Expressive Sketches of Life

Dynamic sketches depicting human figures and everyday scenes. The artworks focus on gestures and emotions, showcasing the art of quick, expressive drawing techniques.

Ladies and gentlemen in conversation, Gerard ter Borch (II), c. 1650 - 1660, draughtsman: Gerard ter Borch (II), (mentioned on object), Deventer, (possibly), c. 1650 - 1660, paper, h 158 mm × w 100 mm

Henriëtte Roland Holst-van der Schalk, sitting in a garden. .

Two workers repairing the roadway Ren� Marjolin (1812-1895). Two workers repairing the roadway. Graphite pencil. Paris, museum of romantic life.

On a terrace in a cafe in a Eastern city. Pawliszak, Wacław (1866-1905), draughtsman, cartoonist

The Spirit of Knowledge. Henry Fuseli; Swiss, active in England, 1741-1825. Date: 1798. Dimensions: 182 × 223 mm. Black chalk and brush and gray wash on ivory laid paper. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

An etching with copper engraving and pinnacle by Rembrandt van Rijn around 1630 depicting a beggar behind a mound, illustrating composition, figures, and Dutch Golden Age printmaking techniques.

Orlik, Emil, On Sunday (Bohemia), Three women in the grass, recto lower right - handwritten in pencil, print, engraving, prints, engravings, height 226 mm, width 219 mm, German, Czech, 1870-07-21 - 1932-09-28, print maker, printmaker, 1880 - 1932, paper, papier, etching, etchings, relief etching, plate tone

Imake the acquaintance of Miss Mowcher. Sketches, Drawings. 1850. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature

A pencil sketch sheet by Emerich Alexius Swoboda from 1877 showing various figures and candlesticks, emphasizing form, proportion, and detailed line work.

Perched upon a Bust of Pallas. Illustration to The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 1875 Edouard Manet French. Perched upon a Bust of Pallas. Illustration to The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 336394

Leichenverbrennung, zu Goethes Bassompierre (cremationscene). Artist: Max Liebermann, German, 1847-1935

Sketch of an Evening Party, 1850-51 John Everett Millais, Young girl singing to piano accompaniment, two men and a boy standing, a lady seated. On the reverse side, a caricature of a scene from Scottish history with a man being pushed down a hole, Art Movement, Pre-Raphaelite, Drawing, Ink, Caricature, Pen, Exhibition, Dressed to the Nines

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Cléo de Mérode, 1896 Cléo de Mérode

The Departure for Versailles. Dated: c. 1919. Dimensions: overall: 29.5 x 46 cm (11 5/8 x 18 1/8 in.). Medium: brush and brown ink and graphite on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JEAN LOUIS FORAIN.

Hat store 'Mars' opposite Israels house, The store window of a hat store on the Nieuwendijk in Amsterdam at night., draughtsman: Isaac Israels, 1886 - 1903, paper, brush, h 253 mm × w 355 mm

A lithograph by Lovis Corinth from 1916 depicting the Horsemen of the Apocalypse from the Revelation of John, printed on handmade paper, showing dynamic figures and symbolic elements.

Lithography by Eugène Delacroix depicting Arabs extending to cushions, created in 1833.

Ekman, Robert Wilhelm, work, Interior with four people, drawing, 16.5 cm x 22.5 cm

Girl presents an object on a pillow, Anny Leusink, in or before 1925 drawing On the deck of a boat, a girl holds a decorated pillow in the air on which an object is displayed. Three girls and a skipper with a pipe watch. paper. India ink (ink). pencil pen sailing-ship, sailing-boat. adolescent, young woman, maiden

An ink drawing by Baldassare Franceschini from 1636 depicting Cosimo II de Medici involving his son Francesco in governmental matters, executed with a feather pen.

Lady on a chaise lounge and gentleman with a pipe. Andrieux, Clément-Auguste (1829-1881), draughtsman, cartoonist

Zygmunt August's agany for the abandonment of Barbara, a concept sketch; Matejko, Jan (1838-1893); 1862 (1862-00-00-1862-00-00);Barbara Radziwiłłówna (Queen of Poland-1520-1551), Boratyński, Piotr (1509-1558), Dąbrowska, Maria, Dąbrowska, Maria-collection, Górka, Andrzej (Ca 1500-1551), Górka, Andrzej (Ca 1500-1551)- iconography, Kmita Sobieski, Piotr (1477-1553)-iconography, Kmita, Piotr (Ca 1477-1553), Maciejowski, Samuel (1499-1550), Maciejowski, Samuel (1499-1550)-iconography, Piotrków Trybunalski (Łódź Voivodeship ), Tarnowski, Jan Amor (1488-1561), Tarnowski, Jan Amor (1488-1561) -iconography, 16th century (history), Zygmunt II August (Polish king -1520-1572), Zygmunt II August (King of Poland - 1520-1572) - iconography, audiences, collective scenes, Sejms, Studies to Pictures, Lords, Purchase (provenance)

At the Moulin Rouge A Rude! A Real Rude! Made 1893 France. Lithograph on cream wove paper . Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Valentin Wagner's travel sketchbook (1631-1638) depicts a group of people sleeping on a staircase, drawn with ink and feather, capturing posture, arrangement, and interior architecture.

George Romney, 1734-1802, British, Mother and Son, undated. Brown wash over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper.

Sketch of four people at a water source ..

Omnibus. Artist: Anders Zorn, Swedish, 1860-1920

François-Victor Hugo (1828-1873). Caricature of two soldiers with two characters sitting in the background. Brown feather and ink on paper. Paris, house of Victor Hugo. Drawing, brown ink, military, paper, caricature, pen

Three women in a brothel, Edgar Degas, 1877 - 1881 print Three naked women are waiting for customers on a couch in a brothel. paper. whore, prostitute

Melon-Shop, Hounsditch. James McNeill Whistler; American, 1834-1903. Date: 1887. Dimensions: 127 x 178 mm (image, trimmed within plate mark); 130 x 178 mm (sheet). Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on ivory laid paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Burden carriers , Containers, Lifting & carrying. Charles H. Woodbury (1864-1940). Prints

Lovis Corinth, The Banquet of Trimalchio plV, 1919 The Banquet of Trimalchio: pl.V

Alphonse Legros, Crowd of People Seen between Two Columns (verso) Crowd of People Seen between Two Columns verso

Drawing, Woman; Robert Frederick Blum (American, 1857-1903); USA; graphite on wove paper; 17.3 × 25 cm (6 13/16 × 9 13/16 in.)

Studies of women and a saint image. Draughtsman: Johannes Bosboom. Dating: 1827 - 1891. Measurements: h 117 mm × w 188 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Edelfelt, Albert, work, Seated old woman, two exercises, 1885, pencil drawing, drawing, PORTRAIT, woman, elderly, unknown, sitting, knee shot, rococo chair, 23 cm x 29 cm, Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt 1854 - 1905, Finnish painter. Painting in a naturalistic style and with a Realist approach to art. He lived in Finland

Sketches of Café Singers. Edgar Degas (French, 1834 - 1917)

Design for illustration in the Amsterdammer: four women in front of a door (Portugal) guarded by an agent (December 1, 1907), Johan Braakensiek, 1907 drawing Design for a print. paper. ink. pencil pen political caricatures and satires. historical events and situations

Artists Around a Table. ink on paper. Date: c. 1920. Museum: NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.

Bliżej Kultury Matejko, Jan (1838 1893)

The Economic Withdrawal. Dated: c. 1914/1919. Dimensions: overall: 32.3 x 50.2 cm (12 11/16 x 19 3/4 in.). Medium: black crayon and brush and black ink on wove paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JEAN LOUIS FORAIN.

The Meeting in the Woods (La Rencontre du bosquet). Dated: 1871. Medium: lithograph. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.

George Romney, 1734-1802, British, Seated Woman: Three Studies, undated. Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

1906 P692. Wycliffe Reading his Translation of the Bible - Study for Constance, 1846-48. Ford Madox Brown

Sketches of a Café Singer. Edgar Degas (French, 1834 - 1917)

Manskop, Johannes Tavenraat, 1840 - 1880 drawing paper. ink pen / brush caricatures (human types). head (human)

Three figures to the left and one to the right. Four standing or ongoing figures, and profil, three to the left and the leftmost right used to the right. The patterns are worked out on the clothing from one figure.

Norbert Goeneutte, Rialto Rialto

Three figures at a table, print maker: Charles Emile Jacque, (mentioned on object), France, 1844, paper, etching, drypoint, engraving, h 69 mm - w 66 mm

Study (p.61 of the sketchbook). Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875). Study (p.61 of the sketchbook). Drawing, 1870.

View of an interior by a hearth. Three women, the poor nobleman's daughters, sit nearby, carrying out household tasks. In the background center, the nobleman sits resting his head on his hand, while over his head is a winged devil. Saint Nicholas appears at a window, throwing three golden balls to the girls. Publisher: Philips Galle, Flemish, 1537 - 1612. Date: ca. 1588. Pen and ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk on laid paper. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Three classic Zuilen on Het Forum Romanum, Thomas Cool, 1861 - 1904 drawing paper. ink pen landscape with ruins Roman forum. Rome

The Seven Deadly Sins: Lust, 1888. James Ensor (Belgian, 1860-1949). Etching;

Study magazine with various sailing ships and a fisherman. Draughtsman: Willem Bastiaan Tholen. Dating: 1870 - 1931. Measurements: h 225 mm × w 308 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

A pencil drawing by Josef Danhauser depicting a girl with a dog at a house entrance, an open book on the threshold, and lettering on the wall.

Dark woman with her son at the circus. Draughtsman: Isaac Israels. Dating: c. 1900. Measurements: h 216 mm × w 275 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Figures in Zeist, Johannes Taventrate, 1868 drawing Sketches of men's heads, in Zeist. Zeist paper. ink pen caricatures (human types) Zeist

Edouard Manet, The Railway Restaurant, c 1879 The Railway Restaurant

Album Drawing, Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, undated, Graphite and pen and ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 8 3/4 × 6 1/2 inches (22.2 × 16.5 cm) and Binding: 8 3/4 inches (22.2 cm)

Bibi Valentin, 1859. James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903). Etching;

Scene from Quentin Durward, Sir David Wilkie, 1785-1841, British, 1833, Brown ink with brown and gray wash over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Mount: 8 1/2 × 11 1/4 inches (21.6 × 28.5 cm) and Sheet: 7 1/4 × 8 3/4 inches (18.4 × 22.3 cm), capes, caps, daggers (weapons), hats, literary theme, men, novel, Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott, 1823, swords, tableau vivant, theater (discipline), woman, England, Hatfield, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Small Sketchbook, George Romney, 1734-1802, British, 1784, Various media on laid paper, including: brown ink over graphite; graphite; brown and gray wash over graphite; gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Spine: 4 1/2 inches (11.4 cm) and Sheet: 4 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (11.4 x 19.1 cm)

The Sick Child (Das Kranke Kind). Dated: 1918. Dimensions: plate: 19 x 24.1 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.) sheet: 28.4 x 30.3 cm (11 3/16 x 11 15/16 in.). Medium: drypoint in black on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Lovis Corinth.

"Tract Distributor" 1870-1891 Charles Samuel Keene British This design for a wood-engraving concerns an exchange between a woman who distributes tracts and a boy shoe black. The related caption (inscribed on a separate piece of paper) reads:'Tract M'M. Thank'ee M'M. Have you shoes blacked by a nice little boy M'M!' (suggesting that the boy only accepts a tract to try to drum up trade).Keene was a leading British illustrator who worked for Punch between 1864 and 1890. His imagery generally focused on humorous situations in humble surroundings, unlike his contemporary George Du Maurier who satirized London society.. "Tract Distributor" 342233

Architectural and Figure Sketches, Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857-1925, Graphite and white heightening on grey-brown paper, Left, railing at Tours. Center, three sketches of woman with bonnet, two profiles one front. Lower right, 4 male figures leaning over a low stone wall., USA, 1883, architecture, Drawing, Drawing

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

French illustration depicting divorce, 1905

Melon-Shop, Hounsditch. Dated: c. 1886/1888. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER.

Seated Tahitian Woman (recto), Sketches of Roosters and Chickens (verso) 1891-1893 France. Black fabricated chalk, selectively blended, with touches of brush and gray gouache, over traces of black fabricated chalk offset (recto); graphite (verso); on ivory wove paper (removed from a sketchbook) . Paul Gauguin

Artist: John Trumbull, American, 1756-1843, Untitled, from folio: Sketches in France &Germany*, Graphite, 11.1 × 17.8 cm (4 3/8 × 7in.), Made in United States, American, 18thcentury, Works on Paper - Drawings andWatercolors

Three Lamenting Women, George Romney, 1734-1802, British, undated, Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 4 1/2 x 4 1/8 inches (11.4 x 10.5 cm), figure study, women

The Strachey Family. Duncan Grant (1885-1978). Charcoal. Dated 1922. 18 3/8 x 24 3/4in

Scherzo di Fantasia: Two Standing Orientals and a Standing Youth with a Sword. Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1696-1770 Madrid). Dimensions: 13-11/16 x 9-15/16 in. (34.7 x 25.2 cm). Date: 1696-1770. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Antipholus of Syracuse: Go bear it to the Centaur,” illustration for Act I, Scene ii, Comedy of Errors. Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897

George Romney, 1734-1802, British, David Playing the Harp, undated. Brown wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

Gallen-Kallela, Akseli, Coming from Sauna, 11th chapter, 1907, technique text: marker, drawing, 17 cm x 23, 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.

Sketches of heads and hares. Draughtsman: Johannes Tavenraat. Dating: 1819 - 1881. Measurements: h 133 mm × w 170 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

The Visitor (recto), c. 1881. Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926). Black and tan pencil; sheet: 40 x 30.9 cm (15 3/4 x 12 3/16 in.).

Study for 'A Baron Numbering his Vassals', 1850. Artist: John Everett Millais. The Baron and his lady stand in the centre foreground, the baron's scribe on his right, while he counts his vassals (A vassal is a person regarded as having a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch, in the context of the feudal system in medieval Europe.)

seated figures, Narcís Puget Riquer, charcoal drawing,museo Puget, noble house of Can LLaudis , Dalt Vila, Ibiza, balearic islands, Spain.

Study magazine with a piping man and a landscape with mill ..

Studies of a working man, Johan Daniël Koelman, 1841 - 1857 drawing paper. chalk

Study of a man and a company drinking men for an illustration from François Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel. Study of a man and a company-drinking men for an illustration from François Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel

'Study of Two Female Figures Climbing Stairs'. Italy, Circa 1583. Dimensions: 40,3x26,7 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Bartolommeo Passarotti.

Two fantasy figures, pointing at each other, draughtsman: Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, 1940, paper, pen, h 190 mm × w 285 mm

Sketch for a character composition Narcisse Diaz de la Pena (1807-1876). Sketch for a composition with characters. Graphite pencil on blue letterhead.

Study for Fiamettas Song (oil painting). Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897

Quarantaine. Krätze-quarantaine (title on object). Draughtsman: To Frank-Stoltz. Dating: 8-Sep-1943. Place: Ravensbrück. Measurements: h 155 mm × w 150 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Hay wagon. Draughtsman: Simon Andreas Krausz. Dating: 1770 - 1825. Measurements: h 125 mm × w 162 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Sketchbook from the years around 1866 OK.1873 card No. 104 (no author's numbering) four drawings obverse: 1. Double portrait in the frame: a man hugs to the right cheek of a laughing woman; Reverse: 2. sketch of a three person statue , 3. Study of a deserted silhouette in a cape , 4. Double stage Łosik, Tomasz (1848 1896)

port, Narcís Puget Viñas, charcoal drawing, Puget museum, Can LLaudis noble house, Dalt Vila, Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain.

After the Vision (second plate). Dated: 1902/1907. Medium: etching and drypoint. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JEAN LOUIS FORAIN.

Monument, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, Vertical composition of a sepulchral monument. Below a sarcophagus is partly covered by a cloth with two putti. A pedestal rises in the back on which two women sit. They are personifications of 'Justice' and 'Peace.' A man in classical armor kneels on a base. An angular niche is indicate. Beside, at right, are parts of another design., Italy, ca. 1795, architecture, Drawing, Drawing

Papers and a hat on a table, Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's -Gravesande, 1851 - 1902 print Interior with a table with a tablecloth, on which a hat and sheets of paper lie. paper drypoint communal rooms. writing-table, writing-desk. head-gear: hat

'Two Dancers Resting', c20th century. Artist: Edgar Degas.

(From Sketchbook) 1810-20 Thomas Sully American. (From Sketchbook). Thomas Sully (American, Horncastle, Lincolnshire 1783-1872 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). American. 1810-20. Ink, wash, on paper

Mary Cassatt, The Loge (recto), 1882 The Loge recto

Naked in the garden; Graetzer, Alfred (1875-1911); around 1900 (1895-00-00-1905-00-00);Schlesisches Museum der Bildenen Künste (Wrocław - 1880-1945) - collection, Wrocław (Dolnośląskie Voivodeship)

Oscar Wilde et Romain Coolus - programme pour Raphaël et Salomé , Authors, Coolus, Romain, 1868-1952, Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900, Thétre de l'Oeuvre Paris, France. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). Prints and Drawings

George Romney, 1734-1802, British, Two Seated Figures, undated. Brown wash with pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper.

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