Elegant Female Portrait Sketches

A collection of pencil sketches depicting women in various poses, showcasing drapery, posture, and detailed facial features in a classic style.

Edelfelt, Albert, work, Sketch book, drawing, 22.5 cm x 30 cm, Edelfelt, Albert, Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt 1854 - 1905, Finnish painter. Painting in a naturalistic style and with a Realist approach to art. He lived in Finland

Moerl, Maria von.

Printemps. Artist: James Tissot, French, 1836-1903

Iffland, August Wilhelm .

Iphigenia Kneeling over an Altar, George Romney, 1734-1802, British, undated, Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 9 3/8 x 7 1/8 inches (23.8 x 18.1 cm), altar, dress, Greek mythology, kneeling, religious and mythological subject, sacrifice, smoke, woman

Contour drawing of a standing girl. .

Sitting old woman, Willem V (Prince of Oranje-Nassau), 1773 print The Hague paper old woman

A sketch sheet by Rudolf Weyr created using pencil and brown ink pen, showing detailed line work and shading techniques on paper.

Design for Maîtres de l'Poster. Chéret, Jules, 1836-1932, French painter and lithographer who became a master of Belle Époque poster art. He has been called the father of the modern poster.

Naatje on the Dam. Draughtsman: August Allebé. Dating: 1848 - 1927. Measurements: h 173 mm × w 92 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Hämäläinen, Väinö, work, Model exercise, 1909, drawing, 46 cm x 28 cm

Louis XV (king of France), Paris, Huquier, Gabriel, Meissonnier, Juste Aurèle, Oeuvre de Juste Aurele Meissonnier, Dousieme livre des oeuvres de JA Messonnier, Livre de chandeliers de sculpture en argent, Design for a three-armed candelabrum with floral decoration, This print is part of an album., print, album leaf, ornament print, prints, height 366 mm, width 230 mm, French, 1695 - 1772-06-11, print maker, printmaker, 1738 - 1749, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Work conception, 1693 - 1750-07-31, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher, uitgever, 1710-02-15 - 1774-05-10, granter of privilege

Design for Curtains 1841-1900 Charles Hindley and Sons British. Design for Curtains 367454

Saly, Jacques Francois Joseph, France, Lalive de Jully, Ange Laurent de, marquis de Rémoville, Recueil de caricatures dessinées Par J. Saly et Gravées par AL De Lalive DJ, Caricatures after J. Saly, Caricature of a French soldier, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 274 mm, width 190 mm, 1725 - 1779-03-18, print maker, 1745 - 1779, paper, etching, Work conception, French, 1717-06-20 - 1776-05-04

Attributed to Jacques-Louis David, Draped Classical Female Figure, Graphite on paper.

A Huguenot - Sketch of a Woman placing Chain and Cross round her Lover's Neck, 1850-51. Artist: John Everett Millais.. Study for 'The Huguenot', exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1852.. Position of figures approaches final design except girl places chain and cross around lover's neck instead of badge on his arm.

Portrait of a girl looking upward, executed in red chalk, highlighting facial features and expression.

Study of a left hand.

Kneeling Female Figure (from Sketchbook). Artist: John Quincy Adams Ward (American, Urbana, Ohio 1830-1910 New York). Dimensions: 8 1/16 × 11 in. (20.5 × 27.9 cm). Date: ca. 1860.Ward, a student of Henry Kirke Brown, became known as the "Dean of American Sculpture." This page is from a sketchbook, which provides an intimate look at the artist's working methods. Ward's sketches include several classically influenced figures mingled with American Indians on horseback as well as a number of bison. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Standing woman with a cape in a mountain landscape, 1834 - 1911 The woman wears a headscarf over her long hair. Rocky mountains can be seen in the background. Leaf 11 Verso from a sketchbook with 16 sheets. paper. pencil mountains (+ landscape with figures, staffage). standing figure - AA - female human figure (+ adult female (human being)). cape (+ women's clothes)

The city of Paris, cover project for "Paris-Guide F�lix Bracquemond (1833-1914). The city of Paris, coverage project for Paris-guide, 1833-1914. Lead mine, enhanced from color lines, on dark cream paper.

Annotated study for a neo-Egyptian vitrail representing Horus. (Dummy title)

Märta Svensdotter from Wästra Wram Gierds Härad. Woman in full figure sitting on a stone. Pencil drawing in large format by Otto Wallgren Nordic

Three standing figures, 1921 - 1922 Page 6 Recto from Sketchbook XIX with 22 sheets. Dutch East Indies, The paper. pencil Asiatic races and peoples. standing figure Dutch East Indies, The

Different - mare; Waliszewski, Zygmunt (1897-1936); 1917 (1917-00-00-1917-00-00);gift (provenance), caricature, characters

Abklatsch of the drawing on page 19 verso. Leaf 20 Recto from a sketchbook with 53 sheets.

Miss May Belfort.

attributed to John Sell Cotman, 1782-1842, British, Study of a Coffin Lid from Houghton Churchyard, Norfolk, ca. 1822. Gray and yellow wash over graphite on medium smooth cream wove paper.

Unidentified Shakespeare scene (twomen). Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897

The Ghost of Isabella, The White Devil (The White Devil, Act III, scene iii). Artist: Henry Weston Keen (British, 1899-1935 Walberswick, Suffolk). Author: John Webster (British, ca. 1580-ca. 1634). Dimensions: sheet: 16 3/16 x 9 1/2 in. (41.1 x 24.1 cm)sheet: 21 1/2 x 15 in. (54.6 x 38.1 cm). Date: ca. 1930.Keen worked as a printmaker and illustrator in the 1920s and 1930s, creating unsettling symbolist images reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley. Two significant commissions were designs for luxury editions published by The Bodley Head-a firm that had launched Beardsley in the 1890s-Oscar Wilde's "Picture of Dorian Gray" (1925) and John Webster's "The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi" (1930). After Keen's early death from tuberculosis, The Twenty-One Gallery in London held a memorial exhibition. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Study of a Classical Female Figure (Night). Artist: Anonymous, German, 19th century. Dimensions: 4 3/4 x 3 1/8 in. (12.1 x 7.9 cm). Date: 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The muscles of the back, with the hands tied together at the wrist. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.

A pencil drawing by Friedrich König depicting a figure with a hat, titled 'The Hathealthy-Jakeke', focusing on head and upper body.

La gamme d'amour, James Ensor, 1929, literary work, 1929, Belgian Art

Head of a Woman. Dated: published 1782. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Johann Gottlieb Prestel after Guercino.

Veiled Ceres. Artist: Vincenzo Camuccini (Italian, Rome 1771-1844 Rome). Dimensions: 7 7/8 x 9 1/2in. (20 x 24.1cm). Date: 1771-1844. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Parviainen, Oscar, Saluto, 1906, vernis mou, graphics, plate width 12.9 cm, plate height 25.2 cm, leaf width 23.1 cm, leaf height 36 cm

DIBUJO - EL REPATRIADO. Author: ISIDRO NONELL. Location: MUSEU NACIONAL D'ART CATALUNYA. Barcelona. SPAIN.

Portrait of a couple, presumably a copy to a seventeenth-century painting. At the foot of the man is a dog. Leaf 19 Verso from a sketchbook with 41 pages.

Sitting, Egon Schiele -, artist

Sketch of a woman. Malczewski, Jacek (1854-1929), painter

Sketch of Two Statues: "Ballerinas by Canova". Artist: John Gibson (British, Gwynedd, Wales 1790-1866 Rome). Dimensions: sheet: 8 3/8 x 7 1/2 in. (21.2 x 19 cm). Date: ca. 1850. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Wright, Ferdinand von, work, Sketchbook, pencil, drawing, 16.5 cm x 25.8 cm, Wright, Ferdinand von, pencil

Ex-libris of Manet 1875 Félix Bracquemond French. Ex-libris of Manet 384624

Vlyssis Aldrovandi, Philosophi Ac Medici Bononiensis, Historiam Naturalem, In Gymnasio Bononiensi Profitentis, Ornithologiae, Hoc Est, De AviBus Historiae Libri XII, Bononiae, Apud Franciscum De Franciscis Senensem, MDXCIX-MDCXXXVII 1599-1637, The illustration depicts a fantastical hybrid creature, characterized by a human-like torso and a billowing, feathery lower half that resembles flowing seaweed or the plumage of a bird. The figure appears to be adorned with elaborate features, including a head adorned with a crest or elaborate headpiece, enhancing its mythical presence. The detailed line work showcases intricate textures, emphasizing the contrast between the sleek human form and the flowing, organic shapes below. Accompanying text suggests a connection to ornithology, hinting at the creature's avian qualities while leaving its exact nature open to interpretation. The overall composition evokes a sense of wonder and curiosity about the natural world and its imaginative possibiliti

The fisherman brings the crab on the golden cushion. (German story).

Hugo Ko Jasi Ski, Feliks Stanis AW (1862-1901), Matejko, Jan (1838-1893); 1892 (1892-00-00-1892-00-00);Wellsz, Leopold (1882-1972), Wellsz, Leopold (1882-1972)-collection, reproductive graphics, auxiliary matrix on celluloid, purchase (provenance)

papier, engraving, engraving ( printing process), drypoint, dry needle, plate tone" needle, plate tone

Eva Noe, Headdress, c 1937 Headdress

Portrait Study Miss Charlotte R Williams Made 1892 United States. Transfer lithograph in black on cream laid paper . James McNeill Whistler

No. 2. A. Table of Hieroglyphics found at Axum, James Bruce, 1730-1794, British, 1771, Pen and brown ink and black wash on thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper, Sheet: 10 3/4 × 8 7/8 inches (27.3 × 22.5 cm), hieroglyphics, historical subject, ruins

Miss Cecilia Clifton. Auguste Edouart; French, 1789-1861. Date: 1840. Dimensions: 305 × 151 mm. Cut paper silhouette. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: Auguste Edouart.

Doge of Venice. Pre-16th century costume, whose cloak was open from top to bottom, fastened at the right shoulder with a button, and dangling from the left. The collar is surrounded by ermine. Engraving after Cesare Vecellio (1530-1601) in "De gli habiti antichi et moderni di diversi parti del mondoi". Venice, 1590. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

Pilar Alonso (Mahón, 1897-Madrid, 1980). Cupletista menorquina. Figura emblemática del cuplé catalán. Caricatura de Jiménez de 1922.

Sketchbook of Roman antiquities, Dupasquier, Antoine-Léonard, 1748-1832, pen and ink, pencil, wash, 1779, Drawings after antiquities in the Vatican, including Roman bas-reliefs and processional friezes, vases, classical busts, household utensils and instruments of worship and war

Plaque 1876 Ott and Brewer. Plaque 20756

Fomina, Nelli Yefimovna A. Pushkin Memorial Museum, St. Petersburg 1980 Tempera on cardboard

Netherlands, Weissenbruch, Isaac, Man with a Plumed Hat in Front of a Curtain, verso center - stamped, print, prints, height 74 mm, width 43 mm, 1826-08-27 - 1912-11-13, print maker, printmaker, 1836 - 1912, paper, papier, houtgravure

Herbert Marsh, Cotton Vestie, 1935 1942 Cotton Vestie

Forgiving Lovers. Genre subject. Graphite, design is incised; verso: graphite shading and watercolor blots on medium, moderately textured, blued white, laid paper. Height: 235 mm (9.25 in); Width: 164 mm (6.45 in). Author: Thomas Rowlandson.

A Standing Young Washerwoman. Artist: Jacob van Strij (Dutch, Dordrecht 1756-1815 Dordrecht). Dimensions: Sheet: 19 1/16 x 13 9/16 in. (48.4 x 34.4 cm). Date: late 18th-early 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Figure study for The Hours,” mural for the state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1902-1911 (completed by John Singer Sargent). Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897

Aaron, from TitusAndronicus. Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897

Edle italienische Dame im 14. Jahrhundert, Modegeschichte, Kostümgeschichte, Historisch, digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrh...

Sophie Dorothea, Princess of Württemberg.

The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 55, 'The Bard.', William Blake, 1757-1827, British, between 1797 and 1798, Watercolor with pen and black ink, graphite and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page, Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm), armor, bard, beard, crown (costume component), feather, horse (animal), knights (landholders), lance, leaf, literary theme, man, men, religious and mythological subject, robe, ropes, spear, text, trees, vines, women

Majel G Claflin, Figure of Death Muerto, c 1937 Figure of Death Muerto

Ludwig Anton, Dauphin of France.

Bridesmaid from Ziemia Sieradzka region. Ruszczyc, Ferdynand (1870-1936), draughtsman, cartoonist

Foreplay Gamelan, Johannes Frederik Engelbert ten Klooster, 1921 print A sitting woman in a dress. transparent paper woman dancing alone

La Comtesse in Lace Shawl. Artist: Pierre-Louis Pierson (French, 1822-1913). Dimensions: 54.6 x 36.2 cm (21 1/2 x 14 1/4 in.). Person in Photograph: Countess Virginia Oldoini Verasis di Castiglione (1835-1899). Date: 1860s. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Without title female figure, Karl Wiener -, artist

Study for 'The Woman of Samaria', William Dyce (Aberdeen, Scotland, 1806 - 1864) 1850-1864

DISEÑO PARA LA 'TRAGEDIA DE SALOME' DE SCHMIT. Author: PIOT. Location: MUSEO DE LA OPERA. France. SALOME. HERODIAS MADRE DE SALOME.

Album "The New World" (1st Series): Pool of Parisian Figures - Elsa Maxwell (PL.5) SEM (1863-1934). "Album" The New World "(1st series): Pool of Parisian Figures - Elsa Maxwell (PL.5)". Color lithography.

Bonnet John Newcomb, Ink drawing, 1961

WilliamWhite. Artist: Elijah C. Kellogg, American, 1811-1881 After: William Brown, American, 1808-1882

Eleanor (On the Log Bridge, Study for Painting). watercolor and pencil on paper. Date: (c. 1896-1899). Museum: HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN.

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