, horsemen). Martin(us), bishop of Tours; possible attributes: beggar, goose

What a tailor can! Whator Can Do!; Board No. 52 from: Los Caprichos Caprices, ed. II, Madrid CA. 1855 Goya, Francisco de (1746 1828)

This 1521 white line woodcut by Urs Graf depicts the canton of Unterwalden, showing terrain, buildings, and figures.

Man, woman and child. .

Klingholz Fritz (1861-1921): Scene of a drowning in the sea

Winged woman with skulls, Johannes Josephus Aarts, 1897 print A naked woman with wings stands on a branch with one of her feet and raises both arms into the air. Under her two skulls. paper fabulous beings with wings - AA - female human figure. death's head, skull (symbol of Death)

Dance (Danse) from the series Petites scènes familières. Dimensions: 34.2 cm x 17.8 cm, 21.5 cm x 8.5 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Author: PIERRE BONNARD.

De Dood als harlekijn, bilboquet spelend.Death, dressed as a harlequin, with a bilboquet in his hand. He tries to leave a skull with a swing movement on a skewer. Above death, a part of a head is visible.

Zodiac sign Waterman, Henri van der Stok, 1880 - 1946 print A man stands for the starry sky and pours water from a water bag. Netherlands paper Aquarius (zodiacal sign of January)

Lovis Corinth, The Expulsion from Paradise (Austreibung aus dem Paradies), 1919 The Expulsion from Paradise (Austreibung aus dem Paradies)

Goncharova, Natalia Sergeevna (1881-1962) Private Collection Graphic arts Mythology, Allegory and Literature,History Alexander Nevsky. From the Series ""The Mystical Images of War""

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Port Scene (Hafenbild), 1908 Port Scene (Hafenbild)

Xu You and Chao Fu 18th century Okumura Masanobu Japanese Masanobu's treatment of the classical story of Xu You and Chao Fu is straightforward. Xu You washes out his ears in a waterfall, and Chao Fu turns his ox around from the water. The style imitates the "rubbing" technique, a traditional method for renditions of classical inscriptions.. Xu You and Chao Fu. Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686-1764). Japan. 18th century. "White-line" woodblock print; ink and color on paper. Edo period (1615-1868). Prints

Chloë Wast Daphnis in the Nymphen Cave, Aristide Maillol, 1937 print paper washing and bathing - AA - in the open air (+ two together). Daphnis (in Greek mythology a shepherd who invented pastoral poetry. Chloe

Dancing women with grape bunches and Sater, Johannes Josephus Aarts, 1881 - 1934 print Three women, dressed in robes, dancing in a circle. Two of them hold a grape chocolas. The other makes a jerk with her head. A saater in the background. paper bunch of grapes. satyr(s) (in general). group dancing

Man tests huge amount of tasks on his shoulders, 1788 - 1790 print Cartoon on a man who tests a large amount of documents with tasks (pouvoirs) on his shoulders. With four -stunned caption in French. In connection with events in January 1788. Part of a large group of prints relating to the events of the Brabant Revolution and the period 1787-1790. Southern Netherlands paper etching Brabant

Child and bees. In the middle is a child. At the bottom of five bees, of which the middle three small objects have with him: a heart, a crown and a circle. At the top of a human head with a crown of stars, surrounded by a snake.

The Wave (La vague) 1894 France. Lithograph in green on cream laid paper . Henri Gustave Jossot

Masked woman with Cape, Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, c. 1899 print Masked woman with Cape, the hands folded together. paper

St. Christopher, woodcut from 1423, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown

fine arts, Japan, woodcuts, ""Warrior is being attacked by two wolves"", brick print, woodcut, 17th century,

Tahitian Carrying Bananas, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints 1898-1899 France. Wood-block print in black ink on thin ivory Japanese paper . Paul Gauguin

Fighting of the young with wolves; Makowski, Tadeusz (1882-1932); Before 1924 (1915-00-00-1923-00-00);

Gallen-Kallela, Akseli, work, Stealing eggs, 1907, marker and black chalk, drawing, 35.6 cm x 25, 5 cm, Akseli Gallen-Kallela 1865 - 1931, a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the national epic of Finland.

Squatted figure and two crowned men, Mathieu Lauweriks, 1894 print A squatted naked figure holds a plateau up. Two crowned men then face each other with their hands on each other's shoulders. transparent paper crown (symbol of sovereignty). squatting, crouching figure

Self -portrait with Cactus, Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, 1926 - 1929 print At the top a flowering cactus. At the bottom of a portrait of the artist with a triangle in the background. Japanese paper (handmade paper) portrait, self-portrait of artist. eyeglasses, spectacles. plants and herbs: cactus

Night; The tranquility. A seated and a standing figure in a landscape with a flower and trees. The standing figure holds a rod.

Sports. Artist: George Overbury "Pop" Hart (American, Cairo, Illinois 1868-1933 New York). Dimensions: Image: 5 3/8 × 8 3/4 in. (13.7 × 22.2 cm)Sheet: 8 1/4 × 11 7/8 in. (21 × 30.2 cm). Date: late 19th-early 20th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The Nursery Maid, 1900. Jean-Émile Laboureur (French, 1877-1943). Etching;

Figure on throne and grasshopper; Twelve woodcuts. A figure with a scepter and a crown in the shape of a bird is sitting on a throne under a canopy. There is a grasshopper in the starry night for him.

Young man fighting with wolves. Makowski, Tadeusz (1882-1932), graphic artist

Maria Uhden, Burning House, 1918 Maria Uhden (German, 1892 - 1918 ), Burning House, 1918, woodcut on Japanese tissue paper, Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen 2012.92.35

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Dancing Couple (Tanzpaar), German, 1880 - 1938, 1909, lithograph on yellow wove paper

Strand, Bernard Essers, 1919 print A woman on the beach wears a cylindrical object on her shoulder. Next to her a goat, a goat and two crabs. A pole head and sailing ships in the water. paper beach. carrying something on the head or on the shoulders. goat

Table card of the Viennese workshop No, lady with butterfly, Arnold Nechansky -, artist

He has fallen down by dogs; Makowski, Tadeusz (1882-1932); 1924 (1924-00-00-1924-00-00);

Jane Avril, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893, French Post-Impressionist print, lithograph. Avril, friend of the artist, commissioned this print to advertise her cabaret show at the Jardin de Paris (BSLOC_2017_5_65)

The Harpist (Der Harfner) Ernst Barlach (German, 1870-1938). , 1923. Woodcut on thin Japan paper, Image: 5 1/8 x 3 5/8 in. (13 x 9.2 cm). European Art 1923

The farewell to Odysseus and Naussikaä. .

Ruin of a temple: second dream, Karel Petrus Cornelis de Bazel, 1894 print Woman with hands folded in front of her chest with two images in the background. paper hands folded. monument, statue. stars. specific forms of the cross: swastika. star forms ~ magic mathematical figures

Netherlands, Bray, Dirck de, Letter D in a frame with a bird, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 90 mm, width 83 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1600 - 1699, paper, woodcut, Northern Netherlands, 1645 - 1694-05-09

'What a tailor can do!', 1799 Artist: Francisco Goya. Plate 52 of 'Los Caprichos'. Los Caprichos are a set of 80 prints in aquatint and etching created by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1797 and 1798, and published as an album in 1799.

Time - an old man in a forest. Makowski, Tadeusz (1882-1932), graphic artist

Insel(Island). Artist: Maria Uhden, German, 1892-1918

Laus femine; Skoczylas, W Adys Aw (1883-1934); 1918 (1918-00-00-1918-00-00);Dominik (1862-1944)-collection, Witke-Jeżewski

Anton, holy.

Sir Bedivere returns Excalibur to the lake Date: 1893 - 1894

Nude Figure of a Girl in a Landscape (Madchenzwischen Blattpflanzen). Dated: 1912. Medium: woodcut. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Otto Müller.

Zumurrud Shah Takes Refuge in the Mountains Indian. Zumurrud Shah Takes Refuge in the Mountains, ca. 1570. Opaque watercolor and gold on cotton cloth, sheet: 31 x 25 in. (78.7 x 63.5 cm). Asian Art ca. 1570

Strand, Bernard Essers, 1919 print A woman on the beach wears a cylindrical object on her shoulder. Next to her a goat, a goat and two crabs. A pole head and sailing ships in the water. Japanese paper (handmade paper) beach. carrying something on the head or on the shoulders. goat

la Orana Maria 1894-95 Paul Gauguin French. la Orana Maria 337838

The Writing Prophet (Saint John on Patmos). Dated: 1919. Medium: woodcut. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Ernst Barlach.

Volpini Suite: Breton Bathers (Baigneuses Bretonnes), 1889. Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903). Zincograph; sheet: 50 x 65 cm (19 11/16 x 25 9/16 in.).

King of Clubs, from the Transparent Playing Cards series (N220) issued by Kinney Bros. 1888 Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company Playing cards issued as trade cards from the series "Transparent Playing Cards" (N233), issued in 1888 to promote Kinney Bros. Cigarettes for Kinney Tobacco Company. Some card versos state that there are 52 cards included in the deck whereas other versos confirm the number at 53. Each card verso reads, "Hold to the light/ Read your fortune.". King of Clubs, from the Transparent Playing Cards series (N220) issued by Kinney Bros.. 1888. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

Chalk lithography by Max Beckmann around 1920 depicting two artists in a studio, focusing on figures and spatial arrangement.

Femme sur un socle; Jasi Ski, Feliks Stanis Aw (1862-1901); after 1893 (1893-00-00-1897-00-00);Partage Plus, Wellsz, Leopold (1882-1972), Wellsz, Leopold (1882-1972)-collection, French (culture), French graphics, Polish graphics, Japanism (style), women, modernism (style), Polish (culture) , purchase (provenance)

ThreeNudes. Artist: August Macke, German, 1887-1914

Modern Greek chorus II , Dancers. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

Fragment. Maker: Unknown

From the legends of the Mikiko Gory, Wiktoria (1902-1945); 1924 (1924-00-00-1924-00-00);

A young woman reclines on a chaise-longue while a young man pays court to her: a fat round figure watches from the other side of the room. Line process print after R. Boix.

Latone (Latona) carries the infants Apollo and Diana still image. Illustrations. 1844 - 1861. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Mythology, Owls, Diana (Roman deity), Artemis (Greek deity), Apollo (Greek deity), Gods & goddesses, Leto (Greek deity), Mothers

La Ronde Round of Children / Dance Children's dance pl. Z: The Original Print, Album V, Paris 1894, ed. André Marty Pissarro, Lucien (1863 1944), the original print (André Marty)

Caricature of three figures in the Philippines, Caran d'Ache, 1898 print. magazine Print is part of a folding leaf. Paris paper political caricatures and satires. caricatures (human types). island Philippines

Charles Shannon, 1863-1937, British, December, ca. 1897. Wood engraving.

Design illustration for King Lear van Shakespeare: King Lear dies at the corpse of Cordelia, Jacob Pieter van den Bosch, 1878 - 1948 drawing Design for a print. paper. ink. pencil pen / brush illustration ~ printed matter, book. (SHAKESPEARE, King Lear) specific works of literature (with AUTHOR, Title). King Lear. mourning the dead

Feast; Gory, Wiktoria (1902-1945); around 1925 (1920-00-00-1930-00-00);

The Letter 'N'(Is For Nun, Narcissus...) (from the book "ABC" by Theodore Howard) Artist Unknown Newberrry Library, Chicago

The end of a traitor. / Olivier chief of the seragl.

Anarchy (Anarchist) (De anarchie (De anarchist)). Dimensions: 50.8 cm x 32.8 cm, 33.4 cm x 24.4 cm, 33 cm x 23.7 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Author: JAN TOOROP.

Shadow images; New Dutch childrens prints. Leaf with 8 shadow images from, among other things, portraits of historical figures, cows and Turkish soldiers. Numbered at the top right: No. 72.

Auti te pape (Women at the River), from the Noa Noa Suite. Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903); printed in collaboration with Louis Roy (French, 1862-1907). Date: 1894. Dimensions: 207 × 358 mm (image); 246 × 395 mm (sheet). Wood-block print in black ink, over stenciled dark-red ink and a yellow-ink tone block, on cream wove paper (an imitation Japanese vellum). Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Storm; Bart Omiejczyk, Edmund Ludwik (1885-1950); 1933 (1933-00-00-1933-00-00);

Feather drawing by Friedrich König showing two human figures with horse heads.

The Letter 'M' (is for Monkey, Medusa...), from book ABC by Theodore Howard, USA, Illinois, Chicago, Newberry Library

La Tentation; Jasi Ski, Feliks Stanis Aw (1862-1901), 1908 (print); 1896-1900 (block) (1896-00-00-1908-00-00);Wellsz, Leopold (1882-1972), Wellsz, Leopold (1882-1972)-collection, Polish graphics, women, men, Poland (culture), purchase (provenance)

"Anant a la font". Xilografía. Ilustración del Almanaque de las artes, 1925. Author: RICARD MARLET.

Silhouette of Chinese opera masks, isolated on white background Silhouette of Chinese opera masks, isolated on white background Copyright: xZoonar.com/OleksandrxKostiuchenkox 9747146

Design for a Book Illustration with a Man and Tree Branches. Artist: Hugo Steiner-Prag (Czech, 1880-1945). Dimensions: 3 11/16 x 5 in. (9.4 x 12.7 cm). Date: first half 20th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

'Winter', 1919. Artist: Charles S Ricketts.

Image Design for a Poster, Wagenaar's Cantata 'The Shipwreck' 1899 Holland. Zincograph in blue-black on yellow wove paper . Jan Toorop

Indian Tobacco Shop Sign reverse, Indian facing right. Dated: second half 19th century. Dimensions: overall: 136.4 x 57.8 cm (53 11/16 x 22 3/4 in.). Medium: oil on wood. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: American 19th Century.

At the shed - mystery; Makowski, Tadeusz (1882-1932); 1924 (1924-00-00-1924-00-00);

Esterka; Bart Omiejczyk, Edmund Ludwik (1885-1950); 1925 (1925-00-00-1925-00-00);

The people at the nose taken, 1796. Cartoon with left a big head (the people), led to the nose by two men: a pastor and a man with the freedom hat on a spear. In the air. Freedom bellows, equality and brotherhood. At the bottom left of two bubble blowing children.

Adam and Eve (innocence), from the book Judah illustrated by Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925). Lilian is considered as the father of Zionist iconography, created in the Jugendstil (German art nouveau) style. He illustrated' Juda' (1900), a book of biblical poetry by a Christian friend, Borries Freiherr von Munchausen.'

This is the grandfather of the and p Ink; products from W Bozkien / paper / cardboard / bristol; height 15.8 cm, width 23.8 cm; Fig.Witke-Jeżewski, Dominik (1862-1944)-collection, fairy tale, illustration, for reproduction, study, collection stamp, purchase (provenance), death

Z legend o św.Mikołaju. Goryńska, Wiktoria (1902-1945), graphic artist

Study for How a Devil in Woman's Likeness Would Have Tempted Sir Bors 1893 England. Pen and black ink, with brush and black wash, over graphite, on tan wove paper . Aubrey Vincent Beardsley

Jack of Clubs, from the Transparent Playing Cards series (N220) issued by Kinney Bros. 1888 Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company Playing cards issued as trade cards from the series "Transparent Playing Cards" (N233), issued in 1888 to promote Kinney Bros. Cigarettes for Kinney Tobacco Company. Some card versos state that there are 52 cards included in the deck whereas other versos confirm the number at 53. Each card verso reads, "Hold to the light/ Read your fortune.". Jack of Clubs, from the Transparent Playing Cards series (N220) issued by Kinney Bros.. 1888. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

December Postcard by Joseph Speybrouck. 1928, December Postcard by Joseph Speybrouck

Judah', a collection of ballads by the non-Jewish poet Börries von Münchhausen 1874 - 1945. Illustrated by Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925), art nouveau illustrator and printmaker, noted for his art on Jewish themes. He is sometimes called the "first Zionist artist. Münchhausen's relationship to Judaism remained ambivalent: Munchhausen did not consider the "Jewish race" inferior, but merely wanted to prevent a "mixture" with the non-Jewish Germans.

He Takes Her By Her Long Beautiful Hair (The Unfaithful Wife). Artist: Émile Bernard (French, Lille 1868-1941 Paris). Dimensions: Plate: 13 1/16 × 7 15/16 in. (33.2 × 20.2 cm)Sheet: 16 1/8 × 12 13/16 in. (41 × 32.5 cm). Date: 1892.Plate 7 of 8 from the series 'Les Cantilènes' , the title of a group of poem's by Jean Moréas. This plate illustrates the lines in Moréas' poem 'La femme perfide' (The Unfaithful Woman) in the chapter 'Airs et Récits' : "Il la prend par sa belle et longue chevelure et lui tranche d'un coup la tête a l'énclure". Translation: He takes her by her beautiful and long hair and cut her head off with one strike"In 1891-92 Bernard worked on a series of hand-colored zincographs (planographic prints for which a zinc plate instead of a lithographic stone is used as a matrix) intended as illustrations for 'Les Cantilènes', a collection of forty lyrical poems in the medieval manner by the Symbolist author Jean Moréas, first published in 1886. In 'Livre d'Art' during it's f

Girl looks over a fence, unknown, c. 1890 - c. 1940 drawing A girl tries to look over a wooden garden fence. On her side of the fence, a lot of soil or sand with a kick and flag in it lies in a tree. A bucket is on his side. paper. India ink (ink). pencil pen fence, wall, paling. garden. agricultural implements: spade

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Young Girl with Doll, 1916 Young Girl with Doll

Bas-relief assyrian chasse. Old 19th century engraved illustration, Le Tour du Monde 1863

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, The Finger Game, 1905 The Finger Game

Mei 1905, 1902 book. magazine Monthly magazine about new literature and art in which various artists participated. On the front a portrait of a woman, in purple. paper letterpress printing

'The Kitchen-Maid', c1930. Artist: W Heath Robinson.

Félix Vallotton, Bathers on the Grass (Baigneuses étendues sur l'herbe), 1893 Bathers on the Grass (Baigneuses étendues sur l'herbe)

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