Character Studies and Grotesques

Artistic depictions of unique figures and beggars, focusing on posture and expressions, showcasing a blend of humor and character through detailed sketches.

Two standing men talk to each other, 1649 drawing Zwolle paper. ink. chalk brush

Scene le vrog house , Admirals, Politicians, Nobility, Grasse, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, comte de, 1722-1788, Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, Baron, 1719-1792, Vaudreuil, Louis Philippe de Rigaud, marquis de, 1724-1802, Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de, comte, 1729-1811. James Gillray (1756-1815). Prints and Drawings

Twice the same soldier with large split hat and raised arm, seen on the back; Varie Figure di Jacopo Callot; Various figures. A soldier with a long coat on and a splitled hat on the head, the right arm raised, the left hand in the side, seen on the back, twice pictured: right as a line figure, left more worked out with shadows. In the background three figures, two with a halberd. This print is part of a series of 16 prints (15 according to Lieure; 17 resp. 16 incl. Title print) with men and women in various attitudes. These prints may have been meant as drawing examples.

Cucurucu, cap. Bellavita and Cap. Grillo; Cucurucu cap. Bellauita cap. Grillo; Characters from the Dell'Arte Commedia. Three characters from the Dell'Arte Commedia. Left cucurucu with a parrot. In the middle cap. Bellavita with a sword between his legs and right cap. Grillo with a squirrel on his head.

Wounded soldier, Dirk Maas, After Philips Wouwerman, 1708 - 1717 print Wounded soldier. Fifth print from a series of twelve prints with representations of soldiers and horses. paper etching putting out of action by wounding. the soldier; the soldier's life (+ weapons). lying figure

Reporting Chouans and other countervolutions (1802) Anonymous. "Reporting Chouans and other countervolutions (1802). Forte, 1802.

Plate 12 from the 'Disparates': If Marion will dance, then she has to take the consequences. Artist: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746-1828 Bordeaux). Dimensions: Plate: 9 5/8 × 13 7/8 in. (24.5 × 35.3 cm)Sheet: 13 3/16 × 18 7/8 in. (33.5 × 48 cm). Series/Portfolio: Los Disparates (Los Proverbios). Date: ca. 1816-23 (published 1864).From the posthumous first edition published by the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid in 1864 under the title 'Los Proverbios'. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes).

Giovanni Battista Bracelli, From Bizzarie di varie Figure, 1624 From Bizzarie di varie Figure

Jacques Callot, Lady with Large Plumes, and Two Gentlemen, probably 1634 Lady with Large Plumes, and Two Gentlemen

Standing man and woman in conversation, c. 1654 drawing Zwolle paper. pencil

Duin landscape with a man, with a basket on the shoulder, Gillis van Scheyndel (I), After Jan Porcellis, 1618 - 1645 print Print Maker: Northern Netherlands Publisher: Haarlem paper etching dune coast. carrying something in basket, bag, rucksack, etc.

A man and woman on crutches, Claes Jansz van der Hout, 1725 print On the left an old woman and on the right a man on crutches. On the left a text in mirror image. Netherlands paper engraving crutches

From "Bizzarie di varie Figure". Dated: 1624. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Giovanni Battista Bracelli.

Portraits of Elizabeth I Tudor and Lady Jane Gray. Leaf 18 Verso from a sketchbook with 52 sheets.

fine arts, Middle Ages, copper engraving, ""Das Maedchen mit der Rose"" (The girl with the rose), by the ""Master of the banners"" (active circa 1460 / 1465) Lower Germany, 12.2 cm x 12.7 cm, State Graphic Collection, Munich,

Stefano Della Bella (Italian, 1610 - 1664), A Lady Greeted by a Dwarf, etching on laid paper restrike

Two dwarfs and two studies of dog and head of lion.

Mrs Mary Ann Yates in the character of Calista in Nicholas Rowes The Fair Penitent. She first played the role at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1760. Copperplate engraving by J. Page after an illustration by James Roberts from Bells British Theatre, Consisting of the most esteemed English Plays, John Bell, London, 1780.

Peasant with Hat in Hand. Dated: c. 1617. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JACQUES CALLOT.

Drunkards lying in a tavern, Gesina ter Borch, c. 1658, draughtsman: Gesina ter Borch, Zwolle, c. 1658, paper, h 100 mm × w 198 mm

Venetian slipper parade, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1740 - 1770 drawing paper. ink. pencil pen / brush caricatures (human types). the rich. open-air recreation Venice

Chinese starvijkers; Der Sinesen Stern Seher Welche An Einer Freien Strase Tag und Night Lying und Nur Warden Biss von Den Leuden IHM Zur Nahrung Wass Richted Wird; Chinese use. Chinese starvangers sitting and standing in a landscape and studying the stars day and night. They live from what other people bring food and drink. On the right a hammock between trees. Print is part of an album.

Two men with bundles of fur on their backs, 1650 drawing Study magazine with two men who wear bundles of fur on their backs. Zwolle paper. ink. chalk brush

Costume Design: Male Dancer for a Ballet, Pen and brown ink, brush and violet watercolor, over black chalk, Vertical rectangle. The hands are roughly sketched, in pencil. Shown in a dancing pose, frontally., Modena, Italy, 17th century, theater, Drawing, Drawing

Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). "Two young man studies seen from behind", 18th century. Blood on paper. Paris, Cognacq-Jay museum. 35786-8 Study, young man, blood on paper, seen from the back

Reporting Chouans and other countervolutionary. (IT)

Plate 13: Two pikemen walking towards the right, each with their pikes in their right hands, from 'Various Figures' (Agréable diversité de figures). Artist: After Stefano della Bella (Italian, Florence 1610-1664 Florence). Dedicatee: Artus Gouffier Marquis de Boissy (French, 1627-1696). Dimensions: Sheet: 2 5/8 × 3 15/16 in. (6.7 × 10 cm). Engraver: Claude Goyrand (French, Sens 1620-1662 Paris). Publisher: Israël Henriet (French, Nancy ca. 1590-1661 Paris). Series/Portfolio: 'Various Figures' (Agréable diversité de figures). Date: 1642. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Copy of Franca Trippa and Fritellino, from Balli di Sfessania (Dance of Sfessania) after 1622 Jacques Callot French This is a copy of a print from a series of 24 plates designed in Florence and published in Nancy. The figures depicted are Italian performers, dancing the "Sfessania.". Copy of Franca Trippa and Fritellino, from Balli di Sfessania (Dance of Sfessania). Balli di Sfessania. Jacques Callot (French, Nancy 1592-1635 Nancy). after 1622. Etching. Prints

Ten Men Pulling on Ropes. Dimensions: sheet: 13.3 x 21.3 cm (5 1/4 x 8 3/8 in.). Medium: pen and black ink with gray wash on pale greenish laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Claude-Joseph Vernet.

Venetian slipper parade.

Family, whose father drinks a cup of tea (). Draughtsman: Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers. Dating: 1782 - 1837. Measurements: h 174 mm × w 228 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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Two men tying together a coat of fur or a bunch of branches, Harmen ter Borch, 1648, draughtsman: Harmen ter Borch, (mentioned on object), Zwolle, 20-Jan-1648, paper, brush, h 90 mm × w 145 mm

writing alphabet satirical alphabet letter X engraving by Master ES (active 1440 - 1467) Germany circa 1464 1467 state graphics collection Munich historic historical ABC letters musicians music satire middle ages gothic minuscule 15th century,

Jacques Callot, The Guitar Player, c 1622 The Guitar Player

Paris, Daumont, Jean-François, Delafosse, Jean Charles, Tardieu, Pierre François, NN Attributs D'Eglise, Trophies with shields, verso - stamped, Left a trophy with a book, a shield with a chalice and halo, a vase and fruit. On the right a mitre, a staff, a crown, a fasces, a shield with the lamb on the book with the seven seals, a book and chalices., print, engraving, ornamental print, prints, ornamental prints, height 382 mm, width 240 mm, French, 1711-12-24 - 1771-01-15, print maker, printmaker, 1771 - 1775, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1734 - 1791-10-11, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, French - 1775, publisher

Une Mauvaise Cuisine. Honoré Daumier (France, Marseilles, 1808-1879). France, 1850. Prints; lithographs. Lithograph

Sir Robert takes the brotherhand , caricature on Eugène Cavaignac and Robert Blum, Alphons von Boddien -, Lithographer, Eduard Gustav May -, publisher

Della Bella, Stefano (dit Étienne de la Belle) (n.1610-05-18-D.1664-08-22), four eunuchs watering the prosecution. Second issue of a suite of 18 rooms. Second number of 6 pieces constituting the first entry (A. de Vesme 1119. Dutuit 103) (main title). Etching. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Koppen, Johannes Taventrate, 1840 - 1880 drawing Heads, drawn on the back of an envelope. paper. ink pen caricatures (human types)

Trójka łuczników z czasów Walezjuszy.. Adam, Victor (1801-1866), draughtsman, cartoonist

Wilhelm Marstrand (1810-1873), French Gardist kisses a girl, Napoleon in the background, 1810-1873

Standing man and kneeled man with passer. .

Satirical performance Fruytiers, Lodevyk Joseph (1713 1782)

Ball play on the Banda Islands, 1599. Ball play on the Banda Islands, 1599. Game where the players are in a circle strike or kick the ball toward each other. The Dutch watches. Part of the illustrations in the travel report of the second Schipvaart to the East Indies under Jacob Cornelisz. Van Nes and Wijbrant Van Warwyck in 1598-1600. No 19.

Gentleman in Large Mantle, Seen from Behind. Dated: c. 1622. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JACQUES CALLOT.

Man with a big basket on his head, from behind. Draughtsman: Harmen ter Borch. Dating: 1649. Place: Zwolle. Measurements: h 104 mm × w 108 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Illustration for the Lauenburg Genealogical calendar for 1780 Chodowiecki, Daniel Nikolaus (1726 1801)

Jacques-Louis David, Ornament with a Woman in Ancient Dress, French, 1748 - 1825, 1775-80, graphite and gray wash on laid paper

Engraving depicting Eskimos, issued in 1820. The artwork features clothing and dress, folk dancing, and tambourines. The dimensions of the image are 13.2 x 24 cm, with a plate mark of 23 x 28 cm

Drawing, Putto Frieze; Classical Altar; Designed by Felice Giani (Italian, 1758-1823); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over black chalk on cream laid paper; 18.8 x 27.5 cm (7 3/8 x 10 13/16 in.)

Two Street Criers ca. 1630 Pierre Brebiette This vigorous red chalk drawing is the first design to come to light relating to a series of 43 prints depicting street criers (les cris de Paris), of which Brebiette seems to have supplied the majority of the models. The two figures on this sheet represent boys (or perhaps the same boy) selling, on the left, new almanacs, and on the right, silver tassels, a kind of passementerie, or decoration to be sewn onto clothing or other decorative items. Both prints (plate 4 and plate 36 in the series, respectively) bear the initials "PB." The name of the printmaker has been lost, but the series was published by the editor Jacques Honervogt around 1630.. Two Street Criers. Pierre Brebiette (French, Mantes-sur-Seine ca. 1598-1642 Paris). ca. 1630. Red chalk over a sketch in black chalk. Drawings

What a boy , nit simplicity caricature on the revolution , Franz Kaliwoda, Drawer, Hermann Engel, Editor

William Chambers (1723-1796), Chinese motif. Man and woman on a riverbaad, 1740-1749

Giovanni Battista Bracelli (Italian, active c. 1624-1649), From "Bizzarie di varie Figure", 1624, etching

Pasquariello Truonno - Meo Squaquara, plate 20 from Balli di Sfessania Made 1617-1627 France. Etching and engraving on paper . Jacques Callot

A sepia-toned aquatint caricature issued in 1871, featuring a round image within a square border measuring 32 x 32 cm. The illustration is related to dance, particularly ballet, and depicts the costs associated with entrance and lessons six guineas for entrance and one guinea per lesson. The work is attributed to Gaëtan Vestris (1729-1808) and may have been published by Sandby in London

Jacques Callot, Three Women, One Holding a Child, probably 1634 Three Women, One Holding a Child

Members of the stadholder court. In the margin the caption in Dutch, French and English. Part of a series of 41 plates of the funeral procession of Stadholder William IV in Delft on 4 February 1752. Numbered top right: 16., Funeral of William IV, 1752, plate 16 Two Commizen / Clerks / Boumeester (...) (title on object) Lyk-staetsie van zyne doorluchtigste Hoogheid den Heere Willem IV Carel Hendrik Friso, Prince van Orange en Nassau... held the IV February 1752 (series title on object), print maker: Jan Punt, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Pieter Jan van Cuyck, (mentioned on object), Northern Netherlands, 1753, paper, etching, engraving, h 270 mm × w 560 mm

Dame, een fles in de handen, op de linkerzijde gezien, tussen twee heren; Les Fantasies; Dertien trio's: dames en heren uit de tijd van Lodewijk XIII.On the left a Lord seen on the right. In the middle a lady, seen a bottle in the hands, more or less on the left. On the right a gentleman, seen from the front. This print is part of a series of 13 prints (14 incl. Title print) with three figures each other. On eleven prints there are two men around one lady, on one print there are three gentlemen and there are three women on one print. These prints may have been meant as drawing examples.

Anonymous, the citizen representing draws the barrel, which produces in Toto a strong impression. Feather. House of Victor Hugo - Hauteville House.

Jacques Callot, French (1592-1635), Cap. Spessa Monti and Bagattino, c. 1622, etching

Jacques Callot (1592-1635). "Balli di Sfessania, Scaramucia - Fricasso. Eleventh number of a suite of 24 pieces" (Lieure 389, Meaume 651). Etching. 1616-1617. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 99601-1 Etching, engraving

Jacques Callot, Two Society Women, c 1623 Two Society Women

Jacques Callot, Smaralo Cornuto and Ratsa di Boio, c 1622 Smaralo Cornuto and Ratsa di Boio

The Guitar Player. Dated: c. 1622. Medium: etching and engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JACQUES CALLOT.

Twee straatartiesten als Capitano Zerbino en Scapino; Balli di Sfessania; Dansen van Sfessania.Two artists with feathered headwear are opposing each other. On the ground between them capable of a bottle. The figures are noted their names. This print is part of a series of 23 prints (24 incl. Title Print) with two street artists in the foreground every time figures from the Italian Commedia Dell'Arte, and in the background spectators who are in the open air a (dance) representation of street artists Gadeslaan.

Figuurtjes; The fantasies of noble Callot put into light by Israel his amy, to Monsignor Jean Louis de Bauffremont Count of Randan Baron du Luguet.

Entrée de M. de Macey (Entrance of Monsieur de Macey), from Le Combat a la Barrière in the Palace at Nancy by Henri Humbert, printed by Sebastien Phillipe 1627 Jacques Callot French. Entrée de M. de Macey (Entrance of Monsieur de Macey), from Le Combat a la Barrière in the Palace at Nancy by Henri Humbert, printed by Sebastien Phillipe. Le Combat a la Barrière. Jacques Callot (French, Nancy 1592-1635 Nancy). 1627. Etching. Prints

Two street artists such as Smarolo Cornuto and Ratsa di Boio, Jacques Callot, 1621 - 1622 print Two artists with feathered headwear on dancing side by side. Their names are listed among the figures. This print is part of a series of 23 prints (24 incl. Title print) with two street artists in the foreground dressed as figures from the Italian Commedia dell'arte, and in the background spectators who in the outdoors a (dance) performance of street artists Gadeslaan. Nancy paper etching dancing. types in 'commedia dell'arte'

Dwarf with sword and walking stick, Jacques Callot, 1621 - 1625 print Dwarf, seen on the right side, with a hanging belly on which a button row runs, a top hat with feathers on the head, the right hand on the hilt of his sword, a walking stick in the left hand. This print is part of a series of 21 prints with grotesque figures; Almost all of those figures are dwarfs, many are bought. Nancy paper etching / engraving little people. hacking and thrusting weapons: sword. walking-stick, staff

Lady with Arms Folded, and Two Gentlemen. Dated: probably 1634. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JACQUES CALLOT.

Pulliciniello - Sig. Lucretia,from Balli di Sfessania. Jacques Callot; French, 1592-1635. Date: 1617-1627. Dimensions: 70 × 92 mm. Etching and engraving on paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Bedouins, 1827 - 1894 print Leaf with 21 performances of Bedouins. Numbered in the middle: 50. Schaerbeek paper letterpress printing Africans (BEDOUINS)

Netherlands, Callot, Jacques, Dancing of Sfessania, Balli di Sfessania, Two street performers as Ciurlo and Gian Fritello, verso - stamped, Two artists wearing feathered headdresses, one of them holding a sword, dance side by side. Their names are noted below the figures. This print is part of a series of 23 prints (24 incl. title print) each showing two street artists dressed as figures from the Italian commedia dell'arte in the foreground, and in the background spectators watching a (dance) performance by street artists in the open air., print, prints, height 72 mm, width 91 mm, Work conception, French, 1592-08-21 - 1635-03-24, after print by, 1622 - 1670, first quarter 17th century, second quarter 17th century, third quarter 17th century, paper, etching, etchings, print maker, printmaker

Jacques Callot, Three Gentlemen, probably 1634 Three Gentlemen

Brouwer, Adriaen.

After Jacques Callot, Cap Spessa Monti and Bagattino Cap. Spessa Monti and Bagattino

Entrée de Monsieur de Macey (Entrance of the Monsieur de Macey), from Le Combat à la Barrière (Combat at the Barrier), Jacques Callot, French, 1592-1635, Etching on off-white laid paper, Procession of 17 figures moving from upper left to upper right and then to lower left. Figures include musicians and torch bearers., France, 1627, figures, Print, Print

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