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Figural Studies and Sketches

A collection of figure studies and sketches portraying women and men, emphasizing gesture and movement with a range of techniques and mediums.

The Model Resting 1' by James McNeill Whistler, created in 1870. Etching
The Model Resting 1' by James McNeill Whistler, created in 1870. Etching
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Woman with a Fan 1881-1891 France. Etching in black on cream Japanese paper . Félix Henri Bracquemond
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Female - Head and Shoulders of a Woman in a Bonnet, 1859-60. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Picking mother.
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Sarah Bernhardt, dans Cléopatre , Actresses, Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). Prints and Drawings
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Eduard Strohling, German, 1768-after 1826, German, Bacchus and Ariadne. Lithograph on gray laid paper.
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes / 'Monk drawing with a compass (Album H, 37)'. 1824 - 1828. Pencil on grey laid paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.
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Woman at the Bath with a Hat beside Her. Artist: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606-1669 Amsterdam). Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 6 3/16 × 5 1/8 in. (15.7 × 13 cm). Date: 1658. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn).
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Paul César Helleu, Woman Lying on Couch, c. 1895, drypoint on laid paper.
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Afternoon Tea. Dated: 1897. Dimensions: image: 18.5 x 15.7 cm (7 5/16 x 6 3/16 in.) sheet: 39.7 × 24.4 cm (15 5/8 × 9 5/8 in.). Medium: lithograph in black on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER.
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Seated Woman Reading. Georges Lemmen; Belgian, 1865-1916. Date: 1905. Dimensions: 109 × 160 mm (image/plate); 154 × 242 mm (sheet). Etching on tan laid paper. Origin: Belgium. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Tournament scene Henry Cros (1840-1907). Tournament scene. Pencil and color pencil on velin paper.
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Holmberg, Werner, work, Sketch book, drawing, 21.3 cm x 27.6 cm, Holmberg, Werner
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Teodor Axentowicz (1859-1938), portrait of a woman; Czernecki, Jan (Wieliczka, Kraków; Publisher; 1905-1939); 1912 (1912-00-00-1912-00-00);
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Young Man without a Beard, seen in 3/4 view, turned to right, looking down, from the series Les petites tetes,d’hommes…..B.39. Artist: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609-1664
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Portrait bust of Anna Poulowna, Henricus Wilhelmus Couwenberg, after Louis Royer, c. 1839 - c. 1840 print Amsterdam paper engraving piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture
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Commerce and Another Allegorical Figure (Motif for Bank Note Design), Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838-1909, Graphite on paper, The figure of Commerce is shown from the front sitting upon clouds, holding a caduceus in her right hand. Another allegorical figure of a woman is shown in profile, kneeling at her feet., USA, ca. 1895, numismatics, Drawing, Drawing
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Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Promenade (Promenoir), 1899 Promenade (Promenoir)
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Study of a child. .
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Jean Louis Forain, The White Slave Trade, 1886 The White Slave Trade
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The Call (Florence). Louis Fleckenstein (American, 1866 - 1943)
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Lepère, Auguste (n.1849-11-30-D.1918-11-20), laundresses (youth pass quickly virtue!), Engraving published in the original print-third delivery (July-September 1893) (main title) , 1893. Etch (3 plates identified: green, blue, red). Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901); , Elsa, said Viennese, 1897
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La Grande Femme à la fourrure, assise. Félicien Victor Joseph Rops (Belgium, Namur, 1833-1898). Belgium, 1878. Prints; etchings. Etching
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A woman drawing, Jessie Curtis, Pencil on paper, Vertical rectangle. A woman, probably a Cooper Union student, seen in right profile, seated at a drawing table, working. Inscribed below (in pencil): 'School of Design / Jessie Curtis.' Verso: fragments of figure sketches and ink notations in the hand of Alice Donlevy., ca. 1860, figures, Drawing, Drawing
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La Flore de le Gros. Dated: 1899. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Albert Besnard.
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Three Heads of Women; OneAsleep. Artist: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn), Dutch, 1606-1669
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Drapery Studies, 1864-65. Pencil with red and black chalk on cream-toned paper. Artist: Edward Burne-Jones
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James McNeill Whistler, The Guitar Player, 1875 The Guitar Player
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Promenade 1899 France. Color lithograph on cream wove paper . Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Les Camelots de la pensee (proof for titlepage). Artist: Maurice Delcourt, French, 1879-1916
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Elsa, dite la Viennoise , Prostitutes. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). Prints and Drawings
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Frenzel, L., Girl with hat, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 296 mm, width 198 mm, German, print maker, 1883 - 1883, paper, papier, chine collé, etching, plate tone
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Mary Magdalene at the Door of Simon the Pharisee, Figure Study, 1858 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Drawing, Ink, Religion, Christian, Sketch, Pre-Raphaelite, Bible
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Le Paradis et la Péri. Début (3e planche) , Fictitious characters, Angels, Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856. Paradies und die Peri. Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). Lithographs and Other Prints
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Maurice Denis, Twilights Have the Softness of Old Paintings, 1898, color lithograph on wove paper.
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Colored lithograph 'Dame in Gartenpavillon' by Rudolf Grossmann, 1920, on Japanese paper, depicting a woman seated in a garden pavilion with architectural and botanical details.
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Portrait by Georges Kars of the wife of writer Kozinova seated in an upholstered armchair, drawn in coal and chalk in 1933.
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Mary Cassatt, The Picture Book (No 1), c 1901 The Picture Book (No. 1)
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Reading, fourth quarter 1800s. Eugène Carrière (French, 1849-1906). Brush and brown ink; sheet: 41.8 x 66.6 cm (16 7/16 x 26 1/4 in.); image: 33 x 27 cm (13 x 10 5/8 in.).
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LE SOIR. Coiffure de Sergent et deJouenne.. Artist: Paul Gavarni, French, 1804-1866
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Portrait of a woman. Draughtsman: Jurriaan Andriessen. After Rembrandt van Rijn. Dating: May-1805. Measurements: h 85 mm × w 64 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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"Paris-Madrid" Premier affiche imaginaire. Carbón sobre papel, 1902. Author: RAMON CASAS.
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Young Peasant Eating an Apple; Jeune Paysanne Mangeant une Pomme. Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). Oil on canvas. Painted circa 1894. 63.5 x 38.5cm.
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Young woman at the fashionista, draughtsman: Isaac Israels, c. 1908, paper, h 433 mm × w 275 mm
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Femme Nue Assise Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919). , 1906. Soft ground etching printed in sanguine on Japan paper, Plate: 7 3/8 x 5 7/8 in. (18.8 x 14.9 cm). European Art 1906
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Edelfelt, Albert, work, Sketch book, drawing, 21.5 cm x 17 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
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Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A., 1897, Cartoon of a younggirl, Pen and ink, Wove, 12.6 × 7.5 cm (4 15/16 × 2 15/16in.), Made in United States, American, 19thcentury, Works on Paper - Drawings andWatercolors
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Pencil study by Carl Anton Reichel of a young girl sitting, executed in 1917
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Invitation to an exhibition of Charles Albert Waltner prints in the Hanover Gallery in London. A woman is looking at a print of Charles Albert Waltner hanging on the wall. In her one hand she holds a lorgnet, in the other an umbrella.
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Three Dancers; Trois Danseuses. Edgar Degas (1834-1917). Charcoal on tan paper laid down on board. 67 x 56.8cm.
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Madame X at the Grand Prix, c. 1899-1904, Ramon Casas, Spanish, 1866 - 1932, 12 3/4 x 9 7/8in. (32.4 x 25.1cm), Colored crayon on buff paper, Spain, 19th-20th century
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Margaret, Life Cartoons still image. Postcards. 1905 - 1930. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
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Sjöstrand, Carl Eneas, work, Sketch for Cinderella illustration, 1867, drawing, 37 cm x 23.5 cm
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La Glace a Main Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926). La Glace a Main, ca. 1905. Drypoint on cream colored laid paper, 8 1/8 x 5 13/16 in. (20.7 x 14.8 cm). American Art ca. 1905
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Three Muses (recto); Study of Knight and Monk for an Illustration in a Gothic Novel (verso) 1775-1834 England. Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite (recto), and pen and brown ink with brush and brown and blue wash and graphite (verso), on ivory laid paper . Thomas Stothard
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Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A., 1897, Woman with bucket on her head, wing chair on reverse - unidentifiedillustration, Pen and ink, graphite, Composition board, 30.4 × 19 cm (11 15/16 × 7 1/2in.), Made in United States, American, 19thcentury, Works on Paper - Drawings andWatercolors
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Portrait of Madame la Comtesse Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901). Portrait of Madame la Comtesse Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1882. Charcoal on laid paper, mounted on thin wove paper, Sheet: 25 3/4 x 17 in. (65.4 x 43.2 cm). European Art 1882
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Jean Louis Forain, Avant la fete persane, 1912 Avant la fete persane
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Print (France); 24.7 × 19.5 cm (9 3/4 × 7 11/16 in.)
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Meditation (Méditation). Dimensions: 59.3 cm x 42.7 cm, 27.9 cm x 19.8 cm, 28.6 cm x 19.8 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Author: PAUL HELLEU.
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Blossom Child. Helen Hyde; American, 1868-1919. Date: 1902. Dimensions: 172 x 150 mm (image/plate); 281 x 193 mm (sheet). Color etching on ivory Japanese paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Program for La Lépreuse 1896 France. Color lithograph on tan wove paper . Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Program for La Lépreuse. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; French, 1864-1901. Date: 1896. Dimensions: 494 × 312 mm (image); 500 × 327 mm (sheet). Color lithograph on tan wove paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.