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Historical Figure Studies

Drawings illustrating biblical and mythological figures, with emphasis on gestures and emotional expressions in various art styles.

Half figure with outstretched arm, draughtsman: anonymous, Netherlands, c. 1650 - c. 1750, paper, h 264 mm × w 189 mm
Half figure with outstretched arm, draughtsman: anonymous, Netherlands, c. 1650 - c. 1750, paper, h 264 mm × w 189 mm
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In the midst of the deities of the Olympus, Jupiter Delibere on the Trojan fate; Hebe presents the nectar to him (Zgromadzenie bogów Olimpijskich, Z: the iliade of Homere ), w: oeurvre de Flaxmann Collection of his serious compositions by back, with analysis of the divine comedy of the Dante and Notice on Flaxman. Various subjects. Paris 1847 . FERRERI, Vincenzo (Fl. 1845), Flaxman, John (1755 1826), Audot, bookseller editor, Paris rue du Paon 8, school of medicine
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Design for a door beater, c. 1770 - c. 1780 Flanders paper. ink. graphite (mineral) brush door-knocker, doorbell
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Study for Center Cirle of Huntington Ceiling: Apollo andAttendants. Artist: Elihu Vedder, American, 1836-1923
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Portrait of an unknown man in a wide cloak, Caspar Netscher, 1649 - 1684 drawing Portrait of a standing man in a wide cloak, with the left arm leaned on an antique relief. paper. ink pen / brush anonymous historical person portrayed alone. standing figure
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Design for a door knocker ..
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Saint John the Evangelist. Dated: c. 1753. Dimensions: overall: 28.8 x 18.3 cm (11 5/16 x 7 3/16 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white, on blue paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Georg Anton Urlaub.
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Niobide, Monogrammist WBVH, 1680 drawing parchment (animal material). chalk kneeling figure - AA - female human figure. piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture. the daughters of Niobe are killed by arrows of Diana
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Anonymous / 'The Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Bernard'. 1675 - 1699. Red chalk on white paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.
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Sketchbook, Percier, Charles, 1764-1838, pencil, ink, wash, 1790, The sketchbook, attributed to the architect Charles Percier, created during his stay as a pensionnaire at the Académie de France in Rome. Sixty-two pages of the notebook contain pencil and/or ink and wash drawings of Roman architectural fragments, inscriptions, relief sculpture, Greek vases, ancient monuments, plans of Roman villas both ancient and contemporary, portraits, and landscapes.
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Moses and Other Figures. Artist: Attributed to Cesare Nebbia (Italian, Orvieto ca. 1536-1614 Orvieto). Dimensions: 6 13/16 x 3 11/16 in. (17.3 x 9.3 cm). Date: 1570-80. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Robert Smirke, 1752-1845, British, Study of a Woman and Child, undated. Pen and brown ink, over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream, wove paper.
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A pencil sketch by Josef Danhauser around 1841 illustrating Goethe's ballad 'The Fischer', emphasizing figures, setting, and narrative composition.
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Artist: Jean Baptiste Oudry, French, 1686-1755, Trophy, mid to late 18thcentury, Graphite, sanguine crayon, and black chalk, image (irregular): 16.7 × 22.6 cm (6 9/16 × 8 7/8in.), Made in France, French, 18thcentury, Works on Paper - Drawings andWatercolors
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Naked rider on a prancing horse, anonymous, 1600 - 1699 drawing paper. chalk piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture. riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman
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A pencil drawing by Hans Gasser depicts a group of five girls, showing their arrangement, posture, and interaction.
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Standing woman leaning next to a globe, Sébastien Leclerc (I), 1706 print print maker: Francepublisher: Paris paper etching adult woman. globe
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Angel with a book.
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This red chalk drawing by Bernhard Rode depicts Cloris, emphasizing figure, posture, drapery, and compositional balance around 1753.
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Young Man with Bow and Arrow. Artist: François Jacques Fleischbein (German, Godramstein (Bavaria) 1804-1868 New Orleans). Dimensions: sheet: 10 1/16 x 8 3/16 in. (25.6 x 20.8 cm). Date: 1832. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Frederick Stuart Church, Idyll, 1886 Idyll
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Above at left: a variation of 1938-88-1298 at right below. In front of the pedestal and of the mouldings of the base of the sarcophagus is the escutcheon with the crown. Beside are the draperies. The body of the sarcophagus is as in 1938-88-1295. Above is a pedestal with the standing figure as in 1938-88-1292, with weapons surrounding the base, left. Laterally below sit two female allegories. An architectural plan is overdrawn. Center: a crowned woman, carrying a mace and a shield with fleur-de-lis. 1, 2 sitting at the corner of the entablature of a sarcophagus. Above at right, in its lower left part not executed because of the figure in the center: the architectural setting is a variation of 1938-88-1298 right, below. The canopy hangs along the walls of the intercolumniation. In front of the upper part of the pedestal and of the foot of the tub-like sarcophagus are two putti supporting an escutcheon. Above is a pedestal with a kneeling statue and two below laterally sitting figures. A
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The feeling.
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Untitled', c1815-1865. Artist: Eugene Deveria. Eugene Francois Marie Joseph Deveria (1805-1865) was a French Romantic painter of history paintings.
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Figures around a baby and a girl with bird cage, c. 1858 Two drawings in a frame. Page 38 Recto from a combined album Amicorum and sketchbook with a total of 39 magazines. paper. pencil mother and child(ren), woman and child(ren) (family group). girl (child between toddler and youth). bird in a cage
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Standing Prophet or Apostle. after Pellegrino Tibaldi (Italian, 1527-1596); and Perino del Vaga (Italian, 1501-1547). Date: 1547-1596. Dimensions: 285 x 100 mm. Black chalk with brush and brown wash, on ivory laid paper, tipped on to ivory wove paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.
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Astronomy; L'Astronomie. Francois Boucher (1703-1770). Black, red and white chalk on beige paper. 44 x 33.2cm.
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Bliżej Kultury Cignani, C., Normand, Charles (1765 1840)
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Woman wearing tiara, profile on the left in medallion Guillaume Boichot (1735-1814). Woman wearing tiara, profile on the left in the medallion. Feather and ink of China, figure at the lead in the broken white paper, 1735-1815.
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Apollo and Diana Artist's working dates 1775-1826 England. These are preparatory drawings for illustrations of Alexander Popeís translations of Homer. The conjunction of Flaxman and Pope presents the essence of English neoclassicism Flaxman was one of its most influential artists; Pope perhaps its central poet. In these drawings, the severe economy of means and the predominant use of outline reflect the visual and moral austerity of the neoclassical aesthetic.. Pen and black ink, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper, laid down on tan wove paper . John Flaxman
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Study of Two Headless Classical Statues. Drawing. Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper. Height: 251 mm (9.88 in); Width: 267 mm (10.51 in). Author: James Ward.
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Madonna and Child With St John. Maria with child and John. John the Baptist as a child shows a litter with birds with the Christ's child, on the left, Mary looks in hand with a book. Unfinished painting, perhaps a preliminary study for a corresponding work from 1715. The panel has served as support for a painting on canvas from Van der Werff in the Six in Amsterdam collection.
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Bacchus and Ariadne 1696-1770 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Italian. Bacchus and Ariadne 339398
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Nayaka - Nayika Indian. Nayaka - Nayika, ca. 1725. Black and sepia ink on paper, sheet: 9 1/8 x 6 in. (23.2 x 15.2 cm). Asian Art ca. 1725
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A Sheet of Heads late 18th-mid-19th century Mauro Gandolfi Italian This polished sheet with ten clustered heads is a fine example of the artists so-called pictorial heads (teste pittoriche), a peculiar type of drawing that originated with the Bolognese artist Gaetano Gandolfi (1734-1802) and which his son Mauro continued with great commercial success. Included are heads of different types: old bearded men, portraits, women with complex hairdos, and youths with laurel crowns inspired by antiquity. With regularly spaced cross-hatching and a dense system of dots to create shadows and volumes, Gandolfis signature style of draftsmanship renders form as if in a print.. A Sheet of Heads. Mauro Gandolfi (Italian, Bologna 1764-1834 Bologna). late 18th-mid-19th century. Pen and brown ink. Drawings
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Sir David Wilkie, 1785-1841, British, Children with Pig at a Doorway in Ballynahinch, Ireland, 1835. Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.
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A red chalk drawing on yellowish paper by an anonymous artist depicts Saints Margarethe, Katharina, Cäcilie, and Agnes, created in the 17th century.
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Bleigriffel drawing by Bartolomeo Altomonte circa 1720 depicting the Holy Family with figures arranged in a devotional composition.
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Face and two views of the body of a fifteen -year -old boy, Hieronymus Sperling, after Johann Georg Bergmüller, 1723 print paper etching human life and its ages (young, adult, old, etc.). nude with covered genitals. standing figure (canon, proportions)
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View of the Tiber; Copy of a Roman Sculpture of a Bacchante verso. Dated: c. 1552/1566. Dimensions: support: 27.8 x 40.9 cm (10 15/16 x 16 1/8 in.) sheet: 28.4 x 41.6 cm (11 3/16 x 16 3/8 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink and black chalk on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Attributed to Étienne Dupérac.
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Edelfelt, Albert, work, Sketch book, drawing, 14.5 cm x 25 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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Vignette with five putti, c. 1763 print Vignette with five putti in a rectangular frame. One putto in the foreground is held by two other putti. France paper etching cartoons. Cupids: 'Amores', 'Amoretti', 'Putti'
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De Neighurheid, Elias van Nijmegen, 1677 - 1755 drawing Design for a painting. paper. ink. watercolor (paint). pencil brush / pen Humility; 'Humiltà' (Ripa) (+ abstract concept represented by female figure)
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The Adoration of the Magi, a Design for Bas Relief, John Flaxman, 1755-1826, British, undated, Graphite, gray wash, and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 11 1/8 x 18 inches (28.3 x 45.7 cm), adoration of the kings: the Wise Men present their gifts to the Christ-child (gold, frankincense and myrrh), bas relief, gifts, gold, incense, infancy, kings, magi, myrrh, relief, religious and mythological subject, spice, vases
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Design for a painting, The Humility, draughtsman: Elias van Nijmegen, 1677 - 1755, paper, brush, pen, h 165 mm × w 187 mm
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Copy of a detail from the fresco 'The marriage of the Virgin' by Andrea del Sarto, 1852 Leaf 32 Verso from a sketchbook with 35 sheets. paper. watercolor (paint). chalk. pencil brush standing figure (+ female (human being) (not to be used where -AA- is prescribed))
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Saint Jerome, c. 1520, Master of 1518, Dutch, Netherlandish, c. 1470-c. 1527, 8 3/16 x 8 3/16 in. (20.8 x 20.8 cm) (sheet, tondo)16 1/4 × 16 1/4 × 3/4 in. (41.28 × 41.28 × 1.91 cm) (outer frame), Pen and brown ink, Netherlands, 16th century, This design is for a type of stained glass produced in the Low Countries during the early 16th century. The panes were often circular and small. Such a highly finished drawing might have been shown to a patron before work began on the glass itself. The artist was a productive Antwerp Mannerist painter whose works lack signatures or other documentation. Historians assigned the name Master of 1518 based on the date inscribed on one of his altarpieces.
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Illustration for The New Doll: It's Mine, You may Look at It, Edward Francis Burney, 1760-1848, British, undated, Pen and brown ink, graphite and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 4 1/2 × 3 7/8 inches (11.4 × 9.8 cm), dolls, genre subject, girl
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Four women's figures. Four women's figures, standing for feet in Greek robe.
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Angel Mughal. Angel, after 1675. Opaque watercolor on paper, sheet: 9 1/4 x 6 3/8 in. (23.5 x 16.2 cm). Asian Art after 1675